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Migration, Health and Trauma

Migration, Health and Trauma is a research topic within Clinical Psychology. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the mental health challenges faced by refugees and immigrants, including the prevalence of serious mental disorders, trauma exposure, post-migration stress, and the impact of resettlement and acculturation. It also addresses the disparities in healthcare access and utilization, as well as interventions and policies aimed at improving the mental health and well-being of these populations.

  • Refugee
  • Immigrant
  • Mental Health
  • Trauma
  • Integration
  • Post-Migration Stress
  • Psychological Adjustment
  • Health Disparities
  • Resettlement
  • Acculturation
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Health and Trauma

Which countries lead Migration, Health and Trauma research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (4.1k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 4.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.2k works
  3. 3 Canada 675 works
  4. 4 Australia 617 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 570 works
  6. 6 Germany 556 works
  7. 7 Italy 274 works
  8. 8 Israel 256 works
  9. 9 Spain 247 works
  10. 10 India 242 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: 46.7%United Kingdom: 14.1%Canada: 7.7%Australia: 7.1%6 others listed: 24.5%47%largest
United States4,085 · 46.7%United Kingdom1,231 · 14.1%Canada675 · 7.7%Australia617 · 7.1%6 others listed2,145 · 24.5%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Health and Trauma research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Migration, Health and Trauma research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 100 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 90 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 70 works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 68 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works
  6. 6 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 53 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 53 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 51 works
  9. 9 Columbia UniversityUnited States 51 works
  10. 10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 49 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Health and Trauma?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Health and Trauma include Ahmedin Jemal, Christopher J L Murray and Rebecca L. Siegel.

  1. 1 Ahmedin Jemal United States 761k citations
  2. 2 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  3. 3 Rebecca L. Siegel United States 582k citations
  4. 4 Theo Vos United States 439k citations
  5. 5 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  6. 6 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  7. 7 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  8. 8 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  9. 9 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  10. 10 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k 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, Health and Trauma?

The most cited paper in Migration, Health and Trauma is "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey" (Ronald C. Kessler, 1995), with 10,490 citations. Next come "Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall" (8,852) and "Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care" (4,785).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey Ronald C. Kessler · Archives of General Psychiatry Dec 1995 10,490
2 Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall Donna Della Femina, Catherine A. Yeager, Dorothy Otnow Lewis · Child Abuse & Neglect Open access 1990 8,852
3 Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care Charles W. Hoge, Carl Andrew Castro, Stephen Craig Messer et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 30 Jun 2004 4,785
4 Meta-analysis of risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder in trauma-exposed adults. Chris R. Brewin, Bernice Andrews, John D. Valentine · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Review 2000 4,192
5 Psychometric properties of the PTSD checklist (PCL) Edward B. Blanchard, Jacqueline Jones-Alexander, Todd C. Buckley et al. · Behaviour Research and Therapy Aug 1996 4,034
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Where is Migration, Health and Trauma research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Health and Trauma research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Toronto (Canada) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nablus and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 384 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 249 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 150 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 149 works
  5. 5 BostonUnited States 139 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 136 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 123 works
  8. 8 Los AngelesUnited States 117 works
  9. 9 SydneyAustralia 115 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 104 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NablusPS · 23.6 works21×
  2. London22.3 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Health and Trauma than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Health and Trauma?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, An-Najah National University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 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 16.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →An-Najah National Un…London School of Hyg…Harvard UniversityJohns Hopkins Univer…
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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.

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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 78.316.2%2.8×100 +9.7%
2An-Najah National UniversityPalestine 77.724.7%25.1×23 +190.6%
3London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom 72.818.7%15.2×27 +8.4%
4Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 70.315.8%3.9×68 +9.4%
5University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 70.315.6%4.0×53 +14.1%
6Columbia UniversityUnited States 69.815.8%4.0×50 +11.2%
7University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 68.814.6%3.0×49 +15.4%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 67.613.3%3.3×59 +14.2%
9The University of MelbourneAustralia 65.712.7%4.2×53 +22.6%
10University of OttawaCanada 64.821.1%4.1×31 +6.6%

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 Migration, Health and Trauma, country by country

Is Migration, Health and Trauma research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Migration, Health and Trauma.

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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, Health and Trauma as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.057% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Migration, Health and Trauma0.056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Health and Trauma 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, Health and Trauma9.8% 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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