Research Studies About London - Key Findings

What research studies London?

Papers about London as a subject — its agriculture, health, environment and society — regardless of where the authors sit.

Summary

The city is chiefly studied through history, medicine, culture and political economy. Historical Economic and Social Studies leads at 145, History of Science and Medicine at 114, while Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism records 84.

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Research outlook for London

What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.

Opportunities the research points to

Machine Learning · 586Children's Health · 586Mental Health · 464Healthcare · 460Women's Health · 452Neuroscience · 429MathML · 335COVID-19 · 286Artificial Intelligence · 259Deep Learning · 249Sustainability · 238Climate Change · 214

Concerns the research raises

Healthcare · 931Children's Health · 753Women's Health · 667COVID-19 · 643Mental Health · 617Research · 334Climate Change · 328Artificial Intelligence · 227Public Health · 218Education · 193HIV · 146Health · 128

counts = papers carrying the theme · concerns merge cautionary, critical and problem-identifying work

Topics

Topic	Works
Historical Economic and Social Studies	145
History of Science and Medicine	114
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis	114
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism	84
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity	76
Historical Art and Culture Studies	72
Classical Antiquity Studies	71
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies	69
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies	66
Scottish History and National Identity	64
Urban Planning and Governance	62
Theatre and Performance Studies	60
Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies	59
Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes	57
Irish and British Studies	57
Political and Economic history of UK and US	57
Medieval Literature and History	51
Urbanization and City Planning	49
American and British Literature Analysis	49
Literature: history, themes, analysis	45

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

2,566

515Problem Identifying

355Critical

273Promising

152Breakthrough

98Comparative

93Cautionary

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
The Influence of Retardation on the London-van der Waals Forces	1948	3030	doi
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (A)	1889	2251	doi
PROCEEDINGS OF ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON	1932	1202	doi
London taxi drivers and bus drivers: A structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis	2006	925	doi
G. Nicolis und I. Prigogine: <i>Self‐Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems</i>. From Dissipative Structures…	1978	814	doi
An Electron Microscope Study of Basal Melanocytes and High-Level Clear Cells (Langerhans Cells) in…	1961	808	doi
<i>Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World.</i> By Mike Davis. London…	2003	712	doi
London Mathematical Society Monographs	1970	711	doi
New-Build ‘Gentrification’ and London's Riverside Renaissance	2005	678	doi
Energy pile test at Lambeth College, London: geotechnical and thermodynamic aspects of pile response to heat…	2009	651	doi
Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London.	1998	641	doi
Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English	2011	638	doi
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London	1900	618	doi
Parkinson's Disease Society Brain Bank, London: overview and research.	1993	603	—
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London	2007	595	doi

papers whose title or entities mention London (any author location) · partial sample · distinct from research done at the city's institutions

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