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2026

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D-Index
74
Citations
21992
World Ranking
583
National Ranking
104

Russell King 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 Russell King sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 381 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Russell King 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 Russell King 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: 74 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Russell King is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, demography, political science and international relations, general health professions, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

The researcher's work covers a range of topics including migration and labor dynamics, migration, refugees, and integration, migration, aging, and tourism studies, diaspora, migration, transnational identity, migration, ethnicity and economy, rural development and sustainability, as well as employment and welfare studies.

Frequent co-authors working with Russell King include Nilay Kılınç, Aija Lulle, Md Farid Miah, and Ilir Gëdeshi.

The scientist has published regularly in several academic journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Population Space and Place
  • Central and Eastern European Migration Review
  • International Migration
  • Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l intégration et de la migration internationale
  • Comparative Migration Studies

Among their recent papers are:

  • New perspectives on the agriculture-migration nexus, 2021, Journal of Rural Studies
  • New frontiers in international retirement migration, 2021, Ageing and Society
  • Migration and development: The overlooked roles of older people and ageing, 2022, Progress in Human Geography
  • On migration, geography, and epistemic communities, 2020, Comparative Migration Studies
  • On Europe, Immigration and Inequality: Brexit as a 'Wicked Problem', 2020, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies

Russell King has contributed to several book publications across multiple publishers. These include works published by Springer International Publishing such as Onward Migration and Multi-Sited Transnationalism (2022) and Anxieties of Migration and Integration in Turbulent Times (2023). Two editions of A Place in the Homeland? (2025) have been published by Edinburgh University Press. Additionally, they have a publication titled Out of Albania (2022) from Berghahn Books.

Best Publications

  • Towards a new map of European migration

    Russell King

  • International student migration and the European ‘Year Abroad’: effects on European identity and subsequent migration behaviour

    Russell King;Enric Ruiz-Gelices

  • ‘Mind the Gap!’ Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration

    Russell King;Ronald Skeldon

  • World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility

    Allan M Findlay;Russell King;Fiona M Smith;Alistair Geddes

  • Theories and typologies of migration: an overview and a primer

    Russell King

  • Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean

    Russell King;Tony Warnes;Allan Williams

  • Generalizations from the history of return migration

    Russell King

  • International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas

    Russell King;Parvati Raghuram

  • International retirement migration in Europe.

    Russell King;Anthony M. Warnes;Allan M. Williams

  • Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect

    Russell King

  • Eldorado or fortress? Migration in Southern Europe

    Russell King;Gabriella Lazaridis;Charalambos Tsardanidis

  • Tourism and international retirement migration: New forms of an old relationship in southern Europe

    Allan M Williams;Russell King;Anthony Warnes;Guy Patterson

  • Love, Sexuality and Migration: Mapping the Issue(s)

    Nicola Mai;Russell King

  • A place in the sun: international retirement migration from northern to southern Europe.

    Allan M. Williams;Russell King;Tony Warnes

  • The Myth of Return: Pakistanis in Britain.

    Russell King;Muhammad Anwar

  • Southern Europe in the Changing Global Map of Migration

    Russell King

  • Ever Reluctant Europeans: The Changing Geographies of UK Students Studying and Working Abroad

    Allan Findlay;Russell King;Alexandra Stam;Enric Ruiz-Gelices

  • Of Counter-Diaspora and Reverse Transnationalism: Return Mobilities to and from the Ancestral Homeland

    Russell King;Anastasia Christou

  • Writing Across Worlds: Literature and Migration

    Russell King;John Connell;Paul White

  • International student mobility literature review

    Russell King;Allan Findlay;Jill Ahrens

  • Media and Migration : Constructions of Mobility and Difference

    Russell King;Nancy Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Findlay
Allan Findlay University of St Andrews
Allan M. Williams
Allan M. Williams University of Surrey
Richard Black
Richard Black University of Birmingham
Ronald Skeldon
Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex
Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram The Open University
Ivor Goodson
Ivor Goodson University of Brighton
John Connell
John Connell University of Sydney
Ray Hudson
Ray Hudson Durham University

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