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Indigenous Health and Education

Indigenous Health and Education is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the health and nutrition of indigenous populations in Brazil, particularly in the Amazonia region. It explores topics such as the nutrition transition, demographic changes, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic syndrome, and anthropometric indices. The research sheds light on the impact of socioeconomic changes on the health and well-being of indigenous communities.

  • Indigenous Populations
  • Health
  • Nutrition Transition
  • Amazonia
  • Socioeconomic Change
  • Demographic Turnaround
  • Metabolic Syndrome
  • Cardiovascular Risk Factors
  • Anthropometric Indices
  • Epidemiological Research
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
79% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Indigenous Health and Education

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Indigenous Health and Education research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (2.6k and 146 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.6k works
  2. 2 United States 146 works
  3. 3 Mexico 87 works
  4. 4 Argentina 80 works
  5. 5 Spain 74 works
  6. 6 Ecuador 70 works
  7. 7 Peru 67 works
  8. 8 Colombia 56 works
  9. 9 Portugal 52 works
  10. 10 France 47 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: 79.2%United States: 4.5%Mexico: 2.7%Argentina: 2.5%6 others listed: 11.2%79%largest
Brazil2,586 · 79.2%United States146 · 4.5%Mexico87 · 2.7%Argentina80 · 2.5%6 others listed364 · 11.2%

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

Which institutions lead Indigenous Health and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Federal do Pará publishes the most Indigenous Health and Education research, followed by Universidade Federal do Amazonas and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 100 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 80 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 69 works
  4. 4 Fundação Oswaldo CruzBrazil 61 works
  5. 5 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 52 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 52 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 45 works
  8. 8 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 42 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 38 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Indigenous Health and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indigenous Health and Education include Isabela M. Benseñor, Paulo A. Lotufo and Bruce Bartholow Duncan.

  1. 1 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  2. 2 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  3. 3 Bruce Bartholow Duncan Brazil 198k citations
  4. 4 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  5. 5 Paul Zimmet Australia 170k 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 Indigenous Health and Education?

The most cited paper in Indigenous Health and Education is "Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study" (Ian P S Anderson et al., 2016), with 1,030 citations. Next come "Pathways: a school-based, randomized controlled trial for the prevention of obesity in American Indian schoolchildren" (627) and "State of the scientific knowledge on properties and genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia (terra preta de Índio)" (606).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study Ian P S Anderson et al. · The Lancet Open access 26 Apr 2016 1,030
2 Pathways: a school-based, randomized controlled trial for the prevention of obesity in American Indian schoolchildren Benjamin H Caballero, Theresa Clay, Sally M. Davis et al. · American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Open access Nov 2003 627
3 State of the scientific knowledge on properties and genesis of Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia (terra preta de Índio) Bruno Glaser, Jago Jonathan Birk · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Open access 2 Mar 2012 606
4 Burden of disease and injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: the Indigenous health gap Theo Vos, Bridget M. Barker, Stephen J. Begg et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology 30 Nov 2008 601
5 Os pronomes cosmológicos e o perspectivismo ameríndio Eduardo Viveiros de Castro · Mana Open access Oct 1996 582
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Where is Indigenous Health and Education research done?

The largest centres of Indigenous Health and Education research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belém (Brazil) and Manaus (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santarém, Boa Vista and Macapá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 292 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 206 works
  3. 3 BelémBrazil 188 works
  4. 4 ManausBrazil 140 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 98 works
  6. 6 RecifeBrazil 79 works
  7. 7 Belo HorizonteBrazil 74 works
  8. 8 SalvadorBrazil 72 works
  9. 9 FlorianópolisBrazil 54 works
  10. 10 Porto AlegreBrazil 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SantarémBR · 28.7 works165×
  2. Boa VistaBR · 31.5 works146×
  3. MacapáBR · 23.3 works90×
  4. ManausBR · 140.5 works89×
  5. Rio BrancoBR · 23.5 works89×
  6. DouradosBR · 36.7 works88×
  7. Porto VelhoBR · 47.0 works86×
  8. CáceresBR · 22.9 works74×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Indigenous Health and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Indigenous Health and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Brasil and Universidade Federal de São Paulo 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 12.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade BrasilUniversidade Federal…Universidade de São …Universidade Federal…
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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.

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 73.115.1%11.1×69 +11.0%
2Universidade BrasilBrazil 67.220.6%36.5×12 +110.5%
3Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 64.317.9%16.2×22 +28.4%
4Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 62.410.4%21.9×52 +11.1%
5Universidade Federal de AlagoasBrazil 61.112.6%41.9×27 +61.4%
6Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 59.010.4%108.0×42 +60.0%
7Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 58.96.2%81.6×100 +5.3%
8Universidade Federal do Oeste do ParáBrazil 58.213.2%182.2×29 +26.3%
9Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 55.36.6%22.0×44 +20.1%
10Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 55.17.4%120.7×80 +1.1%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Indigenous Health and Education, country by country

Is Indigenous Health and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Indigenous Health and Education.

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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 Indigenous Health and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Indigenous Health and Education0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Indigenous Health and Education 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%Indigenous Health and Education10.6% 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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