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Instituto Pró-Carnívoros

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Research works
116
▲ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.9k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
48%
world 18%
Instituto Pró-Carnívoros

Not ranked overall: Instituto Pró-Carnívoros is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Instituto Pró-Carnívoros work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Instituto Pró-Carnívoros is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (54%), Psychology (11%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 59.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 53.5% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 35.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 19.3% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 11.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 10.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 12.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 6.9% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 9.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoPró-Carnívoros29fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences59%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences19%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1653.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences25.4%
    3. Computer Science00.4%
    1. Psychology311.0%
    2. Social Sciences25.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities12.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology26.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology11.8%
    1. Medicine14.6%
    2. Veterinary13.9%
    3. Health Professions00.4%
    4. Nursing00.2%
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: 0.77× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.29× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.44× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Environmental Science: 10.77× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 28.99× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.83× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.61× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 29.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary28.99×1 works
  2. Environmental Science10.77×16 works
  3. Psychology3.61×3 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.44×2 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.76×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.29×2 works
  7. Arts and Humanities0.83×1 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.77×1 works
  9. Social Sciences0.45×2 works
  10. Nursing0.33×0 works
  11. Medicine0.24×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.14×0 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.09×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Pró-Carnívoros?

Ranked on the quality score, Dênis A. Sana, Fernando César Cascelli de Azevedo and Cláudia Bueno de Campos lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Pró-Carnívoros.

  1. 1 Dênis A. Sana Brazil · #512,085 worldwide 1.6k citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Fernando César Cascelli de Azevedo Brazil · #754,478 worldwide 2.4k citations · 63 works
  3. 3 Cláudia Bueno de Campos Brazil · #1,165,296 worldwide 1.3k citations · 38 works
  4. 4 Joares Adenílson May-Júnior Brazil · #1,208,417 worldwide 1.1k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Sandra M. C. Cavalcanti Brazil · #1,218,232 worldwide 1.2k citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Henrique Villas Boas Concone Brazil · #1,229,011 worldwide 357 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Carolina Franco Esteves Brazil · #1,847,285 worldwide 519 citations · 24 works
  8. 8 Ricardo Luiz Pires Boulhosa Brazil · #2,263,733 worldwide 561 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Pró-Carnívoros

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Pró-Carnívoros?

The most cited paper from Instituto Pró-Carnívoros is "Anthropogenic determinants of primate and carnivore local extinctions in a fragmented forest landscape of southern Amazonia" (Fernanda Michalski, Carlos A. Peres, 2005), with 397 citations. Next come "Estimating the density of a jaguar population in the Brazilian Pantanal using camera-traps and capture–recapture sampling in combination with GPS radio-telemetry" (390) and "Human–wildlife conflicts in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape: determinants of large felid depredation on livestock" (290).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Anthropogenic determinants of primate and carnivore local extinctions in a fragmented forest landscape of southern Amazonia Fernanda Michalski, Carlos A. Peres · Biological Conservation 11 Mar 2005 397
2 Estimating the density of a jaguar population in the Brazilian Pantanal using camera-traps and capture–recapture sampling in combination with GPS radio-telemetry Marianne K. Soisalo, Sandra M. C. Cavalcanti · Biological Conservation 10 Jan 2006 390
3 Human–wildlife conflicts in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape: determinants of large felid depredation on livestock Fernanda Michalski, Ricardo Luiz Pires Boulhosa, Albertoni Edélti Faria et al. · Animal Conservation 7 Mar 2006 290
4 A comprehensive analysis of autocorrelation and bias in home range estimation Michael James Noonan et al. · Ecological Monographs Open access 30 Nov 2018 277
5 Pattern and timing of diversification of the mammalian order Carnivora inferred from multiple nuclear gene sequences Eduardo Eizirik, William J. Murphy, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Open access 5 Feb 2010 266
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Pró-Carnívoros?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Population Dynamics, Habitat Selection, Animal Movement, Occupancy Rates, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation and Conservation Biology.

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

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Population Dynamics8▲ 113×6 topics
  2. Habitat Selection6▲ 304×2 topics
  3. Animal Movement6▲ 421×1 topic
  4. Occupancy Rates6▲ 421×1 topic
  5. Climate Change4▲ 5.2×17 topics
  6. Biodiversity4▲ 18×11 topics
  7. Conservation3▲ 25×8 topics
  8. Conservation Biology3▲ 83×3 topics
  9. Invasive Species2▲ 20×9 topics
  10. Primates2▲ 378×1 topic
  11. Social Behavior2▲ 125×1 topic
  12. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 38×3 topics
  13. Environmental Impact2▲ 3.3×2 topics
  14. Habitat Connectivity2▲ 300×1 topic
  15. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 25×4 topics
  16. Road Ecology2▲ 300×1 topic
  17. Genetic Structure1▲ 66×3 topics
  18. Biogeography1▲ 16×2 topics
  19. Epidemiology1◆ 1.08×12 topics
  20. Globalization1▲ 2.3×3 topics
  21. Island Ecosystems1▲ 124×2 topics
  22. Mammal Evolution1▲ 195×1 topic
  23. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1▲ 195×1 topic
  24. Predator-Prey Interactions1▲ 52×2 topics
  25. Animal Welfare1▲ 42×1 topic
  26. Ecological Niche1▲ 65×1 topic
  27. Genetic Diversity1▲ 8.4×6 topics
  28. Mast Seeding1▲ 182×1 topic
  29. Remote Sensing1▲ 3.0×2 topics
  30. Rodent Eradication1▲ 182×1 topic
  31. Species Distribution Modeling1▲ 65×1 topic
  32. Stress Indicators1▲ 123×1 topic
  33. Education1▲ 1.99×2 topics
  34. Environmental Conservation1▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Global Change1▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Hydrographic Basins1▲ 162×1 topic

Which research topics does Instituto Pró-Carnívoros publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Wildlife Ecology and Con…6Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 6 fractional worksPrimate Behavior and Eco…2Primate Behavior and Ecology: 2 fractional worksWildlife-Road Interactio…2Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation: 2 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 1 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 1 fractional worksAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies: 1 fractional worksAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 1 fractional worksGeography and Environmental Studies: 1 fractional worksHuman-Animal Interaction Studies: 1 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 1 fractional works
EcologySocial PsychologyPaleontologyEcological Modeling4 others

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

  1. 1 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 6 works
  2. 2 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 2 works
  3. 3 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 2 works
  4. 4 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 1 works
  5. 5 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 1 works
  6. 6 Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies Ecology 1 works
  7. 7 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 1 works
  8. 8 Geography and Environmental Studies Water Science and Technology 1 works
  9. 9 Human-Animal Interaction Studies Genetics 1 works
  10. 10 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available67.1%not open32.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors48.1%domestic only51.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Pró-Carnívoros's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% 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 Instituto Pró-Carnívoros as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000079% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Instituto Pró-Carnívoros0.00013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Pró-Carnívoros over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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