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Evasion and Academic Success Factors

Evasion and Academic Success Factors is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 5.4k research works in it since 1951. 9.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex issue of university dropout in the context of Brazilian higher education. It delves into factors influencing student retention, such as educational inequality, academic performance, institutional support, and pedagogical strategies. The papers also discuss the impact of social quotas and online learning on student satisfaction and dropout rates.

  • University Dropout
  • Higher Education
  • Student Retention
  • Educational Inequality
  • Academic Performance
  • Institutional Support
  • Student Satisfaction
  • Pedagogical Strategies
  • Social Quotas
  • Online Learning
Research works
5.4k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
516
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+152%
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Which countries lead Evasion and Academic Success Factors research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 70 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 70 works
  3. 3 Portugal 41 works
  4. 4 ?? 17 works
  5. 5 Spain 16 works
  6. 6 Mexico 16 works
  7. 7 Uruguay 7 works
  8. 8 Chile 7 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 Germany 6 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: 90.7%United States: 3.5%Portugal: 2.0%??: 0.9%6 others listed: 2.9%91%largest
Brazil1,802 · 90.7%United States70 · 3.5%Portugal41 · 2.0%??17 · 0.9%6 others listed58 · 2.9%

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Which institutions lead Evasion and Academic Success Factors research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul publishes the most Evasion and Academic Success Factors research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade de Brasília.

Who are the leading researchers in Evasion and Academic Success Factors?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Evasion and Academic Success Factors include Leandro S. Almeida.

  1. 1 Leandro S. Almeida Portugal 263 citations

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

Where is Evasion and Academic Success Factors research done?

The largest centres of Evasion and Academic Success Factors research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Fortaleza (Brazil) and Curitiba (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Palmas.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 182 works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 111 works
  3. 3 Fortaleza Brazil 69 works
  4. 4 Curitiba Brazil 68 works
  5. 5 Brasília Brazil 66 works
  6. 6 Recife Brazil 53 works
  7. 7 Belém Brazil 51 works
  8. 8 Belo Horizonte Brazil 50 works
  9. 9 Salvador Brazil 48 works
  10. 10 Porto Alegre Brazil 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PalmasBR · 21.2 works55×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Evasion and Academic Success Factors than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Evasion and Academic Success Factors?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade de Brasília and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) score highest, combining 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 9.69%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte: 19, 13.1%Universidade de Brasília: 32, 9.4%Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp): 35, 8.6%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 22, 7.6%Universidade Federal do Paraná: 26, 7.6%Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná: 28, 6.7%Universidade Federal do Pampa: 19, 10.6%Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: 22, 11.1%Universidade Federal de Viçosa: 14, 15.9%Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: 36, 6.3%Universidade Federal…Universidade de Bras…Universidade Estadua…Universidade Estadua…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 80.313.1%26.3×19 +192.6%
2 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 78.29.4%28.6×32 +168.9%
3 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 75.28.6%21.3×35 +114.6%
4 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 74.67.6%14.5×22 +242.2%
5 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 74.27.6%25.8×26 +205.8%
6 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil 73.46.7%54.7×28 +639.0%
7 Universidade Federal do PampaBrazil 72.210.6%87.2×19 +572.1%
8 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 71.911.1%15.1×22 +104.7%
9 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 71.815.9%28.5×14 +63.6%
10 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 71.56.3%25.8×36 +123.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Evasion and Academic Success Factors research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 152% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Evasion and Academic Success Factors.

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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.