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Charles C. Branas 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 Charles C. Branas sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 306 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charles C. Branas 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 Charles C. Branas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 62 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • 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

  • Access to trauma centers in the United States.

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

  • "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

  • 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

  • Fatal nontraffic injuries involving alcohol: A metaanalysis***

    Gordon S Smith;Charles C Branas;Ted R Miller

  • 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

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

    Eugenia C Garvin;Carolyn C Cannuscio;Charles C Branas

  • 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

  • A meta-analysis of prehospital care times for trauma.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Neighborhood Interventions to Reduce Violence.

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

  • Effects of greening and community reuse of vacant lots on crime

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

  • Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault

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

  • 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

  • Access to Emergency Care in the United States

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

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

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

  • Access to pediatric trauma care in the United States.

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

  • HELMET LAWS AND MOTORCYCLE RIDER DEATH RATES

    Charles C. Branas;M.Margaret Knudson

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas J. Wiebe
Douglas J. Wiebe University of Pennsylvania
William D.S. Killgore
William D.S. Killgore University of Arizona
John M. MacDonald
John M. MacDonald University of Pennsylvania
Michael L. Perlis
Michael L. Perlis University of Pennsylvania
David A. Asch
David A. Asch University of Pennsylvania
Silvia S. Martins
Silvia S. Martins Columbia University
Shanthi Ameratunga
Shanthi Ameratunga University of Auckland
Justin C. Williams
Justin C. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy R. Rebbeck
Timothy R. Rebbeck Harvard University
Sean I Savitz
Sean I Savitz The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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