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Inter-American Development Bank

In research, Inter-American Development Bank stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,180 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,988 of 5,988 worldwide) and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#703 of 1,798 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics and Econometrics (Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 13.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,132
of 22,385 · #3,395 all time
Rank in United States
#819
of 3,332
Research works
1.9k
▼ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
50k
25.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.20×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
59%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
Inter-American Development Bank

What is Inter-American Development Bank 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 #2,180 of 9,585 14.7%171 #1095
Social SciencesField #1,988 of 5,988 17.4%70 #1045
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #703 of 1,798 13.2%70 #409

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Inter-American Development Bank 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. Social Sciences#1,095 #2,180
  2. Social Sciences#1,045 #1,988
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#409 #703
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 Inter-American Development Bank work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at Inter-American Development Bank is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (28%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 187 fractional works · 71.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 79 fractional works · 29.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 25 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEducation: 16 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSafety Research: 9 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 8 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGender Studies: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 75 fractional works · 28.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 50 fractional works · 19.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 15 fractional works · 5.8% of its workFinance: 10 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 21 fractional works · 7.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 11 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAccounting: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 43 fractional works · 16.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 4.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 26 fractional works · 9.8% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 9 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSoil Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInter-AmericanDevelopment Bank263fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences71%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences7929.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7528.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting217.9%
    4. Psychology72.5%
    5. Decision Sciences62.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Environmental Science166.2%
    2. Engineering124.4%
    3. Computer Science51.8%
    4. Energy41.7%
    5. Mathematics41.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Medicine145.2%
    2. Health Professions93.5%
    3. Nursing31.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences62.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Inter-American Development Bank specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 13.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 74.8 works13×
  2. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 50.0 works12×
← 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: 0.45× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.23× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.83× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.30× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.24× its world share, 16 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.21× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.34× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 14 worksMedicineNursing: 2.01× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.45× its world share, 21 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.41× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 13.26× its world share, 75 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.82× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.36× its world share, 79 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 13.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.26×75 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.45×21 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.41×6 works
  4. Social Sciences2.36×79 works
  5. Nursing2.01×3 works
  6. Energy1.83×4 works
  7. Health Professions1.34×9 works
  8. Environmental Science1.24×16 works
  9. Mathematics1.21×4 works
  10. Psychology0.82×7 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.45×6 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.43×2 works
  13. Engineering0.30×12 works
  14. Medicine0.27×14 works
  15. Computer Science0.23×5 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.13×0 works
  17. Veterinary0.12×0 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.09×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  20. Neuroscience0.06×0 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Inter-American Development Bank?

Ranked on the quality score, Philip Keefer, Carlos Scartascini and Norbert Schady lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Inter-American Development Bank.

  1. 1 Philip Keefer United States · #31,182 worldwide 24k citations · 266 works
  2. 2 Carlos Scartascini United States · #90,876 worldwide 4k citations · 288 works
  3. 3 Norbert Schady United States · #92,058 worldwide 10k citations · 197 works
  4. 4 Marta Rubio‐Codina United States · #127,891 worldwide 3.5k citations · 91 works
  5. 5 Frederico C. Guanais United States · #162,266 worldwide 6.2k citations · 50 works
  6. 6 Samuel Berlinski United States · #212,009 worldwide 2.6k citations · 132 works
  7. 7 Ernesto Hugo Stein United States · #254,701 worldwide 8.3k citations · 220 works
  8. 8 Matí­as Busso United States · #257,456 worldwide 3.2k citations · 177 works
  9. 9 Gustavo Crespi United States · #261,687 worldwide 4.3k citations · 148 works
  10. 10 Florencia López Bóo United States · #281,027 worldwide 3.1k citations · 179 works
All ranked researchers at Inter-American Development Bank

What are the most cited papers from Inter-American Development Bank?

