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Instituto Brasileiro de Museus

In research, Instituto Brasileiro de Museus stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,155 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,300 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Law (Law is 18.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#9,755
of 22,385 · #10,637 all time
Rank in Brazil
#385
of 684
Research works
650
▲ 56% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.7k
2.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
85%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Instituto Brasileiro de Museus

What is Instituto Brasileiro de Museus 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 #4,155 of 9,585 8.2%152 #5072
Social SciencesField #3,300 of 5,988 6.7%95 #4245

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Brasileiro de Museus 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 Instituto Brasileiro de Museus work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Instituto Brasileiro de Museus is in Social Sciences, 13% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (46%), Arts and Humanities (11%), Psychology (7%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 166 fractional works · 71.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 106 fractional works · 45.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 32 fractional works · 13.8% of its workLaw: 24 fractional works · 10.6% of its workEducation: 19 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 fractional works · 4.2% of its workUrban Studies: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 25 fractional works · 10.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 15 fractional works · 6.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 10 fractional works · 4.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 31 fractional works · 13.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 14 fractional works · 5.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 3.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 23 fractional works · 10.0% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 9 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workForestry: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoBrasileiro de…231fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences72%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences10645.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities2510.7%
    3. Psychology156.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance72.9%
    5. Decision Sciences72.9%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting62.5%
    1. Environmental Science145.9%
    2. Computer Science83.6%
    3. Engineering52.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.0%
    5. Materials Science00.2%
    6. Chemistry00.1%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.0%
    1. Medicine146.0%
    2. Health Professions93.8%
    3. Dentistry00.2%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences83.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology20.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    4. Neuroscience10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Brasileiro de Museus specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 18.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. LawSubfield · 24.4 works18×
← 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: 0.70× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.80× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.47× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.19× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.43× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 14 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.72× its world share, 25 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.79× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.99× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.36× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.20× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.63× its world share, 106 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.72×25 works
  2. Social Sciences3.63×106 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.99×7 works
  4. Psychology2.20×16 works
  5. Health Professions1.43×9 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.36×7 works
  7. Environmental Science1.19×14 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.80×2 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.79×6 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.70×8 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.64×2 works
  12. Computer Science0.47×8 works
  13. Veterinary0.47×0 works
  14. Dentistry0.37×0 works
  15. Medicine0.31×14 works
  16. Engineering0.16×5 works
  17. Neuroscience0.14×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×2 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.10×0 works
  20. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.05×0 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Brasileiro de Museus?

Ranked on the quality score, Daniel Rincon Caires, Solon Sehn and Benedicto Heloiz Nascimento lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Brasileiro de Museus.

  1. 1 Daniel Rincon Caires Brazil · #3,453,907 worldwide 42 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Solon Sehn Brazil · #3,921,272 worldwide 4 citations · 15 works
  3. 3 Benedicto Heloiz Nascimento Brazil · #4,334,508 worldwide 4 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Rosemarie Erika Horch Brazil · #5,137,232 worldwide 10 citations · 28 works
  5. 5 Vanderli Custódio Brazil · #5,594,911 worldwide 62 citations · 38 works
  6. 6 Maria Berenice Dias Brazil · #5,833,528 worldwide 107 citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Brasileiro de Museus

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Brasileiro de Museus?

The most cited paper from Instituto Brasileiro de Museus is "O pintor da vida moderna" (Luiz Armando Bagolin, 2011), with 183 citations. Next come "Carcass Persistence and Detectability: Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Surveys" (108) and "Petroleum geology of the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil" (81).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 O pintor da vida moderna Luiz Armando Bagolin · Tempo Social Open access Nov 2011 183
2 Carcass Persistence and Detectability: Reducing the Uncertainty Surrounding Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Surveys Rodrigo Augusto Lima Santos, Sara Santos, Margarida Santos‐Reis et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 2 Nov 2016 108
3 Petroleum geology of the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil Webster Ueipass Mohriak, Marcio Rocha Mello, John Frederick Dewey et al. · Geological Society London Special Publications 1990 81
4 Effectiveness of carboxytherapy in the treatment of cellulite in healthy women: a pilot study Estela Maria Correia Sant′Ana, Luana Ramalho Gomes Pianez, Fernanda Silva Custódio et al. · Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology Open access Aug 2016 63
5 Assessing the consistency of hotspot and hot-moment patterns of wildlife road mortality over time Rodrigo Augusto Lima Santos, Fernando Ascensão, Marina Lopes Ribeiro et al. · Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation Open access 2017 59
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Brasileiro de Museus?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Legal Theory, Social Justice, Legal Philosophy, Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Public Policy and Civil Rights.

