2026 Charles C. Branas: 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	62	1264	1117	587	510	306	15445

Overview

Charles C. Branas is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a substantial body of research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Health, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Emergency Medicine.

Their research topics focus on areas such as Gun Ownership and Violence Research, Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Sleep and related disorders, Homelessness and Social Issues, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include:

SLEEP
Abstracts
Journal of Urban Health
American Journal of Public Health
SSRN Electronic Journal

Charles C. Branas has collaborated with multiple coauthors across their publications, with frequent collaborators including Lauren Hale, Michael A. Grandner, William D. S. Killgore, and Christopher N. Morrison.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by this scientist include:

"Smoke at night and sleep worse? The associations between cigarette smoking with insomnia severity and sleep duration," 2020, Sleep Health
"Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods," 2022, JAMA Internal Medicine
"COVID-19 testing, case, and death rates and spatial socio-demographics in New York City: An ecological analysis as of June 2020," 2021, Health & Place
"Flattening the curve before it flattens us: hospital critical care capacity limits and mortality from novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) cases in US counties," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
"Police-to-Hospital Transport for Violently Injured Individuals: A Way to Save Lives?", 2020, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Best Publications

Urban Green Space and Its Impact on Human Health

Michelle C. Kondo;Jaime M. Fluehr;Thomas McKeon;Charles C. Branas

1095
Citations
A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space

Charles C. Branas;Rose A. Cheney;John M. MacDonald;Vicky W. Tam

779
Citations
Access to trauma centers in the United States.

Charles C. Branas;Ellen J. MacKenzie;Justin C. Williams;C. William Schwab

675
Citations
"Sleep disparity" in the population: poor sleep quality is strongly associated with poverty and ethnicity.

Nirav P Patel;Michael A Grandner;Dawei Xie;Charles C Branas

480
Citations
Citywide cluster randomized trial to restore blighted vacant land and its effects on violence, crime, and fear

Charles C. Branas;Eugenia South;Michelle C. Kondo;Bernadette C. Hohl

465
Citations
Fatal nontraffic injuries involving alcohol: A metaanalysis***

Gordon S Smith;Charles C Branas;Ted R Miller

401
Citations
Effect of Greening Vacant Land on Mental Health of Community-Dwelling Adults: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Eugenia C. South;Bernadette C. Hohl;Michelle C. Kondo;John M. MacDonald

365
Citations
Greening vacant lots to reduce violent crime: a randomised controlled trial

Eugenia C Garvin;Carolyn C Cannuscio;Charles C Branas

361
Citations
The King-Devick test as a determinant of head trauma and concussion in boxers and MMA fighters

K. M. Galetta;J. Barrett;Mike Allen;F. Madda

356
Citations
A meta-analysis of prehospital care times for trauma.

Brendan G. Carr;Joel M. Caplan;John P. Pryor;Charles C. Branas

327
Citations
More Than Just An Eyesore: Local Insights And Solutions on Vacant Land And Urban Health

Eugenia Garvin;Charles C. Branas;Shimrit Keddem;Jeffrey Sellman

324
Citations
Urban–Rural Shifts in Intentional Firearm Death: Different Causes, Same Results

Charles C. Branas;Michael L. Nance;Michael R. Elliott;Therese S. Richmond

216
Citations
A national analysis of the relationship between hospital factors and post-cardiac arrest mortality

Brendan G. Carr;Munish Goyal;Roger A. Band;David F. Gaieski

213
Citations
Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence.

Michelle C. Kondo;Elena Andreyeva;Eugenia C. South;John M. MacDonald

208
Citations
Effects of greening and community reuse of vacant lots on crime

Michelle Kondo;Bernadette C. Hohl;SeungHoon Han;Charles Branas

203
Citations
Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault

Charles C. Branas;Therese S. Richmond;Dennis P. Culhane;Thomas R. Ten Have

200
Citations
Disparities in access to trauma care in the United States: A population-based analysis.

Brendan G. Carr;Ariel J. Bowman;Catherine S. Wolff;Michael T. Mullen;Michael T. Mullen

195
Citations
Access to Emergency Care in the United States

Brendan G. Carr;Charles C. Branas;Charles C. Branas;Joshua P. Metlay;Ashley F. Sullivan

184
Citations
Urban blight remediation as a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence

Charles C. Branas;Michelle C. Kondo;Sean M. Murphy;Eugenia C. South

184
Citations
Access to pediatric trauma care in the United States.

Michael L. Nance;Brendan G. Carr;Charles C. Branas

158
Citations
HELMET LAWS AND MOTORCYCLE RIDER DEATH RATES

Charles C. Branas;M.Margaret Knudson

153
Citations
A National Analysis of Pediatric Trauma Care Utilization and Outcomes in the United States

Sage R. Myers;Charles C. Branas;Benjamin French;Michael L. Nance

149
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas J. Wiebe University of Pennsylvania

William D.S. Killgore University of Arizona

John M. MacDonald University of Pennsylvania

Silvia S. Martins Columbia University

Shanthi Ameratunga University of Auckland

Sean I Savitz The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Corinne Peek-Asa University of California, San Diego

Katherine P. Theall Tulane University

Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Ellen J. MacKenzie Johns Hopkins University

External Links

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