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Youth, Politics, and Society

Youth, Politics, and Society is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 9.8k research works in it since 1955. 5.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of youth, public policy, and social change in Brazil. It covers topics such as political participation, workforce integration, sociological analysis of youth culture, and the impact of generational dynamics on public policy. The research emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary approaches to address the challenges faced by the youth in Brazil.

  • Youth
  • Public Policy
  • Brazil
  • Social Change
  • Education
  • Political Participation
  • Generations
  • Workforce
  • Sociological Analysis
  • Interdisciplinary Research
Research works
9.8k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
545
per year above
Top-10% rate
5.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+53%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Youth, Politics, and Society research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (1.7k and 54 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 1.7k works
  2. 2 Portugal 54 works
  3. 3 Argentina 53 works
  4. 4 United States 49 works
  5. 5 Mexico 38 works
  6. 6 Spain 36 works
  7. 7 Chile 23 works
  8. 8 France 17 works
  9. 9 Colombia 17 works
  10. 10 Uruguay 11 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: 85.3%Portugal: 2.6%Argentina: 2.6%United States: 2.4%6 others listed: 7.0%85%largest
Brazil1,736 · 85.3%Portugal54 · 2.6%Argentina53 · 2.6%United States49 · 2.4%6 others listed143 · 7.0%

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

Which institutions lead Youth, Politics, and Society research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Youth, Politics, and Society research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Where is Youth, Politics, and Society research done?

The largest centres of Youth, Politics, and Society research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Niterói.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 235 works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 171 works
  3. 3 Belo Horizonte Brazil 75 works
  4. 4 Porto Alegre Brazil 69 works
  5. 5 Brasília Brazil 69 works
  6. 6 Curitiba Brazil 53 works
  7. 7 Florianópolis Brazil 52 works
  8. 8 Recife Brazil 43 works
  9. 9 Fortaleza Brazil 43 works
  10. 10 Niterói Brazil 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NiteróiBR · 42.6 works43×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Youth, Politics, and Society than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Youth, Politics, and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 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 6.82%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal do Piauí: 18, 20.8%Universidade Federal de Pernambuco: 30, 7.3%Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais: 40, 5.4%Universidade Federal da Paraíba: 27, 5.2%Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul: 50, 4.6%Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo: 17, 6.8%Universidade de São Paulo: 50, 2.0%Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: 47, 1.9%Universidade Federal de São Carlos: 28, 8.3%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 26, 5.9%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 PiauíBrazil 81.720.8%44.6×18 +313.8%
2 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 65.27.3%29.6×30 +168.4%
3 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 64.25.4%27.1×40 +139.5%
4 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 63.15.2%33.4×27 +222.1%
5 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 60.74.6%33.9×50 +70.6%
6 Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil 60.76.8%27.1×17 +188.8%
7 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 59.92.0%14.2×50 +69.1%
8 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 59.41.9%30.7×47 +115.3%
9 Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 59.18.3%34.7×28 +57.3%
10 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 58.25.9%17.3×26 +90.4%

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 Youth, Politics, and Society research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 53% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Youth, Politics, and Society.

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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.