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Rural Development and Agriculture

Rural Development and Agriculture is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 36k 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 focuses on sustainable rural development, with an emphasis on agriculture, family farming, rural policy, food security, sustainability, and social development in Brazil. It covers topics such as the impact of public policies on family farming, nutrition programs, agroecology, and the challenges and opportunities for rural communities.

Agriculture
Family Farming
Rural Policy
Food Security
Sustainability
Social Development
Agrarian Reform
Nutrition Program
Agroecology
Rural Sociology

Research works: 36k
In the world top 10%: 3.6k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -31%
Largest producer: Brazil

Rural Development and Agriculture

Which countries lead Rural Development and Agriculture research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (7k and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Brazil 7k works
2 United States 219 works
3 Portugal 154 works
4 Spain 81 works
5 France 71 works
6 ?? 64 works
7 Argentina 44 works
8 United Kingdom 38 works
9 Germany 37 works
10 Mexico 37 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.

Brazil7,046 · 90.4%United States219 · 2.8%Portugal154 · 2.0%Spain81 · 1.0%6 others listed291 · 3.7%

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

Which institutions lead Rural Development and Agriculture research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) publishes the most Rural Development and Agriculture research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 168 works
2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 153 works
3 Universidade Estadual do Oeste do ParanáBrazil 147 works
4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 146 works
5 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 143 works
6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 133 works
7 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 123 works
8 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 107 works
9 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 103 works
10 Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil 91 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rural Development and Agriculture?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rural Development and Agriculture include Déborah Carvalho Malta and Cesar Gomes Victora.

1 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
2 Cesar Gomes Victora Brazil 131k 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 Rural Development and Agriculture?

The most cited paper in Rural Development and Agriculture is "Contabilidade de Custos" (Ana Luiza Cantalogo de Campos, Eloir Trindade Vasques Vieira, Fortunato Lopes Bennett et al., 2022), with 1,148 citations. Next come "Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s" (662) and "Disponibilidade domiciliar de alimentos no Brasil: distribuição e evolução (1974-2003)" (473).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Contabilidade de Custos Ana Luiza Cantalogo de Campos, Eloir Trindade Vasques Vieira, Fortunato Lopes Bennett et al. · CAFI - Contabilidade Atuária Finanças & Informação Open access	24 Apr 2022	1,148
2	Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s Marcia Nunes Macedo, Ruth DeFries, Douglas C. Morton et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	9 Jan 2012	662
3	Disponibilidade domiciliar de alimentos no Brasil: distribuição e evolução (1974-2003) Renata Bertazzi Levy, Rosely Sichieri, Nézio dos Santos Pontes et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access	Aug 2005	473
4	Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon Eugenio Yatsuda Arima, Peter D. Richards, Robert Walker et al. · Environmental Research Letters Open access	Apr 2011	390
5	The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, Ralph R Schneider · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization	Apr 1996	373

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Where is Rural Development and Agriculture research done?

The largest centres of Rural Development and Agriculture research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belém (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Porto Alegre, Ijuí and Marabá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 São PauloBrazil 720 works
2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 395 works
3 BrasíliaBrazil 354 works
4 BelémBrazil 275 works
5 CuritibaBrazil 211 works
6 RecifeBrazil 210 works
7 SalvadorBrazil 206 works
8 FortalezaBrazil 183 works
9 Porto AlegreBrazil 179 works
10 FlorianópolisBrazil 160 works

