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Faculdades EST

In research, Faculdades EST stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,262 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,135 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Sociology and Political Science (Sociology and Political Science is 10.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,553
of 22,385 · #9,705 all time
Rank in Brazil
#542
of 684
Research works
1.1k
▼ 34% vs 2018-21
Citations
576
0.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
70%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Faculdades EST

What is Faculdades EST known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #5,262 of 9,585 6.9%120 #2746
Social SciencesField #4,135 of 5,988 8.6%83 #2709

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Faculdades EST 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Faculdades EST work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Faculdades EST is in Social Sciences, 12% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (58%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Medicine (8%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 147 fractional works · 81.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 105 fractional works · 58.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 66 fractional works · 36.9% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 7.6% of its workUrban Studies: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 30 fractional works · 16.8% of its workReligious studies: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPhilosophy: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 4.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 21 fractional works · 11.6% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 8.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFaculdades EST180fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences82%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences10558.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities3016.8%
    3. Psychology84.6%
    4. Decision Sciences21.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting21.1%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.0%
    1. Medicine158.1%
    2. Health Professions53.0%
    3. Dentistry10.4%
    1. Environmental Science63.2%
    2. Computer Science21.2%
    3. Mathematics10.4%
    4. Engineering10.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    6. Energy00.0%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Faculdades EST specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Sociology and Political Science takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield · 66.4 works10×
← 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: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.64× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.86× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.16× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.42× its world share, 15 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 5.83× its world share, 30 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.11× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.50× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.60× its world share, 105 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities5.83×30 works
  2. Social Sciences4.60×105 works
  3. Psychology1.50×8 works
  4. Health Professions1.16×6 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.11×2 works
  6. Dentistry0.86×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.64×6 works
  8. Medicine0.42×15 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.33×2 works
  10. Mathematics0.31×1 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.16×2 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×0 works
  14. Energy0.05×0 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.03×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.02×0 works
  17. Engineering0.02×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.01×0 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Faculdades EST?

Ranked on the quality score, Charles Klemz, Vítor Westhelle and Jionatha de Sousa da Costa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Faculdades EST.

  1. 1 Charles Klemz Brazil · #2,563,464 worldwide 11 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Vítor Westhelle Brazil · #2,936,785 worldwide 26 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Jionatha de Sousa da Costa Brazil · #3,644,590 worldwide 7 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Éder Beling Brazil · #3,649,858 worldwide 1 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Hans-Jürgen Prien Brazil · #3,777,754 worldwide 153 citations · 68 works
  6. 6 Louis Marcelo Illenseer Brazil · #4,003,489 worldwide 1 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Uwe Wegner Brazil · #4,193,651 worldwide 2 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Vanildo Luiz Zugno Brazil · #4,264,776 worldwide 5 citations · 16 works
  9. 9 Marcia Blasi Brazil · #4,277,519 worldwide 16 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Karin Hellen Kepler Wondracek Brazil · #4,327,945 worldwide 6 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Faculdades EST

What are the most cited papers from Faculdades EST?

The most cited paper from Faculdades EST is "Protective effect of locally applied carvacrol gel on ligature‐induced periodontitis in rats: a tapping mode AFM study" (Marco Antônio Botelho, J. G. Martins, Ronaldo Sousa Ruela et al., 2009), with 50 citations. Next come "Characterization of technological and probiotic properties of indigenous Lactobacillus spp. from south Brazil" (36) and "Microbial Diversity: Relevance and Relationship Between Environmental Conservation And Human Health" (36).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Protective effect of locally applied carvacrol gel on ligature‐induced periodontitis in rats: a tapping mode AFM study Marco Antônio Botelho, J. G. Martins, Ronaldo Sousa Ruela et al. · Phytotherapy Research Open access 9 Mar 2009 50
2 Characterization of technological and probiotic properties of indigenous Lactobacillus spp. from south Brazil Camila Agostini, Camila Eckert, Angélica Vincenzi et al. · 3 Biotech Open access 15 Oct 2018 36
3 Microbial Diversity: Relevance and Relationship Between Environmental Conservation And Human Health Jeremias Pakulski Panizzon, Harry Luiz Pilz Júnior, Neiva Knaak et al. · Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology Open access Feb 2015 36
4 Yellow fever (YF) vaccination does not increase dengue severity: A retrospective study based on 11,448 dengue notifications in a YF and dengue endemic region Marina Jolli Luppe, Alice Tobal Verro, Alana S. Barbosa et al. · Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease 8 May 2019 32
5 Men’s mental health in the COVID-19 pandemic: is there a mobilization of masculinities? Anderson Reis de Sousa, Gilson Vieira Alves, Aline Macêdo de Queiroz et al. · Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Open access 2021 31
All 65 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Faculdades EST?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Religion, Catholicism, Brazil, Politics, Pluralism, Public Sphere, Pentecostalism and Conservatism.

