Richard Alba

20.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
179 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Richard Alba is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Demography and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Alba has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 15 papers in Demography and 14 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Richard Alba's work include Migration and Labor Dynamics (50 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (44 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (34 papers). Richard Alba is often cited by papers focused on Migration and Labor Dynamics (50 papers), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (44 papers) and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (34 papers). Richard Alba collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and France. Richard Alba's co-authors include John Logan, Victor Nee, Nancy Foner, Brian J. Stults, Wenquan Zhang, Klaus J. Bade, Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal, Reynolds Farley, Roxane Silberman and Reid M. Golden and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Administrative Science Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Richard Alba

174 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration

1997 1.1k citations Richard Alba, Victor Nee International Migration Review profile →
Bright vs. blurred boundaries: Second-generation assimilation and exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States

2004 841 citations Richard Alba Ethnic and Racial Studies profile →
Remaking the American Mainstream

2015 839 citations Richard Alba, Victor Nee profile →
Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles

2002 622 citations John Logan, Richard Alba et al. profile →
Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe

1995 484 citations Richard Alba, Klaus J. Bade et al. profile →
Immigrant Religion in the U.S. and Western Europe: Bridge or Barrier to Inclusion?

2008 413 citations Nancy Foner, Richard Alba International Migration Review profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The unappreciated centrality of ethnoracially mixed Americans to the nation’s demographic future 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Richard Alba	1
2	The Great Demographic Illusion 2020 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Richard Alba	3
3	What Majority-minority Society? A Critical Analysis of the Census Bureau’s Projections of America’s Demographic Future 2018 ·Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World ·Richard Alba	46
4	Strangers No More 2015 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·Richard Alba, Nancy Foner	52
5	Room at the top? Minority mobility and the transition to demographic diversity in the USA 2015 ·Ethnic and Racial Studies ·Richard Alba, (unknown)	19
6	The Role of Immigrant Enclaves for Latino Residential Inequalities 2013 ·Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies ·Richard Alba, Glenn Deane, Nancy A. Denton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	43
7	Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment 2011 ·Lund University Publications (Lund University) ·Richard Alba, Dalia Abdelhady, (unknown), (unknown)	7
8	The Kids Are (Mostly Alright): Second Generation Assimilation 2011 ·Social Forces ·Richard Alba, Philip Kasinitz, Mary C. Waters	31
9	Biodistribution and retargeting of FX-binding ablated Ad5 vectors 2010 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Richard Alba, Angela C. Bradshaw, Lynda Coughlan, (unknown), Robbie A. McDonald, Simon N. Waddington, Simon J. Buckley, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), André Lieber, (unknown), John H. McVey, (unknown), Andrew H. Baker	1
10	Comment on Hartmut Esser/1. The Devil Lies in the Middle Range: Comments on Hartmut Esser's Comprehensive Model of Intergenerational Integration 2010 ·Sociologia ·Richard Alba	1
11	On the Sociological Significance of the American Jewish Experience: Boundary Blurring, Assimilation, and Pluralism 2006 ·Sociology of Religion ·Richard Alba	43
12	Leo Lucassen The Immigrant Threat. The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 2006 ·International Review of Social History ·Richard Alba	0
13	IMIS-Beiträge Heft 23 - Themenheft: Migration - Integration - Bildung. Grundfragen und Problembereiche 2005 ·osnaDocs (Osnabrück University) ·Richard Alba, Klaus J. Bade, Michael Bommes, Hartmut Esser, Nadia Granato, Uwe Hunger, Frank Kalter, Heidi Keller, Cornelia Kristen, Bernhard Nauck, Victor Nee, Frank‐Olaf Radtke, Dietrich Thränhardt	2
14	Language Assimilation Today: Bilingualism Persists More Than in the Past, But English Still Dominates 2004 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Richard Alba	28
15	Bright vs. blurred boundaries: Second-generation assimilation and exclusion in France, Germany, and the United States breakdown → 2004 ·Ethnic and Racial Studies ·Richard Alba	841
16	Enclaves and Entrepreneurs: Assessing the Payoff for Immigrants and Minorities 2003 ·International Migration Review ·John Logan, Richard Alba, Brian J. Stults	100
17	Deutsche und Ausländer: Freunde, Fremde oder Feinde?: empirische Befunde und theoretische Erklärungen 2000 ·Richard Alba, Peter Schmidt, (unknown)	9
18	Assimilation's Quiet Tide. 1995 ·The Public interest ·Richard Alba	44
19	Living with Crime: The Implications of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Suburban Location 1994 ·Social Forces ·Richard Alba, John Logan, Paul E. Bellair	58
20	Patterns of Ethnic Marriage in the United States 1986 ·Social Forces ·Richard Alba, Reid M. Golden	61

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