Research Studies About Chicago - Key Findings

What research studies Chicago?

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

Summary

Chicago is not merely a research producer; it is a research subject in its own right. The partial data includes 16320 papers about the city, with medical history, race, segregation, crime interventions and transport accessibility among the leading themes.

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Research outlook for Chicago

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 · 206Women's Health · 203Children's Health · 180Healthcare · 171Breast Cancer · 170Neuroscience · 165Mental Health · 133Artificial Intelligence · 110Deep Learning · 99COVID-19 · 96Men's Health · 90Cancer · 90

Concerns the research raises

Healthcare · 281Children's Health · 199Women's Health · 196COVID-19 · 141Mental Health · 135Research · 125Education · 101Artificial Intelligence · 87Patient Care · 84Patients' Health · 80Men's Health · 59Public Health · 51

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

Topics

Topic	Works
History of Science and Medicine	58
Race, History, and American Society	57
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis	50
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies	42
Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies	40
American History and Culture	38
Crime Patterns and Interventions	35
Urban Transport and Accessibility	34
American Environmental and Regional History	26
American Constitutional Law and Politics	26
Vietnamese History and Culture Studies	23
Homelessness and Social Issues	21
Music History and Culture	20
Cinema and Media Studies	20
Urban Planning and Governance	18
Urbanization and City Planning	16
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies	16
Transportation Planning and Optimization	16
Housing Market and Economics	16
Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments	15

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

813

195Problem Identifying

112Critical

95Promising

47Comparative

36Breakthrough

29Cautionary

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect	2012	1442	doi
The Gang. A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago	1927	1227	doi
Papers from the 26th regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society	1992	675	—
The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior: <i>The Mountain Gorilla</i> . George B. Schaller. University of…	1963	606	doi
Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London	2007	595	doi
Community Policing Chicago Style	1997	550	doi
Phase II Clinical Trial of Bevacizumab and Low-Dose Metronomic Oral Cyclophosphamide in Recurrent Ovarian…	2007	548	doi
Social Vulnerability and Racial Inequality in COVID-19 Deaths in Chicago	2020	522	doi
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West	1992	503	doi
Contributions of interacting biological mechanisms to soil aggregate stabilization in restored prairie1The…	1998	481	doi
Of Time and Space: The Contemporary Relevance of the Chicago School	1997	387	doi
Sleep Environment and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in an Urban Population: The Chicago Infant…	2003	364	doi
The impact of school characteristics on house prices: Chicago 1987–1991	2002	349	doi
Public Housing, Housing Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago	2004	346	doi
How factors of land use/land cover, building configuration, and adjacent heat sources and sinks explain Urban…	2014	337	doi

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

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