TY  - JOUR
A1  - Trost, Matthias
A1  - Wanke, Eileen M.
A1  - Ohlendorf, Daniela Maren
A1  - Klingelhöfer, Doris
A1  - Braun, Markus
A1  - Bauer, Jan
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
A1  - Quarcoo, David
A1  - Brüggmann, Dörthe
T1  - Immigration : analysis, trends and outlook on the global research activity
T2  - Journal of global health
N2  - Background: Immigration has a strong impact on the development of health systems, medicine and science worldwide. Therefore, this article provides a descriptive study on the overall research output.
Methods: Utilizing the scientific database Web of Science, data research was performed. The gathered bibliometric data was analyzed using the established platform NewQIS, a benchmarking system to visualize research quantity and quality indices.
Findings: Between 1900 and 2016 a total of 6763 articles on immigration were retrieved and analyzed. 86 different countries participated in the publications. Quantitatively the United States followed by Canada and Spain were prominent regarding the article numbers. On comparing by additionally taking the population size into account, Israel followed by Sweden and Norway showed the highest performance. The main releasing journals are the Public Health Reports, the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health and Social Science & Medicine. Over the decades, an increasing number of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health articles can be recognized which finally forms the mainly used subject area.
Conclusion: Considerably increasing scientific work on immigration cannot only be explained by the general increase of scientific work but is also owed to the latest development with increased mobility, worldwide crises and the need of flight and migration. Especially countries with a good economic situation are highly affected by immigrants and prominent in their publication output on immigration, since the countries’ publication effort is connected with the appointed expenditures for research and development. Remarkable numbers of immigrants throughout Europe compel medical professionals to consider neglected diseases, requires the public health system to restructure itself and finally promotes science.
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47210
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-472101
SN  - 2047-2986
SN  - 2047-2978
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
VL  - 8
IS  - 1, Art. 010414
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Edinburgh Univ. Global Health Soc.
CY  - Edinburgh
ER  -