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Italian Social Issues and Migration

Italian Social Issues and Migration is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 3.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to migration, social integration, and public policy analysis. It includes discussions on migration patterns, social welfare policies, cultural diversity, globalization's impact on local economies, and the challenges of social integration. The papers also delve into the dynamics of citizenship, territorial development, and the intersection of sociology and economics.

  • Migration
  • Social Policy
  • Integration
  • Globalization
  • Welfare
  • Citizenship
  • Sociology
  • Economy
  • Territorial Development
  • Cultural Diversity
Research works
3.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
340
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Italian Social Issues and Migration

Which countries lead Italian Social Issues and Migration research?

By volume, Italy and France publish the most (499 and 45 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 499 works
  2. 2 France 45 works
  3. 3 United States 35 works
  4. 4 Brazil 16 works
  5. 5 Spain 16 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 9 works
  7. 7 Germany 8 works
  8. 8 Russia 7 works
  9. 9 ?? 7 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 6 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.

Italy: 77.0%France: 7.0%United States: 5.4%Brazil: 2.5%6 others listed: 8.1%77%largest
Italy499 · 77.0%France45 · 7.0%United States35 · 5.4%Brazil16 · 2.5%6 others listed53 · 8.1%

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

Which institutions lead Italian Social Issues and Migration research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Florence publishes the most Italian Social Issues and Migration research, followed by University of Milan and University of Bologna.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of FlorenceItaly 40 works
  2. 2 University of MilanItaly 32 works
  3. 3 University of BolognaItaly 27 works
  4. 4 University of TurinItaly 24 works
  5. 5 University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 20 works
  6. 6 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 18 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  8. 8 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 16 works
  9. 9 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 12 works
  10. 10 University of PalermoItaly 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Italian Social Issues and Migration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Italian Social Issues and Migration include Albert Bandura, Pierre Bourdıeu and Judith Butler.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  3. 3 Judith Butler United States 116k 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 Italian Social Issues and Migration?

The most cited paper in Italian Social Issues and Migration is "Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis" (Aracy Lopes da Silva, 1992), with 709 citations. Next come "The interpretation of cultures: selected essays" (306) and "Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education." (291).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis Aracy Lopes da Silva · Revista de Antropologia Open access 4 Dec 1992 709
2 The interpretation of cultures: selected essays Claudia Salvini Barbosa Martins da Fonseca · Cadernos de Campo (São Paulo 1991) Open access 30 Mar 2007 306
3 Were They Pushed or Did They Jump? Individual Decision Mechanisms in Education. Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Diego Gambetta · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Mar 1997 291
4 Georg Simmel (1989), Sociologia, Milano: Edizioni di Comunità; ed. orig. Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung, Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 1908 Annarita Calabrò · Cambio Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali Open access 28 Mar 2017 206
5 Race and Racism: A Comparative Perspective Julian A. Pitt-Rivers · American Anthropologist Aug 1968 194
All 103 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Italian Social Issues and Migration research done?

The largest centres of Italian Social Issues and Migration research in 2022-now are Milan (Italy), Rome (Italy), Florence (Italy) and Bologna (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Florence, Bologna and Milan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MilanItaly 77 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 70 works
  3. 3 FlorenceItaly 46 works
  4. 4 BolognaItaly 31 works
  5. 5 TurinItaly 29 works
  6. 6 NaplesItaly 21 works
  7. 7 VeniceItaly 18 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 15 works
  9. 9 SienaItaly 13 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FlorenceIT · 46.2 works81×
  2. BolognaIT · 30.9 works43×
  3. MilanIT · 77.0 works39×
  4. TurinIT · 28.7 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Italian Social Issues and Migration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Italian Social Issues and Migration?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Milan and University of Bologna 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%10%20%mean 13.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BolognaUniversity of Milano…University of MilanUniversity of Florence
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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
1University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 59.012.5%113.9×20 +7.8%
2University of MilanItaly 56.07.7%82.2×32 +80.8%
3University of BolognaItaly 55.014.5%54.7×27 -5.9%
4University of FlorenceItaly 48.27.7%111.2×40 +61.6%
5Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly 46.218.2%36.0×9 -8.2%
6University of CataniaItaly 45.921.6%47.9×9 -44.7%
7University of TurinItaly 42.59.9%73.5×24 -9.1%
8University of PalermoItaly 30.717.3%54.9×11 -28.4%
9University of Naples Federico IIItaly 30.113.0%28.8×12 -48.8%
10University of PaduaItaly 25.011.0%19.2×9 -14.0%

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 Italian Social Issues and Migration, country by country

Is Italian Social Issues and Migration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Italian Social Issues and Migration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0030% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Italian Social Issues and Migration0.0032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Italian Social Issues 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%Italian Social Issues and Migration9.3% 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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