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44
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4122
National Ranking
1963

Overview

Sara L McLafferty is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily within the social sciences and medicine. The main fields of study include Social Sciences with 23 publications and Medicine with 19 publications. Their work traverses multiple subfields such as General Health Professions, Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics focus on areas including Urban Transport and Accessibility, Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Homelessness and Social Issues, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McLafferty include:

  • Disability, wages, and commuting in New York (2020, Journal of Transport Geography)
  • Placing volunteered geographic health information: Socio-spatial bias in 311 bed bug report data for New York City (2020, Health & Place)
  • Spatial access to primary care providers and colorectal cancer-specific survival in Cook County, Illinois (2020, Cancer Medicine)
  • Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois∗ (2020, UNC Libraries)
  • Structural Factors and Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Travel Times to Acute Care Hospitals in the Rural US South, 2007-2018 (2023, Milbank Quarterly)

McLafferty frequently publishes in venues such as UNC Libraries (3 publications), Journal of Urban Health (2 publications), Geographical Analysis (2 publications), Journal of Transport Geography, and Milbank Quarterly.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Fikriyah Winata with 8 co-authored works, Valerie Preston with 5, Arrianna Marie Planey and Mei-Po Kwan each with 4, and Sandy Wong with 3 co-authored publications.

Best Publications

  • GIS and Public Health

    Ellen K. Cromley;Sara L. McLafferty

  • GIS and health care.

    Sara L. McLafferty

  • Location Strategies for Retail and Service Firms

    Linda L. Golden;Avijit Ghosh;Sara L. McLafferty

  • On Epidemiology and Geographic Information Systems: A Review and Discussion of Future Directions

    Keith C. Clarke;Sara L. McLafferty;Barbara J. Tempalski

  • Spatial mismatch and labor market segmentation for African-American and Latina women

    Sara McLafferty;Valerie Preston

  • Late-Stage Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Health Care Access in Illinois.

    Fahui Wang;Sara McLafferty;Veronica Escamilla;Lan Luo

  • Spatial mismatch research in the 1990s: progress and potential

    Valerie Preston;Sara McLafferty

  • Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020

    Jonathan M Wortham;James T Lee;Sandy Althomsons;Julia Latash

  • Mapping Women's Worlds: Knowledge, power and the bounds of GIS

    Sara L. McLafferty

  • GENDER, RACE, AND COMMUTING AMONG SERVICE SECTOR WORKERS∗

    Sara McLafferty;Valerie Preston

  • Counting for Women

    Sara L. McLafferty

  • a-companion-to-health-and-medical-geography

    Tim Brown;Sara L McLafferty;Graham Moon

  • Gender, race, and the determinants of commuting: New york in 1990

    Sara McLafferty

  • Rural reversal? Rural-urban disparities in late-stage cancer risk in Illinois.

    Sara McLafferty;Fahui Wang

  • SPATIAL MISMATCH AND EMPLOYMENT IN A DECADE OF RESTRUCTURING.

    Sara L Mclafferty;Valerie Preston

  • Urban Structure and Geographical Access to Public Services

    Sara McLafferty

  • Epidemiology of Rodent Bites and Prediction of Rat Infestation in New York City

    James E. Childs;Sara L. McLafferty;Ramses Sadek;Gayle L. Miller

  • Women and GIS: Geospatial Technologies and Feminist Geographies

    Sara McLafferty

  • Prenatal Care Need and Access: A GIS Analysis

    Sara McLafferty;Sue Grady

  • Geographical Barriers to Employment for American-born and Immigrant Workers:

    Valerie Preston;S. McLafferty;X.F. Liu

  • Location Strategies for Retail and Service Firms

    A. Stewart Fotheringham;A. Ghosh;S.L. McLafferty

Frequent Co-Authors

Fahui Wang
Fahui Wang Louisiana State University
Isabel Dyck
Isabel Dyck Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Tempalski
Barbara Tempalski National Development and Research Institutes
Richard T. Campbell
Richard T. Campbell University of Illinois at Chicago
Graham Moon
Graham Moon University of Southampton
Gregory E. Glass
Gregory E. Glass University of Florida
James N. Mills
James N. Mills Emory University
Keith C. Clarke
Keith C. Clarke University of California, Santa Barbara
James E. Childs
James E. Childs Yale University
Ali S. Khan
Ali S. Khan University of Nebraska Medical Center

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