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Academic Research in Diverse Fields

Academic Research in Diverse Fields is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to distance education, including the use of video lectures for training, legislation in education, impact of distance learning on healthcare, and the role of digital business. It also addresses issues such as inclusion, research methodologies, and educational policies.

  • Distance Education
  • Training
  • Legislation
  • Research
  • Online Learning
  • E-learning
  • Educational Policy
  • Digital Business
  • Healthcare
  • Inclusion
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Academic Research in Diverse Fields

Which countries lead Academic Research in Diverse Fields research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (10k and 612 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 10k works
  2. 2 United States 612 works
  3. 3 Portugal 325 works
  4. 4 ?? 188 works
  5. 5 Spain 170 works
  6. 6 Mexico 119 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 62 works
  8. 8 Uruguay 60 works
  9. 9 China 58 works
  10. 10 Germany 53 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Brazil: 86.1%United States: 5.2%Portugal: 2.8%??: 1.6%6 others listed: 4.4%86%largest
Brazil10k · 86.1%United States612 · 5.2%Portugal325 · 2.8%??188 · 1.6%6 others listed522 · 4.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Academic Research in Diverse Fields research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Academic Research in Diverse Fields research, followed by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Universidade Federal do Pará.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 163 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 159 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 153 works
  4. 4 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 139 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 132 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 130 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 125 works
  8. 8 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 124 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 122 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 116 works

Who are the leading researchers in Academic Research in Diverse Fields?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Academic Research in Diverse Fields include André Faro, Carlos Manuel Duarte and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

  1. 1 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  4. 4 A. Amorim Portugal 109k citations
  5. 5 Peter Todd Katzmarzyk United States 99k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Academic Research in Diverse Fields?

The most cited paper in Academic Research in Diverse Fields is "Metodologia de pesquisa" (Flávio Villaça, 2009), with 1,528 citations. Next come "Documento para o encontro de especialistas em aspectos da discriminação racial relativos ao gênero" (1,075) and "O MÉTODO DA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA NOS ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS" (917).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metodologia de pesquisa Flávio Villaça · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access 2009 1,528
2 Documento para o encontro de especialistas em aspectos da discriminação racial relativos ao gênero Kimberle Williams Crenshaw · Revista Estudos Feministas Open access 2002 1,075
3 O MÉTODO DA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA NOS ESTUDOS ORGANIZACIONAIS Louise Lira Roedel Botelho, Cristiano Castro de Almeida Cunha, Marcelo Álvaro da Silva Macedo · Gestão e Sociedade Open access 2 Dec 2011 917
4 Desenhos de pesquisa Bernardo Hochman, Fábio Xerfan Nahas, Renato Santos de Oliveira Filho et al. · Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira Open access 2005 229
5 Direito à educação: direito à igualdade, direito à diferença Carlos Roberto Jamil Cury · Cadernos de Pesquisa Open access Jul 2002 223
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Where is Academic Research in Diverse Fields research done?

The largest centres of Academic Research in Diverse Fields research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Fé do Sul, Criciúma and Caçador.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.4k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 761 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 403 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 364 works
  5. 5 BelémBrazil 323 works
  6. 6 CuritibaBrazil 313 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 311 works
  8. 8 FortalezaBrazil 299 works
  9. 9 ManausBrazil 273 works
  10. 10 FlorianópolisBrazil 238 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa Fé do SulBR · 29.0 works145×
  2. Criciúma35.5 works92×
  3. CaçadorBR · 50.2 works88×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Academic Research in Diverse Fields than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Academic Research in Diverse Fields?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Pará and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.19%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade BrasilUniversidade Federal…Universidade de São …
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 77.010.7%7.6×163 +2.4%
2Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 70.411.1%36.3×153 +4.0%
3Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 70.412.7%14.1×110 -6.0%
4Universidade BrasilBrazil 70.112.3%18.2×21 +120.5%
5Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 67.39.7%20.5×124 -14.8%
6University of VassourasBrazil 67.215.4%63.6×37 +150.4%
7Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 67.110.1%40.9×75 +12.6%
8Centro Universitário de Patos de MinasBrazil 67.018.6%44.5×23 +171.4%
9Universidade IguaçuBrazil 67.019.7%38.5×16 +56.9%
10Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 66.811.6%53.3×72 +43.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Academic Research in Diverse Fields, country by country

Is Academic Research in Diverse Fields research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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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 Academic Research in Diverse Fields as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.037% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Academic Research in Diverse Fields0.035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Academic Research in Diverse Fields 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.

still counting5%10%15%Academic Research in Diverse Fields9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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