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Researcher · Princeton University · United States

Alejandro Portes

Alejandro Portes publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Migration and Labor Dynamics, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity.

ORCID 0000-0002-0864-878X OpenAlex
World rank
#566
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#265
of 1,627,098
Works
574
Citations
70k
Citations per work
122.0
h-index
103
i10-index 249Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Alejandro Portes

What does Alejandro Portes research?

Alejandro Portes's work is mostly in Social Sciences (75%).

Social Sciences: 433 works · 75.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 433 works · 75.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 281 works · 48.9% of their workDemography: 51 works · 8.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 29 works · 5.1% of their workCultural Studies: 27 works · 4.7% of their workUrban Studies: 27 works · 4.7% of their workEducation: 18 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 141 works · 24.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlejandro Portes574works
Social Sciences75%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences43375.4%
  2. Everything else14124.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science49% of their works
  2. 2Demography9% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  4. 4Urban Studies5% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6Education3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alejandro Portes's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Social Networks, Labor Market, Ethnic Minority Business, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Immigration, Remittances and Citizenship.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization2513 topics
  2. Social Networks2262 topics
  3. Labor Market1712 topics
  4. Ethnic Minority Business1481 topic
  5. Immigrant Entrepreneurship1481 topic
  6. Immigration1481 topic
  7. Remittances1481 topic
  8. Citizenship1082 topics
  9. Identity992 topics
  10. Migration992 topics
  11. Diaspora781 topic
  12. Transnationalism781 topic
  13. Inmigración y mercado de trabajo301 topic
  14. Intercultural Education301 topic
  15. Health Inequities261 topic
  16. Racial Discrimination261 topic
  17. Residential251 topic
  18. Segregation251 topic
  19. Informal Economy231 topic
  20. Tax Evasion231 topic
  21. Cuba211 topic
  22. Race211 topic

Where does Alejandro Portes work?

Alejandro Portes's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alejandro Portes have?

OpenAlex counts 574 works and 70,040 citations for Alejandro Portes, an h-index of 103, ranking #566 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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