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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
7072
World Ranking
5895
National Ranking
2805

Best Publications

  • New Neighborhood Grocery Store Increased Awareness Of Food Access But Did Not Alter Dietary Habits Or Obesity

    Steven Cummins;Ellen Flint;Stephen A. Matthews

  • Activity space environment and dietary and physical activity behaviors: A pilot study

    Shannon N. Zenk;Amy J. Schulz;Stephen A. Matthews;Angela Odoms-Young

  • Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Segregation at Multiple Geographic Scales.

    Barrett A. Lee;Sean F. Reardon;Glenn Firebaugh;Chad R. Farrell

  • The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation

    Sean F. Reardon;Stephen A. Matthews;David O’Sullivan;Barrett A. Lee

  • Geo-ethnography: Coupling Geographic Information Analysis Techniques with Ethnographic Methods in Urban Research

    Stephen A. Matthews;James E. Detwiler;Linda M. Burton

  • Spatial Polygamy and Contextual Exposures (SPACEs): Promoting Activity Space Approaches in Research on Place And Health

    Stephen A. Matthews;Tse Chuan Yang

  • Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Geographic Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000

    Sean F Reardon;Chad R Farrell;Stephen A Matthews;David O'Sullivan

  • The Effects of Economic Conditions and Access to Reproductive Health Services on State Abortion Rates and Birthrates

    Stephen Matthews;David Ribar;Mark Wilhelm

  • A spatial analysis of the COVID-19 period prevalence in U.S. counties through June 28, 2020: where geography matters?

    Feinuo Sun;Stephen A. Matthews;Tse Chuan Yang;Ming Hsiao Hu

  • Spatial Polygamy and the Heterogeneity of Place: Studying People and Place via Egocentric Methods

    Stephen A. Matthews

  • The salience of neighborhood: some lessons from sociology.

    Stephen A. Matthews

  • Urban Poverty and Neighborhood Effects on Crime: Incorporating Spatial and Network Perspectives

    Corina Graif;Andrew S. Gladfelter;Stephen A. Matthews

  • Progress in Spatial Demography.

    Stephen A. Matthews;Daniel M. Parker

  • Between exposure, access and use: Reconsidering foodscape influences on dietary behaviours

    Christelle Clary;Stephen Augustus Matthews;Yan Kestens

  • Current, future and potential use of mobile and wearable technologies and social media data in the ABCD study to increase understanding of contributors to child health.

    K.S. Bagot;S.A. Matthews;M. Mason;Lindsay M. Squeglia

  • Exploring the role of the built and social neighborhood environment in moderating stress and health.

    Stephen A. Matthews;Tse Chuan Yang

  • How many days of global positioning system (GPS) monitoring do you need to measure activity space environments in health research

    Shannon N. Zenk;Stephen A. Matthews;Amber N. Kraft;Kelly K. Jones

  • The role of social and built environments in predicting self-rated stress: A multilevel analysis in Philadelphia.

    Tse Chuan Yang;Stephen A. Matthews

  • Geographically Weighted Quantile Regression (GWQR): An Application to U.S. Mortality Data.

    Vivian Yi Ju Chen;Wen Shuenn Deng;Tse Chuan Yang;Stephen A. Matthews

  • Effect of Health Care System Distrust on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Tse Chuan Yang;Stephen A. Matthews;Marianne M. Hillemeier

  • Work group II: Using Geographic Information Systems for enhancing research relevant to policy on diet, physical activity, and weight

    Stephen Augustus Matthews;Anne Vernez Moudon;Mark Daniel

  • Breast cancer screening, area deprivation, and later-stage breast cancer in Appalachia: does geography matter?

    Roger T. Anderson;Tse Chang Yang;Stephen Augustus Matthews;Fabian Camacho

Frequent Co-Authors

Shannon N. Zenk
Shannon N. Zenk University of Illinois at Chicago
Barrett A. Lee
Barrett A. Lee Pennsylvania State University
Lisa M. Powell
Lisa M. Powell University of Illinois at Chicago
Steven Cummins
Steven Cummins London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Glenn Firebaugh
Glenn Firebaugh Pennsylvania State University
Sean F. Reardon
Sean F. Reardon Stanford University
Marianne M. Hillemeier
Marianne M. Hillemeier Pennsylvania State University
Michael R. Kramer
Michael R. Kramer Emory University
Linda M. Burton
Linda M. Burton University of California, Berkeley
Liwang Cui
Liwang Cui University of South Florida

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