▲ 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-now 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. Religion44▲ 53×12 topics
  2. Catholicism38▲ 586×2 topics
  3. Brazil33▲ 199×5 topics
  4. Politics31▲ 66×4 topics
  5. Pluralism30▲ 408×2 topics
  6. Public Sphere30▲ 303×2 topics
  7. Pentecostalism29▲ 657×3 topics
  8. Conservatism28▲ 918×1 topic
  9. Secularization28▲ 1036×1 topic
  10. Education22▲ 7.0×22 topics
  11. Globalization20▲ 5.7×21 topics
  12. Theology18▲ 106×5 topics
  13. Qualitative Research15▲ 9.9×7 topics
  14. Ethics14▲ 15×12 topics
  15. Social Dynamics14▲ 128×3 topics
  16. Latin America14▲ 40×6 topics
  17. Philosophy14▲ 17×13 topics
  18. Public Policy14▲ 16×10 topics
  19. Sociology13▲ 53×6 topics
  20. Liberation11▲ 366×1 topic
  21. Cultural Identity10▲ 11×10 topics
  22. Colonialism9▲ 10×7 topics
  23. Cultural Studies9▲ 13×12 topics
  24. Teacher Training8▲ 7.6×5 topics
  25. Mental Health8▲ 3.1×7 topics
  26. Anthropology8▲ 46×6 topics
  27. Social Movements8▲ 14×9 topics
  28. Educational Technology8▲ 3.5×5 topics
  29. Social Determinants7▲ 19×3 topics
  30. History7▲ 5.6×13 topics
  31. Community Development7▲ 21×3 topics
  32. Identity7▲ 5.1×10 topics
  33. Cultural Analysis6▲ 73×2 topics
  34. Democracy6▲ 9.4×4 topics
  35. Literature6▲ 5.8×9 topics
  36. Social Inequality6▲ 12×3 topics
  37. Biblical Monotheism5▲ 116×1 topic
  38. Jewish Society5▲ 116×1 topic
  39. Social Management5▲ 116×1 topic
  40. Solidarity Economy5▲ 50×1 topic

Which research topics does Faculdades EST publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Religion and Society in Latin America, Religious and Theological Studies, Biblical Studies and Interpretation and Social and Economic Solidarity.

Religion and Society in …28Religion and Society in Latin America: 28 fractional worksReligious and Theological Studies: 11 fractional worksBiblical Studies and Interpretation: 5 fractional worksSocial and Economic Solidarity: 5 fractional worksPsychology and Mental He…5Psychology and Mental Health: 5 fractional worksLinguistics and Language Studies: 3 fractional worksEducation and Digital Technologies: 3 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability and Education: 3 fractional worksCultural, Media, and Literary Studies: 3 fractional worksReligion and Society Interactions: 2 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceReligious studiesClinical PsychologyLanguage and Linguistics2 others

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

  1. 1 Religion and Society in Latin America Sociology and Political Science 28 works
  2. 2 Religious and Theological Studies Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  3. 3 Biblical Studies and Interpretation Religious studies 5 works
  4. 4 Social and Economic Solidarity Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  5. 5 Psychology and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 5 works
  6. 6 Linguistics and Language Studies Language and Linguistics 3 works
  7. 7 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  8. 8 Environmental Sustainability and Education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 3 works
  9. 9 Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies Philosophy 3 works
  10. 10 Religion and Society Interactions Sociology and Political Science 2 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 available69.6%not open30.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.5%domestic only96.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Faculdades EST's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Faculdades EST as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00074% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Faculdades EST0.00094% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025Faculdades EST7.3% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.2% in 2024.

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