Brazil

1.9M papers and 24.5M indexed citations

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In recent decades scholars affiliated with institutions in Brazil have published 1.9M papers, which have received a total of 24.5M indexed citations. Scholars in Brazil publish mostly in Plant Science (158.8k papers), Sociology and Political Science (149.0k papers) and Molecular Biology (134.8k papers) and are cited by scholars working on Molecular Biology (2.8M citations), Plant Science (2.3M citations) and Biomedical Engineering (1.5M citations). Scholars in Brazil collaborate with scholars from United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Scholars in Brazil have published in prestigous journals including Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Brazil

405.5k papers receiving 3.0M citations

Countries collaborating with authors based in Brazil

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by institutions in Brazil. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers from institutions in Brazil with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Brazil more than expected).

Fields of papers citing works of authors working in Brazil

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by authors working at institutions in Brazil. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by authors working at institutions in Brazil. The network helps show where authors in Brazil may publish in the future.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

You can explore the trade impact of Brazil, by visiting their OEC page.

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