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Imazon

imazon.org.br/enROR OpenAlex
Research works
113
▲ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.3k
56.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
51%
world 18%
Imazon

Not ranked overall: Imazon is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Imazon work in?

In 2022-now, 62% of research at Imazon is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (32%), Engineering (20%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 16 fractional works · 61.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 31.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 12.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 7.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 19.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 10.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 8.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 13.6% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 8.7% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 12.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 9.8% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKImazon27fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences13%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science831.5%
    2. Engineering519.5%
    3. Computer Science28.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.8%
    5. Energy00.6%
    6. Chemistry00.4%
    1. Medicine28.7%
    2. Dentistry12.4%
    3. Health Professions12.2%
    4. Nursing00.3%
    1. Social Sciences39.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting01.6%
    3. Decision Sciences00.7%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences39.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.9%
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: 2.06× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.14× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.30× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.35× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 4.86× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.82× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science6.35×8 works
  2. Dentistry4.86×1 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.06×3 works
  4. Engineering1.30×5 works
  5. Computer Science1.14×2 works
  6. Health Professions0.82×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.78×3 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.75×0 works
  9. Energy0.68×0 works
  10. Nursing0.64×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.58×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.49×0 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.47×0 works
  14. Medicine0.45×2 works
  15. Chemistry0.27×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.20×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.15×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Imazon?

Ranked on the quality score, Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior, Paulo Barreto and João Victor Siqueira lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Imazon.

  1. 1 Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior Brazil · #101,582 worldwide 12k citations · 131 works
  2. 2 Paulo Barreto Brazil · #336,507 worldwide 3k citations · 30 works
  3. 3 João Victor Siqueira Brazil · #793,080 worldwide 3.6k citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Márcio Sales Brazil · #833,416 worldwide 3k citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Adalberto Veríssimo Brazil · #989,592 worldwide 2.2k citations · 52 works
  6. 6 Jeffrey J. Gerwing Brazil · #1,173,719 worldwide 1.6k citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Paulo Barreto Brazil · #1,357,113 worldwide 1.3k citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Brenda Brito Brazil · #1,441,638 worldwide 253 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 Paulo Amaral Brazil · #2,308,764 worldwide 401 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Rodney Salomão Brazil · #2,915,720 worldwide 232 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Imazon

What are the most cited papers from Imazon?

The most cited paper from Imazon is "Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine" (Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior et al., 2020), with 1,723 citations. Next come "Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire" (1,365) and "The Amazon basin in transition" (1,302).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior et al. · Remote Sensing Open access 25 Aug 2020 1,723
2 Large-scale impoverishment of Amazonian forests by logging and fire Daniel Curtis Nepstad, Adalberto Verssimo, Ane A. C. Alencar et al. · Nature Apr 1999 1,365
3 The Amazon basin in transition Eric A. Davidson, Alessandro Carioca de Araújo, Paulo Eduardo Artaxo et al. · Nature 17 Jan 2012 1,302
4 Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation Jos Barlow et al. · Nature Open access 29 Jun 2016 1,144
5 Positive Feedbacks in the Fire Dynamic of Closed Canopy Tropical Forests Mark A. Cochrane, Ane A. C. Alencar, Mark Schulze et al. · Science 11 Jun 1999 929
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Imazon?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Land Use Change, Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, Environmental Services, Tropical Deforestation, Remote Sensing, Agroecology and Energy Efficiency.

▲ 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 23 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change4▲ 5.3×18 topics
  2. Land Use Change4▲ 46×4 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation3▲ 32×3 topics
  4. Environmental Services2▲ 270×1 topic
  5. Tropical Deforestation2▲ 270×1 topic
  6. Sustainability2▲ 3.4×10 topics
  7. Remote Sensing2▲ 6.5×8 topics
  8. Environmental Impact2▲ 4.2×8 topics
  9. Agroecology2▲ 47×4 topics
  10. Energy Efficiency2▲ 7.4×4 topics
  11. Massive MIMO2▲ 78×2 topics
  12. Biomass Estimation2▲ 40×3 topics
  13. Epidemiology2▲ 1.48×7 topics
  14. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 29×4 topics
  15. Deep Learning1▲ 1.57×4 topics
  16. Cellular Networks1▲ 93×1 topic
  17. Interference Alignment1▲ 93×1 topic
  18. 5G1▲ 65×2 topics
  19. Cultural Heritage1▲ 7.1×2 topics
  20. Diagnosis1▲ 4.0×1 topic
  21. Eosinophilic Esophagitis1▲ 151×1 topic
  22. Globalization1▲ 1.96×4 topics
  23. MIMO Systems1▲ 47×2 topics

Which research topics does Imazon publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Conservation, Biodiversi…2Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 2 fractional worksAdvanced MIMO Systems Optimization: 1 fractional worksEosinophilic Esophagitis: 1 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 1 fractional worksMultimedia Communication and Technology: 1 fractional worksAgriculture, Land Use, Rural Development: 1 fractional worksLand Rights and Reforms1Land Rights and Reforms: 1 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 1 fractional worksRural Development and Agriculture: 1 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 1 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSurgeryEnvironmental Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 2 works
  2. 2 Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Eosinophilic Esophagitis Surgery 1 works
  4. 4 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 1 works
  5. 5 Multimedia Communication and Technology Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 works
  7. 7 Land Rights and Reforms Soil Science 1 works
  8. 8 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 1 works
  9. 9 Rural Development and Agriculture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
  10. 10 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 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 available51.6%not open48.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors51.4%domestic only48.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Imazon's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% 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 Imazon as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00012% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Imazon0.000060% in 2025200020102020

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

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