As the number of empirical studies increases unprecedentedly in line with expansions in higher education, theoretical developments in population studies suffer due to a discoverability crisis of related work. The systematic use of previous research is common in the medical sciences through various types of structured reviews. However, these are less common in the social sciences, despite their potential, especially in cross-disciplinary fields such as migration. We use Google Scholar to examine the niche of housing research within migration studies through a broad range of documents. The contribution of this meta-analysis is threefold. Firstly, we illustrate the association of keywords across the corpus of literature related to migration and housing and map the growth of migration literature since the 1960s. Secondly, we highlight key bridging documents using network measures. Finally, we estimate the distance in reading time between documents. Our findings suggest that the corpus of previous work at the intersection of migration and housing consists of many additive case studies, indicating a gap in integrative approaches replicable across a growing knowledge landscape.

翻译：随着高等教育扩张导致实证研究数量空前增长，人口学领域的理论发展因相关成果的可发现性危机而面临挑战。在医学科学中，通过多种结构化综述形式系统运用前人研究已成常态。然而，尽管这类方法在社会科学领域（尤其是移民研究等跨学科领域）具有应用潜力，其实际运用仍相对有限。本研究借助谷歌学术，通过涵盖广泛文献类型分析移民研究中住房研究这一细分领域。本荟萃分析贡献体现在三方面：首先，我们阐明了移民与住房相关文献库中关键词间的关联，并绘制了1960年代以来移民研究文献的增长图谱；其次，运用网络分析方法识别关键桥梁文献；最后，估算了文献间的阅读时间距离。研究表明，移民与住房交叉领域的前人研究成果包含大量累加式案例研究，揭示了在快速扩展的知识版图中缺乏可跨情境复制的整合性研究路径。