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On research quality in 2022-now, Brazil ranks #28 in the world and Uruguay #80, of 189 countries. Brazil stands higher in 26 of the 26 fields both publish in, Uruguay in 0.

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Brazil

World rank, 2022-now
#28
#23 all time
Works, 2022-now
703k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.4%
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.

Uruguay

World rank, 2022-now
#80
#73 all time
Works, 2022-now
10k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
58%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Life-span and Life-course Studies, Paleontology, General Social Sciences.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Brazil leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate and open access. Uruguay leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Brazil 41 level4 Uruguay
  1. #28Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#80
  2. 0.67×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.70×
  3. 703kOutputfractional works, 2022-now10k
  4. 6.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.7%
  5. 9.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 69%Open accessof its works free to read, all time58%
  8. 14%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
  9. -8%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+6%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Brazil stands higher in 26 of 26 fields, Uruguay in 0. Brazil leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#24 against #87). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Brazil 260 Uruguay
  1. #24Agricultural and Biological Sciences#83
  2. #21Arts and Humanities#60
  3. #33Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#54
  4. #24Business, Management and Accounting#87
  5. #30Chemical Engineering-
  6. #33Chemistry-
  7. #28Computer Science#100
  8. #22Decision Sciences-
  9. #22Dentistry-
  10. #29Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  11. #30Economics, Econometrics and Finance#77
  12. #34Energy-
  13. #33Engineering#102
  14. #21Environmental Science#88
  15. #20Health Professions#60
  16. #29Immunology and Microbiology-
  17. #35Materials Science-
  18. #31Mathematics-
  19. #25Medicine#65
  20. #33Neuroscience-
  21. #16Nursing-
  22. #26Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #26Physics and Astronomy-
  24. #26Psychology#68
  25. #18Social Sciences#67
  26. #18Veterinary-

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.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Brazil rankUruguay rank Brazil top 10%Uruguay top 10% Brazil worksUruguay works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #24 #83 5.7% 6.1% 53k 914
Arts and Humanities #21 #60 8.0% 8.3% 40k 354
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #33 #54 5.1% 5.2% 23k 624
Business, Management and Accounting #24 #87 4.5% 5.5% 14k 229
Chemical Engineering #30 - 5.4% - 1k -
Chemistry #33 - 5.7% - 5.8k -
Computer Science #28 #100 6.4% 5.0% 31k 500
Decision Sciences #22 - 8.7% - 16k -
Dentistry #22 - 5.8% - 8.7k -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #29 - 5.9% - 6.2k -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #30 #77 4.8% 7.3% 8.9k 240
Energy #34 - 4.7% - 2.6k -
Engineering #33 #102 4.7% 4.2% 46k 448
Environmental Science #21 #88 6.9% 5.2% 55k 686
Health Professions #20 #60 7.0% 4.9% 38k 460
Immunology and Microbiology #29 - 5.2% - 6.1k -
Materials Science #35 - 4.5% - 10k -
Mathematics #31 - 5.5% - 4.8k -
Medicine #25 #65 4.8% 4.1% 113k 2.2k
Neuroscience #33 - 4.6% - 6.4k -
Nursing #16 - 5.3% - 3.8k -
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #26 - 6.1% - 1.6k -
Physics and Astronomy #26 - 4.8% - 7k -
Psychology #26 #68 5.5% 4.8% 22k 333
Social Sciences #18 #67 8.2% 7.6% 177k 2.2k
Veterinary #18 - 4.8% - 1.9k -

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Brazil

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology44k▲ 1.41×140 topics
  2. Sustainability41k▲ 2.2×139 topics
  3. Teacher Training41k▲ 8.6×30 topics
  4. Public Policy40k▲ 11×34 topics
  5. Qualitative Research39k▲ 5.9×46 topics
  6. Globalization36k▲ 2.4×185 topics
  7. Public Health35k▲ 3.1×77 topics
  8. Quality of Life30k▲ 2.7×61 topics
  9. Education30k▲ 2.3×160 topics
  10. Educational Technology30k▲ 3.2×48 topics
  11. Social Inequality24k▲ 12×21 topics
  12. Online Learning24k▲ 3.7×27 topics
  13. Curriculum Development23k▲ 4.4×20 topics
  14. Healthcare23k▲ 2.6×44 topics
  15. Healthcare Access20k▲ 9.4×13 topics
  16. Biodiversity20k▲ 3.3×38 topics
  17. Cultural Identity19k▲ 4.8×40 topics
  18. Brazil18k▲ 26×5 topics
  19. Social Movements18k▲ 7.6×33 topics
  20. Social Determinants16k▲ 10×8 topics
  21. Inclusive Education16k▲ 5.8×20 topics
  22. Distance Learning16k▲ 5.8×14 topics
  23. Pedagogical Practices15k▲ 22×3 topics
  24. Educational Policies15k▲ 18×3 topics
  25. Educational Reform15k▲ 16×9 topics
  26. Critical Pedagogy15k▲ 22×4 topics
  27. Health Policy14k▲ 12×7 topics
  28. Anthropology13k▲ 18×11 topics
  29. Agroecology13k▲ 12×6 topics
  30. Environmental Education13k▲ 11×11 topics
  31. Data Analysis13k▲ 6.4×14 topics
  32. Discourse Analysis13k▲ 6.8×12 topics
  33. Research Methods13k▲ 10×9 topics
  34. Innovation Management13k▲ 10×10 topics
  35. Marketing Strategies13k▲ 17×3 topics
  36. Quantitative Research12k▲ 13×5 topics
  37. Case Study12k▲ 25×2 topics
  38. Human Resources Management12k▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Competence Management12k▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Organizational Management12k▲ 27×1 topic

