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Instituto Florestal

In research, Instituto Florestal stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,610 of 3,157 worldwide), Life Sciences (#3,490 of 6,403 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,915 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Forestry (Forestry is 116.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,320
of 22,385 · #6,210 all time
Rank in Brazil
#437
of 684
Research works
1.7k
▼ 29% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
87%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Instituto Florestal

What is Instituto Florestal 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
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,610 of 3,157 4.1%79 #1084
Life SciencesDomain #3,490 of 6,403 3.9%87 #2400
Environmental ScienceField #1,915 of 3,334 3.5%62 #1165
Physical SciencesDomain #8,239 of 10,670 3.4%85 #4247

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Florestal 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 of those standings moved

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

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,084 #1,610
  2. Life Sciences#2,400 #3,490
  3. Environmental Science#1,165 #1,915
  4. Physical Sciences#4,247 #8,239
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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

Which fields of science does Instituto Florestal work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at Instituto Florestal is in Physical Sciences, 42% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (37%), Environmental Science (31%), Engineering (6%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 96 fractional works · 42.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 70 fractional works · 31.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 16 fractional works · 7.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 14 fractional works · 6.2% of its workEcology: 12 fractional works · 5.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 6.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 93 fractional works · 41.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 84 fractional works · 37.4% of its workForestry: 27 fractional works · 12.1% of its workPlant Science: 21 fractional works · 9.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSoil Science: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 25 fractional works · 11.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 10 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoFlorestal224fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences42%Physical Sciences43%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences11%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science7031.1%
    2. Engineering146.4%
    3. Computer Science52.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.6%
    5. Materials Science10.6%
    6. Chemistry10.4%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.3%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Energy00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences8437.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology83.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences125.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities62.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    5. Decision Sciences20.8%
    6. Psychology10.6%
    1. Medicine72.9%
    2. Health Professions21.0%
    3. Nursing10.4%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Florestal specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Forestry takes 116.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ForestrySubfield · 27.1 works116×
← 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: 7.87× its world share, 84 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.65× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.29× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.43× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.26× its world share, 70 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.91× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.59× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.87× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 7.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7.87×84 works
  2. Environmental Science6.26×70 works
  3. Veterinary1.59×0 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.04×4 works
  5. Nursing0.91×1 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.87×6 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.87×2 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.65×8 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.47×1 works
  10. Engineering0.43×14 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.43×2 works
  12. Social Sciences0.42×12 works
  13. Health Professions0.39×2 works
  14. Computer Science0.29×5 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.28×2 works
  16. Chemistry0.26×1 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.25×0 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×0 works
  19. Psychology0.18×1 works
  20. Materials Science0.16×1 works
  21. Medicine0.15×6 works
  22. Mathematics0.13×0 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.12×1 works
  24. Neuroscience0.10×0 works
  25. Energy0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Florestal?

Ranked on the quality score, Giselda Durigan, Flaviana Maluf Souza and Márcio Port‐Carvalho lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Florestal.

  1. 1 Giselda Durigan Brazil · #97,159 worldwide 13k citations · 224 works
  2. 2 Flaviana Maluf Souza Brazil · #1,594,529 worldwide 936 citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Márcio Port‐Carvalho Brazil · #2,158,577 worldwide 648 citations · 26 works
  4. 4 Maria Teresa Zugliani Toniato Brazil · #2,211,311 worldwide 813 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Natália Macedo Ivanauskas Brazil · #2,269,969 worldwide 3k citations · 93 works
  6. 6 Hélder Bolognani Andrade Brazil · #2,302,398 worldwide 880 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Antônio Carlos Galvão de Melo Brazil · #2,634,397 worldwide 704 citations · 38 works
  8. 8 Geraldo Antônio Daher Corrêa Franco Brazil · #2,827,889 worldwide 1.8k citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Edgar Fernando de Luca Brazil · #3,152,653 worldwide 499 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 Alexandre Bahia Gontijo Brazil · #3,237,555 worldwide 275 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Florestal

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Florestal?

