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75
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36486
World Ranking
525
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5

Iná S. Santos publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iná S. Santos sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 435 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Iná S. Santos D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Iná S. Santos sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Iná S. Santos is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Pelotas in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on the broad field of Medicine, with a significant concentration in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Additional subfields include Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Clinical Psychology; General Health Professions; and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, such as:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare

They have published extensively, with frequent contributions in venues including:

  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Scientific Reports
  • European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Iná S. Santos are:

  • Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis, 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Role of ultra-processed food in fat mass index between 6 and 11 years of age: a cohort study, 2020, International Journal of Epidemiology
  • RPS Brazilian Birth Cohorts Consortium (Ribeirão Preto, Pelotas and São Luís): history, objectives and methods, 2021, Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Fatores associados a distúrbios do sono em estudantes universitários, 2020, Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Maternal mood symptoms in pregnancy and postpartum depression: association with exclusive breastfeeding in a population-based birth cohort, 2020, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Leading co-authors include:

  • Alícia Matijasevich
  • Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues
  • Aluísio J. D. Barros
  • Tiago N. Munhoz
  • Fernando C. Barros

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Drinking to death: the changing face of liver disease

    MG Griswold;N Fullman;C Hawley;N Arian

  • Assisted reproductive technology: prevalence and associated factors in Southern Brazil.

    Shana Ginar da Silva;Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi;Mariângela Freitas da Silveira;Marlos Rodrigues Domingues

  • The challenge of reducing neonatal mortality in middle-income countries: findings from three Brazilian birth cohorts in 1982, 1993, and 2004

    Fernando C. Barros;Cesar G. Victora;Aluisio J D Barros;Ina S. Santos

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Impact of breast feeding on admission for pneumonia during postneonatal period in Brazil: nested case-control study

    Juraci A César;Cesar G Victora;Fernando C Barros;Iná S Santos

  • Validation of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) in a sample of mothers from the 2004 Pelotas Birth Cohort Study

    Iná S. Santos;Alicia Matijasevich;Beatriz Franck Tavares;Aluísio J. D. Barros

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

    Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez;Bin Zhou;Marisa K. Sophiea;James Bentham

  • Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

    Yin Wu;Brooke Levis;Kira E. Riehm;Nazanin Saadat

  • Consumption of ultra-processed foods and body fat during childhood and adolescence: a systematic review.

    Caroline Santos Costa;Bianca Del-Ponte;Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção;Iná Silva Santos

  • Sensibilidade e especificidade do Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) entre adultos da população geral

    Iná S. Santos;Beatriz Franck Tavares;Tiago N. Munhoz;Laura Sigaran Pio de Almeida

  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Very Preterm/Very Low Birth Weight: A Meta-analysis

    Adelar Pedro Franz;Gul Unsel Bolat;Hilmi Bolat;Alicia Matijasevich

  • [Sensitivity and specificity of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) among adults from the general population].

    Iná S. Santos;Beatriz Franck Tavares;Tiago N. Munhoz;Laura Sigaran Pio de Almeida

  • Cohort Profile: The 2004 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study

    Iná S Santos;Aluisio J D Barros;Alicia Matijasevich;Marlos R Domingues

  • Effects of exercise in the whole spectrum of chronic kidney disease: a systematic review.

    Franklin C. Barcellos;Iná S. Santos;Daniel Umpierre;Maristela Bohlke

  • Nutrition Counseling Increases Weight Gain among Brazilian Children

    Iná Santos;Cesar G. Victora;José Martines;Helen Gonçalves

  • Aumento da prematuridade no Brasil: revisão de estudos de base populacional

    Mariângela F. da Silveira;Iná S. Santos;Aluísio J D Barros;Alicia Matijasevich

  • Linear spline multilevel models for summarising childhood growth trajectories: A guide to their application using examples from five birth cohorts

    Laura D Howe;Kate Tilling;Alicia Matijasevich;Emily S Petherick

  • Efficacy and safety of 10% and 16% carbamide peroxide tooth-whitening gels: a randomized clinical trial.

    Sônia Saeger Meireles;Sani Silva Heckmann;Fedinan Luis Leida;Iná da Silva dos Santos

Frequent Co-Authors

Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Fernando C. Barros
Fernando C. Barros Universidade Católica de Pelotas
Cesar G. Victora
Cesar G. Victora 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
Denise Petrucci Gigante
Denise Petrucci Gigante Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Marco Aurélio Peres
Marco Aurélio Peres Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Pedro Curi Hallal
Pedro Curi Hallal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aletta E. Schutte
Aletta E. Schutte University of New South Wales
Majid Ezzati
Majid Ezzati Imperial College London

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