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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, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+58%
the tick is no change

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 (2.3k and 121 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 2.3k works
  2. 2 United States 121 works
  3. 3 Argentina 68 works
  4. 4 Mexico 65 works
  5. 5 Spain 63 works
  6. 6 Peru 53 works
  7. 7 Colombia 45 works
  8. 8 Ecuador 45 works
  9. 9 Portugal 43 works
  10. 10 France 43 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: 81.0%United States: 4.2%Argentina: 2.4%Mexico: 2.2%6 others listed: 10.2%81%largest
Brazil2,324 · 81.0%United States121 · 4.2%Argentina68 · 2.4%Mexico65 · 2.2%6 others listed292 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Indigenous Health and Education research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade Federal do Pará publishes the most Indigenous Health and Education research, followed by Universidade Federal do Amazonas and Universidade de São Paulo.

Who are the leading researchers in Indigenous Health and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Indigenous Health and Education include Juan Á. Rivera and César G. Victora.

  1. 1 Juan Á. Rivera Mexico 1.4k citations
  2. 2 César G. Victora Brazil 898 citations

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

Where is Indigenous Health and Education research done?

The largest centres of Indigenous Health and Education research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 264 works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 184 works
  3. 3 Belém Brazil 167 works
  4. 4 Manaus Brazil 123 works
  5. 5 Brasília Brazil 89 works
  6. 6 Recife Brazil 73 works
  7. 7 Belo Horizonte Brazil 67 works
  8. 8 Salvador Brazil 66 works
  9. 9 Florianópolis Brazil 51 works
  10. 10 Campo Grande Brazil 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SantarémBR · 25.0 works160×
  2. Boa VistaBR · 28.8 works152×
  3. MacapáBR · 21.9 works94×
  4. DouradosBR · 35.2 works93×
  5. Rio BrancoBR · 21.8 works91×
  6. Porto VelhoBR · 43.8 works89×
  7. ManausBR · 122.7 works89×
  8. CáceresBR · 21.1 works76×
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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 Federal do Pará, Universidade Federal do Piauí and Universidade Federal de Viçosa 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 9.12%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal do Pará: 92, 7.1%Universidade Federal do Piauí: 16, 10.8%Universidade Federal de Viçosa: 9, 15.8%Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará: 25, 7.5%Universidade de São Paulo: 58, 9.5%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 22, 11.9%Universidade Federal Fluminense: 27, 10.9%Universidade Federal do Amazonas: 70, 4.6%Universidade do Estado do Pará: 36, 4.5%Universidade Federal do Amapá: 17, 8.6%Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…
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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 ParáBrazil 71.67.1%75.4×92 +136.7%
2 Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil 67.910.8%26.1×16 +210.6%
3 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 67.815.8%11.2×9 +111.5%
4 Universidade Federal do Oeste do ParáBrazil 67.27.5%159.7×25 +510.4%
5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 66.49.5%10.9×58 +3.7%
6 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 66.111.9%9.6×22 +120.2%
7 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 64.810.9%18.6×27 +85.8%
8 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 63.34.6%106.8×70 +125.9%
9 Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil 63.34.5%91.6×36 +291.0%
10 Universidade Federal do AmapáBrazil 61.08.6%97.3×17 +154.9%

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 Indigenous Health and Education research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 58% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.