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Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

In research, Instituto Superior Miguel Torga stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,319 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Psychology (Psychology is 7.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,709
of 22,385 · #14,201 all time
Rank in Portugal
#105
of 168
Research works
640
▲ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
4k
6.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

What is Instituto Superior Miguel Torga 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 #5,319 of 9,585 12.3%92 #5477

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Instituto Superior Miguel Torga 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 Superior Miguel Torga work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga is in Social Sciences, 16% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (27%), Psychology (22%), Business, Management and Accounting (14%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 102 fractional works · 72.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 37 fractional works · 26.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 9.9% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 4.2% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 30 fractional works · 21.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 16 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 19 fractional works · 13.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMarketing: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 22 fractional works · 15.7% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 9.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 5.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 9.1% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 5.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitutoSuperior Miguel…141fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences16%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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3726.6%
    2. Psychology3021.6%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting1913.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance53.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities53.5%
    6. Decision Sciences53.3%
    1. Medicine149.9%
    2. Health Professions85.7%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science85.5%
    2. Engineering21.5%
    3. Environmental Science21.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.8%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    6. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Neuroscience21.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Instituto Superior Miguel Torga specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Psychology takes 7.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PsychologyField · 30.5 works7.1×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.09× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.70× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 2.16× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.52× its world share, 14 worksMedicineNursing: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.22× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.24× its world share, 19 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.45× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.76× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 7.09× its world share, 30 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.10× its world share, 38 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 7.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology7.09×30 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting4.24×19 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.45×5 works
  4. Health Professions2.16×8 works
  5. Social Sciences2.10×38 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.76×5 works
  7. Arts and Humanities1.22×5 works
  8. Neuroscience1.09×2 works
  9. Computer Science0.70×8 works
  10. Medicine0.52×14 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.34×1 works
  12. Environmental Science0.26×2 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×1 works
  14. Nursing0.12×0 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.10×0 works
  16. Engineering0.10×2 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×0 works
  18. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga?

Ranked on the quality score, Ana Beatriz Galhardo, Ilda Massano‐Cardoso and Vanessa Fernandes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Instituto Superior Miguel Torga.

  1. 1 Ana Beatriz Galhardo Portugal · #887,710 worldwide 1.9k citations · 193 works
  2. 2 Ilda Massano‐Cardoso Portugal · #1,310,827 worldwide 770 citations · 82 works
  3. 3 Vanessa Fernandes Portugal · #2,631,025 worldwide 165 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Maria Madalena Jesus Cunha Nunes Portugal · #2,851,916 worldwide 2 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Bárbara Monteiro Portugal · #3,004,168 worldwide 193 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Esmeralda Macedo Portugal · #3,186,436 worldwide 1 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Alcina Maria de Castro Martins Portugal · #3,654,914 worldwide 50 citations · 49 works
  8. 8 Maria João Barata Portugal · #3,674,108 worldwide 25 citations · 35 works
  9. 9 Sónia Catarina Carvalho Simões Portugal · #3,756,099 worldwide 830 citations · 93 works
  10. 10 Sara Moitinho Portugal · #3,817,359 worldwide 32 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

What are the most cited papers from Instituto Superior Miguel Torga?

The most cited paper from Instituto Superior Miguel Torga is "Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress" (Catarina Cardoso Tomás et al., 2016), with 463 citations. Next come "Michel Foucault. 1999. Em Defesa da Sociedade: Curso no Collège de France (1975/ 1976). Título original: Il Faut Défendre la Société. Éditions du Seuil, 1997. Tradução de Maria Ermantina Galvão. São Paulo: Martins Fontes" (428) and "Novel Audio Features for Music Emotion Recognition" (178).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Proceedings of the 3rd IPLeiria’s International Health Congress Catarina Cardoso Tomás et al. · BMC Health Services Research Open access1,693 authors Jul 2016 463
2 Michel Foucault. 1999. Em Defesa da Sociedade: Curso no Collège de France (1975/ 1976). Título original: Il Faut Défendre la Société. Éditions du Seuil, 1997. Tradução de Maria Ermantina Galvão. São Paulo: Martins Fontes Jaqueline Belga Marques · Interações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades Open access 31 Oct 2002 428
3 Novel Audio Features for Music Emotion Recognition Renato Panda, Ricardo Malheiro, Rui Pedro Paiva · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Open access 29 Mar 2018 178
4 Audio Features for Music Emotion Recognition: A Survey Renato Panda, Ricardo Malheiro, Rui Pedro Paiva · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Open access 21 Oct 2020 171
5 Early Maladaptive Schemas and Social Phobia José Pinto‐Gouveia, Paula Castilho, Ana Beatriz Galhardo et al. · Cognitive Therapy and Research 16 Jun 2006 167
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Depression, Psychological Impact, Emotion Regulation, Stress, Well-being, Anxiety and Job Satisfaction.

