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China's Global Influence and Migration

China's Global Influence and Migration is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 4.6k research works in it since 1961. 11.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the experiences of the African diaspora in China, particularly in Guangzhou, and their involvement in transnational trade, cultural identity, and migration. It delves into topics such as China-Africa relations, ethnic enclaves, healthcare access, and the impact of globalization on economic migration.

  • African diaspora
  • transnational trade
  • Guangzhou
  • China-Africa relations
  • ethnic enclave
  • migration
  • cultural identity
  • healthcare access
  • globalization
  • economic migration
Research works
4.6k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
517
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
China's Global Influence and Migration

Which countries lead China's Global Influence and Migration research?

By volume, France and China publish the most (462 and 190 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 462 works
  2. 2 China 190 works
  3. 3 United States 141 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 67 works
  5. 5 Germany 50 works
  6. 6 Canada 46 works
  7. 7 South Africa 38 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 37 works
  9. 9 Brazil 31 works
  10. 10 ?? 27 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

France: 42.4%China: 17.4%United States: 13.0%United Kingdom: 6.2%6 others listed: 21.1%42%largest
France462 · 42.4%China190 · 17.4%United States141 · 13.0%United Kingdom67 · 6.2%6 others listed230 · 21.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead China's Global Influence and Migration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most China's Global Influence and Migration research, followed by Université de Lyon and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 143 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 17 works
  3. 3 Institut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisFrance 15 works
  4. 4 Institut National des Langues et Civilisations OrientalesFrance 12 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 10 works
  6. 6 South African Institute of International AffairsSouth Africa 9 works
  7. 7 École des hautes études en sciences socialesFrance 9 works
  8. 8 Université Paris NanterreFrance 9 works
  9. 9 Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 8 works
  10. 10 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in China's Global Influence and Migration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on China's Global Influence and Migration include Pierre Bourdıeu, David P. Bartel and Li Zhang.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 David P. Bartel United States 200k citations
  3. 3 Li Zhang United States 78k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in China's Global Influence and Migration?

The most cited paper in China's Global Influence and Migration is "Strategy and Structure:" (Lynn Harold Vogel, Irma Patterson, 1986), with 3,529 citations. Next come "Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality: Contradictory Meanings, Changing Significance" (579) and "Boundaries as social processes: Territoriality in the world of flows" (487).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Strategy and Structure: Lynn Harold Vogel, Irma Patterson · Administration in Social Work 18 Jul 1986 3,529
2 Borders, Border Regions and Territoriality: Contradictory Meanings, Changing Significance James Thomas Anderson, Liam O’Dowd · Regional Studies Oct 1999 579
3 Boundaries as social processes: Territoriality in the world of flows Anssi Paasi · Geopolitics Jun 1998 487
4 Borders and Bordering David P Newman · European Journal of Social Theory May 2006 485
5 Inclusive globalization: unpacking China's Belt and Road Initiative Weidong Liu, Michael Dunford · Area Development and Policy 28 Sep 2016 440
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is China's Global Influence and Migration research done?

The largest centres of China's Global Influence and Migration research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), Lyon (France) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lyon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 170 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 35 works
  3. 3 LyonFrance 30 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 22 works
  5. 5 JohannesburgSouth Africa 19 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 RennesFrance 16 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 15 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 15 works
  10. 10 NanterreFrance 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LyonFR · 29.7 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in China's Global Influence and Migration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study China's Global Influence and Migration?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Aix-Marseille Université and Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%1%2%mean 1.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aix-Marseille Univer…Université de LyonUniversité Paris Nan…Institut National de…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Université de LyonFrance 73.42.0%20.2×17 +31.1%
2Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 50.02.3%19.0×8 -24.3%
3Institut National des Langues et Civilisations OrientalesFrance 49.30.7%257.7×12 +45.3%
4Université Paris NanterreFrance 34.30.9%31.7×8 +61.4%
5Université de LorraineFrance 26.00.7%19.6×10 +227.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in China's Global Influence and Migration, country by country

Is China's Global Influence and Migration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are China's Global Influence and Migration.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is China's Global Influence and Migration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0050% in 2024.

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Fractional works of China's Global Influence and Migration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%China's Global Influence and Migration9.8% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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