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Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Racial and Ethnic Identity Research is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of racial discrimination on health outcomes, focusing on topics such as acculturation, ethnic identity, structural racism, mental health, and the experiences of immigrant youth. It also delves into implicit bias in healthcare, socialization practices, and the implications for clinical practice.

  • Racial Discrimination
  • Health Inequities
  • Acculturation
  • Ethnic Identity
  • Structural Racism
  • Mental Health
  • Immigrant Youth
  • Implicit Bias
  • Socialization Practices
  • Clinical Practice
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
79% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Which countries lead Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (3.4k and 249 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.4k works
  2. 2 Canada 249 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 176 works
  4. 4 Germany 111 works
  5. 5 Australia 92 works
  6. 6 China 83 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 55 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 43 works
  9. 9 South Korea 40 works
  10. 10 Spain 39 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: 79.2%Canada: 5.8%United Kingdom: 4.1%Germany: 2.6%6 others listed: 8.2%79%largest
United States3,389 · 79.2%Canada249 · 5.8%United Kingdom176 · 4.1%Germany111 · 2.6%6 others listed352 · 8.2%

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

Which institutions lead Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research, followed by Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 129 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 58 works
  3. 3 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 51 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 49 works
  5. 5 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 44 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 44 works
  8. 8 Columbia UniversityUnited States 41 works
  9. 9 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 39 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Racial and Ethnic Identity Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Racial and Ethnic Identity Research include George Davey Smith, Ali H. Mokdad and Ronald C. Kessler.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  3. 3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  4. 4 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  5. 5 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  6. 6 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  7. 7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  8. 8 George A. Mensah United States 265k 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 Racial and Ethnic Identity Research?

The most cited paper in Racial and Ethnic Identity Research is "Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence." (Ilan H. Meyer, 2003), with 14,720 citations. Next come "Conceptualizing Stigma" (8,754) and "Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans." (8,163).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence. Ilan H. Meyer · Psychological Bulletin Open access Sep 2003 14,720
2 Conceptualizing Stigma Bruce G. Link, Jo C. Phelan · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 2001 8,754
3 Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Claude M. Steele, J. Aronson · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Nov 1995 8,163
4 Immigration, Acculturation, and Adaptation John W. Berry · Applied Psychology 1997 7,597
5 Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. Derald Wing Sue, Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino et al. · American Psychologist May 2007 5,560
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Where is Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research done?

The largest centres of Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Chapel Hill (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Boston (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chapel Hill.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 183 works
  2. 2 Chapel HillUnited States 128 works
  3. 3 Los AngelesUnited States 105 works
  4. 4 BostonUnited States 100 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 90 works
  6. 6 BaltimoreUnited States 73 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 67 works
  8. 8 AtlantaUnited States 63 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chapel HillUS · 128.2 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Racial and Ethnic Identity Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Racial and Ethnic Identity Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Ottawa, Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles 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%20%40%mean 14.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OttawaHarvard UniversityUniversity of Califo…University of North …
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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
1University of OttawaCanada 73.638.0%6.8×18 +154.3%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 63.317.3%4.5×58 +18.6%
3University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 56.814.4%10.8×50 +10.4%
4University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 55.84.0%17.7×130 +82.0%
5New York UniversityUnited States 54.810.2%9.4×44 +38.8%
6University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 54.715.1%14.8×35 +70.3%
7Columbia UniversityUnited States 54.510.6%9.1×41 +19.1%
8Yale UniversityUnited States 54.313.1%7.9×35 +55.3%
9Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 53.311.0%7.0×44 +50.4%
10University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 52.515.9%9.2×27 +25.1%

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 Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, country by country

Is Racial and Ethnic Identity Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Racial and Ethnic Identity Research.

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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 Racial and Ethnic Identity Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Racial and Ethnic Identity Research 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%Racial and Ethnic Identity Research9.7% 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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