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Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics

Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 4.5k research works in it since 1954. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and complexities of intercultural education, focusing on issues such as indigenous knowledge, migrant integration, racial discrimination, social inequality, cultural diversity, healthcare access, colonial history, educational policy, and community participation in Latin America.

  • Intercultural Education
  • Indigenous Knowledge
  • Migrant Integration
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Social Inequality
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Healthcare Access
  • Colonial History
  • Educational Policy
  • Community Participation
Research works
4.5k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
444
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Chile
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics

Which countries lead Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research?

By volume, Chile and Mexico publish the most (506 and 104 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chile 506 works
  2. 2 Mexico 104 works
  3. 3 Argentina 103 works
  4. 4 Peru 99 works
  5. 5 Spain 83 works
  6. 6 United States 78 works
  7. 7 Colombia 45 works
  8. 8 Ecuador 39 works
  9. 9 Brazil 35 works
  10. 10 France 18 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.

Chile: 45.5%Mexico: 9.3%Argentina: 9.3%Peru: 8.9%6 others listed: 26.9%46%largest
Chile506 · 45.5%Mexico104 · 9.3%Argentina103 · 9.3%Peru99 · 8.9%6 others listed299 · 26.9%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Chile publishes the most Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research, followed by Universidad Católica de Temuco and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ChileChile 52 works
  2. 2 Universidad Católica de TemucoChile 51 works
  3. 3 Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 43 works
  4. 4 University of TarapacáChile 33 works
  5. 5 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 28 works
  6. 6 Universidad de Santiago de ChileChile 25 works
  7. 7 Universidad de La FronteraChile 23 works
  8. 8 Alberto Hurtado UniversityChile 19 works
  9. 9 Austral University of ChileChile 18 works
  10. 10 University of ConcepciónChile 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics include Charles Robert Darwin and Carsten Rahbek.

  1. 1 Charles Robert Darwin Indonesia 87k citations
  2. 2 Carsten Rahbek Denmark 45k 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, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics is "The Fame of Gawa. A symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society" (Laura E. Masson, 2003), with 474 citations. Next come "Segregación residencial en las principales ciudades chilenas: Tendencias de las tres últimas décadas y posibles cursos de acción" (465) and "The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia." (231).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Fame of Gawa. A symbolic study of value transformation in a Massim (Papua New Guinea) society Laura E. Masson · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) Open access 2003 474
2 Segregación residencial en las principales ciudades chilenas: Tendencias de las tres últimas décadas y posibles cursos de acción Francisco Sabatini, Gonzalo Cáceres, Jorge Cerda · EURE (Santiago) Open access Dec 2001 465
3 The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia. Peter Rivière, Jean E. Jackson · Man Mar 1985 231
4 A first survey on the medicinal plants of the Chazuta valley (Peruvian Amazon) Jaume Sanz‐Biset, José Campos-de-la-Cruz, Mirbel A. Epiquién-Rivera et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology 26 Dec 2008 217
5 Proto‐Uto‐Aztecan: A Community of Cultivators in Central Mexico? Jane H. Hill · American Anthropologist Dec 2001 206
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Where is Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research in 2022-now are Santiago (Chile), Temuco (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Arica, Temuco and Santiago.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SantiagoChile 231 works
  2. 2 TemucoChile 87 works
  3. 3 Buenos AiresArgentina 44 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 42 works
  5. 5 LimaPeru 41 works
  6. 6 AricaChile 33 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 29 works
  8. 8 ConcepciónChile 26 works
  9. 9 ValdiviaChile 22 works
  10. 10 BogotáColombia 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AricaCL · 32.5 works471×
  2. TemucoCL · 87.1 works362×
  3. SantiagoCL · 230.7 works116×
  4. ValdiviaCL · 22.0 works112×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and University of Tarapacá 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 13.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Diego Po…Pontificia Universid…Universidad Católica…University of Tarapacá
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.

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 Católica de TemucoChile 74.511.7%942.7×51 +10.0%
2Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 64.912.3%127.3×43 +1.0%
3University of TarapacáChile 63.68.0%539.1×32 +23.0%
4Universidad Diego PortalesChile 63.124.9%161.8×10 +14.8%
5University of ChileChile 60.411.4%138.6×52 -20.3%
6Arturo Prat UniversityChile 58.321.5%482.5×12 -11.4%
7Universidad Autónoma de ChileChile 55.212.5%210.6×14 +43.7%
8Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoChile 52.514.0%100.9×10 +10.1%
9Universidad Católica del NorteChile 47.79.6%193.8×12 -38.8%
10Universidad de Santiago de ChileChile 47.38.4%185.5×24 -5.6%

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, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics, country by country

Is Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0039% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics0.0054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics 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, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics9.7% 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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