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Which institutions in Canada have the most top-cited scientists in Information & Communication Technologies?

540 researchers in Canada whose main field is Information & Communication Technologies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 6.3% of all listed authors in Canada, and 6th of 107 countries in the field. 208 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Toronto has the most (53), followed by University of Waterloo (34) and The University of British Columbia (32). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

540

6.3% of all in Canada

In the global top 100,000

208

38.5% of them

Country rank in the field

of 107 countries in Information & Communication Technologies

Highest-ranked

Bengio, Yoshua

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Toronto	53	17	#33	Hinton, Geoffrey E. #12
2	University of Waterloo	34	13	#71	Wang, Zhou #678
3	The University of British Columbia	32	10	#79	Leung, Victor C.M. #11,363
4	University of Alberta	20	9	#161	Pedrycz, Witold #537
5	Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms	19	8	#169	Bengio, Yoshua #6
6	Simon Fraser University	19	8	#178	Ester, Martin #18,558
7	Vector Institute	18	12	#180	Raffel, Colin #1,861
8	Université McGill	18	9	#190	Steinert, Yvonne E. #9,242
9	Concordia University	16	7	#224	Chvátal, Václav #25,985
10	University of Ottawa	14	7	#246	El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb Ei #4,480
11	Toronto Metropolitan University	13	2	#271	Kashef, Rasha F. #31,357
12	Western University	12	2	#291	Wang, Xianbin #26,320
13	University of Victoria	12	2	#301	Storey, Margaret Anne D. #53,595
14	University of Calgary	12	3	#302	Karimipour, Hadis #75,981
15	University of Montreal	11	6	#315	Brassard, Gilles #12,504
16	École de Technologie Supérieure	10	2	#340	Kaddoum, Georges #3,652
17	McMaster University	10	5	#345	Haykin, Simon S. #7,671
18	David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science	10	7	#346	Chen, Wenhu #8,374
19	Dalhousie University	10	6	#363	Rudzicz, Frank #27,154
20	Carleton University	9	2	#437	van Oorschot, P. C. #96,438
21	Queen’s University	8	2	#458	Hassan, Ahmed E. #12,139
22	Polytechnique Montréal	8	3	#462	Sharawi, Mohammad Said #13,704
23	Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications	6	2	#616	Benesty, Jacob #24,240
24	Lassonde School of Engineering	6	1	#625	Tsotsos, John K. #29,161
25	York University	6	2	#633	Lashkari, Arash Habibi #35,385
26	University of Guelph	6	2	#646	Shahriar, Sakib #47,851
27	National Research Council Canada	5	2	#687	Mohammad, Saif M. #2,912
28	Ontario Tech University	5	3	#703	Serenko, Alexander #8,565
29	University of Regina	4	3	#820	Yao, Yiyu Y. #1,117
30	HEC Montréal	4	1	#833	Vial, Gregory #5,383
31	Memorial University of Newfoundland	4	2	#834	Dobre, Octavia Adina #5,532
32	University of Manitoba	4	2	#861	Hossain, Ekram #18,707
33	Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity	4	1	#877	Ghorbani, Ali Akbar #24,956
34	Royal Military College of Canada	4	1	#899	Abdellah, Chehri #34,840
35	Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique	4	1	#911	Iqbal, Amjad #42,075
36	Brock University	3	1	#1,089	Ahmed, Ejaz #24,573
37	University of New Brunswick	3	1	#1,186	Zhang, Harry #64,138
38	Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering	3	1	#1,209	Yan, Jun #72,316
39	Université Laval	3	2	#1,214	Lalonde, Jean François #73,762
40	Wilfrid Laurier University	3	1	#1,231	Edmonds, Jack R. #86,994
41	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	3	0	#1,255	Raymond, Louis #108,460
42	University of Saskatchewan	3	0	#1,268	Roy, Chanchal K. #120,681
43	Lakehead University	3	0	#1,281	Yassine, Abdulsalam #131,661
44	Université du Québec à Montréal	3	0	#1,303	Ali, Mansoor #152,126

