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D-Index
53
Citations
17910
World Ranking
2243
National Ranking
400

Richard Black 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 Richard Black sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 155 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Black 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 Richard Black 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.

Overview

Richard Black is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research across social sciences and medicine. Their work spans several interconnected fields including sociology and political science, public health, environmental and occupational health, development, safety research, and genetics.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects focused on migration, nutrition, and social development. Frequent themes include consumer attitudes and food labeling, migration and labor dynamics, international development and aid, migration, refugees, and integration, as well as poverty, education, child welfare, and nutritional studies linked to genetics and disease.

Richard Black has co-authored publications with several researchers including Shazia Sathar, Audrey Lenoël, Christina Oelgemöller, Shavawn M. Forester, and Emily M. Jennings-Dobbs.

Their recent publications include:

  • Migration drivers and migration choice: interrogating responses to migration and development interventions in West Africa, 2022, Comparative Migration Studies
  • A Progressive Nutrient Profiling System to Guide Improvements in Nutrient Density of Foods and Beverages, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Immobility and the containment of solutions: Reflections on the Global Compacts, Mixed Migration and the Transformation of Protection, 2020, Interventions
  • WISEcode Ultra-Processed Food (Wc-UPF™): A Data-Driven Precision Tool for Evaluating and Categorizing Processed Foods, 2025, Current Developments in Nutrition
  • 'Beneficiary-Ownership'? Redemptive Knowledge and Policy-Making on Migration in West Africa, 2024, Geopolitics

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Comparative Migration Studies
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Interventions
  • Geopolitics

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • The effect of environmental change on human migration

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Climate change: Migration as adaptation

    Richard Black;Stephen R G Bennett;Sandy M Thomas;John R Beddington

  • Environmental refugees: myth or reality?

    Richard Black

  • Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events

    Richard Black;Nigel W. Arnell;W. Neil Adger;David Thomas

  • The limits to 'transnationalism': Bosnian and Eritrean refugees in Europe as emerging transnational communities

    Nadje Al-Ali;Richard Black;Khalid Koser

  • Fifty Years of Refugee Studies: From Theory to Policy

    Richard Black

  • Refugees and transnationalism: The experience of Bosnians and Eritreans in Europe

    Nadje Al-Ali;Richard Black;Khalid Koser

  • Migration and climate change: Towards an integrated assessment of sensitivity

    Richard Black;Dominic Kniveton;Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk

  • Climate migration myths

    Ingrid Boas;Carol Farbotko;Helen Adams;Harald Sterly

  • Refugees, Environment and Development

    Richard Black

  • Harnessing the Potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa

    Savina Ammassari;Richard Black

  • Climate Change and Migration: Improving Methodologies to Estimate Flows

    Dominic Kniveton;Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk;Christopher Smith;Richard Black

  • The End of the Refugee Cycle: Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

    Richard Black;Khalid Koser

  • Climate Change and Migration

    Dominic Kniveton;Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk;Christopher Smith;Richard Black

  • Sustainable return in post-conflict contexts

    Richard Black;Saskia Gent

  • Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty?

    Richard Black;Russell King;Richmond Tiemoko

  • A continent moving west? EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe

    Richard Black;Godfried Engbersen;Marek Okolski;Cristina Pantiru

  • Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

    Richard Black

  • Migration and global environmental change

    Richard Black;W Neil Adger;Nigel Arnell;Stefan Dercon

  • Conceptions of ‘home’ and the political geography of refugee repatriation: between assumption and contested reality in Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Richard Black

  • Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

    Richard Black

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic Kniveton
Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex
Nigel W. Arnell
Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading
Andrew Geddes
Andrew Geddes European University Institute
Ronald Skeldon
Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
W. Neil Adger
W. Neil Adger University of Exeter
Howard White
Howard White Campbell Collaboration
Andrew J. Baldwin
Andrew J. Baldwin University of Oxford
Mike Hulme
Mike Hulme University of Cambridge

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