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Richard Alba

Richard Alba publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Migration and Labor Dynamics and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies.

World rank
#10,023
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,831
of 358,040
Works
54
Citations
689
Citations per work
12.8

What does Richard Alba research?

Sociology and Political Science: 53.6%Education: 10.7%Political Science and International Relations: 7.1%Demography: 5.4%other fields: 23.2%54%top field
Sociology and Political Science53.6%Education10.7%Political Science and International Relations7.1%Demography5.4%other fields23.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science54% of their works
  2. 2Education11% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  4. 4Demography5% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions4% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Alba's research?

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

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Immigration112 topics
  2. Globalization102 topics
  3. Social Networks102 topics
  4. Ethnic Minority Business81 topic
  5. Immigrant Entrepreneurship81 topic
  6. Citizenship72 topics
  7. Ethnicity72 topics
  8. Labor Market71 topic
  9. Remittances71 topic
  10. Neighborhood Effects41 topic
  11. Politics41 topic
  12. Residential Segregation41 topic
  13. Social Boundaries41 topic
  14. Diaspora31 topic
  15. Transnationalism31 topic
  16. Black Studies21 topic
  17. Civil Rights Movement21 topic
  18. Health21 topic
  19. Homelessness21 topic
  20. Training Pathways21 topic
  21. Vocational Education21 topic

Where does Richard Alba work?

Richard Alba's main affiliation in the publication record is University at Albany, State University of New York, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Alba have?

Science Explorer counts 54 works and 689 citations for Richard Alba, ranking #10,023 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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