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Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais

In research, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais stands highest in Medicine (#1,913 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#2,446 of 11,982 worldwide) and Surgery (#1,420 of 1,816 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health Information Management, General Health Professions and Health Professions — Health Information Management is 9.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#9,018
of 28,054 · #15,205 all time
Rank in Brazil
#123
of 714
Research works
2.7k
▲ 52% vs 2013–17
Citations
12k
4.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
record average 16.5%
Open access
76%
world 28%

What is Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
MedicineField #1,913 of 10,443 3.8%680 #4874
Health SciencesDomain #2,446 of 11,982 3.6%874 #5527
SurgerySubfield #1,420 of 1,816 5.6%96 #3474
Health ProfessionsField #1,518 of 1,928 2.7%170 #2750
Life SciencesDomain #6,265 of 7,800 3.5%103 #8920
Social SciencesDomain #8,776 of 10,521 4.5%233 #11633
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #797 of 916 2.1%97 #1748
Social SciencesField #5,628 of 6,365 4.7%158 #8576
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #778 of 828 4.5%85 #1963
Physical SciencesDomain #12,222 of 12,888 3.7%82 #19926

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Medicine#4,874 #1,913
  2. Health Sciences#5,527 #2,446
  3. Surgery#3,474 #1,420
  4. Health Professions#2,750 #1,518
  5. Life Sciences#8,920 #6,265
  6. Social Sciences#11,633 #8,776
  7. General Health Professions#1,748 #797
  8. Social Sciences#8,576 #5,628
  9. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#1,963 #778
  10. Physical Sciences#19,926 #12,222
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health Information Management takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Health Information ManagementSubfield · 30.7 works9.3×
  2. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 96.9 works5.5×
  3. Health ProfessionsField · 170.1 works5.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.70× its world share, 48 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.48× its world share, 19 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.82× its world share, 17 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.43× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 2.29× its world share, 14 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.00× its world share, 170 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.74× its world share, 680 worksMedicineNursing: 1.24× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.12× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.17× its world share, 46 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 158 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais?

Ranked on the composite score, Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein and Alinne Beserra de Lucena lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais.

  1. 1 Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein Brazil · #621,003 worldwide 43 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Alinne Beserra de Lucena Brazil · #863,272 worldwide 0 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais

Which keywords describe research at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Healthcare Access, Social Determinants, Health Policy, Treatment and Risk Factors.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution'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
  1. Epidemiology190▲ 3.7×126 topics
  2. Public Health144▲ 7.7×40 topics
  3. Quality of Life120▲ 6.4×52 topics
  4. Healthcare Access83▲ 23×5 topics
  5. Social Determinants71▲ 26×6 topics
  6. Treatment70▲ 4.5×42 topics
  7. Risk Factors63▲ 4.5×32 topics
  8. Health Policy63▲ 31×6 topics
  9. Healthcare58▲ 4.0×15 topics
  10. Educational Technology54▲ 3.5×4 topics
  11. Mental Health50▲ 2.6×31 topics
  12. Primary Care46▲ 9.5×12 topics
  13. Diagnosis45▲ 3.8×36 topics
  14. Prevalence41▲ 7.7×14 topics
  15. Chronic Diseases38▲ 11×8 topics
  16. Knowledge Management38▲ 5.3×6 topics
  17. Information Technology37▲ 5.9×2 topics
  18. Digital Innovation36▲ 48×1 topic
  19. Drug Resistance36▲ 10×9 topics
  20. Smart Library36▲ 69×1 topic
  21. Social Determinants of Health36▲ 12×5 topics
  22. Health36▲ 7.0×12 topics
  23. Maternal Health35▲ 10.0×3 topics
  24. Health Inequalities34▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Aging Population34▲ 29×4 topics
  26. Brazilian Health System33▲ 59×1 topic
  27. Community-Based Care33▲ 59×1 topic
  28. Psychological Impact32▲ 7.7×9 topics
  29. Adolescents32▲ 6.6×8 topics
  30. Patient Safety32▲ 17×7 topics
  31. Infection Control30▲ 28×3 topics
  32. Healthcare Regulation29▲ 23×3 topics
  33. Child Health29▲ 39×1 topic
  34. Prenatal Care29▲ 80×1 topic
  35. Medical Devices29▲ 89×1 topic
  36. Nursing Care29▲ 89×1 topic
  37. Breast Cancer28▲ 9.3×11 topics
  38. Judicialization25▲ 67×1 topic
  39. Medication25▲ 67×1 topic
  40. Family24▲ 25×2 topics

Which research topics does Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic, Health, Nursing, Elderly Care, Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare and Healthcare Regulation.

Healthcare during COVID-…36Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 36 fractional worksHealth, Nursing, Elderly…33Health, Nursing, Elderly Care: 33 fractional worksMaternal and Neonatal He…29Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare: 29 fractional worksHealthcare Regulation29Healthcare Regulation: 29 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil: 25 fractional worksYouth, Drugs, and Violence: 24 fractional worksWomen's cancer preventio…20Women's cancer prevention and management: 20 fractional worksScience and Education Research: 15 fractional worksPsychology and Mental Health: 12 fractional worksOccupational Health and Burnout: 12 fractional works
Information SystemsGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth Information ManagementSociology and Political Science5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 36 works
  2. 2 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 33 works
  3. 3 Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare General Health Professions 29 works
  4. 4 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 29 works
  5. 5 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 25 works
  6. 6 Youth, Drugs, and Violence Demography 24 works
  7. 7 Women's cancer prevention and management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 20 works
  8. 8 Science and Education Research Education 15 works
  9. 9 Psychology and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 12 works
  10. 10 Occupational Health and Burnout Occupational Therapy 12 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available75.5%not open24.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.0%domestic only84.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 52% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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