Background
Methods
Bibliographic database
Search strategy
Inclusion step
Exclusion step
The validity of the search strategy
The absence of false negative results
Data analysis and visualization
Research domains
Ethical consideration
Results
Number and types of retrieved documents
Visualization of author keywords
Research domains
Typology of migrants
Preferred journals
Journal | Frequency N = 21,457 | % | C | C/A |
---|---|---|---|---|
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
| 747 | 3.5 | 5560 | 7.4 |
BMC Public Health
| 229 | 1.1 | 2919 | 12.7 |
Social Science and Medicine
| 225 | 1.0 | 8341 | 37.1 |
International Migration
| 205 | 1.0 | 2247 | 11.0 |
International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care
| 198 | 0.9 | 314 | 1.6 |
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
| 175 | 0.8 | 592 | 3.4 |
Journal of Refugee Studies
| 172 | 0.8 | 2732 | 15.9 |
Lancet
| 163 | 0.8 | 2496 | 15.3 |
Plos One
| 161 | 0.8 | 1280 | 8.0 |
American Journal of Public Health
| 147 | 0.7 | 5307 | 36.1 |
Most active countries
Country | Frequency | % N = 21,457 | C/A | Intra-country collaboration | % | Inter – country collaborationa | % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
USA | 6908 | 32.2 | 14.7 | 5417 | 78.4 | 1491 | 21.6 |
UK | 2062 | 9.6 | 13.4 | 1312 | 63.6 | 750 | 36.4 |
Canada | 1648 | 7.7 | 13.7 | 1208 | 73.3 | 440 | 26.7 |
Australia | 1401 | 6.5 | 11.7 | 1048 | 74.8 | 353 | 25.2 |
Germany | 1116 | 5.2 | 8.8 | 799 | 71.6 | 317 | 28.4 |
Spain | 1017 | 4.7 | 6.3 | 779 | 76.6 | 238 | 23.4 |
Netherlands | 845 | 3.9 | 15.9 | 524 | 62.0 | 321 | 38.0 |
Sweden | 693 | 3.2 | 14.1 | 412 | 59.5 | 281 | 40.5 |
Italy | 604 | 2.8 | 7.5 | 454 | 75.2 | 150 | 24.8 |
France | 465 | 2.2 | 8.5 | 302 | 64.9 | 163 | 35.1 |
Most active institutions
Institutions/organizations | Number | % N = 21,457 | Country |
---|---|---|---|
University of Toronto
| 525 | 2.4 | Canada |
University of Amsterdam
| 325 | 1.5 | Netherlands |
Columbia University in the City of New York
| 301 | 1.4 | USA |
Karolinska Institutet
| 265 | 1.2 | Sweden |
University of California, Los Angeles
| 228 | 1.1 | USA |
McGill University
| 191 | 0.9 | Canada |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
| 190 | 0.9 | USA |
University of Oxford
| 188 | 0.9 | UK |
University of New South Wales UNSW Australia
| 182 | 0.8 | Australia |
University of Melbourne
| 179 | 0.8 | Australia |
Most cited articles
Title | Reference | Journal | Cited by |
---|---|---|---|
“Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: A systematic review” | [86] |
Lancet
| 574 |
“Ethnic identity, immigration, and well-being: An interactional perspective” | [156] |
Journal of Social Issues
| 534 |
“A psychology of immigration” | [157] |
Journal of Social Issues
| 504 |
“Rethinking the concept of acculturation: Implications for theory and research” | [158] |
American Psychologist
| 440 |
“Immigrant youth: Acculturation, identity, and adaptation” | [159] |
Applied Psychology
| 440 |
“Ethnic-immigrant differentials in health behaviors, morbidity, and cause-specific mortality in the United States: An analysis of two national data bases” | [136] |
Human Biology
| 414 |
“Migration and mental health” | [96] |
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
| 394 |
“Insights into the ‘healthy immigrant effect’: Health status and health service use of immigrants to Canada” | [160] |
Social Science and Medicine
| 381 |
“Acculturation and overweight-related behaviors among Hispanic immigrants to the US: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health” | [161] |
Social Science and Medicine
| 378 |
“Prevalence of mental illness in immigrant and non-immigrant U.S. Latino groups” | [162] |
American Journal of Psychiatry
| 371 |
Authorship analysis
Rank | Author | Frequency | % N = 21,457 | C/A | Country | Research interest |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Arcury, T.A. | 86 | 0.40 | 18.6 | USA | Agriculture; Transients and Migrants; Hispanic Americans; North Carolina; Agricultural Workers’ Diseases |
2nd | Quandt, S.A. | 79 | 0.37 | 19.2 | USA | Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Transients and Migrants; North Carolina; Occupational Diseases |
3rd | Razum, O. | 72 | 0.34 | 14.5 | Denmark | Health services research among different social and ethnic groups. |
4th | Norredam, M. | 61 | 0.28 | 12.6 | Germany | Migration, social inequality in health, health system research, screening, vaccination, global health |
5th | Krasnik, A. | 55 | 0.26 | 16.8 | Denmark | Equity and health; migration and health and health services research. A particular focus is on the impact of ethnicity and migration on health conditions and access to health care; vulnerable migrant groups; mental health and chronic diseases among migrants. |
6th | Silove, D. | 54 | 0.25 | 36.8 | Australia | Refugee and post-conflict mental health trauma psychiatry separation, anxiety, and human rights |
7th | Hinton, D. E | 46 | 0.21 | 32.9 | USA | Medical Anthropology, Health Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, mental illness, Psychopathology |
8th | Sundquist, J. | 44 | 0.21 | 23.4 | Sweden | family and community medicine and public health, health of racial/ethnic minority groups, immigrants and refugees, influence of social and familial environments on psychiatric and drug use disorders |
9th | Rousseau, C. | 43 | 0.20 | 20.6 | Canada | Transcultural Child Psychiatry, refugee children, torture victims. Refugee children and adolescents from Southeast Asia, Central America, and Somalia. |
10th | Renzaho, A.M.N. | 38 | 0.18 | 13.5 | Australia | Public Health and Nutritional Epidemiology. Migration and health, complex humanitarian emergencies, and development aid. |
10th | Steel, Z. | 38 | 0.18 | 53.0 | Australia | Trauma and mental health, psychological intervention in complex emergencies and management of traumatic disorders, cross cultural differences in psychiatric epidemiology, refugee mental health, mental health and human rights. |
10th | Stronks, K | 38 | 0.18 | 17.1 | Netherlands | Influence of the social context on health and illness. |