Petrobras (Brazil)
Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Petrobras (Brazil): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education. Also as Markdown.
Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Petrobras (Brazil) took part in 42 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in operations research (17), AI (12) and economics (5).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 4 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (3), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (3) and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (3), Computers & Operations Research (2) and Journal of Economics and Business (1).
- The most-cited of them is “A study on cloud and edge computing for the implementation of digital twins in the Oil & Gas industries” (Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023), with 77 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 27 of its papers 80 times; 98% of those links came from papers with a university author and 6% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 84 times, 11% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Petrobras (Brazil) has 14,460 works with 312,712 citations (h-index 162).
- The tracked journals hold 40 of its 5,260 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Offshore Engineering and Technologies (2,119), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (1,876) and Drilling and Well Engineering (1,714).
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operations Research | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Management | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 3 |
| 2 | Computers & Operations Research | 2 |
| 3 | Journal of Economics and Business | 1 |
| 4 | Mathematical Social Sciences | 1 |
| 5 | Data & Knowledge Engineering | 1 |
| 6 | Annals of Operations Research | 1 |
| 7 | Computers & Industrial Engineering | 1 |
| 8 | Journal of Global Optimization | 1 |
| 9 | Journal of Intelligent Information Systems | 1 |
| 10 | Neural Computing and Applications | 1 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo | 3 |
| 2 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | 3 |
| 3 | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro | 2 |
| 4 | Universidade Federal Fluminense | 2 |
| 5 | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | 2 |
| 6 | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul | 2 |
| 7 | Universidade de São Paulo | 2 |
| 8 | Aalto University | 1 |
| 9 | Auckland University of Technology | 1 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | 19 |
| 2 | United States | 3 |
| 3 | Canada | 1 |
| 4 | China | 1 |
| 5 | Spain | 1 |
| 6 | Finland | 1 |
| 7 | France | 1 |
| 8 | Norway | 1 |
| 9 | New Zealand | 1 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil and gas industry | 4 |
| 2 | digital twin | 2 |
| 3 | electric submersible pumps | 2 |
| 4 | large language models | 2 |
| 5 | predictive maintenance | 2 |
| 6 | Bovespa | 1 |
| 7 | Cournot competition | 1 |
| 8 | DBSCAN | 1 |
| 9 | DETR | 1 |
| 10 | DINOv2 | 1 |
Most-cited papers#
Who cites its research#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | University | Brazil | 6 |
| 2 | Dalian Maritime University | University | China | 6 |
| 3 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | University | Norway | 5 |
| 4 | TBS Education | University | France | 4 |
| 5 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | University | Hong Kong | 4 |
| 6 | Shanghai University | University | China | 3 |
| 7 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | Government | France | 3 |
| 8 | Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo | University | Brazil | 3 |
| 9 | Marche Polytechnic University | University | Italy | 2 |
What its papers cite#
| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Gothenburg | University | Sweden | 5 |
| 2 | HEC Montréal | University | Canada | 4 |
| 3 | Universidade de São Paulo | University | Brazil | 4 |
| 4 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | University | Brazil | 3 |
| 5 | University of Liverpool | University | United Kingdom | 3 |
| 6 | Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo | University | Brazil | 3 |
| 7 | University of Vaasa | University | Finland | 3 |
| 8 | Wrocław University of Science and Technology | University | Poland | 2 |
| 9 | Uppsala University | University | Sweden | 2 |
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Also known as | Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. |
| Works in OpenAlex | 14,460 |
| Citations | 312,712 |
| h-index | 162 |
| i10-index | 7,386 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 1.29 |
| Website | petrobras.com.br |
| ROR | ror.org/0235kyq22 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I32393484 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Offshore Engineering and Technologies | Engineering | 2,119 |
| 2 | Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis | Engineering | 1,876 |
| 3 | Drilling and Well Engineering | Engineering | 1,714 |
| 4 | Geological Studies and Exploration | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,325 |
| 5 | Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1,284 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 643 | 11,089 | 2 | 0.3% |
| 2025 | 879 | 14,333 | 6 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 737 | 14,623 | 5 | 0.7% |
| 2023 | 678 | 14,151 | 6 | 0.9% |
| 2022 | 491 | 14,077 | 6 | 1.2% |
| 2021 | 531 | 14,252 | 4 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 484 | 12,136 | 2 | 0.4% |
| 2019 | 550 | 10,906 | 4 | 0.7% |
| 2018 | 400 | 9,384 | 3 | 0.8% |
| 2017 | 510 | 8,546 | 4 | 0.8% |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Petrobras (Brazil). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/petrobras-brazil
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