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Instituto Nacional de Saúde

In research, Instituto Nacional de Saúde stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,028 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#7,055 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#9,538 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases and General Health Professions — Infectious Diseases is 10.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#14,677
of 28,054 · #20,065 all time
Rank in Mozambique
#3
of 9
Research works
942
▲ 59% vs 2013–17
Citations
11k
11.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
84%
world 28%

What is Instituto Nacional de Saúde known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #8,028 of 11,982 10.5%170 #11468
MedicineField #7,055 of 10,443 12.0%113 #11527
Social SciencesDomain #9,538 of 10,521 8.5%84 #14654

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Nacional de Saúde 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#11,468 #8,028
  2. Medicine#11,527 #7,055
  3. Social Sciences#14,654 #9,538
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Instituto Nacional de Saúde specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 10.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 22.3 works11×
  2. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 35.6 works8.4×
← 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: 0.48× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.55× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.29× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.61× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.80× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.99× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 6.00× its world share, 48 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.93× its world share, 113 worksMedicineNursing: 3.81× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.81× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.56× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.04× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.54× its world share, 60 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Nacional de Saúde?

Ranked on the composite score, Ilesh Jani lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Nacional de Saúde.

  1. 1 Ilesh Jani Mozambique · #954,468 worldwide 32 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Nacional de Saúde?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Epidemiology, Quality of Life, Healthcare Access, Social Determinants, Primary Care, Health Policy and Health Inequalities.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology51▲ 4.2×85 topics
  2. Public Health46▲ 10×38 topics
  3. Quality of Life29▲ 6.5×28 topics
  4. Healthcare Access26▲ 30×6 topics
  5. Social Determinants21▲ 32×6 topics
  6. Primary Care19▲ 17×10 topics
  7. Health Policy19▲ 39×3 topics
  8. Treatment17▲ 4.6×24 topics
  9. Health Inequalities17▲ 46×2 topics
  10. Social Determinants of Health16▲ 23×4 topics
  11. Healthcare14▲ 4.1×11 topics
  12. Risk Factors14▲ 4.2×19 topics
  13. Mental Health14▲ 3.1×20 topics
  14. Chronic Diseases14▲ 18×4 topics
  15. Immune Response14▲ 8.0×15 topics
  16. Educational Technology14▲ 3.7×6 topics
  17. Maternal Health14▲ 16×3 topics
  18. Brazilian Health System13▲ 101×1 topic
  19. Community-Based Care13▲ 101×1 topic
  20. Drug Resistance13▲ 15×8 topics
  21. Vaccine12▲ 10×11 topics
  22. COVID-1912▲ 2.9×18 topics
  23. Antiretroviral Therapy12▲ 24×6 topics
  24. Diagnosis12▲ 4.2×27 topics
  25. Child Health11▲ 60×1 topic
  26. Prenatal Care11▲ 124×1 topic
  27. Health10▲ 7.8×13 topics
  28. Prevalence10▲ 7.7×11 topics
  29. Maternal Mortality9▲ 13×5 topics
  30. Adolescents8▲ 7.0×8 topics
  31. Psychological Impact7▲ 7.2×7 topics
  32. Viral Load7▲ 29×2 topics
  33. HIV Transmission7▲ 29×2 topics
  34. Community Health Workers6▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Vaccine Development6▲ 8.4×8 topics
  36. Patient Safety6▲ 14×5 topics
  37. Judicialization6▲ 69×1 topic
  38. Medication6▲ 69×1 topic
  39. Child Mortality6▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Health Systems6▲ 28×1 topic

Which research topics does Instituto Nacional de Saúde publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health, Nursing, Elderly Care, Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare, Public Health in Brazil and Global Maternal and Child Health.

Health, Nursing, Elderly Care: 13 fractional worksMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare: 11 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil: 6 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 6 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 6 fractional worksYouth, Drugs, and Violence: 6 fractional worksHealthcare during COVID-…6Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 6 fractional worksHealthcare Regulation: 5 fractional worksAcademic Research in Diverse Fields: 5 fractional worksWomen's cancer preventio…5Women's cancer prevention and management: 5 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political SciencePediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthInfectious Diseases5 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 13 works
  2. 2 Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare General Health Professions 11 works
  3. 3 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  4. 4 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  5. 5 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 6 works
  6. 6 Youth, Drugs, and Violence Demography 6 works
  7. 7 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 6 works
  8. 8 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 5 works
  9. 9 Academic Research in Diverse Fields Education 5 works
  10. 10 Women's cancer prevention and management Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 5 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 available84.4%not open15.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors71.8%domestic only28.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Nacional de Saúde's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 59% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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