▲ 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. Human Rights28▲ 12×17 topics
  2. Legal Theory25▲ 159×3 topics
  3. Social Justice25▲ 18×7 topics
  4. Legal Philosophy23▲ 161×2 topics
  5. Environmental Law22▲ 46×4 topics
  6. Globalization22▲ 4.7×31 topics
  7. Constitutional Law21▲ 70×4 topics
  8. Civil Rights21▲ 133×1 topic
  9. Judicial Activism21▲ 201×1 topic
  10. Public Policy21▲ 19×12 topics
  11. Qualitative Research18▲ 8.9×8 topics
  12. Cultural Identity15▲ 13×12 topics
  13. Healthcare14▲ 5.4×8 topics
  14. Education13▲ 3.3×19 topics
  15. Sustainability12▲ 2.1×21 topics
  16. Inclusion12▲ 35×2 topics
  17. Online Learning12▲ 6.0×3 topics
  18. Identity11▲ 6.8×13 topics
  19. Colonialism11▲ 10×8 topics
  20. Social Determinants11▲ 23×3 topics
  21. E-Learning10▲ 4.7×3 topics
  22. Educational Policy10▲ 18×3 topics
  23. Legislation10▲ 28×3 topics
  24. Brazil10▲ 48×5 topics
  25. Distance Education10▲ 23×1 topic
  26. Training10▲ 21×1 topic
  27. Social Movements10▲ 14×9 topics
  28. History9▲ 5.5×14 topics
  29. Democracy8▲ 10×5 topics
  30. Anthropology8▲ 39×5 topics
  31. Latin America8▲ 19×7 topics
  32. Healthcare Access7▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Cultural Studies7▲ 8.0×10 topics
  34. Clinical Practice7▲ 19×4 topics
  35. Political Economy7▲ 12×6 topics
  36. Historiography7▲ 24×3 topics
  37. Organizational Management6▲ 47×1 topic
  38. Research Methods6▲ 18×1 topic
  39. Adolescence6▲ 63×3 topics
  40. Psychopathology6▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Brasileiro de Museus publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Brazilian Legal Issues, Academic Research in Diverse Fields, Business and Management Studies and Psychology and Mental Health.

Brazilian Legal Issues21Brazilian Legal Issues: 21 fractional worksAcademic Research in Div…10Academic Research in Diverse Fields: 10 fractional worksBusiness and Management …6Business and Management Studies: 6 fractional worksPsychology and Mental Health: 6 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil: 5 fractional worksSocial and Political Iss…5Social and Political Issues: 5 fractional worksBrazilian cultural history and politics: 5 fractional worksUrban Development and Societal Issues: 4 fractional worksLiterature, Culture, and Criticism: 4 fractional worksArts and Performance Studies: 3 fractional works
LawEducationInformation Systems and ManagementClinical Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 21 works
  2. 2 Academic Research in Diverse Fields Education 10 works
  3. 3 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 6 works
  4. 4 Psychology and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 6 works
  5. 5 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  6. 6 Social and Political Issues Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  7. 7 Brazilian cultural history and politics Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  8. 8 Urban Development and Societal Issues Urban Studies 4 works
  9. 9 Literature, Culture, and Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 4 works
  10. 10 Arts and Performance Studies Visual Arts and Performing Arts 3 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 available84.7%not open15.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.6%domestic only78.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Brasileiro de Museus's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher 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 Instituto Brasileiro de Museus as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Instituto Brasileiro de Museus0.0010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Brasileiro de Museus 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Instituto Brasileiro de Museus9.4% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.7% in 2016.

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