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Cecilia Menjívar 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 Cecilia Menjívar sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 215 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Cecilia Menjívar 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 Cecilia Menjívar sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Cecilia Menjívar is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily centers on social sciences, with a strong focus on sociology and political science. The scientific contributions cover various subfields including clinical psychology, political science and international relations, health, and gender studies.

The main topics of Menjívar's work include migration, refugees, and integration; migration, health, and trauma; migration and labor dynamics; racial and ethnic identity research; migration, ethnicity, and economy; social and cultural dynamics; and intimate partner and family violence.

The scientist has published work in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • International Migration Review
  • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
  • American Behavioral Scientist
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • Daedalus

Menjívar's recent papers include:

  • The Racialization of "Illegality", 2021, Daedalus
  • Recasting the Immigrant Health Paradox Through Intersections of Legal Status and Race, 2021, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
  • State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins, 2023, American Sociological Review
  • Legal Violence, Health, and Access to Care: Latina Immigrants in Rural and Urban Kansas, 2020, Journal of Health and Social Behavior
  • Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability, 2021, International Migration Review

Collaborations have formed with a number of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Andrea Gómez Cervantes
  • Irene Bloemraad
  • Victor Agadjanian
  • Byeongdon Oh
  • Leisy J. Abrego

Throughout their career, Menjívar has been recognized with awards such as the Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2017 and as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Liminal legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants' lives in the United States

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Legal violence: immigration law and the lives of Central American immigrants

    Cecilia Menjívar;Leisy J. Abrego

  • Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence Common Experiences in Different Countries

    Cecilia Menjívar;Olivia Salcido

  • Central Themes in the Study of Transnational Parenthood

    Jørgen Carling;Cecilia Menjívar;Leah Schmalzbauer

  • Latino immigrants’ perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States: A case study from the Phoenix Metropolitan area

    Cecilia Menjívar;Cynthia L. Bejarano

  • The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Immigration Law Beyond Borders: Externalizing and Internalizing Border Controls in an Era of Securitization

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Constructing Immigrant 'illegality': Critiques, Experiences, and Responses

    Cecilia Menjívar;Daniel Kanstroom

  • Living in two worlds? Guatemalan-origin children in the United States and emerging transnationalism

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • Remittance behavior among Salvadoran and Filipino immigrants in Los Angeles.

    Cecilia Menjívar;Julie DaVanzo;Lisa Greenwell;R. Burciaga Valdez

  • Making Immigrants into Criminals: Legal Processes of Criminalization in the Post-IIRIRA Era

    Leisy Abrego;Mat Coleman;Daniel E. Martínez;Cecilia Menjívar

  • Men's Migration and Women's Lives: Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala*

    Cecilia Menjívar;Victor Agadjanian

  • Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The ties that heal: Guatemalan immigrant women's networks and medical treatment

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The expansion of “crimmigration,” mass detention, and deportation

    Cecilia Menjívar;Andrea Gómez Cervantes;Daniel Alvord

  • Undocumented and unaccompanied: children of migration in the European Union and the United States

    Cecilia Menjívar;Krista M Perreira

  • Religious institutions and transnationalism: A case study of catholic and evangelical Salvadoran immigrants

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises

    Cecilia Menjívar;Marie Ruiz;Immanuel Ness

  • Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization

    Cecilia Menjívar;Sarah M. Lakhani

  • Religion and Immigration in Comparative Perspective: Catholic and Evangelical Salvadorans in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Phoenix

    Cecilia Menjívar

  • No More Kin: Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Family Networks

    Cecilia Menjivar;Anne R. Roschelle

  • God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. By Peggy Levitt. New York: New Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+270. $26.95.

    Cecilia Menjivar

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Agadjanian
Victor Agadjanian University of California, Los Angeles
Sandra D. Simpkins
Sandra D. Simpkins University of California, Irvine
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Rubén G. Rumbaut University of California, Irvine
Kimberly A. Updegraff
Kimberly A. Updegraff Arizona State University
Krista M. Perreira
Krista M. Perreira University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes University of Miami
Walter J. Nicholls
Walter J. Nicholls University of California, Irvine

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