Where it is the local speciality

Porto AlegreBR · 32.3 works133×
IjuíBR · 29.4 works98×
MarabáBR · 28.4 works96×
CascavelBR · 150.7 works95×
SantarémBR · 34.9 works90×
ChapecóBR · 70.2 works82×
SeropédicaBR · 79.7 works77×
Santa Cruz do SulBR · 30.9 works77×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rural Development and Agriculture than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Rural Development and Agriculture?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Brasil, Universidade de Brasília and Universidade 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Universidade BrasilBrazil	68.2	22.0%	22.0×	16	+28.9%
2	Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil	63.1	16.5%	33.8×	132	-24.6%
3	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	61.4	12.5%	10.5×	146	-20.4%
4	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil	56.6	14.8%	17.8×	91	-40.9%
5	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil	56.3	10.9%	28.6×	153	-42.8%
6	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil	54.3	9.5%	29.6×	168	-30.2%
7	Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil	54.0	11.9%	23.0×	103	-34.2%
8	Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil	53.4	10.5%	52.6×	143	-35.1%
9	Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil	52.8	13.5%	50.5×	88	-52.2%
10	Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil	52.5	10.9%	46.6×	69	+10.4%
11	Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	52.4	12.7%	15.8×	83	-26.7%
12	Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	52.0	14.6%	86.0×	80	-48.3%
13	Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil	51.4	11.1%	35.5×	107	-22.9%
14	Universidade Estadual do Oeste do ParanáBrazil	50.7	8.5%	122.0×	147	-18.7%
15	Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil	50.1	13.4%	44.7×	78	-46.5%
16	Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil	49.3	11.6%	14.2×	72	-31.7%
17	Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil	48.5	7.7%	42.7×	123	-43.8%
18	Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil	48.5	10.6%	41.5×	91	-45.6%
19	Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil	48.4	9.5%	22.6×	74	-28.0%
20	Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil	48.4	16.0%	26.8×	30	-49.4%
21	Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil	47.5	9.5%	25.9×	89	-26.5%
22	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil	47.0	8.8%	30.8×	80	-23.8%
23	Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil	46.6	8.3%	30.6×	81	-39.1%
24	Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da FonsecaBrazil	46.4	25.5%	38.9×	11	+0.7%
25	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil	45.9	11.2%	44.1×	69	-25.1%
26	Universidade Federal de RondôniaBrazil	44.4	11.8%	84.9×	55	-16.4%
27	Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-ÁridoBrazil	44.2	9.9%	45.1×	27	+18.4%
28	Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil	43.6	9.2%	27.3×	75	-42.5%
29	Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil	43.5	6.9%	24.9×	85	-21.7%
30	Universidade Federal de UberlândiaBrazil	42.9	11.2%	28.4×	54	-45.3%
31	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa CatarinaBrazil	42.8	21.2%	51.8×	15	-13.2%
32	Universidade Federal Rural da AmazôniaBrazil	42.7	10.6%	122.9×	41	-40.3%
33	Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil	42.1	13.5%	74.8×	33	-29.1%
34	Universidade Federal Rural de PernambucoBrazil	41.9	8.7%	54.5×	60	-50.5%
35	Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil	41.9	6.3%	40.4×	54	-17.8%
36	Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	41.6	8.3%	16.0×	51	-36.4%
37	Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil	41.6	8.9%	21.7×	46	-44.5%
38	Universidade Federal da Grande DouradosBrazil	41.5	11.0%	77.5×	44	-43.4%
39	Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil	41.4	6.6%	37.0×	52	-7.5%
40	Universidade Federal do PampaBrazil	41.4	12.5%	50.0×	37	-39.2%
41	Universidade Católica Dom BoscoBrazil	41.4	21.0%	74.5×	14	-29.6%
42	Universidade de Rio VerdeBrazil	40.9	9.5%	45.4×	13	+132.5%
43	Universidade Federal do Triângulo MineiroBrazil	39.1	16.5%	20.4×	12	-12.1%
44	Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil	38.7	8.5%	51.7×	13	-14.1%
45	Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay	38.1	14.9%	5.5×	10	+5.2%
46	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de RondôniaBrazil	35.7	10.5%	76.1×	13	+20.8%
47	Instituto Federal de GoiásBrazil	35.3	22.9%	43.6×	9	-29.5%
48	Instituto Federal do Sudeste de Minas GeraisBrazil	34.8	23.0%	92.9×	11	-60.5%
49	Universitario Francisco de AsísUruguay	33.6	5.1%	30.6×	16	+3.7%
50	Centro Universitário Maurício de NassauBrazil	33.2	4.0%	37.6×	16	+157.7%
51	Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis	32.9	8.8%	102.8×	8	+429.6%
52	Instituto Federal da BahiaBrazil	32.0	22.6%	36.7×	8	-52.6%
53	Universidad San PedroPeru	31.4	0.5%	27.4×	9	+14.6%
54	Universidade do TocantinsBrazil	31.2	3.2%	80.4×	17	+28.1%
55	Eduardo Mondlane UniversityMozambique	30.3	1.4%	45.7×	10	+123.2%
56	Centro Universitário de Volta RedondaBrazil	24.8	4.3%	20.4×	9	+676.9%
57	Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins	23.5	3.6%	93.3×	9	+423.2%
58	University of CoimbraPortugal	23.2	2.5%	3.4×	11	+17.3%
59	University of LisbonPortugal	22.2	7.8%	1.9×	10	+3.6%
60	Centro Universitário de AraraquaraBrazil	21.9	6.3%	38.9×	10	-33.6%
61	Universidade do Vale do ParaíbaBrazil	20.7	1.2%	61.0×	10	-11.8%

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 Rural Development and Agriculture, country by country

Is Rural Development and Agriculture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Rural Development and Agriculture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

Fractional works of Rural Development and Agriculture 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.

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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Which countries lead Rural Development and Agriculture research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Rural Development and Agriculture research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Rural Development and Agriculture?

What are the most cited papers in Rural Development and Agriculture?

Where is Rural Development and Agriculture research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Rural Development and Agriculture?

Is Rural Development and Agriculture research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion