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Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

In research, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,917 of 5,988 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#6,324 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Political Science and International Relations and Social Sciences (Political Science and International Relations is 16.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,029
of 22,385 · #14,119 all time
Rank in Costa Rica
#20
of 26
Research works
513
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
2.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
90%
world 40%
International
50%
world 18%
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

What is Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 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 SciencesField #3,917 of 5,988 5.9%80 #4169
Social SciencesDomain #6,324 of 9,585 6.5%92 #6109

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

In 2022-now, 83% of research at Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos is in Social Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (73%), Medicine (6%), Arts and Humanities (6%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 94 fractional works · 83.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 82 fractional works · 72.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 28 fractional works · 24.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 20 fractional works · 17.3% of its workLaw: 16 fractional works · 14.4% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 7.7% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 5.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoInteramericano d…114fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences83%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences8272.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities65.7%
    3. Psychology22.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting21.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Medicine75.9%
    2. Health Professions21.4%
    3. Dentistry00.4%
    1. Environmental Science65.0%
    2. Computer Science11.2%
    3. Energy00.2%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.1%
    5. Engineering00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Political Science and International Relations takes 16.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 27.7 works16×
  2. Social SciencesField · 82.5 works5.7×
← 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: 0.46× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.00× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 0.91× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.31× its world share, 7 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.97× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 5.74× its world share, 82 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences5.74×82 works
  2. Arts and Humanities1.97×6 works
  3. Environmental Science1.00×6 works
  4. Dentistry0.91×0 works
  5. Psychology0.65×2 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.56×1 works
  7. Health Professions0.52×2 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.46×2 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.42×2 works
  10. Medicine0.31×7 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.31×0 works
  12. Energy0.22×0 works
  13. Computer Science0.16×1 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.09×0 works
  15. Neuroscience0.05×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.03×0 works
  17. Engineering0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos?

Ranked on the quality score, Renzo Honores, Ariel E. Dulitzky and André Haiske lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos.

  1. 1 Renzo Honores Costa Rica · #2,575,745 worldwide 85 citations · 21 works
  2. 2 Ariel E. Dulitzky Costa Rica · #2,608,353 worldwide 339 citations · 50 works
  3. 3 André Haiske Costa Rica · #2,834,066 worldwide 7 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Costa Rica · #2,948,145 worldwide 54 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Diego García‐Sayán Costa Rica · #3,148,121 worldwide 69 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 María Victoria Fernández Molina Costa Rica · #3,187,204 worldwide 74 citations · 19 works
  7. 7 Manuel E. Ventura Robles Costa Rica · #3,809,990 worldwide 65 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Óscar Parra Vera Costa Rica · #4,093,466 worldwide 44 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 José Thompson Costa Rica · #4,106,727 worldwide 4 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Diego Camaño Viera Costa Rica · #4,519,983 worldwide 5 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos?

The most cited paper from Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos is "Coffee agroforestry systems capable of reducing disease-induced yield and economic losses while providing multiple ecosystem services" (Rolando H. Cerda, Jacques Avelino, Célia A. Harvey et al., 2020), with 82 citations. Next come "Multiple-Disease System in Coffee: From Crop Loss Assessment to Sustainable Management" (74) and "Socioeconomic Patterns of Outdoor Recreation Use Near Urban Areas" (60).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Coffee agroforestry systems capable of reducing disease-induced yield and economic losses while providing multiple ecosystem services Rolando H. Cerda, Jacques Avelino, Célia A. Harvey et al. · Crop Protection Open access 31 Mar 2020 82
2 Multiple-Disease System in Coffee: From Crop Loss Assessment to Sustainable Management Jacques Avelino, Clémentine Allinne, Rolando H. Cerda et al. · Annual Review of Phytopathology ReviewOpen access 11 Jul 2018 74
3 Socioeconomic Patterns of Outdoor Recreation Use Near Urban Areas John J. Lindsay, Richard A. Ogle · Journal of Leisure Research 1972 60
4 The Prohibition of Amnesties by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Christina Binder · German Law Journal Open access May 2011 53
5 Guardianes de la real justicia: alcaldes de indios, costumbre y justicia local en Huarochirí colonial José Carlos de la Puente Luna, Renzo Honores · Histórica Open access 2016 40
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Which keywords describe research at Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, Latin America, Globalization, Constitutionalism, Social Rights, Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory and Judicial Review.

