Ivan Light

8.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
83 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ivan Light is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivan Light has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Demography and 11 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Ivan Light's work include Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (54 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (28 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (11 papers). Ivan Light is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (54 papers), Migration and Labor Dynamics (28 papers) and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (11 papers). Ivan Light collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Israel. Ivan Light's co-authors include Claudia Der‐Martirosian, Edna Bonacich, Susan Olzak, Léo‐Paul Dana, Roger Daniels, Mark A. Haskell, Roger Waldinger, Carolyn Rosenstein, Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Georges Sabagh and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Administrative Science Quarterly and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Ivan Light

76 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Ethnic Enterprise in America 1972 2026 1990 2008 1972 1994 1972 1984 1974 200 400 600

Peers

Ivan Light
Comparison fields: 5 of 108
  • Sociology and Political Science 4.8k
  • Management of Technology and Innovation 1.9k
  • Demography 1.0k
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 858
  • Economics and Econometrics 627
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Roger Waldinger United States
Edna Bonacich United States
Christian Bjørnskov Denmark
Janet W. Salaff Canada
Alnoor Ebrahim United States
Josef Brüderl Germany
Mustafa F. Özbilgin United Kingdom
Dennis R. Young United States
Frank Bechhofer United Kingdom
Marthe Nyssens Belgium
Roger Waldinger United States View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by Ivan Light

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ivan Light

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivan Light

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ivan Light. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ivan Light 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 Ivan Light. Ivan Light is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1 1
2 0
3 2
4 3
5 18
6 19
7 3
8 27
9
Social Capital's Unique Accessibility
39
10
Empresarios inmigrantes de Asia en la era de la globalización
1
11 39
12 52
13
The Chicago School and the Ethnic Economy
3
14 20
15 47
16 65
17 384
18 257
19
Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America
1
20
Immigrant and ethnic enterprise in North America* breakdown →
352

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