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Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of climate change on human migration, focusing on topics such as environmental refugees, sea-level rise, natural disasters, rural-urban migration, and resettlement. It investigates the vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies in the context of small island developing states and emphasizes the link between climate change and migration patterns.

  • Climate Change
  • Migration
  • Environmental Refugees
  • Adaptation
  • Sea-Level Rise
  • Natural Disasters
  • Rural-Urban Migration
  • Resettlement
  • Vulnerability
  • Small Island Developing States
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+38%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Which countries lead Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (930 and 387 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 930 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 387 works
  3. 3 Australia 345 works
  4. 4 China 261 works
  5. 5 India 257 works
  6. 6 Canada 196 works
  7. 7 Germany 186 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 171 works
  9. 9 France 153 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 126 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.

United States: 30.9%United Kingdom: 12.9%Australia: 11.4%China: 8.7%6 others listed: 36.1%31%largest
United States930 · 30.9%United Kingdom387 · 12.9%Australia345 · 11.4%China261 · 8.7%6 others listed1,089 · 36.1%

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

Which institutions lead Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research, followed by Australian National University and The University of Melbourne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  2. 2 Australian National UniversityAustralia 39 works
  3. 3 The University of MelbourneAustralia 32 works
  4. 4 University of AucklandNew Zealand 27 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 25 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 24 works
  7. 7 The University of QueenslandAustralia 23 works
  8. 8 Griffith UniversityAustralia 22 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration include Philippe Ciais, Michelle Lee Bell and F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  2. 2 Michelle Lee Bell United States 197k citations
  3. 3 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  4. 4 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  5. 5 Hung Chak Ho China 180k citations
  6. 6 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  7. 7 André M. N. Renzaho Australia 168k 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 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration?

The most cited paper in Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration is "Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards *" (Susan L. Cutter, Bryan J. Boruff, W. Lynn Shirley, 2003), with 5,729 citations. Next come "Vulnerability" (5,343) and "Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability" (5,234).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards * Susan L. Cutter, Bryan J. Boruff, W. Lynn Shirley · Social Science Quarterly 19 May 2003 5,729
2 Vulnerability William Neil Adger · Global Environmental Change 21 Jul 2006 5,343
3 Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability Barry E. Smit, Johanna Wandel · Global Environmental Change Open access 17 Jul 2006 5,234
4 Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment Barbara Neumann, Athanasios Thomas Vafeidis, Juliane T. Zimmermann et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 11 Mar 2015 2,906
5 The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones Gordon McGranahan, Deborah L. Balk, Bridget Anderson · Environment and Urbanization Apr 2007 2,653
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Where is Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research done?

The largest centres of Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Honolulu and Wellington.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 87 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 73 works
  3. 3 DhakaBangladesh 69 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 67 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 67 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 65 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 58 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 55 works
  9. 9 CanberraAustralia 51 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HonoluluUS · 23.8 works13×
  2. WellingtonNZ · 21.2 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, Lund University and University of Oxford 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%20%40%mean 19.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lund UniversityUniversity of Manche…University of OxfordThe University of Me…
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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
1The University of MelbourneAustralia 74.114.7%6.7×32 +12.1%
2Lund UniversitySweden 71.430.5%4.9×12 +43.9%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 69.816.7%3.9×24 +54.5%
4University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 68.226.3%3.3×12 +50.9%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 66.923.0%3.7×16 +43.4%
6Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 66.723.1%3.9×12 +23.3%
7Griffith UniversityAustralia 66.619.1%12.0×22 -2.5%
8University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 66.118.1%6.1×15 +68.9%
9University of British ColumbiaCanada 63.820.5%3.2×17 +48.4%
10Australian National UniversityAustralia 62.66.7%17.7×39 +9.3%

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 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, country by country

Is Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Climate Change, Adaptation, 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 Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Climate Change, Adaptation, 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%Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration10.3% in 2025200020102020

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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