Nikola Sander

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 700 citations indexed

About

Nikola Sander is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikola Sander has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 700 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Demography and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Nikola Sander's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 papers), Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 papers) and Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends (4 papers). Nikola Sander is often cited by papers focused on Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 papers), Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 papers) and Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends (4 papers). Nikola Sander collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Australia. Nikola Sander's co-authors include Guy Abel, Martin Bell, Laura Prazeres, Zaiga Krišjāne, Allan Findlay, Elīna Apsīte-Beriņa, David McCollum, Johannes Schmidt, Hannes Taubenböck and Michael Wurm and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Current Biology and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Nikola Sander

26 papers receiving 655 citations

Hit Papers

Quantifying Global International Migration Flows 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. Quantifying Global International Migration Flows
    2014 367 citations Guy Abel, Nikola Sander profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikola Sander Germany 11 363 180 133 119 89 28 700
Holly R. Barcus United States 15 341 0.9× 171 0.9× 110 0.8× 69 0.6× 58 0.7× 37 615
Oliver Mtapuri South Africa 13 460 1.3× 244 1.4× 57 0.4× 41 0.3× 34 0.4× 73 640
Ruth McAreavey United Kingdom 14 478 1.3× 179 1.0× 33 0.2× 119 1.0× 83 0.9× 45 808
Mary Cawley Ireland 13 430 1.2× 163 0.9× 89 0.7× 59 0.5× 75 0.8× 43 622
Marek Kupiszewski United Kingdom 16 636 1.8× 375 2.1× 139 1.0× 220 1.8× 155 1.7× 42 1.0k
Cesare Di Feliciantonio Italy 13 242 0.7× 76 0.4× 42 0.3× 156 1.3× 263 3.0× 35 705
Rina Ghose United States 17 274 0.8× 83 0.5× 158 1.2× 35 0.3× 160 1.8× 36 1.2k
Tony Champion United Kingdom 21 609 1.7× 332 1.8× 229 1.7× 287 2.4× 248 2.8× 75 1.1k
Wouter van Gent Netherlands 20 532 1.5× 55 0.3× 106 0.8× 241 2.0× 428 4.8× 48 977
Kavita Pandit United States 16 246 0.7× 76 0.4× 37 0.3× 152 1.3× 41 0.5× 42 635

Countries citing papers authored by Nikola Sander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikola Sander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikola Sander

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

All Works

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Castro, Constanza de la Fuente, Arjun Biddanda, David Witonsky, et al.. (2025). Population histories of the Indigenous Adivasi and Sinhalese from Sri Lanka using whole genomes. Current Biology. 35(11). 2554–2566.e7.
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2024). No place for young women? The impact of internal migration on adult sex ratios in rural East Germany. Population Studies. 78(3). 547–562. 1 indexed citations
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Ette, Andreas, et al.. (2023). How do global crises affect privileged migrants? Return migration of German emigrants one year into the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(10). 2551–2573. 2 indexed citations
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Weigand, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Categorizing urban areas into "core", "fringe", and "periphery" based on the built-up morphology. elib (German Aerospace Center). 73. 1–4.
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Ebeling, Marcus, Roland Rau, Nikola Sander, Eva Kibele, & Sebastian Klüsener. (2022). Urban–rural disparities in old-age mortality vary systematically with age: evidence from Germany and England & Wales. Public Health. 205. 102–109. 11 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2022). 30 Years of East-West Migration in Germany: A Synthesis of the Literature and Potential Directions for Future Research. Comparative Population Studies. 47. 6 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2022). The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on internal migration in Germany: A descriptive analysis. Population Space and Place. 28(6). e2566–e2566. 66 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2021). Visualising Migration Flow Data with Circular Plots. Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). 7 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola & Martin Bell. (2021). Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Migration of the Baby Boomers in Australia. Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). 1. 1–28. 1 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, Guy Abel, Fernando Riosmena, et al.. (2021). The Future of International Migration: Developing Expert-Based Assumptions for Global Population Projections. Econstor (Econstor). 1. 1–57. 8 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2020). The turnaround in internal migration between East and West Germany over the period 1991 to 2018. Demographic Research. 43. 993–1008. 12 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2020). The Impact of Internal Migration on the Spatial Distribution of Population in Germany over the Period 1991-2017. Comparative Population Studies. 44. 18 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola, et al.. (2020). Internal migration and housing costs—A panel analysis for Germany. Population Space and Place. 27(4). 26 indexed citations
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Rees, Philip & Nikola Sander. (2020). The Role of Internal Migration as a Driver of Regional Population Change in Europe. Comparative Population Studies. 44. 1 indexed citations
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Prazeres, Laura, Allan Findlay, David McCollum, et al.. (2017). Distinctive and comparative places: Alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility. Geoforum. 80. 114–122. 43 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola. (2014). Retirement Migration of the Baby Boomers in Australia: Beach, Bush or Busted?. Figshare. 3 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola & Martin Bell. (2013). Migration and retirement in the life course: an event history approach. Journal of Population Research. 31(1). 1–27. 26 indexed citations
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Lundevaller, Erling Häggström, Nikola Sander, Vegard Skirbekk, & K. C. Samir. (2010). Prospects for later-life migration in urban Europe. 2 indexed citations
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Sander, Nikola & Martin Bell. (2008). Migration and the life course: Does retirement trigger interregional moves?. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1–19. 1 indexed citations

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