Allan Findlay

6.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
138 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Allan Findlay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan Findlay has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 27 papers in Demography and 20 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Allan Findlay's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics (50 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (24 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (22 papers). Allan Findlay is often cited by papers focused on Migration and Labor Dynamics (50 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (24 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (22 papers). Allan Findlay collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and United States. Allan Findlay's co-authors include David McCollum, Russell King, Maarten van Ham, Rory Coulter, Ronald Skeldon, Aileen Stockdale, Alistair Geddes, Fiona Smith, Vernon Gayle and Beata Nowok and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Nature Climate Change and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Allan Findlay

133 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility

2011 364 citations Allan Findlay et al. profile →
Re-thinking residential mobility

2015 325 citations Rory Coulter, Allan Findlay et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allan Findlay United Kingdom	36	2.8k	1.1k	981	712	688	138	4.6k
Ronald Skeldon United Kingdom	34	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	731 0.7×	365 0.5×	325 0.5×	133	4.0k
Lynn A. Staeheli United States	37	2.8k 1.0×	711 0.7×	1000 1.0×	367 0.5×	106 0.2×	96	4.4k
Hein de Haas United Kingdom	40	6.3k 2.3×	2.1k 1.9×	1.0k 1.0×	206 0.3×	103 0.1×	97	7.3k
Claire Wallace United Kingdom	30	2.0k 0.7×	343 0.3×	771 0.8×	252 0.4×	139 0.2×	154	3.6k
Bob Edwards United States	28	2.7k 1.0×	214 0.2×	652 0.7×	518 0.7×	353 0.5×	57	3.9k
Jeffrey L. Brudney United States	45	3.4k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	444 0.6×	304 0.4×	174	6.1k
Joaquín Arango Spain	18	5.0k 1.8×	1.8k 1.7×	575 0.6×	163 0.2×	77 0.1×	45	5.9k
Lester M. Salamon United States	37	5.0k 1.8×	680 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	438 0.6×	235 0.3×	112	7.1k
David Ley Canada	40	3.1k 1.1×	834 0.8×	457 0.5×	137 0.2×	59 0.1×	103	6.1k
Ali Kouaouci Russia	10	4.7k 1.7×	1.7k 1.6×	519 0.5×	139 0.2×	64 0.1×	16	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Allan Findlay

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allan Findlay

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Findlay, Allan. (2024). Professor Huw R Jones (1937–2023). Scottish Geographical Journal. 140(1-2). 322–327.

Findlay, Allan & Paul H. White. (2023). West European Population Change. 1 indexed citations

Sandow, Erika, et al.. (2020). Boomerang Behaviour and Emerging Adulthood: Moving Back to the Parental Home and the Parental Neighbourhood in Sweden. European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie. 36(5). 919–945. 14 indexed citations

McCollum, David, et al.. (2018). Determinants of occupational mobility: the importance of place of work. Regional Studies. 52(12). 1612–1623. 17 indexed citations

Prazeres, Laura & Allan Findlay. (2017). An audit of international student mobility to the UK. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

Findlay, Allan & Sophie Cranston. (2015). What's in a research agenda? An evaluation of research developments in the arena of skilled international migration. International Development Planning Review. 37(1). 17–31. 18 indexed citations

Findlay, Allan, David McCollum, Rory Coulter, & Vernon Gayle. (2015). New mobilities across the lifecourse. Population Space and Place. 2 indexed citations

McCollum, David & Allan Findlay. (2015). ‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK. Work Employment and Society. 29(3). 427–443. 82 indexed citations

McCollum, David & Allan Findlay. (2011). Trends in A8 migration to the UK during the recession. PubMed. 145(1). 77–89. 24 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan, Nicholas R. Fyfe, & Emma Stewart. (2007). Changing places: voluntary sector work with refugees and asylum seekers in core and peripheral regions of the UK. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 10 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan & Donald Houston. (2005). Migration, economy and environment: a review of contemporary drivers of migration to Scotland. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 3 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan, Aileen Stockdale, & Emma Stewart. (2002). Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery: the case of English migration to Scottish cities. International Journal of Population Geography. 8(3). 217–232. 11 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan, et al.. (1998). A Migration Channels Approach to the Study of Professionals Moving to and from Hong Kong . International Migration Review. 32(3). 682–703. 65 indexed citations

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Brown, Richard, Allan Findlay, Mark Harris, et al.. (1996). A major outbreak of asthma associated with a thunderstorm: experience of accident and emergency departments and patients' characteristics. BMJ. 312(7031). 601–604. 87 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan & Éva Lelièvre. (1991). La mesure de la qualité de la vie dans les zones urbaines britanniques. Population. Vol. 46(2). 374–379.

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Findlay, Allan, et al.. (1989). Skilled international migration: a research agenda.. Area. 21(1). 33 indexed citations

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Napier, Ted L., John P. Cole, David Drakakis‐Smith, Allan Findlay, & Anne Findlay. (1988). Development and Underdevelopment: A Profile of the Third World. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 17(2). 202–202. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Alan R. H., et al.. (1987). Reviews: The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History. Volume 1: Atlantic America, 1492–1800, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 485. From Foreign Workers to Settlers? Transnational Migration and the Emergence of New Minorities, Uneven Development and Regionalism: State, Territory and Class in Southern Europe, the Brecon Mandate: Portrait of an Electorate, London: Problems of Change, Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s, Green Britain or Industrial Wasteland?, Nato ASI Series G: Ecological Sciences Volume 4. Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology, and Risk Analysis, Disaster Policy Implementation: Managing Programs under Shared Governance. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 19(12). 1673–1686. 1 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan. (1986). Immigrant labour in Kuwait. Applied Geography. 6(4). 361–362. 2 indexed citations

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Findlay, Allan, et al.. (1985). L'Espace des Travailleurs Tunisiens en France.. International Migration Review. 19(1). 166–166. 2 indexed citations

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