2026 Alejandro Portes: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	104	3	3	3	3	324	107282

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United States Leader Award
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2010 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Alejandro Portes is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and operates primarily within the field of Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Demography, General Social Sciences, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research concentrates on several key topics:

Migration and Labor Dynamics
Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Social Sciences and Policies
Politics and Society in Latin America

Frequently publishing in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, among other venues, Portes has contributed to various scholarly outlets, including:

Ethnic and Racial Studies
Population Review
Sociological Forum
Columbia University Press eBooks
Sustainability

Recent publications highlight a focus on urban development, migration, and ethnic studies. Notable papers include:

"A Tale of Three Cities: The Rise of Dubai, Singapore, and Miami Compared" (2020), published in Sustainability
"La nueva nación latina inmigración y la población hispana de los Estados Unidos" (2024), published in Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas
"Segmented assimilation: some reflections on a three-decade concept" (2025), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Cities and migration" (2023), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies

Portes has also produced a book under the Columbia University Press titled Emerging Global Cities (2022).

Collaborations are frequent with several scholars, including Ariel C. Armony, Brandon P. Martínez, Ryan Bagwell, Min Zhou, and Larry Liu. Among these, collaborations with Ariel C. Armony stand out with nine joint works.

Alejandro Portes has received multiple distinctions throughout their career, such as:

Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2012)
W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association (2010)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)

Best Publications

Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology

Alejandro Portes

21363
Citations
Immigrant America: A Portrait

Alejandro Portes;Rubén G. Rumbaut

9736
Citations
The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants

Alejandro Portes;Min Zhou

8842
Citations
Legacies : the story of the immigrant second generation

Alejandro Portes;Rubén Gustavo Rumbaut

8820
Citations
Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action1

Alejandro Portes;Julia Sensenbrenner

5823
Citations
The study of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field

Alejandro Portes;Luis Eduardo Guarnizo;Patricia Landolt

4106
Citations
Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Alejandro Portes;Robert L. Bach

3046
Citations
The downside of social capital

A. Portes;P. Landolt

2615
Citations
Downsides of social capital.

Alejandro Portes

2280
Citations
Immigrant Enclaves: An Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Cubans in Miami

Kenneth L. Wilson;Alejandro Portes

2120
Citations
Immigration theory for a new century: some problems and opportunities.

Alejandro Portes

1945
Citations
Transnational entrepreneurs: An alternative form of immigrant economic adaptation

Alejandro Portes;William J. Haller;Luis Eduardo Guarnizo

1836
Citations
Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants1

Luis Eduardo Guarnizo;Alejandro Portes;William Haller

1812
Citations
Contemporary immigration: theoretical perspectives on its determinants and modes of incorporation.

Alejandro Portes;Jözsef Böröcz

1756
Citations
The Two Meanings of Social Capital1

Alejandro Portes

1699
Citations
Labor, class, and the international system

Alejandro Portes;John Walton

1619
Citations
City on the Edge

Alejandro Portes;Alex Stepick

1486
Citations
Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development

Alejandro Portes;Patricia Landolt

1203
Citations
Introduction: the debates and significance of immigrant transnationalism

Alejandro Portes

1168
Citations
Conclusion: Theoretical Convergencies and Empirical Evidence in the Study of Immigrant Transnationalism

Alejandro Portes

1141
Citations
Segmented assimilation on the ground : The new second generation in early adulthood

Alejandro Portes;Patricia Fernández-Kelly;William Haller

1073
Citations
Immigrant America: A Portrait.

Frank D. Bean;Alejandro Portes;Ruben G. Rumbaut

1021
Citations
The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

Alejandro Portes

734
Citations
Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States.

Jose A. Cobas;Alejandro Portes;Robert L. Bach

7
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Min Zhou University of California, Los Angeles

Donald W. Light Rowan University

Manuel Castells University of Southern California

Frank D. Bean University of California, Irvine

Otis Dudley Duncan University of Arizona

Dudley L. Poston Texas A&M University

Marta Tienda Princeton University

Cecilia Menjívar University of California, Los Angeles

William H. Sewell University of Wisconsin–Madison

Saskia Sassen Columbia University

External Links

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