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Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of residential segregation on communities and individuals, focusing on topics such as neighborhood effects, social mobility, racial segregation, housing discrimination, urban poverty, immigrant enclaves, family migration, and spatial assimilation. The research delves into the dynamics and consequences of neighborhood residence on various outcomes for children, adolescents, and low-income adults.

  • Residential Segregation
  • Neighborhood Effects
  • Social Mobility
  • Racial Segregation
  • Housing Discrimination
  • Urban Poverty
  • Immigrant Enclaves
  • Family Migration
  • Spatial Assimilation
  • Community Development
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

Which countries lead Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.9k and 273 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.9k works
  2. 2 China 273 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 234 works
  4. 4 Canada 158 works
  5. 5 Australia 117 works
  6. 6 Italy 110 works
  7. 7 Germany 101 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 79 works
  9. 9 Japan 58 works
  10. 10 Sweden 56 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: 61.7%China: 8.8%United Kingdom: 7.5%Canada: 5.1%6 others listed: 16.8%62%largest
United States1,914 · 61.7%China273 · 8.8%United Kingdom234 · 7.5%Canada158 · 5.1%6 others listed521 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research, followed by University of Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 46 works
  2. 2 University of ChicagoUnited States 39 works
  3. 3 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 26 works
  7. 7 City University of New YorkUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 23 works
  10. 10 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies include George Davey Smith, Ronald C. Kessler and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  5. 5 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  6. 6 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  7. 7 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k 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 Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies?

The most cited paper in Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies is "Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks" (Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith‐Lovin, James M. Cook, 2001), with 18,875 citations. Next come "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy" (12,017) and "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem" (6,370).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith‐Lovin, James M. Cook · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 2001 18,875
2 Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Felton J. Earls · Science Open access 15 Aug 1997 12,017
3 Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem Charles F. Manski · The Review of Economic Studies Jul 1993 6,370
4 The Truly Disadvantaged. The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. By William Julius Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 254p. $19.95. Charles C. Noble · American Political Science Review Dec 1988 6,192
5 Super-diversity and its implications Steven Vertovec · Ethnic and Racial Studies 27 Sep 2007 5,500
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Where is Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research done?

The largest centres of Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Chicago (United States) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 88 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 70 works
  3. 3 ChicagoUnited States 68 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 63 works
  6. 6 BeijingChina 58 works
  7. 7 Chapel HillUnited States 46 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 40 works
  9. 9 AtlantaUnited States 38 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 37 works
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Where is the best place to study Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Cornell University, University of Toronto and Peking University 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 17.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Peking UniversityCornell UniversityUniversity of TorontoNew York University
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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
1Cornell UniversityUnited States 62.417.0%6.2×26 +13.4%
2University of TorontoCanada 61.916.3%4.0×26 +35.6%
3Peking UniversityChina 60.729.6%1.8×12 +95.2%
4New York UniversityUnited States 56.115.9%6.4×23 +2.5%
5University of ChicagoUnited States 55.64.5%14.4×39 +8.5%
6Stanford UniversityUnited States 55.411.5%4.4×21 +22.2%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.723.9%1.4×15 +0.3%
8Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 54.629.0%7.0×15 -22.3%
9The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 53.316.6%6.1×24 +15.1%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 52.613.2%4.0×20 +7.5%

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 Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, country by country

Is Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies.

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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 Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation 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%Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies10.1% 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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