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Romani and Gypsy Studies

Romani and Gypsy Studies is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 5.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the health disparities and challenges faced by the Roma population, focusing on issues such as access to healthcare, stigmatization, cultural identity, and socioeconomic factors. It delves into the impact of discrimination and social exclusion on the health outcomes of the Roma community.

  • Roma
  • health disparities
  • ethnic minority
  • social exclusion
  • access to healthcare
  • stigmatization
  • cultural identity
  • education
  • socioeconomic status
  • discrimination
Research works
5.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
533
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Hungary
16% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Romani and Gypsy Studies

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Romani and Gypsy Studies research?

By volume, Hungary and the United Kingdom publish the most (114 and 100 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hungary 114 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 100 works
  3. 3 Romania 91 works
  4. 4 United States 86 works
  5. 5 Spain 85 works
  6. 6 Brazil 49 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 44 works
  8. 8 Germany 42 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 41 works
  10. 10 Poland 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.

Hungary: 16.5%United Kingdom: 14.5%Romania: 13.1%United States: 12.4%6 others listed: 43.5%16%largest
Hungary114 · 16.5%United Kingdom100 · 14.5%Romania91 · 13.1%United States86 · 12.4%6 others listed300 · 43.5%

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

Which institutions lead Romani and Gypsy Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Babeș-Bolyai University publishes the most Romani and Gypsy Studies research, followed by University of Debrecen and Eötvös Loránd University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 19 works
  2. 2 University of DebrecenHungary 18 works
  3. 3 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 16 works
  4. 4 Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungary 15 works
  5. 5 Universidad de SevillaSpain 12 works
  6. 6 University of BucharestRomania 10 works
  7. 7 Charles UniversityCzechia 10 works
  8. 8 University of PecsHungary 10 works
  9. 9 Romanian AcademyRomania 8 works
  10. 10 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Romani and Gypsy Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Romani and Gypsy Studies include Martin McKee, Lorenzo Monasta and André Faro.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Lorenzo Monasta Italy 235k citations
  3. 3 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  4. 4 Mihai Gheorghe Netea Netherlands 154k citations
  5. 5 Susan G. Michie United Kingdom 148k citations
  6. 6 Marek Majdán Slovakia 132k 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 Romani and Gypsy Studies?

The most cited paper in Romani and Gypsy Studies is "Ethnicity without groups" (Rogers Brubaker, 2002), with 2,625 citations. Next come "Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author" (1,244) and "The β-Thalassemias" (730).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ethnicity without groups Rogers Brubaker · European Journal of Sociology Open access Aug 2002 2,625
2 Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author Michael M. Ames · Pacific Affairs Mar 1989 1,244
3 The β-Thalassemias Nancy F. Olivieri · New England Journal of Medicine 8 Jul 1999 730
4 Rethinking ethnicity: Identity, categorization and power Richard Jenkins · Ethnic and Racial Studies Apr 1994 496
5 Does Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment* Alison L. Booth, Andrew Leigh, Elena Varganova · Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 6 Sep 2011 324
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Romani and Gypsy Studies research done?

The largest centres of Romani and Gypsy Studies research in 2022-now are Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Prague (Czechia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cluj-Napoca, Budapest and Bucharest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BudapestHungary 64 works
  2. 2 BucharestRomania 28 works
  3. 3 Cluj-NapocaRomania 27 works
  4. 4 PragueCzechia 21 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 20 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 19 works
  7. 7 DebrecenHungary 19 works
  8. 8 BratislavaSlovakia 18 works
  9. 9 BelgradeSerbia 15 works
  10. 10 SevilleSpain 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Cluj-NapocaRO · 26.7 works42×
  2. BudapestHU · 64.1 works30×
  3. BucharestRO · 28.2 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Romani and Gypsy Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Romani and Gypsy Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Debrecen, Eötvös Loránd University and Charles University 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%5%10%15%mean 7.05714%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Charles UniversityUniversity of PecsEötvös Loránd Univer…University of Debrecen
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
1University of DebrecenHungary 69.48.4%68.0×18 -26.3%
2Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 63.210.0%54.3×16 +146.0%
3Charles UniversityCzechia 47.412.5%22.2×10 -43.0%
4University of PecsHungary 47.412.2%51.4×10 +70.9%
5Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 44.20.7%82.9×19 +59.3%
6University of BucharestRomania 12.61.8%55.0×10 +39.5%
7Universidad de SevillaSpain 12.33.8%21.3×12 -28.2%

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 Romani and Gypsy Studies, country by country

Is Romani and Gypsy Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Romani and Gypsy Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0045% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Romani and Gypsy Studies0.0048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Romani and Gypsy Studies 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%Romani and Gypsy Studies10.2% 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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