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Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of lifestyle migration, focusing on the movement of individuals, particularly retirees, to seek a better way of life in different locations. It encompasses topics such as retirement migration, second homes, amenity migration, elderly mobility, transnational lifestyles, rural development, community fragmentation, and the impact of global population aging on migration patterns.

  • Lifestyle Migration
  • Retirement Migration
  • Second Homes
  • Amenity Migration
  • Elderly Mobility
  • Tourism and Migration
  • Transnational Lifestyles
  • Rural Development
  • Community Fragmentation
  • Global Population Aging
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

Which countries lead Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (777 and 625 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 777 works
  2. 2 China 625 works
  3. 3 Spain 614 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 358 works
  5. 5 Australia 250 works
  6. 6 Japan 207 works
  7. 7 Canada 193 works
  8. 8 Germany 182 works
  9. 9 Italy 182 works
  10. 10 France 158 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: 21.9%China: 17.6%Spain: 17.3%United Kingdom: 10.1%6 others listed: 33.0%22%largest
United States777 · 21.9%China625 · 17.6%Spain614 · 17.3%United Kingdom358 · 10.1%6 others listed1,172 · 33.0%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research, followed by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Barcelona.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  2. 2 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 43 works
  3. 3 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 33 works
  4. 4 Universidad de MálagaSpain 30 works
  5. 5 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 29 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 24 works
  7. 7 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 23 works
  8. 8 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 22 works
  9. 9 University of GroningenNetherlands 22 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies include Rob Knight, Cyrus Cooper and Luigi Ferrucci.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  3. 3 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Harvey Whiteford Australia 222k citations
  6. 6 Carol Brayne United Kingdom 220k 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 Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies?

The most cited paper in Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies is "Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review" (Jeroen S. Kok, Ina J. Berg, Erik Scherder, 2013), with 20,652 citations. Next come "Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society" (2,754) and "Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)" (2,416).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review Jeroen S. Kok, Ina J. Berg, Erik Scherder · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra Open access 5 Oct 2013 20,652
2 Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society Peggy Levitt, Nina Glick Schiller · International Migration Review Sep 2004 2,754
3 Data Resource Profile: The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) Axel H. Borsch-Supan, Martina Brandt, Christian Hunkler et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology Open access 18 Jun 2013 2,416
4 Age-Ism: Another Form of Bigotry Robert N. Butler · The Gerontologist Dec 1969 2,253
5 The Meaning of "Aging in Place" to Older People Janine L. Wiles, Annette Leibing, Nancy Guberman et al. · The Gerontologist Open access 7 Oct 2011 1,993
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Where is Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Málaga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 109 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 104 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 78 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 75 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 70 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 58 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 48 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 43 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 42 works
  10. 10 SantiagoChile 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MálagaES · 30.4 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Groningen, Sapienza University of Rome and University College London 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%30%mean 19.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sapienza University …University of Gronin…National University …University College L…
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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 GroningenNetherlands 76.822.8%7.0×22 +10.9%
2Sapienza University of RomeItaly 69.523.5%4.3×23 +358.3%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 62.916.3%3.0×22 +28.6%
4National University of SingaporeSingapore 62.919.0%3.8×20 -2.2%
5University of TorontoCanada 61.314.9%2.6×24 +40.5%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 58.218.3%3.9×15 +7.7%
7Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 56.610.6%14.7×43 -7.8%
8Peking UniversityChina 56.622.2%1.8×17 +165.9%
9La Trobe UniversityAustralia 55.721.0%9.4×13 +41.0%
10University of AucklandNew Zealand 55.524.7%4.2×10 +52.1%

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 Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies, country by country

Is Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies.

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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 Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies 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%Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies10.6% 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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