2026 Richard Black: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2243	2040	399	361	155	17910

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

3266
Citations
The effect of environmental change on human migration

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

1568
Citations
Climate change: Migration as adaptation

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

1094
Citations
Environmental refugees: myth or reality?

Richard Black

861
Citations
Migration, immobility and displacement outcomes following extreme events

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

586
Citations
The limits to 'transnationalism': Bosnian and Eritrean refugees in Europe as emerging transnational communities

Nadje Al-Ali;Richard Black;Khalid Koser

570
Citations
Fifty Years of Refugee Studies: From Theory to Policy

Richard Black

481
Citations
Refugees and transnationalism: The experience of Bosnians and Eritreans in Europe

Nadje Al-Ali;Richard Black;Khalid Koser

445
Citations
Migration and climate change: Towards an integrated assessment of sensitivity

Richard Black;Dominic Kniveton;Kerstin Schmidt-Verkerk

370
Citations
Climate migration myths

Ingrid Boas;Carol Farbotko;Helen Adams;Harald Sterly

343
Citations
Refugees, Environment and Development

Richard Black

333
Citations
Harnessing the Potential of Migration and Return to Promote Development: Applying Concepts to West Africa

Savina Ammassari;Richard Black

317
Citations
Climate Change and Migration: Improving Methodologies to Estimate Flows

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

306
Citations
The End of the Refugee Cycle: Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction

Richard Black;Khalid Koser

277
Citations
Climate Change and Migration

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

274
Citations
Sustainable return in post-conflict contexts

Richard Black;Saskia Gent

259
Citations
Migration, return and small enterprise development in Ghana: a route out of poverty?

Richard Black;Russell King;Richmond Tiemoko

253
Citations
A continent moving west? EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe

Richard Black;Godfried Engbersen;Marek Okolski;Cristina Pantiru

234
Citations
Breaking the Convention: Researching the “Illegal” Migration of Refugees to Europe

Richard Black

212
Citations
Migration and global environmental change

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

207
Citations
Conceptions of ‘home’ and the political geography of refugee repatriation: between assumption and contested reality in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Richard Black

202
Citations
Migration and pro-poor policy in Africa

Richard Black

192
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominic Kniveton University of Sussex

Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading

Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex

Russell King University of Sussex

Howard White Campbell Collaboration

John Beddington University of Oxford

Andrew J. Baldwin University of Oxford

Simon R. Bush Wageningen University & Research

Mike Hulme University of Cambridge

Jennifer Hyndman York University

External Links

Personal website of Richard Black Google Scholar page

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