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Migration, Identity, and Health

Migration, Identity, and Health is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of migration, health, and inequality in various French territories, addressing issues such as healthcare access for migrants, discrimination based on ethnicity, social inequality, the experiences of migrant workers, cultural diversity's impact on public health, and sociolinguistic factors.

  • Migration
  • Healthcare Access
  • Discrimination
  • French Territories
  • Ethnicity
  • Social Inequality
  • Migrant Workers
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Public Health
  • Sociolinguistics
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Migration, Identity, and Health

Which countries lead Migration, Identity, and Health research?

By volume, France and Canada publish the most (1.2k and 144 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 1.2k works
  2. 2 Canada 144 works
  3. 3 United States 119 works
  4. 4 Belgium 69 works
  5. 5 ?? 66 works
  6. 6 Switzerland 50 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 48 works
  8. 8 Brazil 46 works
  9. 9 French Guiana 40 works
  10. 10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 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.

France: 65.4%Canada: 8.0%United States: 6.6%Belgium: 3.8%6 others listed: 16.1%65%largest
France1,176 · 65.4%Canada144 · 8.0%United States119 · 6.6%Belgium69 · 3.8%6 others listed290 · 16.1%

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

Which institutions lead Migration, Identity, and Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Migration, Identity, and Health research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université Paris Cité.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 405 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 37 works
  3. 3 Université Paris CitéFrance 34 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 27 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 26 works
  6. 6 Université Paris NanterreFrance 25 works
  7. 7 Université de MontréalCanada 21 works
  8. 8 University of French GuianaFrench Guiana 21 works
  9. 9 École des hautes études en sciences socialesFrance 19 works
  10. 10 Université de MontpellierFrance 18 works

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Migration, Identity, and Health include Martin McKee and Pierre Bourdıeu.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k 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, Identity, and Health?

The most cited paper in Migration, Identity, and Health is "An Anthropology of Structural Violence" (Paul Farmer, 2004), with 2,294 citations. Next come "Where ethics and politics meet" (663) and "Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally" (650).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Anthropology of Structural Violence Paul Farmer · Current Anthropology 24 May 2004 2,294
2 Where ethics and politics meet Miriam Ticktin · American Ethnologist Open access 31 Jan 2006 663
3 Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally Helen Meekosha · Disability & Society 9 Sep 2011 650
4 The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum Seekers Didier Fassin, Estelle d’Halluin · American Anthropologist Dec 2005 447
5 The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate Didier Fassin · Anthropology Today Feb 2001 443
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Migration, Identity, and Health research done?

The largest centres of Migration, Identity, and Health research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Montreal (Canada) and Nanterre (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cayenne and Saint-Denis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 401 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 55 works
  3. 3 MontrealCanada 54 works
  4. 4 NanterreFrance 41 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 40 works
  6. 6 MarseilleFrance 40 works
  7. 7 RennesFrance 40 works
  8. 8 CayenneFrench Guiana 38 works
  9. 9 MontpellierFrance 36 works
  10. 10 Saint-DenisFrance 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CayenneGF · 37.9 works763×
  2. Saint-DenisFR · 32.0 works261×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université de Montréal and Université Paris Cité 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 12.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université Libre de …Université de MontréalUniversité Paris CitéUniversity of French…
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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
1Université Libre de BruxellesBelgium 74.116.9%22.1×14 +26.1%
2Université de MontréalCanada 67.116.4%18.4×21 +0.4%
3Université Paris CitéFrance 62.59.7%22.6×34 -17.8%
4University of French GuianaFrench Guiana 61.49.5%824.5×21 +134.6%
5Université Paris-SaclayFrance 57.810.1%13.6×18 +27.5%
6Université de LyonFrance 56.33.9%28.5×37 -2.4%
7Université Sorbonne Paris NordFrance 51.519.7%50.5×8 -10.8%
8Université Gustave EiffelFrance 51.110.9%34.0×10 +254.5%
9Université Paris 8France 50.912.0%47.5×12 +33.1%
10Université LavalCanada 50.716.2%18.9×16 -27.3%

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, Identity, and Health, country by country

Is Migration, Identity, and Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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, Identity, and Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0100% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Migration, Identity, and Health0.0093% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Migration, Identity, and Health 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, Identity, and Health9.6% 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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