Research in Belo Horizonte
Science Explorer records 50 research institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais and Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais.
- Research institutions
- 50 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 125k ▼ 6% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.2M 9.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 7.8% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Belo Horizonte?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Belo Horizonte work in?
In 2022-now, 40% of research in Belo Horizonte is in Social Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Medicine (19%), Engineering (7%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences13k40.0%
- Social Sciences7,63624.3%
- Arts and Humanities1,9886.3%
- Psychology1,1113.5%
- Business, Management and Accounting6942.2%
- Decision Sciences6812.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance4431.4%
- Health Sciences8,43726.9%
- Medicine6,02019.2%
- Health Professions1,7935.7%
- Dentistry3681.2%
- Nursing1460.5%
- Veterinary1100.4%
- Physical Sciences7,08522.6%
- Engineering2,1817.0%
- Environmental Science1,8405.9%
- Computer Science1,5605.0%
- Materials Science4491.4%
- Physics and Astronomy2930.9%
- Chemistry2130.7%
- Mathematics2130.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2110.7%
- Energy970.3%
- Chemical Engineering280.1%
- Life Sciences3,29610.5%
What is Belo Horizonte strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Belo Horizonte is most concentrated in General Arts and Humanities, Information Systems and Management and Urban Studies (8.3× the world share in General Arts and Humanities).
- General Arts and HumanitiesSubfield · 48.8 works8.3×
- Information Systems and ManagementSubfield · 510.5 works6.3×
- Urban StudiesSubfield · 491.8 works6.3×
- ForestrySubfield · 182.6 works6.2×
- Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 578.5 works3.8×
- PhilosophySubfield · 465.7 works3.8×
- ParasitologySubfield · 113.2 works3.8×
- Issues, ethics and legal aspectsSubfield · 21.1 works3.6×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 2.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary2.57×99 works
- Dentistry2.42×332 works
- Decision Sciences2.33×636 works
- Arts and Humanities2.24×1,830 works
- Health Professions2.14×1,595 works
- Social Sciences1.95×6,987 works
- Environmental Science1.18×1,661 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.16×332 works
- Psychology1.16×1,001 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.03×1,382 works
- Medicine0.98×5,359 works
- Nursing0.95×132 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.70×422 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.69×632 works
- Computer Science0.64×1,411 works
- Neuroscience0.61×282 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.57×860 works
- Mathematics0.57×190 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.51×50 works
- Engineering0.46×1,958 works
- Chemistry0.45×201 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.41×257 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.40×179 works
- Materials Science0.40×395 works
- Energy0.34×88 works
- Chemical Engineering0.26×26 works
Which keywords describe research in Belo Horizonte?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Policy, Qualitative Research, Teacher Training, Public Health, Epidemiology, Globalization, Brazil and Healthcare Access.
- Judicial Activism
- Public Administration
- Civil Rights
- Legal Philosophy
- Organizational Management
- Case Study
- Innovation Management
- Research Methods
- Discourse Analysis
- Cultural Studies
- Social Movements
- Social Determinants
- Cultural Identity
- Identity
- Brazil
- Educational Technology
- Education
- Sustainability
- Qualitative Research
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Public Policy
- Quality of Life
- Teacher Training
- Healthcare
- Healthcare Access
- Online Learning
- Social Inequality
- Colonialism
- Anthropology
- Health Policy
- Data Analysis
- Marketing Strategies
- Quantitative Research
- Competence Management
- Legal Theory
- Constitutional Law
- Pedagogical Practices
- Constitutional Interpretation
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology2,072▲ 1.66×138 topics
- Globalization1,531▲ 2.5×145 topics
- Public Health1,500▲ 3.3×73 topics
- Qualitative Research1,464▲ 5.5×33 topics
- Public Policy1,462▲ 9.8×28 topics
- Sustainability1,294▲ 1.69×109 topics
- Quality of Life1,275▲ 2.8×60 topics
- Education1,219▲ 2.3×125 topics
- Teacher Training1,149▲ 6.0×25 topics
- Educational Technology982▲ 2.6×38 topics
- Healthcare887▲ 2.5×32 topics
- Brazil848▲ 29×5 topics
- Healthcare Access828▲ 9.7×13 topics
- Identity805▲ 3.5×70 topics
- Online Learning784▲ 3.0×20 topics
- Cultural Identity779▲ 5.0×31 topics
- Social Inequality764▲ 9.1×17 topics
- Social Determinants750▲ 12×8 topics
- Colonialism684▲ 4.6×44 topics
- Social Movements656▲ 7.1×32 topics
- Anthropology611▲ 21×10 topics
- Cultural Studies578▲ 5.0×36 topics
- Health Policy557▲ 12×7 topics
- Discourse Analysis537▲ 7.1×9 topics
- Data Analysis518▲ 6.3×9 topics
- Research Methods499▲ 10×4 topics
- Marketing Strategies497▲ 17×3 topics
- Innovation Management496▲ 10×8 topics
- Quantitative Research492▲ 12×3 topics
- Case Study492▲ 25×2 topics
- Competence Management492▲ 26×1 topic
- Organizational Management492▲ 26×1 topic
- Legal Theory491▲ 23×4 topics
- Legal Philosophy466▲ 24×2 topics
- Constitutional Law448▲ 11×9 topics
- Civil Rights443▲ 21×2 topics
- Pedagogical Practices439▲ 16×3 topics
- Public Administration438▲ 17×4 topics
- Constitutional Interpretation437▲ 31×1 topic
- Judicial Activism437▲ 31×1 topic
What research is done in Belo Horizonte?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 474 works
- 2 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 408 works
- 3 Education Pedagogy and Practices Education 382 works
- 4 Academic Research in Diverse Fields Education 331 works
- 5 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 315 works
- 6 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 307 works
- 7 Environmental Sustainability and Education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 303 works
- 8 Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies Philosophy 280 works
- 9 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 267 works
- 10 Linguistics and Education Research Literature and Literary Theory 255 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.4% in 2009.
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