Fran Meissner

785 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 466 citations indexed

About

Fran Meissner is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Fran Meissner has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 466 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Fran Meissner's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers) and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 papers). Fran Meissner is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers) and Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 papers). Fran Meissner collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Fran Meissner's co-authors include Steven Vertovec, Linnet Taylor, Tilmann Heil, Johannes Flacke, Carsten Butsch, Carmen Anthonj and Javier Martínez and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Antipode.

In The Last Decade

Fran Meissner

12 papers receiving 432 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Comparing super-diversity

2014 272 citations Fran Meissner, Steven Vertovec Ethnic and Racial Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fran Meissner Netherlands	8	329	96	57	50	50	13	466
Boris Nieswand Germany	11	369 1.1×	133 1.4×	52 0.9×	40 0.8×	54 1.1×	31	459
Marta Moskal United Kingdom	13	238 0.7×	72 0.8×	101 1.8×	28 0.6×	164 3.3×	33	451
Silke Hans Germany	10	279 0.8×	64 0.7×	166 2.9×	12 0.2×	98 2.0×	30	449
Christiane Timmerman Belgium	12	446 1.4×	176 1.8×	145 2.5×	37 0.7×	136 2.7×	65	620
Elisabetta Zontini United Kingdom	17	738 2.2×	393 4.1×	79 1.4×	95 1.9×	32 0.6×	27	819
Carolina Stefoni Chile	13	241 0.7×	58 0.6×	27 0.5×	45 0.9×	84 1.7×	59	569
Santina Bertone Australia	10	158 0.5×	29 0.3×	35 0.6×	41 0.8×	66 1.3×	35	279
Nadia Granato Germany	9	352 1.1×	80 0.8×	75 1.3×	40 0.8×	144 2.9×	20	509
Grete Brochmann Norway	13	563 1.7×	163 1.7×	221 3.9×	97 1.9×	63 1.3×	36	716
Ángeles Arjona Garrido Spain	9	166 0.5×	46 0.5×	14 0.2×	25 0.5×	29 0.6×	84	288

Countries citing papers authored by Fran Meissner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fran Meissner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fran Meissner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fran Meissner. The network helps show where Fran Meissner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fran Meissner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fran Meissner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fran Meissner based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fran Meissner. Fran Meissner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Anthonj, Carmen, et al.. (2025). Reflecting mixed method research on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene among unhoused people. Insights into a case study from Germany. University of Twente Research Information. 15. 100139–100139. 1 indexed citations

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Heil, Tilmann, et al.. (2025). Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 48(9). 1859–1875.

3.

Meissner, Fran & Linnet Taylor. (2024). Migration information infrastructures: power, control and responsibility at a new frontier of migration research. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(9). 2227–2246. 3 indexed citations

4.

Meissner, Fran, et al.. (2022). Contesting border artificial intelligence: Applying the guidance-ethics approach as a responsible design lens. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 3 indexed citations

5.

Meissner, Fran & Tilmann Heil. (2020). Deromanticising integration: On the importance of convivial disintegration. Migration Studies. 9(3). 740–758. 29 indexed citations

6.

Taylor, Linnet & Fran Meissner. (2019). A Crisis of Opportunity: Market‐Making, Big Data, and the Consolidation of Migration as Risk. Antipode. 52(1). 270–290. 28 indexed citations

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Meissner, Fran. (2019). Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel. Comparative Migration Studies. 7(1). 13 indexed citations

8.

Meissner, Fran. (2017). Legal status diversity: regulating to control and everyday contingencies. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44(2). 287–306. 34 indexed citations

9.

Meissner, Fran. (2016). Socialising with Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 9 indexed citations

10.

Meissner, Fran. (2015). Socialising with Diversity: Relational Diversity through a Superdiversity Lens. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 7 indexed citations

11.

Meissner, Fran. (2014). Migration in migration-related diversity? The nexus between superdiversity and migration studies. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(4). 556–567. 61 indexed citations

12.

Meissner, Fran & Steven Vertovec. (2014). Comparing super-diversity. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38(4). 541–555. 272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meissner, Fran, et al.. (1993). ON PREDICTIVE CONTROL SCHEMES IN DYNAMIC REROUTING STRATEGIES. 6 indexed citations

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