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Vale Technological Institute

In research, Vale Technological Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,906 of 6,403 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#4,937 of 10,670 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,820 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics is 21.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,105
of 22,385 · #9,879 all time
Rank in Brazil
#395
of 684
Research works
574
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.9k
12.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
65%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Vale Technological Institute

What is Vale Technological Institute 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
Life SciencesDomain #2,906 of 6,403 9.3%73 #3453
Physical SciencesDomain #4,937 of 10,670 7.3%135 #5319
Environmental ScienceField #1,820 of 3,334 8.3%65 #2022

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vale Technological Institute 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. Life Sciences#3,453 #2,906
  2. Physical Sciences#5,319 #4,937
  3. Environmental Science#2,022 #1,820
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 Vale Technological Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 60% of research at Vale Technological Institute is in Physical Sciences, 33% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (30%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (23%), Engineering (17%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 151 fractional works · 59.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 75 fractional works · 29.7% of its workEcology: 18 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 fractional works · 5.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 11 fractional works · 4.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 9 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 43 fractional works · 16.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 5.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 13 fractional works · 5.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPaleontology: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 82 fractional works · 32.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 58 fractional works · 23.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 25 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPlant Science: 17 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSoil Science: 7 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workForestry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHorticulture: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 8.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 4.3% of its workGenetics: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCell Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 14 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKValeTechnological…253fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences60%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences6%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science7529.7%
    2. Engineering4316.9%
    3. Computer Science135.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences124.9%
    5. Materials Science31.1%
    6. Energy10.6%
    7. Chemistry10.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    9. Mathematics00.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences5823.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology218.4%
    3. Neuroscience10.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.3%
    1. Social Sciences52.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting31.2%
    3. Psychology20.7%
    4. Decision Sciences20.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.6%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.4%
    1. Medicine31.4%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Vale Technological Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics takes 21.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 25.3 works21×
← 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: 4.84× its world share, 58 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.58× its world share, 21 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.65× its world share, 13 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.12× its world share, 12 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.13× its world share, 43 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.98× its world share, 75 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.38× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 6.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science5.98×75 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.84×58 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.12×12 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.58×21 works
  5. Engineering1.13×43 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.78×1 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.68×2 works
  8. Computer Science0.65×13 works
  9. Energy0.63×2 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.38×3 works
  11. Chemistry0.37×2 works
  12. Neuroscience0.34×1 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.33×1 works
  14. Materials Science0.32×3 works
  15. Nursing0.30×0 works
  16. Health Professions0.29×2 works
  17. Chemical Engineering0.25×0 works
  18. Psychology0.23×2 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.21×2 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.18×1 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.17×1 works
  22. Mathematics0.16×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.16×5 works
  24. Veterinary0.10×0 works
  25. Medicine0.07×4 works

Who are the top researchers at Vale Technological Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Rodolfo Jaffé, Tereza Cristina Giannini and Leonardo Carreira Trevelin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vale Technological Institute.

  1. 1 Rodolfo Jaffé Brazil · #295,214 worldwide 5.6k citations · 102 works
  2. 2 Tereza Cristina Giannini Brazil · #397,154 worldwide 3.8k citations · 449 works
  3. 3 Leonardo Carreira Trevelin Brazil · #930,387 worldwide 989 citations · 421 works
  4. 4 Sâmia Nunes Brazil · #1,023,015 worldwide 1.9k citations · 35 works
  5. 5 José Tasso Felix Guimarães Brazil · #1,256,329 worldwide 2k citations · 103 works
  6. 6 Rafael Cabral Borges Brazil · #1,356,822 worldwide 513 citations · 52 works
  7. 7 Sílvio Júnio Ramos Brazil · #1,403,688 worldwide 3.9k citations · 221 works
  8. 8 Guilherme Oliveira Brazil · #1,405,390 worldwide 12k citations · 403 works
  9. 9 Leonardo Miranda Brazil · #1,433,537 worldwide 1.1k citations · 50 works
  10. 10 Cecílio Fróis Caldeira Brazil · #1,437,691 worldwide 2.4k citations · 154 works
All ranked researchers at Vale Technological Institute

What are the most cited papers from Vale Technological Institute?

