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ISPA - Instituto Universitário

In research, ISPA - Instituto Universitário stands highest in Social Sciences (#3,743 of 9,585 worldwide), Psychology (#879 of 2,121 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,829 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Clinical Psychology, Psychology and Social Psychology (Clinical Psychology is 16.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,565
of 22,385 · #4,139 all time
Rank in Portugal
#50
of 168
Research works
1.5k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
25k
16.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
12.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
ISPA - Instituto Universitário

What is ISPA - Instituto Universitário 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 #3,743 of 9,585 12.2%215 #3811
PsychologyField #879 of 2,121 8.4%119 #1006
Social SciencesField #2,829 of 5,988 16.4%77 #3077

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ISPA - Instituto Universitário 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#3,811 #3,743
  2. Psychology#1,006 #879
  3. Social Sciences#3,077 #2,829
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 ISPA - Instituto Universitário work in?

In 2022-now, 64% of research at ISPA - Instituto Universitário is in Social Sciences, 16% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Psychology (36%), Social Sciences (23%), Medicine (11%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 241 fractional works · 64.3% of its workPsychology: 135 fractional works · 36.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 64 fractional works · 17.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 38 fractional works · 10.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13 fractional works · 3.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 9 fractional works · 2.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 86 fractional works · 23.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 30 fractional works · 8.0% of its workEducation: 28 fractional works · 7.4% of its workDemography: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 61 fractional works · 16.4% of its workMedicine: 40 fractional works · 10.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 12 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 20 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 14 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 41 fractional works · 10.9% of its workNeuroscience: 23 fractional works · 6.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 20 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 31 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 19 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKISPA - InstitutoUniversitário374fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences64%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology13536.0%
    2. Social Sciences8623.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting102.7%
    4. Decision Sciences41.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities41.0%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.6%
    1. Medicine4010.6%
    2. Health Professions205.3%
    3. Veterinary10.3%
    4. Nursing10.2%
    5. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Neuroscience236.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology92.5%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences72.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Environmental Science195.1%
    2. Computer Science61.5%
    3. Mathematics20.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.6%
    5. Engineering10.4%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    7. Materials Science00.0%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ISPA - Instituto Universitário specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Clinical Psychology takes 16.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Clinical PsychologySubfield · 63.5 works16×
  2. PsychologyField · 134.6 works12×
  3. Social PsychologySubfield · 37.8 works11×
← 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: 0.42× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.46× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.78× its world share, 23 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.20× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.03× its world share, 19 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.00× its world share, 20 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.55× its world share, 40 worksMedicineNursing: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.28× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.83× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.18× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 11.80× its world share, 135 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.82× its world share, 86 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 11.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology11.80×135 works
  2. Neuroscience3.78×23 works
  3. Veterinary2.28×1 works
  4. Health Professions2.00×20 works
  5. Social Sciences1.82×86 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.18×4 works
  7. Environmental Science1.03×19 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.83×10 works
  9. Medicine0.55×40 works
  10. Mathematics0.48×2 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.46×9 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.42×7 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.36×2 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.33×1 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.33×4 works
  16. Nursing0.32×1 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.30×2 works
  18. Computer Science0.20×6 works
  19. Dentistry0.17×0 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.05×0 works
  22. Engineering0.03×2 works
  23. Chemistry0.01×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at ISPA - Instituto Universitário?

Ranked on the quality score, Tânia Brandão, Rui F. Oliveira and Magda C. Teles lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ISPA - Instituto Universitário.

  1. 1 Tânia Brandão Portugal · #409,459 worldwide 2.3k citations · 133 works
  2. 2 Rui F. Oliveira Portugal · #489,754 worldwide 13k citations · 293 works
  3. 3 Magda C. Teles Portugal · #569,759 worldwide 1.2k citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Francisco Peixoto Portugal · #589,907 worldwide 2.2k citations · 110 works
  5. 5 Miguel Basto-Pereira Portugal · #620,905 worldwide 1.2k citations · 63 works
  6. 6 Ana Alexandra Carvalheira Portugal · #724,737 worldwide 1.8k citations · 64 works
  7. 7 Eva Diniz Portugal · #740,467 worldwide 693 citations · 61 works
  8. 8 Vera Monteiro Portugal · #814,055 worldwide 1.1k citations · 51 works
  9. 9 Lourdes Mata Portugal · #829,028 worldwide 908 citations · 58 works
  10. 10 Paulo Catry Portugal · #832,445 worldwide 6.9k citations · 240 works
All ranked researchers at ISPA - Instituto Universitário

What are the most cited papers from ISPA - Instituto Universitário?

