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Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM

In research, Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,057 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Geophysics is 46.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,254
of 22,385 · #9,611 all time
Rank in Brazil
#531
of 684
Research works
819
▼ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.8k
12.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
64%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM

What is Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM 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
Physical SciencesDomain #6,057 of 10,670 6.8%124 #3739

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM 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 Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research at Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (38%), Environmental Science (24%), Computer Science (13%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 141 fractional works · 84.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 63 fractional works · 38.1% of its workGeophysics: 27 fractional works · 16.3% of its workPaleontology: 10 fractional works · 6.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 9 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 6 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeology: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 39 fractional works · 23.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 13 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 22 fractional works · 13.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 21 fractional works · 12.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 7.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 7.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 4.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKServiço Geológicodo Brasil - CPRM166fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences7%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6338.1%
    2. Environmental Science3923.6%
    3. Computer Science2213.3%
    4. Engineering127.2%
    5. Materials Science21.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.5%
    7. Energy10.4%
    8. Chemistry10.3%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences95.3%
    2. Decision Sciences10.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting10.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    6. Psychology00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences63.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    4. Neuroscience00.0%
    1. Health Professions42.4%
    2. Medicine21.1%
    3. Nursing00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Geophysics takes 46.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 27.1 works47×
  2. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 63.2 works24×
← 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: 0.71× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.71× its world share, 22 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 24.32× its world share, 63 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.48× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.74× its world share, 39 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.91× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 24.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences24.32×63 works
  2. Environmental Science4.74×39 works
  3. Computer Science1.71×22 works
  4. Decision Sciences0.92×2 works
  5. Health Professions0.91×4 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.71×6 works
  7. Nursing0.58×0 works
  8. Engineering0.48×12 works
  9. Energy0.42×1 works
  10. Social Sciences0.42×9 works
  11. Materials Science0.35×2 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.27×0 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.25×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.21×1 works
  15. Chemical Engineering0.14×0 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.13×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.11×1 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.09×0 works
  19. Mathematics0.06×0 works
  20. Medicine0.06×2 works
  21. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.05×0 works
  22. Neuroscience0.02×0 works
  23. Psychology0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM?

Ranked on the quality score, Carlos E. Ganade, Daniel Medeiros Moreira and Carlos Eduardo Ganade de Araújo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM.

  1. 1 Carlos E. Ganade Brazil · #344,794 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
  2. 2 Daniel Medeiros Moreira Brazil · #564,825 worldwide 1.7k citations · 84 works
  3. 3 Carlos Eduardo Ganade de Araújo Brazil · #1,256,879 worldwide 811 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Luiz Carlos da Silva Brazil · #1,293,391 worldwide 2.2k citations · 54 works
  5. 5 Gabriel Soares de Almeida Brazil · #1,768,397 worldwide 61 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Edilton José dos Santos Brazil · #1,810,156 worldwide 1.7k citations · 77 works
  7. 7 Jaime Estevão Scandolara Brazil · #1,868,231 worldwide 877 citations · 54 works
  8. 8 Rafael Tarantino Amarante Brazil · #1,961,486 worldwide 64 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Marcos Figueiredo Salviano Brazil · #2,158,557 worldwide 140 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Júlio César Lana Brazil · #2,249,807 worldwide 56 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM

What are the most cited papers from Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM?

The most cited paper from Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM is "A New Understanding of the Provinces of the Amazon Craton Based on Integration of Field Mapping and U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology" (João Orestes Schneider Santos, Léo Afrâneo Hartmann, Henri E. Gaudette et al., 2000), with 510 citations. Next come "Clean artisanal gold mining: a utopian approach?" (334) and "The neoproterozoic Mantiqueira Province and its African connections: a zircon-based U–Pb geochronologic subdivision for the Brasiliano/Pan-African systems of orogens" (292).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A New Understanding of the Provinces of the Amazon Craton Based on Integration of Field Mapping and U-Pb and Sm-Nd Geochronology João Orestes Schneider Santos, Léo Afrâneo Hartmann, Henri E. Gaudette et al. · Gondwana Research Oct 2000 510
2 Clean artisanal gold mining: a utopian approach? Jennifer Hinton, Marcello Mariz Veiga, Alexandre Veiga · Journal of Cleaner Production 4 Nov 2002 334
3 The neoproterozoic Mantiqueira Province and its African connections: a zircon-based U–Pb geochronologic subdivision for the Brasiliano/Pan-African systems of orogens Luiz Carlos da Silva, Neal Jesse McNaughton, Richard Austin Armstrong et al. · Precambrian Research Open access 25 Jan 2005 292
4 Ediacaran 2,500-km-long synchronous deep continental subduction in the West Gondwana Orogen Carlos E. Ganade de Araujo, Daniela Rubatto, Jörg Hermann et al. · Nature Communications Open access 16 Oct 2014 234
5 Backwater effects in the Amazon River basin of Brazil Robert H. Meade, José M. Rayol, Sylvio C. Conceicão et al. · Environmental Geology Sep 1991 231
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Geological Mapping, Support Vector Machines, Hyperspectral Imaging, Compositional Data Analysis, Mineral Prospectivity, Machine Learning and Tectonics.

