Last I heard, French-language publications weren't even ranked. What's considered are publications in English and the journals in which they're published. There are also other criteria, such as awards won.
A list is published in Maclean's magazine. There's also the Shanghai ranking, which is one of the most important. According to it, the University of Ottawa is now one of the top 140 universities in the world for research. Everyone's delighted.
However, these rankings don't necessarily improve the situation of French in research because the trend toward publishing in English devalues everything else. That's the way it is for most languages. Studies show that there is English on one side and all the other languages on the other…