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2026

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D-Index
78
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World Ranking
440
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2

Brenda S. A. Yeoh publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brenda S. A. Yeoh sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 397 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Brenda S. A. Yeoh D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brenda S. A. Yeoh sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Brenda S. A. Yeoh is affiliated with the National University of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences, with a primary focus on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, and Education.

The main topics covered by Brenda S. A. Yeoh's research include:

  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Socioeconomic Development in Asia
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent academic papers, including:

  • "Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities" (2020), published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Migration and new racism beyond colour and the 'West': co-ethnicity, intersectionality and postcoloniality" (2022), published in Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • "Studying multinational migrations, speaking back to migration theory" (2020), published in Global Networks
  • "Doing Family in 'Times of Migration': Care Temporalities and Gender Politics in Southeast Asia" (2020), published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics" (2020), published in Mobilities

Brenda S. A. Yeoh frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies (7 publications)
  • Asian Population Studies (6 publications)
  • American Behavioral Scientist (4 publications)
  • Geoforum (4 publications)
  • Geographical Research (3 publications)

The scientist's book publications include:

  • "Migrant Workers in Singapore" (2022), published by World Scientific

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brenda S. A. Yeoh include:

  • Theodora Lam (20 joint publications)
  • Kellynn Wee (11 joint publications)
  • Shirlena Huang (10 joint publications)
  • Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho (9 joint publications)
  • Kristel Anne Acedera (9 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang

  • Opening the Black Box of Migration : Brokers, the Organization of Transnational Mobility and the Changing Political Economy in Asia

    Johan Lindquist;Biao Xiang;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore

    Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  • When the light of the home is abroad: unskilled female migration and the Filipino family.

    Maruja Milagros B. Asis;Shirlena Huang;Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  • Transnationalizing the ‘Asian’ family: imaginaries, intimacies and strategic intents

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang;Theodora Lam

  • Transnational families and their children's education: China's ‘study mothers’ in Singapore

    Shirlena Huang;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • The Global Cultural City? Spatial Imagineering and Politics in the (Multi)cultural Marketplaces of South-east Asia

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • Migrant female domestic workers: debating the economic, social and political impacts in Singapore.

    Brenda S.A. Yeoh;Shirlena Huang;Joaquin Gonzalez

  • Singapore: A Developmental City State

    Martin Perry;Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • Breadwinning wives and "left-behind" husbands: Men and masculinities in the Vietnamese transnational family

    La Hoang;Bsa Yeoh

  • Transnational (Counter) Topographies

    Geraldine Pratt;Brenda Yeoh

  • Gender and migration

    Katie Willis;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of "Nation"

    Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • BIFURCATED LABOUR: THE UNEQUAL INCORPORATION OF TRANSMIGRANTS IN SINGAPORE

    Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  • Cosmopolitanism and its Exclusions in Singapore

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • Singaporean and British transmigrants in China and the cultural politics of ‘contact zones’

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Katie Willis

  • Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment

    Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  • Remaking local heritage for tourism.

    Peggy Teo;Brenda S.A. Yeoh

  • Contesting space : power relations and the urban built environment in colonial Singapore

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh

  • Bringing the ‘left behind’ back into view in Asia: a framework for understanding the ‘migration–left behind nexus’

    Mika Toyota;Brenda S. A. Yeoh;Liem Nguyen

  • Globalising Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City

    Brenda S. A. Yeoh;T.C. Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lily Kong
Lily Kong Singapore Management University
Paul Boyle
Paul Boyle Swansea University
James D. Sidaway
James D. Sidaway National University of Singapore
Adrian Sleigh
Adrian Sleigh Australian National University
Wolfgang Lutz
Wolfgang Lutz University of Trier
Marcia C. Castro
Marcia C. Castro Harvard University
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Jonathan Rigg
Jonathan Rigg University of Bristol
David Chan
David Chan Singapore Management University

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