The most cited paper from Inter-American Development Bank is "High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution" (Margaret E. Kruk et al., 2018), with 4,136 citations. Next come "Fear of Floating" (1,670) and "Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil" (1,474).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution Margaret E. Kruk et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 5 Sep 2018 4,136
2 Fear of Floating Guillermo A. Calvo, Carmen Reinhart · The Quarterly Journal of Economics May 2002 1,670
3 Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto E. Chong, Suzanne Duryea · American Economic Journal Applied Economics 28 Sep 2012 1,474
4 Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth Eduardo A. mname Cavallo, Sebastián Galiani, Ilan Noy et al. · The Review of Economics and Statistics Dec 2013 1,291
5 Use of the Robson classification to assess caesarean section trends in 21 countries: a secondary analysis of two WHO multicountry surveys Joshua Peter Vogel, Ana Pilar Betrán, Nadia Vindevoghel et al. · The Lancet Global Health Open access 11 Apr 2015 1,061
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Inter-American Development Bank?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy, Economic Development, Labor Market, Gender Inequality, Globalization, Income Tax and Corruption.

▲ 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. Economic Growth32▲ 15×23 topics
  2. Fiscal Policy24▲ 45×5 topics
  3. Economic Development22▲ 10×13 topics
  4. Globalization21▲ 4.1×30 topics
  5. Labor Market17▲ 23×10 topics
  6. Gender Inequality16▲ 44×5 topics
  7. Income Tax15▲ 78×2 topics
  8. Corruption13▲ 32×4 topics
  9. Climate Change13▲ 1.81×30 topics
  10. Innovation12▲ 4.3×12 topics
  11. Regional Development11▲ 12×5 topics
  12. COVID-1910▲ 3.0×10 topics
  13. Transport Infrastructure10▲ 48×2 topics
  14. Infrastructure10▲ 31×1 topic
  15. Political Economy10▲ 15×8 topics
  16. Public Investment10▲ 69×1 topic
  17. Taxation10▲ 46×2 topics
  18. Academic Achievement9▲ 20×7 topics
  19. Institutional Quality9▲ 32×3 topics
  20. Monetary Policy9▲ 14×7 topics
  21. Poverty Reduction9▲ 25×3 topics
  22. Informal Economy8▲ 64×1 topic
  23. Tax Evasion8▲ 68×1 topic
  24. International Trade8▲ 21×2 topics
  25. Technology7▲ 5.3×3 topics
  26. Market Size7▲ 40×2 topics
  27. Firm-Level Data7▲ 61×1 topic
  28. Income Inequality7▲ 19×6 topics
  29. Productivity7▲ 48×1 topic
  30. Trade Liberalization7▲ 57×2 topics
  31. Regulation7▲ 4.9×8 topics
  32. Child Development6▲ 5.9×5 topics
  33. Conditional Cash Transfers6▲ 68×1 topic
  34. Labor Force Participation6▲ 56×2 topics
  35. School Subsidies6▲ 68×1 topic
  36. Student Achievement6▲ 26×3 topics
  37. Social Policy6▲ 26×3 topics
  38. Institutions6▲ 29×5 topics
  39. Household Decision Making6▲ 100×1 topic
  40. Welfare Reform6▲ 100×1 topic

Which research topics does Inter-American Development Bank publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Taxation and Compliance Studies, Global trade and economics and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 10 fractional worksTaxation and Compliance Studies: 8 fractional worksGlobal trade and economics7Global trade and economics: 7 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and …6Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 6 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 6 fractional worksSchool Choice and Performance: 5 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis …4Global Financial Crisis and Policies: 4 fractional worksMonetary Policy and Economic Impact: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 3 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 3 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSafety ResearchGender Studies3 others

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

  1. 1 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 10 works
  2. 2 Taxation and Compliance Studies Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  3. 3 Global trade and economics General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 works
  4. 4 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 6 works
  5. 5 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 6 works
  6. 6 School Choice and Performance Education 5 works
  7. 7 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 4 works
  8. 8 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  10. 10 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 3 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 available59.3%not open40.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.3%domestic only68.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Inter-American Development Bank's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% 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 Inter-American Development Bank as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Inter-American Development Bank0.00095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Inter-American Development Bank 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%30%Inter-American Development Bank13.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 27.9% in 1999.

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