The most cited paper from ISPA - Instituto Universitário is "The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems" (Jan W. Pawlowski et al., 2018), with 591 citations. Next come "Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus" (582) and "Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: An international study" (571).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems Jan W. Pawlowski et al. · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 22 May 2018 591
2 Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus Andrea W.M. Evers et al. · Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Open access 2018 582
3 Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health: An international study Andrew Thomas Gloster et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 31 Dec 2020 571
4 The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean Kirsten Grorud‐Colvert et al. · Science Open access 9 Sep 2021 555
5 Deficit irrigation in grapevine improves water‐use efficiency while controlling vigour and production quality M. M. Chaves, Tiago P. dos Santos, Claudia Rita de Souza et al. · Annals of Applied Biology Open access 13 Mar 2007 490
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ISPA - Instituto Universitário?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Mental Health, Depression, Emotion Regulation, Adolescents, Social Support, Psychopathology, Parenting and Resilience.

▲ 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 Health56▲ 11×34 topics
  2. Depression32▲ 9.7×16 topics
  3. Emotion Regulation30▲ 26×8 topics
  4. Adolescents26▲ 19×9 topics
  5. Social Support21▲ 10×15 topics
  6. Quality of Life18▲ 3.3×33 topics
  7. Psychopathology17▲ 26×4 topics
  8. Parenting17▲ 36×3 topics
  9. Resilience16▲ 9.0×11 topics
  10. Well-being16▲ 11×12 topics
  11. Anxiety Disorders15▲ 37×2 topics
  12. Children15▲ 18×4 topics
  13. Psychological Impact14▲ 12×9 topics
  14. Developmental Trajectories14▲ 32×3 topics
  15. Prevalence14▲ 9.2×11 topics
  16. Child Development14▲ 9.1×6 topics
  17. Self-Regulation14▲ 20×5 topics
  18. Risk Factors13▲ 3.2×14 topics
  19. Anxiety13▲ 7.2×9 topics
  20. Behavioral Problems13▲ 43×1 topic
  21. Meta-Analysis13▲ 5.8×12 topics
  22. Academic Achievement12▲ 19×8 topics
  23. Stress12▲ 8.4×7 topics
  24. Emotion11▲ 15×7 topics
  25. Psychological Interventions11▲ 22×4 topics
  26. Coping Strategies11▲ 12×8 topics
  27. Social Cognition11▲ 16×7 topics
  28. Attachment11▲ 32×4 topics
  29. Psychological Distress10▲ 11×5 topics
  30. Job Satisfaction10▲ 6.0×7 topics
  31. Mental Disorders10▲ 22×3 topics
  32. Positive Emotions9▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Stigma9▲ 18×5 topics
  34. Gender Differences9▲ 6.2×10 topics
  35. Neural Mechanisms8▲ 22×4 topics
  36. Subjective Well-Being8▲ 30×2 topics
  37. Health Disparities8▲ 8.3×5 topics
  38. Early Childhood Education8▲ 25×2 topics
  39. Educational Interventions8▲ 23×2 topics
  40. School Engagement8▲ 43×1 topic

Which research topics does ISPA - Instituto Universitário publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Attachment and Relationship Dynamics and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Child and Adolescent Psy…13Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 13 fractional worksEarly Childhood Education and Development: 8 fractional worksAttachment and Relations…7Attachment and Relationship Dynamics: 7 fractional worksNeural and Behavioral Ps…6Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies: 6 fractional worksSexual function and dysfunction studies: 5 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 5 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health5COVID-19 and Mental Health: 5 fractional worksBehavioral Health and Interventions: 4 fractional worksParental Involvement in Education: 4 fractional worksPsychological Well-being…4Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction: 4 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyEducationSocial PsychologyCognitive Neuroscience2 others

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

  1. 1 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 13 works
  2. 2 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 8 works
  3. 3 Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Social Psychology 7 works
  4. 4 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 6 works
  5. 5 Sexual function and dysfunction studies Psychiatry and Mental health 5 works
  6. 6 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 5 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 5 works
  8. 8 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 4 works
  9. 9 Parental Involvement in Education Education 4 works
  10. 10 Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction Social Psychology 4 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 available75.0%not open25.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.6%domestic only65.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ISPA - Instituto Universitário's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% 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 ISPA - Instituto Universitário as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0017% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%ISPA - Instituto Universitário0.0014% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of ISPA - Instituto Universitário 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 2025ISPA - Instituto Universitário9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.7% in 2023.

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