Social and Political Issues

Social and Political Issues is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 explores the intersection of social welfare, political economy, and public policy in Brazil, focusing on topics such as assistance programs, inequality, neoliberalism, poverty, and democracy. It delves into the challenges faced by social workers and the impact of political ideologies on social welfare initiatives.

Social Welfare
Political Economy
Brazil
Assistance Programs
Inequality
Neoliberalism
Social Work
Poverty
Democracy
Public Policy

Research works: 22k
In the world top 10%: 2.1k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -17%
Largest producer: Brazil

Social and Political Issues

Which countries lead Social and Political Issues research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (5k and 169 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Brazil 5k works
2 Portugal 169 works
3 United States 137 works
4 Spain 91 works
5 Mexico 55 works
6 Argentina 47 works
7 ?? 44 works
8 France 41 works
9 Chile 36 works
10 Colombia 31 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.

Brazil4,994 · 88.5%Portugal169 · 3.0%United States137 · 2.4%Spain91 · 1.6%6 others listed254 · 4.5%

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

Which institutions lead Social and Political Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Social and Political Issues research, followed by Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 156 works
2 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 127 works
3 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 114 works
4 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 113 works
5 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 111 works
6 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 111 works
7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 103 works
8 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 102 works
9 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 100 works
10 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 100 works

What are the most cited papers in Social and Political Issues?

The most cited paper in Social and Political Issues is "Desenvolvimento como liberdade" (Natália Maria Ventura da Silva Alfaya, 2013), with 3,495 citations. Next come "Cidadania no Brasil: o longo caminho" (1,273) and "Manifesto do Partido Comunista" (1,101).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Desenvolvimento como liberdade Natália Maria Ventura da Silva Alfaya · Scientia Iuris Open access	4 Dec 2013	3,495
2	Cidadania no Brasil: o longo caminho Regina Célia Diniz Werner · Revista de Administração Contemporânea Open access	Mar 2005	1,273
3	Manifesto do Partido Comunista Karl Heinrich Marx, Friedrich Engels · Germinal Marxismo e Educação em Debate Open access	19 Dec 2010	1,101
4	Teoria dos direitos fundamentais Michelli Pfaffenseller · Revista Jurídica da Presidência Open access	2007	838
5	Como as democracias morrem Bruno De Azevedo · Revista Eletrônica Direito e Sociedade - REDES Open access	Dec 2020	664

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Where is Social and Political Issues research done?

The largest centres of Social and Political Issues research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Cruz do Sul and Passo Fundo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 São PauloBrazil 697 works
2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 479 works
3 BrasíliaBrazil 223 works
4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 206 works
5 CuritibaBrazil 163 works
6 Porto AlegreBrazil 157 works
7 FlorianópolisBrazil 129 works
8 FortalezaBrazil 122 works
9 NiteróiBrazil 113 works
10 RecifeBrazil 112 works

Where it is the local speciality

Santa Cruz do SulBR · 34.5 works118×
Passo FundoBR · 29.2 works68×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social and Political Issues than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Social and Political Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Brasil, Fundação Getulio Vargas 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	66.8	23.0%	28.0×	15	+16.4%
2	Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil	66.5	22.1%	54.1×	30	+33.1%
3	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	65.2	10.9%	15.5×	156	-7.5%
4	Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil	62.6	16.7%	27.4×	100	-11.1%
5	Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil	62.1	14.9%	20.0×	43	+14.4%
6	Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	56.6	10.6%	55.0×	127	-17.6%
7	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil	56.1	9.9%	27.8×	114	-7.1%
8	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil	55.5	10.9%	28.6×	111	-24.9%
9	Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil	54.8	13.0%	31.6×	103	-17.5%
10	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil	54.8	13.2%	19.7×	73	-41.9%
11	Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil	54.7	11.4%	39.8×	113	-24.0%
12	Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil	54.4	15.4%	29.2×	56	-25.9%
13	Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	53.3	9.2%	26.3×	100	-27.6%
14	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil	53.2	8.0%	33.1×	62	+17.5%
15	Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil	52.1	8.6%	103.2×	102	-6.7%
16	Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil	50.6	10.7%	31.1×	78	-16.9%
17	Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil	50.4	7.9%	64.2×	63	+14.3%
18	Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil	50.2	8.7%	46.8×	111	-17.6%
19	Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil	49.2	8.6%	39.7×	42	+80.6%
20	Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil	48.6	8.9%	27.4×	68	-14.0%
21	Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil	48.0	10.7%	38.3×	58	-22.5%
22	Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil	47.6	8.8%	53.3×	46	+15.8%
23	Universidade Federal de AlagoasBrazil	47.1	8.2%	55.4×	57	+0.9%
24	Universidade Estadual do Oeste do ParanáBrazil	46.8	11.3%	56.7×	50	-4.8%
25	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil	46.3	12.1%	33.5×	38	-9.4%
26	Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil	46.1	9.6%	23.9×	30	+10.9%
27	Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil	46.0	12.2%	18.5×	15	+30.6%
28	Universidade Estadual de MaringáBrazil	45.1	8.5%	31.7×	39	+3.1%
29	Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil	44.9	9.8%	15.0×	19	+71.5%
30	Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil	44.8	12.7%	28.7×	21	-26.8%
31	Universidade Federal da BahiaBrazil	44.7	13.6%	22.3×	32	-32.5%
32	Universitario Francisco de AsísUruguay	44.5	10.4%	31.2×	12	+31.2%
33	Instituto Federal do ParanáBrazil	44.3	15.9%	49.0×	11	+74.9%
34	Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil	44.2	11.6%	29.2×	47	-22.7%
35	Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil	43.9	8.2%	35.3×	70	-18.3%
36	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	43.9	10.1%	46.4×	41	-9.5%
37	Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil	43.8	5.7%	46.9×	48	+10.1%
38	Universidade Federal do Sul da BahiaBrazil	43.7	16.2%	60.8×	10	+31.9%
39	Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil	43.0	6.1%	28.0×	55	-16.3%
40	Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil	42.9	12.5%	21.4×	45	-21.2%
41	Universidade Federal da Grande DouradosBrazil	42.7	20.9%	35.6×	15	-44.3%
42	Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil	42.1	10.6%	65.1×	21	+24.4%
43	Centro Universitário CesumarBrazil	42.1	13.8%	61.1×	17	+28.5%
44	Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do SulBrazil	41.3	13.2%	48.4×	11	+33.6%
45	Universidade do Estado de Santa CatarinaBrazil	40.6	16.9%	22.0×	18	-30.7%
46	University of CoimbraPortugal	36.4	9.0%	9.8×	24	-25.1%
47	Universidad San PedroPeru	34.5	5.4%	42.4×	10	-3.7%
48	Universidad Filadelfia de MéxicoMexico	30.5	1.8%	102.8×	10	+57.5%
49	University of MinhoPortugal	29.2	14.2%	5.0×	9	-38.5%
50	Universidade do PortoPortugal	28.0	9.9%	3.4×	11	+5.6%
51	University of LisbonPortugal	22.6	7.1%	3.6×	14	-38.5%
52	Universidade de Ribeirão PretoBrazil	22.3	4.1%	17.2×	11	-34.5%
53	Universidade de MaríliaBrazil	22.1	1.4%	79.1×	15	-28.1%

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 Social and Political Issues, country by country

Is Social and Political Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% 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 Social and Political Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

Fractional works of Social and Political Issues 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 Social and Political Issues research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Social and Political Issues research?

By volume, 2022-now

What are the most cited papers in Social and Political Issues?

Where is Social and Political Issues research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Social and Political Issues?

Is Social and Political Issues 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