Between 2003 and 2017, Embrapa's researchers produced 16,493 scientific papers, placing the corporation among the top ten Brazilian institutions with the highest level of academic productivity in the country, and the first among non-educational research institutions. The data comes from the Social Report 2018, an annual study the company conducts to estimate its social returns to society, to be launched on April 24, during the solemn session celebrating its 46th anniversary, in Brasília, DF. The Report also reveals that the social profit last year totalled R$ 43.52 billion, resulting from the economic impact in the agricultural sector; and that each real the Government invested in Embrapa generated R$ 12.16 for Brazilian society. The scientific production ranking was based on searches through the database Web of Science (WoS) for all documents whose authors stated affiliation in Brazil and that were published in that period. Thus the authors gathered nearly 500,000 papers and identified that Embrapa holds the eighth place among the institutions that published the most in the last 15 years. The top seven institutions are public universities, like Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), and others. However, when one considers organizations that are not universities, Embrapa takes first place, ahead of other institutions like, for instance, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz). Most productive Brazilian institutions between 2003 and 2017 per number of papers Organization Total Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 108,905 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) 40,904 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) 37,281 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) 34,058 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) 29,289 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) 25,797 Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) 20,212 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) 16,493 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) 16,258 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) 15,231 Source: WoS (2018) Brasil's knowledge areas on WoS Besides the most representative institutions, it was also possible to survey the areas of knowledge that have concentrated the largest number of papers, based on Brazil's 493,347 record on WoS. According to the Figure below, these areas are: Health Sciences (30%), Exact and Earth Sciences (22%), Biological Sciences (18.6%), Agrarian Sciences (11.5%) and Engineering (10.4%). The Humanities, Multidisciplinary studies, Applied Social Sciences, and Linguistics, Letters and Arts combined account for 7.2% of the papers. Hence it is understandable when researchers and scientists in the latter areas complain that their scientific production is underrepresented when it is assessed through an international database like Web of Science. Quantity (%) of papers published between 2003 and 2017 in the different areas of knowledge in Brazilian scientific production Source: WoS (2018) Free access to publications The number of downloads to Embrapa's publication pages through its three repositories (Ainfo, Infoteca and Alice) is also an indicator that confirms the effectiveness of the corporation's technical-scientific work. In 2018 alone, there were 25.8 million downloads of publications, documents, technical communications, technical circulars, collections, manuals, bulletins, technical books, websites for production systems and other tools to mass publicize the corporation's technology guidance, all available for free in such repositories. “It is an indicator that the publications produced by the corporation's research centers are being used, especially by technical assistance and rural extension technicians, both in the private and public sectors”, explains the researcher Flávio Ávila, one of the coordinators of the study for the Social Report 2018. Translation: Mariana Medeiros