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Secretaria da Saúde

In research, Secretaria da Saúde stands highest in Health Sciences (#4,632 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#5,537 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#7,430 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions, Health Information Management and Infectious Diseases — General Health Professions is 10.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#13,393
of 28,054 · #15,040 all time
Rank in Brazil
#220
of 714
Research works
3.6k
▲ 35% vs 2013–17
Citations
31k
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
78%
world 28%

What is Secretaria da 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 #4,632 of 11,982 5.5%473 #5159
MedicineField #5,537 of 10,443 5.2%284 #6625
Social SciencesDomain #7,430 of 10,521 5.0%257 #8249
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #670 of 916 6.2%127 #890
Health ProfessionsField #1,513 of 1,928 5.6%174 #1771
Social SciencesField #5,233 of 6,365 4.9%200 #5515
Life SciencesDomain #6,818 of 7,800 4.8%65 #8791
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #781 of 828 5.3%75 #1158
EducationSubfield #1,839 of 1,892 4.5%69 #2526
Physical SciencesDomain #12,680 of 12,888 3.6%66 #19086

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Secretaria da 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#5,159 #4,632
  2. Medicine#6,625 #5,537
  3. Social Sciences#8,249 #7,430
  4. General Health Professions#890 #670
  5. Health Professions#1,771 #1,513
  6. Social Sciences#5,515 #5,233
  7. Life Sciences#8,791 #6,818
  8. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#1,158 #781
  9. Education#2,526 #1,839
  10. Physical Sciences#19,086 #12,680
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 Secretaria da Saúde specialise in?

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

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 126.9 works11×
  2. Health Information ManagementSubfield · 23.2 works11×
  3. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 50.9 works8.7×
  4. Health ProfessionsField · 173.7 works7.7×
← 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: 0.57× its world share, 23 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.34× its world share, 16 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.63× its world share, 23 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.46× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.66× its world share, 28 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.99× its world share, 8 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 7.65× its world share, 174 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.72× its world share, 284 worksMedicineNursing: 1.50× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.38× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.97× its world share, 25 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.83× its world share, 200 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 7.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Secretaria da Saúde?

Ranked on the composite score, Maria Cecília Goi Porto Alves, Sônia Isoyama Venâncio and Ana Freitas Ribeiro lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Secretaria da Saúde.

  1. 1 Maria Cecília Goi Porto Alves Brazil · #572,518 worldwide 22 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Sônia Isoyama Venâncio Brazil · #705,832 worldwide 35 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Ana Freitas Ribeiro Brazil · #1,093,247 worldwide 29 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Tereza Setsuko Toma Brazil · #1,186,291 worldwide 5 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Secretaria da Saúde

Which keywords describe research at Secretaria da Saúde?

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

▲ 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. Public Health165▲ 13×42 topics
  2. Epidemiology149▲ 4.4×99 topics
  3. Healthcare Access112▲ 46×9 topics
  4. Quality of Life94▲ 7.6×39 topics
  5. Social Determinants82▲ 45×7 topics
  6. Health Policy80▲ 59×6 topics
  7. Primary Care66▲ 20×10 topics
  8. Social Determinants of Health63▲ 32×5 topics
  9. Chronic Diseases60▲ 27×5 topics
  10. Aging Population57▲ 73×3 topics
  11. Brazilian Health System56▲ 152×1 topic
  12. Community-Based Care56▲ 152×1 topic
  13. Treatment54▲ 5.2×36 topics
  14. Educational Technology54▲ 5.3×6 topics
  15. Risk Factors50▲ 5.3×26 topics
  16. Drug Resistance46▲ 19×8 topics
  17. Healthcare45▲ 4.6×14 topics
  18. Health Inequalities43▲ 41×2 topics
  19. Mental Health41▲ 3.2×26 topics
  20. Maternal Health40▲ 17×4 topics
  21. Economic Impact40▲ 8.0×2 topics
  22. Judicialization39▲ 156×1 topic
  23. Medication39▲ 156×1 topic
  24. Health38▲ 11×11 topics
  25. Child Health36▲ 71×2 topics
  26. Neonatal Mortality35▲ 146×1 topic
  27. Prenatal Care35▲ 146×1 topic
  28. Diagnosis33▲ 4.1×27 topics
  29. Prevalence32▲ 9.1×11 topics
  30. Vaccine Development32▲ 14×9 topics
  31. Immune Response29▲ 6.0×17 topics
  32. Teacher Training29▲ 5.4×7 topics
  33. Knowledge Management29▲ 6.0×4 topics
  34. Information Technology28▲ 6.8×2 topics
  35. Adolescents28▲ 8.8×10 topics
  36. Digital Innovation28▲ 55×1 topic
  37. Smart Library28▲ 80×1 topic
  38. Antibiotic Resistance26▲ 7.9×9 topics
  39. Infection Control25▲ 35×3 topics
  40. Patient Safety24▲ 19×5 topics

Which research topics does Secretaria da Saúde publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Health, Nursing, Elderly Care, Public Health in Brazil, Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare and Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic.

Health, Nursing, Elderly Care: 56 fractional worksPublic Health in Brazil: 39 fractional worksMaternal and Neonatal He…35Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare: 35 fractional worksHealthcare during COVID-…28Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic: 28 fractional worksYouth, Drugs, and Violence: 24 fractional worksHealthcare Regulation: 22 fractional worksScience and Education Re…21Science and Education Research: 21 fractional worksSyphilis Diagnosis and Treatment: 21 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 17 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 15 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political ScienceInformation SystemsDemography5 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Nursing, Elderly Care General Health Professions 56 works
  2. 2 Public Health in Brazil Sociology and Political Science 39 works
  3. 3 Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare General Health Professions 35 works
  4. 4 Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic Information Systems 28 works
  5. 5 Youth, Drugs, and Violence Demography 24 works
  6. 6 Healthcare Regulation Health Information Management 22 works
  7. 7 Science and Education Research Education 21 works
  8. 8 Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment Physiology 21 works
  9. 9 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 17 works
  10. 10 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 15 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 available77.9%not open22.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.2%domestic only85.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Secretaria da Saúde's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 35% 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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