▲ 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. Mental Health18▲ 9.1×27 topics
  2. Depression9▲ 7.2×10 topics
  3. Quality of Life7▲ 3.6×17 topics
  4. Epidemiology7▲ 1.29×17 topics
  5. Psychological Impact7▲ 16×5 topics
  6. Emotion Regulation7▲ 15×7 topics
  7. Stress6▲ 12×6 topics
  8. Well-being6▲ 12×8 topics
  9. Anxiety6▲ 8.7×6 topics
  10. Globalization6▲ 2.1×17 topics
  11. Social Media5▲ 2.7×13 topics
  12. COVID-195▲ 2.8×7 topics
  13. Job Satisfaction5▲ 8.4×6 topics
  14. Consumer Behavior5▲ 5.8×8 topics
  15. Pandemic5▲ 3.6×5 topics
  16. Prevalence5▲ 8.6×9 topics
  17. Psychological Distress5▲ 14×5 topics
  18. Environmental Management5▲ 8.6×5 topics
  19. Healthcare Workers5▲ 15×4 topics
  20. Qualitative Research4▲ 3.6×6 topics
  21. Resilience4▲ 6.1×8 topics
  22. Motivation4▲ 7.0×4 topics
  23. Social Support4▲ 5.2×10 topics
  24. Coping Strategies4▲ 11×6 topics
  25. Gender Differences4▲ 7.3×5 topics
  26. Psychopathology4▲ 15×4 topics
  27. Neuroscience4▲ 8.7×5 topics
  28. Positive Emotions4▲ 22×2 topics
  29. Public Policy4▲ 5.5×7 topics
  30. Adolescents4▲ 7.1×5 topics
  31. Social Isolation4▲ 13×2 topics
  32. Social Capital4▲ 4.7×8 topics
  33. Emotion3▲ 11×3 topics
  34. Subjective Well-Being3▲ 32×2 topics
  35. Quarantine3▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Parenting3▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Cognitive Therapy3▲ 19×3 topics
  38. Infertility3▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Developmental Trajectories3▲ 17×3 topics
  40. Social Relationships3▲ 22×2 topics

Which research topics does Instituto Superior Miguel Torga publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: COVID-19 and Mental Health, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Resilience and Mental Health and Reproductive Health and Technologies.

COVID-19 and Mental Health3COVID-19 and Mental Health: 3 fractional worksEnvironmental Sustainabi…2Environmental Sustainability in Business: 2 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksReproductive Health and …2Reproductive Health and Technologies: 2 fractional worksMindfulness and Compassi…2Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions: 2 fractional worksAging and Gerontology Research: 2 fractional worksEducational Games and Gamification: 2 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psy…2Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 2 fractional worksBusiness and Management Studies: 2 fractional worksIntimate Partner and Family Violence: 2 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyMarketingReproductive MedicineNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology3 others

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

  1. 1 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 3 works
  2. 2 Environmental Sustainability in Business Marketing 2 works
  3. 3 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 2 works
  4. 4 Reproductive Health and Technologies Reproductive Medicine 2 works
  5. 5 Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions Clinical Psychology 2 works
  6. 6 Aging and Gerontology Research Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Educational Games and Gamification Developmental and Educational Psychology 2 works
  8. 8 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 2 works
  9. 9 Business and Management Studies Information Systems and Management 2 works
  10. 10 Intimate Partner and Family Violence Health 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 available52.2%not open47.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.1%domestic only90.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Instituto Superior Miguel Torga's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
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 Superior Miguel Torga as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00073% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Instituto Superior Miguel Torga0.00061% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Instituto Superior Miguel Torga 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%Instituto Superior Miguel Torga19.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.5% in 2025.

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