2026 Leon Glass: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	66	1359	1290	61	58	207	40212

Research.com Recognitions

2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the understanding of complex rhythms in cardiac and respiratory systems.
1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
1994 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Leon Glass is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and primarily focuses their research in the field of Medicine, with a concentration on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Their work spans multiple subfields including:

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Surgery

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
Neural dynamics and brain function
ECG Monitoring and Analysis
Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation

Leon Glass has contributed papers to various publication venues, featuring predominantly in:

Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Physical Review Letters
Ophthalmology Science

Recent notable papers include:

"Predicting discrete-time bifurcations with deep learning" (2023, Nature Communications)
"Some elements for a history of the dynamical systems theory" (2021, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science)
"Rhythms from Two Competing Periodic Sources Embedded in an Excitable Medium" (2023, Physical Review Letters)
"Long ECGs reveal rich and robust dynamical regimes in patients with frequent ectopy" (2020, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science)
"Universal mechanisms for self-termination of rapid cardiac rhythm" (2020, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science)

Frequent collaborators include:

Gil Bub
Thomas M. Bury
Alvin Shrier
Marc W. Deyell
Zachary Laksman

Leon Glass has authored a book published by Princeton University Press titled From Clocks to Chaos (2020).

Over the course of their career, they have been recognized with several fellowships:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1998 (Academy of Science)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1994
SIAM Fellow, 2009 (For contributions to the understanding of complex rhythms in cardiac and respiratory systems)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009

Best Publications

PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet: components of a new research resource for complex physiologic signals.

Ary L. Goldberger;Luis A. N. Amaral;Leon Glass;Jeffrey M. Hausdorff

16525
Citations
Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems

Michael C. Mackey;Leon Glass

5525
Citations
Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics

Daniel Kaplan;Leon Glass

1518
Citations
The logical analysis of continuous, non-linear biochemical control networks.

Leon Glass;Stuart A. Kauffman

1311
Citations
Phase locking, period-doubling bifurcations, and irregular dynamics in periodically stimulated cardiac cells

Michael R. Guevara;Leon Glass;Alvin Shrier

747
Citations
PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS RESULTING FROM INSTABILITIES IN PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Leon Glass;Michael C. Mackey

472
Citations
Automatic detection of atrial fibrillation using the coefficient of variation and density histograms of RR and ΔRR intervals

K. Tateno;L. Glass

348
Citations
Theory of Heart: Biomechanics, Biophysics, and Nonlinear Dynamics of Cardiac Function

Leon Glass;Peter Hunter;Andrew McCulloch

335
Citations
Classification of biological networks by their qualitative dynamics.

Leon Glass

316
Citations
Instabilities of a propagating pulse in a ring of excitable media.

Marc Courtemanche;Marc Courtemanche;Marc Courtemanche;Leon Glass;Leon Glass;Leon Glass;James P. Keener;James P. Keener;James P. Keener

271
Citations
Stable oscillations in mathematical models of biological control systems

Leon Glass;Joel S. Pasternack

266
Citations
DYNAMIC CONTROL OF CARDIAC ALTERNANS

Kevin Hall;David J. Christini;Maurice Tremblay;James J. Collins

263
Citations
Global bifurcations of a periodically forced biological oscillator

Leon Glass;Michael R. Guevara;Jacques Belair;Alvin Shrier

249
Citations
Combinatorial and topological methods in nonlinear chemical kinetics

Leon Glass

249
Citations
Spiral wave generation in heterogeneous excitable media.

Gil Bub;Alvin Shrier;Leon Glass

248
Citations
Reverse Engineering the Gap Gene Network of Drosophila melanogaster

Theodore J Perkins;Johannes Jaeger;John Reinitz;Leon Glass

230
Citations
Chaos in neurobiology

M. R. Guevara;L. Glass;M. C. Mackey;A. Shrier

220
Citations
Co-operative components, spatial localization and oscillatory cellular dynamics

Leon Glass;Stuart A. Kauffman

217
Citations
Pattern Recognition in Humans: Correlations Which Cannot be Perceived

Leon Glass;Eugene Switkes

204
Citations
Bistability, period doubling bifurcations and chaos in a periodically forced oscillator

Rafael Perez;Leon Glass

200
Citations