Brazil
- World rank, 2022-now
- #22
- #18 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 703k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 69%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, General Arts and Humanities, Information Systems and Management.
Mexico
- World rank, 2022-now
- #47
- #37 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 177k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 9.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 52%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Development.
Who leads in each field?
Brazil stands higher in 26 of 26 fields, Mexico in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #13Agricultural and Biological Sciences#30
- #15Arts and Humanities#35
- #26Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#40
- #27Business, Management and Accounting#47
- #27Chemical Engineering#42
- #26Chemistry#48
- #34Computer Science#44
- #15Decision Sciences#62
- #12Dentistry#44
- #19Earth and Planetary Sciences#52
- #32Economics, Econometrics and Finance#52
- #35Energy#53
- #35Engineering#56
- #15Environmental Science#44
- #10Health Professions#43
- #29Immunology and Microbiology#40
- #44Materials Science#62
- #39Mathematics#58
- #27Medicine#45
- #28Neuroscience#39
- #8Nursing#55
- #23Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#34
- #33Physics and Astronomy#48
- #28Psychology#47
- #12Social Sciences#39
- #18Veterinary#20
Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.
How has their output grown?
Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.
Which publishes more research, Brazil or Mexico?
Brazil publishes 4.0× as much research as Mexico in 2022-now (703k against 177k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Brazil or Mexico?
9.2% of Mexico's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.7% for Brazil.
Which institutions lead in each country?
The highest-ranked institutions on each side on research quality, 2022-now. The percentage is each institution's own top-10% rate: the share of its works that are among the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. Every figure stands alone, so they do not add up to 100%.
Brazil
- 1Universidade de São Paulo10.8% top 10% · 36k works
- 2Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)12.2% top 10% · 16k works
- 3Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro9.5% top 10% · 16k works
- 4Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina10.1% top 10% · 13k works
- 5Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)9.2% top 10% · 17k works
- 6Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais10.1% top 10% · 15k works
Mexico
- 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México10.5% top 10% · 20k works
- 2Tecnológico de Monterrey19.6% top 10% · 5.5k works
- 3Universidad de Guadalajara9.7% top 10% · 6.3k works
- 4Instituto Politécnico Nacional11.3% top 10% · 7.2k works
- 5Autonomous University of Queretaro10.3% top 10% · 2.2k works
- 6Universidad Internacional9.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
The number is the rank inside the country. The track on each row is the top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 16.5% (why not 10%): teal above it, red below. The ranking is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each institution's own topics predict and adds a small reward for size, so the rates do not fall in order.
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Questions people ask
Which is stronger in research, Brazil or Mexico?
On research quality in 2022-now, Brazil ranks #22 in the world and Mexico #47, of 189 countries. Brazil stands higher in 26 of the 26 fields both publish in, Mexico in 0.