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Cesar G. Victora publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cesar G. Victora sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 989 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Cesar G. Victora D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cesar G. Victora sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 166 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Cesar G. Victora is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Brazil. Their research focuses mainly on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases, and Health.

Their main research topics include Global Maternal and Child Health, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Birth, Development, and Health, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare.

Victora has authored several notable recent papers, including:

  • Revisiting maternal and child undernutrition in low-income and middle-income countries: variable progress towards an unfinished agenda (2021, The Lancet)
  • Breastfeeding: crucially important, but increasingly challenged in a market-driven world (2023, The Lancet)
  • SARS-CoV-2 antibody prevalence in Brazil: results from two successive nationwide serological household surveys (2020, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy (2023, The Lancet)
  • Population-based surveys of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Southern Brazil (2020, Nature Medicine)

Frequent co-authors with whom Victora has published extensively include:

  • Aluísio J. D. Barros
  • Fernando C. Barros
  • Bernardo Lessa Horta
  • Fernando Pires Hartwig
  • Luís Paulo Vidaletti

Their work has appeared in several key publication venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Journal of Global Health

In 2018, Cesar G. Victora was recognized as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries

    Robert E Black;Cesar G. Victora;Susan P. Walker;Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

  • Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

    Cesar G. Victora;Rajiv Bahl;Aluísio J. D. Barros;Giovanny Vinícius Araújo de França

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital.

    Cesar G. Victora;Linda S Adair;Caroline H.D. Fall;Pedro C. Hallal

  • WHO child growth standards: length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age - Methods and development

    Mercedes de Onis;Adelheid Onyango;Elaine Borghi;Amani Siyam

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • The role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach.

    Cesar G Victora;Sharon R Huttly;Sandra C Fuchs;Maria Teresa A Olinto

  • Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices?

    Nigel C Rollins;Nita Bhandari;Nemat Hajeebhoy;Susan Horton

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • International standards for newborn weight, length, and head circumference by gestational age and sex: the Newborn Cross-Sectional Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

    José Villar;Leila Cheikh Ismail;Cesar G Victora;Eric O Ohuma;Eric O Ohuma

  • Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Revisiting Implications for Interventions

    Cesar Gomes Victora;Mercedes de Onis;Pedro Curi Hallal;Monika Blössner

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in five Latin American cities (the PLATINO study): a prevalence study

    Ana Maria B Menezes;Rogelio Perez-Padilla;José Roberto B Jardim;Adriana Muiño

  • Maternal and child health in Brazil: progress and challenges

    César Gomes Victora;Estela Maria Motta Lima Leão de Aquino;Maria do Carmo Leal;Carlos Augusto Monteiro

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?

    Alexander K Rowe;Don de Savigny;Claudio F Lanata;Cesar G Victora

  • Evidence-Based Public Health: Moving Beyond Randomized Trials

    Cesar G. Victora;Jean Pierre Habicht;Jennifer Bryce

  • Long-term consequences of breastfeeding on cholesterol, obesity, systolic blood pressure and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Bernardo L. Horta;Christian Loret de Mola;Cesar G. Victora

  • Adolescent physical activity and health: a systematic review.

    Pedro C. Hallal;Cesar G. Victora;Mario R. Azevedo;Jonathan C. K. Wells

  • Rapid growth in infancy and childhood and obesity in later life--a systematic review.

    P. O. A. Monteiro;C. G. Victora

  • Evidence for protection by breast-feeding against infant deaths from infectious diseases in Brazil.

    CesarG. Victora;CesarG. Victora;J.Patrick Vaughan;J.Patrick Vaughan;Cintia Lombardi;Cintia Lombardi;SandraM.C. Fuchs;SandraM.C. Fuchs

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando C. Barros
Fernando C. Barros Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Bernardo L. Horta
Bernardo L. Horta Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Ana M. B. Menezes
Ana M. B. Menezes Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Iná S. Santos
Iná S. Santos Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Denise Petrucci Gigante
Denise Petrucci Gigante Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Pedro Curi Hallal
Pedro Curi Hallal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Zulfiqar A Bhutta Aga Khan University
Stephen Kennedy
Stephen Kennedy University of Oxford
Robert E Black
Robert E Black Johns Hopkins University

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