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Journal of Refugee Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Migration, Health and Trauma, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleAuthor–year (OUP)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Refugee Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inMigration, Refugees, and Integration Migration, Health and Trauma Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography Migration and Labor Dynamics Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
ISSN0951-6328
Citation impact (2-yr)1.84
h-index105
i10-index946
Total citations55,914
Article processing charge$4,365
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Oxford
Journal websiteacademic.oup.com
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Papers published in Journal of Refugee Studies per year

38
2014
44
2015
46
2016
53
2017
77
2018
121
2019
151
2020
108
2021
65
2022
99
2023
88
2024
87
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Refugee Studies by publication year

1.5K
2014
1.5K
2015
1.2K
2016
1.1K
2017
1.6K
2018
2.5K
2019
2.2K
2020
1.2K
2021
370
2022
448
2023
257
2024
93
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Refugee Studies

Understanding Integration: A Conceptual Framework

Alastair Ager, Adam J. Strang · 18 Apr 2008

Integration has become both a key policy objective related to the resettlement of refugees and other migrants, and a matter of significant public discussion. Coherent policy development and productive public debate are, however, both threatened by the fact that the concept of integration is used with widely differing meanings. Based on review of attempted definitions…

2,393 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
More Labels, Fewer Refugees: Remaking the Refugee Label in an Era of Globalization

Roger Zetter · 1 Jun 2007

This paper revisits the concept of refugee labelling I elaborated nearly two decades ago. In radically different conditions, the contemporary relevance and utility of the concept are re-examined and re-established. Formulated at a time of regionally contained, mass refugee migration in the south during the late 1970s and early 1980s, the paper argues that the…

1,009 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research

M. Eastmond · 1 Jun 2007

Journal Article Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research Get access Marita Eastmond Marita Eastmond Department of Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Göteborg, PO Box 700, SE 405 30 Göteborg and Nordic School of Public Health, Goteborg, Sweden Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…

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What reference style does Journal of Refugee Studies use?
Journal of Refugee Studies uses Author–year (OUP) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Refugee Studies, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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