The top 100 in Information & Communication Technologies in Canada, in order

1
Bengio, Yoshua
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
2
Hinton, Geoffrey E.
University of TorontoNobel laureate
3
Eysenbach, Gunther
JMIR Publications
4
Pedrycz, Witold
University of Alberta
5
Wang, Zhou
University of Waterloo
6
Yao, Yiyu Y.
University of Regina
7
Hamilton, William L.
Quebec AI Institute
8
Raffel, Colin
Vector Institute
9
Mohammad, Saif M.
National Research Council Canada
10
Sutton, Richard S.
University of Alberta
11
Shen, Xuemin (Sherman)
University of Waterloo
12
Vincent, Pascal
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
13
Kaddoum, Georges
École de Technologie Supérieure
14
El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb Ei
University of Ottawa
15
Vial, Gregory
HEC Montréal
16
Neal, Radford M.
University of Toronto
17
Dobre, Octavia Adina
Memorial University of Newfoundland
18
Ghasemaghaei, Maryam
DeGroote School of Business
19
Haykin, Simon S.
McMaster University
20
Chen, Wenhu
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
21
Serenko, Alexander
Ontario Tech University
22
Dautenhahn, Kerstin
University of Waterloo
23
Steinert, Yvonne E.
Université McGill
24
Lingard, Lorelei A.
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
25
Lu, Rongxing
University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Computer Science
26
Lin, Jimmy
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
27
Madanchian, Mitra
University Canada West
28
Urtasun, Raquel
University of Toronto
29
Srivastava, Gautam
Brandon University
30
Leung, Victor C.M.
The University of British Columbia
31
Papernot, Nicolas
University of Toronto
32
Hassan, Ahmed E.
Queen’s University
33
Tang, Jian
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
34
Brassard, Gilles
University of Montreal
35
Boukerche, Azzedine
University of Ottawa
36
Sharawi, Mohammad Said
Polytechnique Montréal
37
Jones, Nicola
Nature's Opinion Section
38
Yu, Wei
University of Toronto
39
Ba, Jimmy Lei
University of Toronto
40
Courville, Aaron C.
University of Montreal
41
Fleet, David J.
University of Toronto
42
Benbasat, Izak
UBC Sauder School of Business
43
Szepesvári, Csaba
University of Alberta
44
Ester, Martin
Simon Fraser University
45
Hossain, Ekram
University of Manitoba
46
Shamir, Ohad
University of Toronto
47
Larochelle, Hugo
University of Montreal
48
Zhang, Ning
University of Windsor
49
Wu, Ke W.
Polytechnique Montréal
50
Ifinedo, Princely E.
Goodman School of Business
51
Hamam, Habib
Université de Moncton
52
Benesty, Jacob
Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications
53
Ahmed, Ejaz
Brock University
54
Eleftheriades, G. V.
University of Toronto
55
Mosca, Michele
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
56
Fidler, Sanja
Vector Institute
57
Ghorbani, Ali Akbar
Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity
58
Eva, Kevin W.
The University of British Columbia
59
Chvátal, Václav
Concordia University
60
Wang, Xianbin
Western University
61
Ben-David, Shai
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
62
Rudzicz, Frank
Dalhousie University
63
Orji, Rita Oluchi
Dalhousie University
64
El-Emam, Khaled
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa
65
Tsotsos, John K.
Lassonde School of Engineering
66
Wang, Yunhe
Huawei Noah's Ark Lab
67
Duong, Trung Q.
Memorial University of Newfoundland
68
Faraj, Samer A.
Université McGill
69
Kishk, Ahmed A.
Concordia University
70
Said, Dhaou
University of Ottawa
71
Kashef, Rasha F.
Toronto Metropolitan University
72
Munzner, Tamara
The University of British Columbia
73
Yu, F. Richard
Carleton University, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
74
Alizadeh, Mohammad Reza
Université McGill
75
Reimers, Nils Fabian
Cohere
76
Duvenaud, David
University of Toronto
77
Bellemare, Marc G.
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
78
Stark, Luke
Western University
79
Abdellah, Chehri
Royal Military College of Canada
80
Akhloufi, Moulay A.
Université de Moncton
81
Lashkari, Arash Habibi
York University
82
Zhu, Haibin
Nipissing University
83
Brown, Michael Scott
Samsung Toronto AI Research Center
84
Pascanu, Razvan
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
85
Karen V. Mann, Karen V.
Dalhousie University
86
Pineau, Joëlle P.
Université McGill
87
Iqbal, Amjad
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
88
Yang, Li
Ontario Tech University
89
Li, Xiaoxiao
The University of British Columbia
90
Aly, Hamed H.
Dalhousie University
91
Cook, Stephen A.
University of Toronto
92
Bridson, Robert
Autodesk
93
Kerschbaum, Florian
University of Waterloo
94
Shahriar, Sakib
University of Guelph
95
Abou El Houda, Zakaria Abou
Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications
96
Islam, Md Milon
University of Waterloo
97
Yazdinejad, Abbas
University of Regina
98
Selinger, Peter
Dalhousie University
99
Chaddad, Ahmad
Université McGill
100
Bergstra, James
AI Platform Ocado Technology

540 listed scientists in Information & Communication Technologies in Canada

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