The most cited paper from Vale Technological Institute is "Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine" (Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior et al., 2020), with 1,723 citations. Next come "Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved" (629) and "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021" (526).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine Carlos Moreira de Souza Júnior et al. · Remote Sensing Open access 25 Aug 2020 1,723
2 Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved Sean Hoban et al. · Biological Conservation Open access Jul 2020 629
3 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021 NN Wijayawardene et al. · Mycosphere Open access 2022 526
4 The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil Tereza Cristina Giannini, Guaraci Duran Cordeiro, Breno Magalhães Freitas et al. · Journal of Economic Entomology 3 May 2015 353
5 NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms Kerry A. Cawse-Nicholson et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment Open access 20 Feb 2021 344
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vale Technological Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Habitat Fragmentation, Global Change, Biogeography, Conservation and Ecosystem Services.

▲ 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. Climate Change43▲ 6.2×51 topics
  2. Biodiversity27▲ 14×21 topics
  3. Invasive Species19▲ 18×17 topics
  4. Habitat Fragmentation19▲ 34×5 topics
  5. Machine Learning17▲ 2.0×31 topics
  6. Global Change17▲ 25×5 topics
  7. Biogeography15▲ 22×14 topics
  8. Remote Sensing14▲ 4.7×17 topics
  9. Conservation14▲ 13×15 topics
  10. Ecosystem Services14▲ 14×7 topics
  11. Environmental Impact12▲ 2.7×27 topics
  12. Molecular Phylogeny11▲ 27×7 topics
  13. Phylogenetic Analysis10▲ 12×11 topics
  14. Sustainable Development9▲ 2.4×9 topics
  15. Biodiversity Conservation9▲ 9.8×11 topics
  16. Plant-Animal Interactions9▲ 45×1 topic
  17. Pollinator Decline9▲ 45×1 topic
  18. Population Dynamics9▲ 14×8 topics
  19. Land Use Change8▲ 11×6 topics
  20. Energy Efficiency8▲ 3.5×7 topics
  21. Conservation Biology8▲ 28×3 topics
  22. DNA Barcoding7▲ 17×8 topics
  23. Soil Fertility7▲ 13×5 topics
  24. Ecosystem Functioning7▲ 14×6 topics
  25. Ecosystem7▲ 26×3 topics
  26. Genetic Diversity7▲ 6.2×8 topics
  27. Phylogeny7▲ 16×11 topics
  28. Taxonomy7▲ 18×7 topics
  29. Biological Invasions6▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Community Ecology6▲ 30×2 topics
  31. Species Richness6▲ 39×2 topics
  32. Functional Diversity6▲ 46×1 topic
  33. Comminution6▲ 72×1 topic
  34. Mineral Liberation Analysis6▲ 72×1 topic
  35. Nutrient Cycling6▲ 30×2 topics
  36. Diversification6▲ 50×2 topics
  37. Model Evaluation5▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Soil Degradation5▲ 41×2 topics
  39. Phylogenetics5▲ 40×2 topics
  40. Angiosperm Phylogeny5▲ 72×1 topic

Which research topics does Vale Technological Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and animal studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mineral Processing and Grinding and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Plant and animal studies9Plant and animal studies: 9 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…6Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 6 fractional worksMineral Processing and G…6Mineral Processing and Grinding: 6 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evol…5Plant Diversity and Evolution: 5 fractional worksConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management: 5 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 5 fractional worksSoil Management and Crop…4Soil Management and Crop Yield: 4 fractional worksGeography and Environmental Studies: 4 fractional worksHeavy metals in environment: 4 fractional worksBat Biology and Ecology …4Bat Biology and Ecology Studies: 4 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsNature and Landscape ConservationMechanical EngineeringGlobal and Planetary Change4 others

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

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 9 works
  2. 2 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 6 works
  3. 3 Mineral Processing and Grinding Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  4. 4 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 5 works
  5. 5 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  6. 6 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 5 works
  7. 7 Soil Management and Crop Yield Soil Science 4 works
  8. 8 Geography and Environmental Studies Water Science and Technology 4 works
  9. 9 Heavy metals in environment Pollution 4 works
  10. 10 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 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 available65.1%not open34.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.6%domestic only76.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vale Technological Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
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 Vale Technological Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Vale Technological Institute0.00100% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Vale Technological Institute 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Vale Technological Institute9.5% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.3% in 2020.

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