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Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography

Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 3.8k research works in it since 1951. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the formation of borders, dynamics of migration, and the intersection of identity, health, and territoriality. It delves into the historical, geopolitical, and social aspects of border studies, emphasizing the impact on ethnic categorizations, vulnerability, and census practices.

  • Borders
  • Migration
  • Identity
  • Health
  • Territoriality
  • Ethnicity
  • Geopolitics
  • Censuses
  • Vulnerability
  • History
Research works
3.8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
401
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography

Which countries lead Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research?

By volume, Mexico and France publish the most (250 and 150 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 250 works
  2. 2 France 150 works
  3. 3 United States 147 works
  4. 4 Spain 77 works
  5. 5 Argentina 27 works
  6. 6 Canada 24 works
  7. 7 Chile 24 works
  8. 8 Colombia 20 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 20 works
  10. 10 Brazil 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.

Mexico: 33.1%France: 19.9%United States: 19.4%Spain: 10.2%6 others listed: 17.4%33%largest
Mexico250 · 33.1%France150 · 19.9%United States147 · 19.4%Spain77 · 10.2%6 others listed132 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 59 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 36 works
  3. 3 Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e InnovaciónMexico 28 works
  4. 4 El Colegio de MéxicoMexico 13 works
  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo LeónMexico 10 works
  6. 6 Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 9 works
  7. 7 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 9 works
  8. 8 Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 9 works
  9. 9 Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología SocialMexico 8 works
  10. 10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography include Douglas S. Massey.

  1. 1 Douglas S. Massey United States 67k 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, Geopolitics, Historical Geography?

The most cited paper in Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography is "Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography" (David P Newman, Anssi Paasi, 1998), with 937 citations. Next come "Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept" (692) and "Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues" (260).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography David P Newman, Anssi Paasi · Progress in Human Geography Apr 1998 937
2 Exploring the Critical Potential of the Borderscapes Concept Chiara Brambilla · Geopolitics 9 May 2014 692
3 Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues Carl Kendall · Medical Anthropology Quarterly Sep 2000 260
4 Border people life and society in the US-Mexico borderlands Oscar J. Martínez 1994 236
5 Maps of, by, and for the Peoples of Latin America Peter H. Herlihy, Gregory W. Knapp · Human Organization Dec 2003 235
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Where is Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Paris (France), Madrid (Spain) and Tijuana (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mexico City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 77 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 40 works
  3. 3 MadridSpain 27 works
  4. 4 TijuanaMexico 19 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 17 works
  6. 6 TlalpanMexico 15 works
  7. 7 SantiagoChile 13 works
  8. 8 BogotáColombia 12 works
  9. 9 NanterreFrance 11 works
  10. 10 CampecheMexico 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Mexico CityMX · 76.9 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, El Colegio de México and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León 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%mean 13.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Autónoma…El Colegio de MéxicoUniversidad Nacional…Universidad Autónoma…
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.

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
1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 55.714.5%47.7×36 -10.3%
2El Colegio de MéxicoMexico 55.716.0%248.4×13 +4.7%
3Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo LeónMexico 47.616.8%61.1×10 +154.3%
4Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 17.610.3%54.6×8 +16.9%
5Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 5.211.9%39.0×9 -36.2%

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, Geopolitics, Historical Geography, country by country

Is Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography0.0037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography 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, Geopolitics, Historical Geography10.2% 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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