▲ 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 Rights36▲ 31×24 topics
  2. Latin America24▲ 109×13 topics
  3. Globalization22▲ 9.8×21 topics
  4. Constitutionalism17▲ 171×3 topics
  5. Social Rights17▲ 502×2 topics
  6. Legal Philosophy15▲ 214×2 topics
  7. Legal Theory15▲ 196×2 topics
  8. Judicial Review14▲ 142×2 topics
  9. Constitutional Rights12▲ 612×1 topic
  10. Inter-American Court12▲ 612×1 topic
  11. Social Justice11▲ 17×7 topics
  12. Education11▲ 5.6×17 topics
  13. Constitutional Law9▲ 63×5 topics
  14. Criminal Justice8▲ 33×4 topics
  15. Sustainable Development8▲ 4.6×13 topics
  16. Public Policy8▲ 15×7 topics
  17. Social Movements8▲ 23×9 topics
  18. International Law8▲ 21×8 topics
  19. Democracy7▲ 17×6 topics
  20. COVID-196▲ 4.4×4 topics
  21. European Union6▲ 25×5 topics
  22. Welfare State6▲ 72×3 topics
  23. Ethics6▲ 10×7 topics
  24. Inequality5▲ 21×4 topics
  25. Transparency5▲ 32×2 topics
  26. Prison System5▲ 83×3 topics
  27. Environmental Law5▲ 21×4 topics
  28. Schengen Area5▲ 158×2 topics
  29. Equality5▲ 71×1 topic
  30. Labor Law5▲ 171×1 topic
  31. Criminal Law4▲ 25×3 topics
  32. Penal System4▲ 247×1 topic
  33. Social Control4▲ 175×1 topic
  34. Drug Policy4▲ 137×2 topics
  35. Inclusive Education4▲ 11×4 topics
  36. Social Inequality4▲ 15×8 topics
  37. Youth Offenders4▲ 85×2 topics
  38. Public Administration4▲ 46×3 topics
  39. Legal Reform4▲ 123×2 topics
  40. Healthcare Access4▲ 13×7 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies, Human Rights and Immigration, Criminal Justice and Penology and Social Issues and Policies in Latin America.

Comparative constitution…12Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies: 12 fractional worksHuman Rights and Immigration: 5 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Penology: 4 fractional worksSocial Issues and Policies in Latin America: 4 fractional worksPolitical Dynamics in Latin America: 4 fractional worksGender, Violence, Rights in Latin America: 3 fractional worksEthics and bioethics in …3Ethics and bioethics in healthcare: 3 fractional worksLegal processes and jurisprudence: 3 fractional worksBrazilian Legal Issues: 3 fractional worksComparative International Legal Studies: 2 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceLawPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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

  1. 1 Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies Political Science and International Relations 12 works
  2. 2 Human Rights and Immigration Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  3. 3 Criminal Justice and Penology Law 4 works
  4. 4 Social Issues and Policies in Latin America Law 4 works
  5. 5 Political Dynamics in Latin America Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  6. 6 Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  7. 7 Ethics and bioethics in healthcare Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  8. 8 Legal processes and jurisprudence Law 3 works
  9. 9 Brazilian Legal Issues Law 3 works
  10. 10 Comparative International Legal Studies Political Science and International Relations 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 available89.8%not open10.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors50.5%domestic only49.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower 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 Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00038% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos0.00034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos 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 2025Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos6.1% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.3% in 2017.

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