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Fundace

In research, Fundace stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,659 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,028
of 22,385 · #18,290 all time
Rank in Brazil
#638
of 684
Research works
375
▲ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.2k
5.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
79%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Fundace

What is Fundace known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #6,659 of 14,833 9.2%260

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Fundace 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 Fundace work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research at Fundace is in Social Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Business, Management and Accounting (17%), Decision Sciences (12%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 53 fractional works · 70.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 26.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 13 fractional works · 16.9% of its workAccounting: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 11.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 9 fractional works · 11.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 9.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 13.5% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 8.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 12.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Health and Safety: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKFundace76fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences70%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2026.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting1316.9%
    3. Decision Sciences911.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance79.5%
    5. Psychology44.7%
    6. Arts and Humanities11.1%
    1. Medicine68.3%
    2. Health Professions45.0%
    3. Dentistry00.1%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Environmental Science34.2%
    2. Computer Science34.2%
    3. Engineering22.0%
    4. Energy10.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    6. Mathematics00.4%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringComputer Science: 0.54× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.85× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.88× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.43× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.23× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 12.28× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.43× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.53× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.08× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 12.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences12.28×9 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting5.23×13 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.43×7 works
  4. Social Sciences2.08×20 works
  5. Health Professions1.88×4 works
  6. Psychology1.53×4 works
  7. Environmental Science0.85×3 works
  8. Energy0.79×1 works
  9. Chemical Engineering0.63×0 works
  10. Computer Science0.54×3 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.51×2 works
  12. Medicine0.43×6 works
  13. Mathematics0.37×0 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.37×1 works
  15. Dentistry0.30×0 works
  16. Nursing0.30×0 works
  17. Neuroscience0.26×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.24×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×1 works
  20. Engineering0.13×2 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Fundace?

Ranked on the quality score, Paulo Cesar Vaz Guimarães lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Fundace.

  1. 1 Paulo Cesar Vaz Guimarães Brazil · #3,222,989 worldwide 96 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Fundace

What are the most cited papers from Fundace?

The most cited paper from Fundace is "Measurement of natural radioactivity in Brazilian beach sands" (Ronivaldo Crispim da Veiga Junior, Nilrivan Furtado Sanches, Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos et al., 2005), with 321 citations. Next come "Trabalho e desgaste mental: o direito de ser dono de si mesmo" (288) and "Quality management, environmental management maturity, green supply chain practices and green performance of Brazilian companies with ISO 14001 certification: Direct and indirect effects" (199).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Measurement of natural radioactivity in Brazilian beach sands Ronivaldo Crispim da Veiga Junior, Nilrivan Furtado Sanches, Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos et al. · Radiation Measurements 25 Jun 2005 321
2 Trabalho e desgaste mental: o direito de ser dono de si mesmo Maria Maeno · Revista Brasileira de Saúde Ocupacional Open access Dec 2011 288
3 Quality management, environmental management maturity, green supply chain practices and green performance of Brazilian companies with ISO 14001 certification: Direct and indirect effects Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel José Chiappetta Jabbour, Hengky Latan et al. · Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review 9 May 2014 199
4 Natural radionuclide distribution in Brazilian commercial granites Roberto Meigikos dos Anjos, Ronivaldo Crispim da Veiga Junior, Thais da Silva Soares et al. · Radiation Measurements 8 Jul 2004 183
5 Potential of Carbon Accumulation in No‐Till Soils with Intensive Use and Cover Crops in Southern Brazil Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado, Cimélio Bayer, Paulo César Conceição et al. · Journal of Environmental Quality Jul 2006 174
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Which keywords describe research at Fundace?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Qualitative Research, Organizational Management, Research Methods, Economic Growth, Innovation, Public Policy, Healthcare and Online Learning.

▲ 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. Qualitative Research11▲ 18×5 topics
  2. Organizational Management8▲ 183×1 topic
  3. Research Methods8▲ 71×1 topic
  4. Economic Growth5▲ 8.0×11 topics
  5. Healthcare4▲ 4.8×8 topics
  6. Innovation4▲ 5.3×13 topics
  7. Online Learning4▲ 6.0×4 topics
  8. Sustainability4▲ 2.0×14 topics
  9. Educational Technology4▲ 4.0×5 topics
  10. Public Policy4▲ 9.6×6 topics
  11. Corporate Governance3▲ 5.6×8 topics
  12. Community Development3▲ 20×2 topics
  13. Consumer Behavior3▲ 5.7×7 topics
  14. Legislation3▲ 23×3 topics
  15. Financial Performance3▲ 6.1×4 topics
  16. Social Management3▲ 140×1 topic
  17. Solidarity Economy3▲ 60×1 topic
  18. Monetary Policy2▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Social Impact2▲ 8.2×3 topics
  20. Inclusion2▲ 19×2 topics
  21. Research2▲ 23×2 topics
  22. Structural Change2▲ 43×2 topics
  23. Distance Education2▲ 14×1 topic
  24. Training2▲ 13×1 topic
  25. Financial Crisis2▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Fiscal Policy2▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Healthcare Access2▲ 9.4×3 topics
  28. Higher Education2▲ 4.7×3 topics
  29. Shareholder Value2▲ 23×3 topics
  30. Aggregate Demand2▲ 88×1 topic
  31. Income Distribution2▲ 74×1 topic
  32. Inequality2▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Performance Measurement2▲ 9.0×3 topics
  34. Financial Constraints2▲ 21×2 topics
  35. Brand Equity2▲ 32×1 topic
  36. Brand Trust2▲ 39×1 topic
  37. Evaluation2▲ 39×1 topic
  38. SINAES2▲ 79×1 topic
  39. Infrastructure2▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Social Determinants1▲ 9.3×3 topics

Which research topics does Fundace publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Business and Management Studies, Social and Economic Solidarity, Academic Research in Diverse Fields and Economic Theory and Policy.

Business and Management …8Business and Management Studies: 8 fractional worksSocial and Economic Solidarity: 3 fractional worksAcademic Research in Diverse Fields: 2 fractional worksEconomic Theory and Policy: 2 fractional worksConsumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification: 2 fractional worksEducation and Public Policy: 2 fractional worksEducation and Digital Technologies: 1 fractional worksHealthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 1 fractional worksRural Development and Agriculture: 1 fractional worksFinancial Reporting and Valuation Research: 1 fractional works
Information Systems and ManagementSociology and Political ScienceEducationGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance5 others

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

  1. 1 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 8 works
  2. 2 Social and Economic Solidarity Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  3. 3 Academic Research in Diverse Fields Education 2 works
  4. 4 Economic Theory and Policy General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 works
  5. 5 Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification Marketing 2 works
  6. 6 Education and Public Policy Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  7. 7 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 1 works
  9. 9 Rural Development and Agriculture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  10. 10 Financial Reporting and Valuation Research Strategy and Management 1 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 available78.6%not open21.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.1%domestic only86.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Fundace's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Fundace as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00032% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Fundace0.00029% in 20251990200020102020

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

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