▲ 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. Remote Sensing40▲ 20×16 topics
  2. Machine Learning26▲ 4.7×14 topics
  3. Geological Mapping23▲ 175×2 topics
  4. Support Vector Machines22▲ 41×3 topics
  5. Hyperspectral Imaging21▲ 47×2 topics
  6. Compositional Data Analysis20▲ 196×1 topic
  7. Mineral Prospectivity20▲ 196×1 topic
  8. Tectonics19▲ 93×3 topics
  9. Plate Tectonics16▲ 65×3 topics
  10. Geochronology14▲ 121×1 topic
  11. Zircon14▲ 121×1 topic
  12. Climate Change13▲ 2.8×33 topics
  13. Sustainable Development13▲ 4.9×9 topics
  14. Environmental Conservation8▲ 48×1 topic
  15. Hydrographic Basins8▲ 233×1 topic
  16. Biodiversity8▲ 6.2×10 topics
  17. Environmental Impacts7▲ 15×5 topics
  18. Geochemistry6▲ 58×4 topics
  19. Ecosystem Services6▲ 9.2×5 topics
  20. Marine Sediments6▲ 55×2 topics
  21. Subduction6▲ 45×3 topics
  22. Geodetic Measurements5▲ 31×2 topics
  23. Paleoproductivity5▲ 99×1 topic
  24. Paleoredox5▲ 99×1 topic
  25. Earthquakes5▲ 53×1 topic
  26. Geoheritage5▲ 419×1 topic
  27. Geotourism5▲ 419×1 topic
  28. Plate Boundaries5▲ 53×1 topic
  29. Rare Earth Elements5▲ 20×3 topics
  30. Electrical Resistivity Tomography5▲ 104×1 topic
  31. Magnetotelluric Imaging5▲ 104×1 topic
  32. Sedimentation5▲ 53×2 topics
  33. Fluvial Systems5▲ 100×1 topic
  34. Sequence Stratigraphy5▲ 100×1 topic
  35. Hydrological Modeling4▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Evolution4▲ 8.5×3 topics
  37. Manganese Oxides4▲ 69×1 topic
  38. Phylogenetic Analysis4▲ 7.1×4 topics
  39. Sedimentary Rocks4▲ 69×1 topic
  40. Water Resources4▲ 9.2×5 topics

Which research topics does Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geography and Environmental Studies and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Geochemistry and Geologi…20Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 20 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 14 fractional worksGeography and Environmental Studies: 8 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 5 fractional worksGeotourism and Geoheritage Conservation: 5 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 5 fractional worksGeophysical and Geoelectrical Methods: 5 fractional worksGeological formations and processes: 5 fractional worksGeochemistry and Elemental Analysis: 4 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 3 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceGeophysicsWater Science and TechnologyPaleontology3 others

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

  1. 1 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 20 works
  2. 2 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 14 works
  3. 3 Geography and Environmental Studies Water Science and Technology 8 works
  4. 4 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 5 works
  5. 5 Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation Geology 5 works
  6. 6 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 5 works
  7. 7 Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods Geophysics 5 works
  8. 8 Geological formations and processes Earth-Surface Processes 5 works
  9. 9 Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 4 works
  10. 10 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 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 available64.3%not open35.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.4%domestic only71.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% 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 Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00059% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM0.00068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM 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%Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM11.0% 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 16.2% in 2018.

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