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Researcher · HEC Montréal · Canada

Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction and Automotive Engineering, on topics such as Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Optimization and Packing Problems and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#240,556
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#8,234
of 183,316
Works
26
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
111.4
h-index
21
i10-index 22Top 11% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Gilbert Laporte

What does Gilbert Laporte research?

Gilbert Laporte's work is mostly in Engineering (77%), Computer Science (11%).

Physical Sciences: 23 works · 87.9% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 77.1% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 works · 52.7% of their workBuilding and Construction: 3 works · 12.2% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 2 works · 6.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 10.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 12.1% of their workTHEIR WORKGilbert Laporte26works
Physical Sciences88%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2077.1%
    2. Computer Science310.8%
  2. Everything else312.1%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering53% of their works
  2. 2Building and Construction12% of their works
  3. 3Automotive Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications5% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gilbert Laporte's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heuristic Algorithms, Metaheuristics, Tabu Search, Vehicle Routing Problem, Environmental Impacts, Cutting, Packing and Order Picking.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Heuristic Algorithms282 topics
  2. Metaheuristics222 topics
  3. Tabu Search191 topic
  4. Vehicle Routing Problem191 topic
  5. Environmental Impacts102 topics
  6. Cutting91 topic
  7. Packing91 topic
  8. Order Picking81 topic
  9. Warehouse Design81 topic
  10. City Logistics71 topic
  11. Last Mile Delivery71 topic
  12. Supply Chain Management62 topics
  13. Container Terminals31 topic
  14. Differential Evolution31 topic
  15. Disaster Relief31 topic
  16. Humanitarian Logistics31 topic
  17. Operations Research31 topic
  18. Particle Swarm Optimization31 topic
  19. Ridesharing31 topic
  20. Shared Autonomous Vehicles31 topic

Where does Gilbert Laporte work?

Gilbert Laporte's main affiliation in the publication record is HEC Montréal, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gilbert Laporte have?

OpenAlex counts 26 works and 2,896 citations for Gilbert Laporte, an h-index of 21, ranking #240,556 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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