The most cited paper from Instituto Florestal is "Combatting global grassland degradation" (Richard D. Bardgett et al., 2021), with 1,479 citations. Next come "Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora" (1,457) and "Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas" (1,223).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Combatting global grassland degradation Richard D. Bardgett et al. · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ReviewOpen access 7 Sep 2021 1,479
2 Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora Hans ter Steege et al. · Science Open access120 authors 17 Oct 2013 1,457
3 Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas William Frederick Laurance et al. · Nature Open access216 authors 24 Jul 2012 1,223
4 Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents Nicola Stevens, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Brett P. Murphy et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 2 Jul 2016 709
5 Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al. · Science Open access 30 Jan 2014 708
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Florestal?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Environmental Impact, Value-Added Products, Economic Analysis, Forest Biomass, Wood Residues, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Soil Fertility.

▲ 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. Environmental Impact27▲ 7.1×21 topics
  2. Economic Analysis22▲ 69×2 topics
  3. Value-Added Products22▲ 146×2 topics
  4. Forest Biomass22▲ 300×1 topic
  5. Wood Residues22▲ 300×1 topic
  6. Climate Change22▲ 3.5×39 topics
  7. Biodiversity19▲ 11×20 topics
  8. Sustainability16▲ 3.0×22 topics
  9. Sustainable Development16▲ 4.4×9 topics
  10. Remote Sensing12▲ 4.5×11 topics
  11. Soil Fertility12▲ 24×6 topics
  12. Biomass Estimation11▲ 31×3 topics
  13. Aboveground Biomass10▲ 55×2 topics
  14. Biodiversity Conservation10▲ 12×9 topics
  15. Allometric Models10▲ 95×2 topics
  16. Environmental Conservation10▲ 43×2 topics
  17. Ecosystem Services10▲ 11×9 topics
  18. Tropical Forests10▲ 129×2 topics
  19. Climate Change Impact10▲ 19×3 topics
  20. Carbon Stocks9▲ 163×1 topic
  21. Geospatial Analysis9▲ 141×2 topics
  22. Tree Allometry9▲ 163×1 topic
  23. Climatology9▲ 194×1 topic
  24. Hydrographic Basins9▲ 194×1 topic
  25. Invasive Species9▲ 9.6×17 topics
  26. Agroecology9▲ 28×4 topics
  27. Soil Degradation9▲ 74×2 topics
  28. Sustainable Agriculture8▲ 12×7 topics
  29. Land Use Change8▲ 11×6 topics
  30. Genetic Diversity7▲ 7.5×10 topics
  31. Habitat Fragmentation7▲ 15×4 topics
  32. Biogeography7▲ 11×12 topics
  33. No-till Crop Production7▲ 201×1 topic
  34. Soil Compaction7▲ 201×1 topic
  35. Phylogenetic Analysis7▲ 9.6×13 topics
  36. Climate Change Impacts6▲ 23×3 topics
  37. Forest Restoration6▲ 146×2 topics
  38. Nutrient Cycling6▲ 37×3 topics
  39. Ecosystem Health6▲ 56×2 topics
  40. Global Change6▲ 10×5 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Florestal publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Agricultural and Food Sciences, Forest ecology and management, Geography and Environmental Studies and Soil Management and Crop Yield.

Agricultural and Food Sc…22Agricultural and Food Sciences: 22 fractional worksForest ecology and manag…9Forest ecology and management: 9 fractional worksGeography and Environmen…9Geography and Environmental Studies: 9 fractional worksSoil Management and Crop Yield: 7 fractional worksEnvironmental and biological studies: 6 fractional worksRural Development and Ag…6Rural Development and Agriculture: 6 fractional worksGrowth and nutrition in plants: 5 fractional worksAgroforestry and silvopastoral systems: 5 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 4 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainability and Education: 4 fractional works
ForestryNature and Landscape ConservationWater Science and TechnologySoil Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Agricultural and Food Sciences Forestry 22 works
  2. 2 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 9 works
  3. 3 Geography and Environmental Studies Water Science and Technology 9 works
  4. 4 Soil Management and Crop Yield Soil Science 7 works
  5. 5 Environmental and biological studies Ecology 6 works
  6. 6 Rural Development and Agriculture Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 6 works
  7. 7 Growth and nutrition in plants Plant Science 5 works
  8. 8 Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems Forestry 5 works
  9. 9 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  10. 10 Environmental Sustainability and Education Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 4 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 available86.6%not open13.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.5%domestic only80.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Florestal's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% 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 Instituto Florestal as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00069% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Instituto Florestal0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Florestal 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 Florestal4.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.7% in 2017.

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