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Immigration Law and Human Rights

Immigration Law and Human Rights is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 929 research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex intersection of global urbanization, human rights, and governance, addressing challenges such as economic development, environmental protection, migration, gender equality, labor relations, and crisis response. It highlights the evolving role of cities in shaping social justice and offers insights into the opportunities and obstacles presented by rapid urbanization on a global scale.

  • Urbanization
  • Human Rights
  • Global Governance
  • Social Justice
  • Economic Development
  • Environmental Protection
  • Migration
  • Gender Equality
  • Labor Relations
  • Crisis Response
Research works
929
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
90
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Immigration Law and Human Rights research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (23 and 18 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 23 works
  2. 2 China 18 works
  3. 3 Poland 9 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 5 works
  5. 5 Australia 4 works
  6. 6 Canada 3 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 3 works
  8. 8 South Africa 3 works
  9. 9 India 2 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 2 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: 32.4%China: 25.1%Poland: 12.2%United Kingdom: 6.9%6 others listed: 23.4%32%largest
United States23 · 32.4%China18 · 25.1%Poland9 · 12.2%United Kingdom5 · 6.9%6 others listed17 · 23.4%

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

Which institutions lead Immigration Law and Human Rights research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nicolaus Copernicus University publishes the most Immigration Law and Human Rights research, followed by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and University of Michigan.

Who are the leading researchers in Immigration Law and Human Rights?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Immigration Law and Human Rights include M. Kagan.

  1. 1 M. Kagan France 79k 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 Law and Human Rights?

The most cited paper in Immigration Law and Human Rights is "Urban Life in Contemporary China" (W. E. Willmott, 1986), with 510 citations. Next come "Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor: City Ordinances, the "right to the City," and the Exclusion of Undocumented Day Laborers" (206) and "Cultural citizenship" (181).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Urban Life in Contemporary China W. E. Willmott · Pacific Affairs Dec 1986 510
2 Immigration Policing Through the Backdoor: City Ordinances, the "right to the City," and the Exclusion of Undocumented Day Laborers Monica W. Varsanyi · Urban Geography Open access 2008 206
3 Cultural citizenship Jan Pakulski · Citizenship Studies Feb 1997 181
4 A Transitional Institution for the Emerging Land Market in Urban China Jieming Zhu · Urban Studies Jul 2005 161
5 Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization H. Rutherford Turnbull · Remedial and Special Education Nov 2005 141
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Immigration Law and Human Rights research done?

The largest centres of Immigration Law and Human Rights research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Toruń (Poland), Singapore (Singapore) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 6 works
  2. 2 ToruńPoland 3 works
  3. 3 SingaporeSingapore 2 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 2 works
  5. 5 Ann ArborUnited States 2 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 1 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 1 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 1 works
  9. 9 OxfordUnited Kingdom 1 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 1 works
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Is Immigration Law and Human Rights research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008.

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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 Law and Human Rights as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00034% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Immigration Law and Human Rights 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.

5%10%15%Immigration Law and Human Rights10.2% in 202320102020

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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