Uruguay

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology790▲ 1.68×137 topics
  2. Climate Change549▲ 1.71×107 topics
  3. Globalization529▲ 2.3×120 topics
  4. Public Health505▲ 2.9×68 topics
  5. Education416▲ 2.0×104 topics
  6. Sustainability402▲ 1.39×101 topics
  7. Quality of Life357▲ 2.1×58 topics
  8. Latin America301▲ 13×23 topics
  9. Educational Technology292▲ 2.1×37 topics
  10. Biodiversity287▲ 3.2×33 topics
  11. Human Rights286▲ 2.4×58 topics
  12. Mental Health259▲ 1.53×47 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress258▲ 1.32×60 topics
  14. Innovation246▲ 2.0×56 topics
  15. Sustainable Development245▲ 1.32×66 topics
  16. Healthcare238▲ 1.76×29 topics
  17. Public Policy231▲ 4.1×23 topics
  18. Qualitative Research220▲ 2.2×31 topics
  19. Treatment218▲ 1.52×51 topics
  20. Healthcare Access205▲ 6.4×12 topics
  21. Knowledge Management196▲ 3.0×29 topics
  22. Teacher Training196▲ 2.7×23 topics
  23. Social Movements192▲ 5.5×29 topics
  24. Social Determinants181▲ 7.4×8 topics
  25. Social Inequality169▲ 5.3×16 topics
  26. Invasive Species160▲ 3.2×20 topics
  27. Drug Resistance157▲ 4.6×9 topics
  28. Health Policy156▲ 8.6×7 topics
  29. Communication144▲ 3.9×23 topics
  30. Inclusive Education138▲ 3.2×18 topics
  31. Evolution135▲ 4.2×17 topics
  32. Chronic Diseases127▲ 4.2×9 topics
  33. Inequality117▲ 4.3×15 topics
  34. Welfare State106▲ 11×4 topics
  35. Constitutional Law102▲ 6.6×7 topics
  36. Research99▲ 6.7×10 topics
  37. Legal Theory98▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Legal Philosophy96▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Dairy Cattle95▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Aging Population95▲ 9.1×4 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Brazil has out-published Uruguay every year since 1980.

still counting100k200k300kBrazil170k in 2025Uruguay2,758 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting2.0%4.0%6.0%Brazil2.9% in 2025Uruguay0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%Brazil6.5% in 2025Uruguay5.7% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Who holds more of the world's best institutions?

A country's average quality and the number of institutions it holds at the very top can disagree, and both are worth knowing. The counts are nested: an institution in the top 50 is also in the top 100.

Brazil 32 level0 Uruguay
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 1In the top 5000
  4. 5In the top 1,0000
  5. #30Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#51

Institutions ranked on research quality, 2022-now. Elite capacity counts a country's institutions by their worldwide rank, weighted so a place at #1 counts for more than one at #480.

Which publishes more research, Brazil or Uruguay?

Brazil publishes 68.5× as much research as Uruguay in 2022-now (703k against 10k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Brazil or Uruguay?

6.4% of Brazil's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Uruguay.

Is Brazil or Uruguay growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +6% against 2018-21 for Uruguay, and -8% for Brazil.

Which has more open access research, Brazil or Uruguay?

69% of Brazil's research is free to read, against 58% of Uruguay's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Brazil or Uruguay?

Brazil holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Uruguay 0; in the top 1,000 it is 5 against 0.

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

  1. 1Universidade de São Paulo7.3% top 10% · 42k works
  2. 2Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)8.0% top 10% · 16k works
  3. 3Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro7.0% top 10% · 16k works
  4. 4Universidade Federal de Pernambuco6.1% top 10% · 10k works
  5. 5Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina7.1% top 10% · 14k works
  6. 6Universidade Federal de São Carlos7.3% top 10% · 8k works

Uruguay

  1. 1Universidad de la República de Uruguay5.3% top 10% · 5.3k works
  2. 2Universitario Francisco de Asís4.0% top 10% · 1.6k works
  3. 3Universidad de Montevideo5.6% top 10% · 567 works
  4. 4Universidad Católica del Uruguay9.4% top 10% · 277 works
  5. 5Universidad ORT Uruguay10.3% top 10% · 276 works
  6. 6Ministerio de Educación y Cultura9.5% top 10% · 195 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, 10.0% (how it is set): 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.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Brazil

  1. 1 Cesar Augusto Costa #1,403 worldwide 92k citations · 285 works
  2. 2 M. Constancio #1,669 worldwide 67k citations · 138 works
  3. 3 Amanda Lange Sálvia #2,241 worldwide 7.4k citations · 432 works
  4. 4 E. C. Ferreira #3,093 worldwide 73k citations · 138 works
  5. 5 Marcos Roberto Tovani‐Palone #5,134 worldwide 120k citations · 231 works

Uruguay

  1. 1 Rafael Radí #57,480 worldwide 48k citations · 529 works
  2. 2 Valentina Colistro #96,125 worldwide 24k citations · 76 works
  3. 3 Gustavo J. Nagy #150,922 worldwide 3.4k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 José Luis Badano #151,123 worldwide 8.5k citations · 73 works
  5. 5 Gastón Ares #170,491 worldwide 24k citations · 521 works

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