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Brazilian History and Foreign Policy

Brazilian History and Foreign Policy is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1950. 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 development economics and policy in Latin America. It includes discussions on innovation, bureaucracy, globalization, sustainability, infrastructure, foreign investment, and social security. The papers provide insights into the historical, political, and economic factors influencing development in the region.

  • Development Economics
  • Latin America
  • Policy
  • Innovation
  • Bureaucracy
  • Globalization
  • Sustainability
  • Infrastructure
  • Foreign Investment
  • Social Security
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
510
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
78% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Brazilian History and Foreign Policy

Which countries lead Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (686 and 47 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 686 works
  2. 2 United States 47 works
  3. 3 Portugal 35 works
  4. 4 Spain 27 works
  5. 5 Argentina 19 works
  6. 6 Mexico 17 works
  7. 7 Chile 15 works
  8. 8 Russia 14 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 10 works
  10. 10 Canada 10 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: 77.8%United States: 5.4%Portugal: 4.0%Spain: 3.1%6 others listed: 9.7%78%largest
Brazil686 · 77.8%United States47 · 5.4%Portugal35 · 4.0%Spain27 · 3.1%6 others listed85 · 9.7%

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

Which institutions lead Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research, followed by Universidade Federal Fluminense and Universidade de Brasília.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 45 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 27 works
  3. 3 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 23 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 22 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 21 works
  6. 6 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 19 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 18 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 17 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 16 works
  10. 10 Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Brazilian History and Foreign Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Brazilian History and Foreign Policy include Carlos Augusto Monteiro and Karl Heinrich Marx.

  1. 1 Carlos Augusto Monteiro Brazil 62k citations
  2. 2 Karl Heinrich Marx Canada 46k 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 Brazilian History and Foreign Policy?

The most cited paper in Brazilian History and Foreign Policy is "Brazil as an intermediate state and regional power: action, choice and responsibilities" (María Regina Soares de Lima, Mónica Hirst, 2006), with 385 citations. Next come "Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global" (377) and "Em guarda contra o “perigo vermelho”: O anticomunismo no Brasil (1917–1964)" (370).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Brazil as an intermediate state and regional power: action, choice and responsibilities María Regina Soares de Lima, Mónica Hirst · International Affairs 2006 385
2 Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global Ramón Grosfoguel · Revista crítica de ciências sociais/Revista crítica de ciências sociais Open access 2008 377
3 Em guarda contra o “perigo vermelho”: O anticomunismo no Brasil (1917–1964) Sandra McGee Deutsch · Hispanic American Historical Review Aug 2005 370
4 Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State Guillermo A O'Donnell · Latin American Research Review Open access 1978 284
5 Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula Era Jeffrey W. Cason, Timothy J. Power · International Political Science Review Mar 2009 228
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research done?

The largest centres of Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Niterói (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 126 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 96 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 41 works
  4. 4 NiteróiBrazil 28 works
  5. 5 Porto AlegreBrazil 27 works
  6. 6 Belo HorizonteBrazil 23 works
  7. 7 LisbonPortugal 23 works
  8. 8 FlorianópolisBrazil 22 works
  9. 9 CuritibaBrazil 17 works
  10. 10 CampinasBrazil 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NiteróiBR · 27.8 works64×
  2. Rio de JaneiroBR · 95.8 works34×
  3. BrasíliaBR · 40.8 works34×
  4. Porto AlegreBR · 26.7 works27×
  5. FlorianópolisBR · 21.8 works26×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Brazilian History and Foreign Policy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Brazilian History and Foreign Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade de Brasília and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 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 10.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade de São …Universidade de Bras…Universidade Federal…Fundação Getulio Var…
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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 85.314.6%27.4×46 +1.2%
2Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 61.711.0%48.5×23 +6.5%
3Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 56.610.7%33.3×21 -40.4%
4Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 55.57.8%167.1×15 +15.9%
5Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 50.211.2%51.4×20 -28.5%
6Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 49.711.2%146.1×16 -20.4%
7Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 47.413.1%32.9×12 -2.6%
8Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 47.010.0%33.9×22 -50.1%
9Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 46.39.0%70.6×28 -30.4%
10Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 38.67.7%34.0×18 +60.8%

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 Brazilian History and Foreign Policy, country by country

Is Brazilian History and Foreign Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Brazilian History and Foreign Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Brazilian History and Foreign Policy0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Brazilian History and Foreign Policy 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%Brazilian History and Foreign Policy9.6% 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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