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Immigration and Intercultural Education

Immigration and Intercultural Education is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 6.5k research works in it since 1955. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the epistemological, semantic, and practical aspects of intercultural education, particularly in the context of Europe and Spain. It covers topics such as immigration, multiculturalism, diversity, citizenship, language learning, and social integration. The papers delve into theoretical reflections, societal impact, educational challenges, and policy implications related to intercultural education.

  • Intercultural Education
  • Inmigración y mercado de trabajo
  • Diversidad cultural
  • Educación intercultural
  • Inmigración en España
  • Multiculturalism
  • Citizenship
  • Language Learning
  • Social Integration
  • Ethnic Minorities
Research works
6.5k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
643
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Immigration and Intercultural Education

Which countries lead Immigration and Intercultural Education research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (512 and 170 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 512 works
  2. 2 Mexico 170 works
  3. 3 Chile 101 works
  4. 4 Colombia 90 works
  5. 5 United States 69 works
  6. 6 Ecuador 61 works
  7. 7 Argentina 52 works
  8. 8 Peru 51 works
  9. 9 Brazil 49 works
  10. 10 France 30 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.

Spain: 43.2%Mexico: 14.4%Chile: 8.5%Colombia: 7.6%6 others listed: 26.3%43%largest
Spain512 · 43.2%Mexico170 · 14.4%Chile101 · 8.5%Colombia90 · 7.6%6 others listed312 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead Immigration and Intercultural Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Granada publishes the most Immigration and Intercultural Education research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de GranadaSpain 29 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 27 works
  3. 3 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 26 works
  4. 4 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 23 works
  5. 5 University of the Basque CountrySpain 22 works
  6. 6 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 18 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 17 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SevillaSpain 17 works
  9. 9 Universidad de CádizSpain 16 works
  10. 10 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Immigration and Intercultural Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Immigration and Intercultural Education include Michel Foucault, Michael J. Keating and Clifford Geertz.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Michael J. Keating United States 97k citations
  3. 3 Clifford Geertz United States 72k citations
  4. 4 Alejandro Portes United States 70k citations
  5. 5 Douglas S. Massey United States 67k citations
  6. 6 Joshua D. Angrist United States 65k 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 Immigration and Intercultural Education?

The most cited paper in Immigration and Intercultural Education is "A theory of migration" (Everett S. Lee, 1966), with 4,481 citations. Next come "Bicultural involvement and adjustment in Hispanic-American youths" (509) and "Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, An Ethnographic Portrait" (319).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A theory of migration Everett S. Lee · Demography Mar 1966 4,481
2 Bicultural involvement and adjustment in Hispanic-American youths José Szapocznik, William M. Kurtines, Tatjana Fernandez · International Journal of Intercultural Relations 1980 509
3 Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools, An Ethnographic Portrait Javier Moreno Tapia · Anthropology & Education Quarterly Mar 1997 319
4 Acculturation strategies and attitudes according to the Relative Acculturation Extended Model (RAEM): The perspectives of natives versus immigrants Marisol Navas, Antonio José Rojas Tejada, Maria Isabel Garcia García et al. · International Journal of Intercultural Relations 5 Oct 2006 264
5 Interculturalidad, conocimientos y decolonialidad Catherine Walsh · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) Open access 2005 208
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Immigration and Intercultural Education research done?

The largest centres of Immigration and Intercultural Education research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), Santiago (Chile) and Bogotá (Colombia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cerdanyola del Vallès and Leioa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 98 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 60 works
  3. 3 SantiagoChile 43 works
  4. 4 BogotáColombia 42 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 36 works
  6. 6 SevilleSpain 31 works
  7. 7 GranadaSpain 30 works
  8. 8 LimaPeru 26 works
  9. 9 Cerdanyola del VallèsSpain 24 works
  10. 10 ValenciaSpain 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Cerdanyola del VallèsES · 23.6 works38×
  2. LeioaES · 22.1 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Immigration and Intercultural Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Immigration and Intercultural Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, University of the Basque Country and Universitat de Barcelona score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 14.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Autónoma…University of the Ba…Universitat de Barce…Universitat Autònoma…
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Citation 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
1Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 69.223.9%19.3×13 +33.9%
2University of the Basque CountrySpain 68.420.0%39.3×22 -7.0%
3Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 66.115.6%25.7×23 +44.1%
4Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 57.19.9%33.7×26 -0.3%
5Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 52.39.7%25.5×27 +78.6%
6Universidad de GranadaSpain 47.66.2%43.4×29 -24.2%
7Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 40.719.8%21.7×8 -3.7%
8Universidad de OviedoSpain 40.619.0%27.3×8 +50.3%
9Universitat de ValènciaSpain 39.57.7%27.3×18 -3.1%
10Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 37.815.2%53.9×12 -10.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Immigration and Intercultural Education, country by country

Is Immigration and Intercultural Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Immigration and Intercultural Education.

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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 Immigration and Intercultural Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Immigration and Intercultural Education0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Immigration and Intercultural Education 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%Immigration and Intercultural Education10.0% 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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