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Loren B. Landau publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Loren B. Landau sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 118 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Loren B. Landau D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Loren B. Landau sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Loren B. Landau is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant concentration in sociology and political science, urban studies, demography, clinical psychology, and anthropology.

The scientist's work spans several interrelated topics including:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Diaspora, Migration, Transnational Identity
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Their recent publication record includes a range of papers across various journals, emphasizing migration, spatial justice, and urban transformation. Key recent papers are:

  • "Migration and the African Timespace Trap: More Europe for the World, Less World for Europe," 2020, published in Geopolitics
  • "Coercion or the social contract? COVID 19 and spatial (in)justice in African cities," 2020, published in City & Society
  • "'Running Them Out of Time:' Xenophobia, Violence, and Co-Authoring Spatiotemporal Exclusion in South Africa," 2022, published in Geopolitics
  • "An enclave entrepôt: The informal migration industry and Johannesburg's socio-spatial transformation," 2021, published in Urban Studies
  • "Finding Ways through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside," 2021, published in The AAG Review of Books

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Geopolitics
  • City & Society
  • Urban Studies
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • Migration Studies

Collaborations have been an important element of their academic output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
  • Iriann Freemantle
  • Jean Pierre Misago
  • Tanya Zack
  • Natasha Iskander

Best Publications

  • The Dual Imperative in Refugee Research: Some Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Social Science Research on Forced Migration

    Karen Jacobsen;Loren B. Landau

  • Exorcising the demons within : xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa

    Loren B. Landau

  • Tactical Cosmopolitanism and Idioms of Belonging: Insertion and Self-Exclusion in Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau;Iriann Freemantle

  • Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures

    David K. Leonard;Scott Straus

  • Protection and Dignity in Johannesburg: Shortcomings of South Africa's Urban Refugee Policy

    Loren B. Landau

  • XENOPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA AND PROBLEMS RELATED TO IT

    Loren B. Landau;Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh;Gayatri Singh

  • Transplants and Transients: Idioms of Belonging and Dislocation in Inner-City Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau

  • Loving the alien? Citizenship, law, and the future in South Africa’s demonic society

    Loren B. Landau

  • Towards Tolerance, Law, and Dignity: Addressing Violence against Foreign Nationals in South Africa

    J-P Misago;LB Landau;T Monson

  • Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study

    Loren B. Landau;Aurelia Wa Kabwe Segatti

  • Introduction. Displacing Zimbabwe: Crisis and Construction in Southern Africa

    Amanda Hammar;JoAnn McGregor;Loren Landau

  • Refugees in the New Johannesburg

    Loren B. Landau;Karen Jacobsen

  • Discrimination and development? Immigration, urbanisation and sustainable livelihoods in Johannesburg

    Loren B Landau

  • Laws, Policies, or Social Position? Capabilities and the Determinants of Effective Protection in Four African Cities

    Loren B. Landau;Marguerite Duponchel

  • Contemporary migration to South Africa : a regional development issue

    Loren B. Landau;Aurelia Segatti

  • Living Within and Beyond Johannesburg: Exclusion, Religion, and Emerging Forms of Being

    Loren B. Landau

  • Bridges to nowhere: hosts, migrants, and the chimera of social capital in three African cities.

    Sangeetha Madhavan;Loren B. Landau

  • Urbanisation, nativism, and the rule of law in South Africa's ‘forbidden’ cities

    Loren B Landau

  • Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa

    Loren B. Landau;Jean Pierre Misago

  • A Chronotope of Containment Development: Europe's Migrant Crisis and Africa's Reterritorialisation

    Loren B. Landau

  • Conviviality, Rights, and Conflict in Africa’s Urban Estuaries

    Loren B. Landau

  • RACE TROUBLE: RACE, IDENTITY AND INEQUALITY IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

    Loren B. Landau

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn McGregor
JoAnn McGregor University of Sussex

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