Research Studies About Detroit - Key Findings

What research studies Detroit?

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

Summary

Research on Detroit centers on urban form and inequality: urban, neighborhood and segregation studies lead at 24 papers, followed by race, history and American society at 22. Microbial natural products also rank prominently, making the agenda more varied than a standard urban-studies portrait.

WATCH Watch whether planning and segregation research becomes more central as infrastructure attention rises.

Research outlook for Detroit

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

Women's Health · 53Healthcare · 50Children's Health · 48COVID-19 · 36Breast Cancer · 35Machine Learning · 26Patients' Health · 25Men's Health · 22Mental Health · 22Patient Health · 21Tumor · 19Prostate Cancer · 17

Concerns the research raises

Healthcare · 57Women's Health · 55COVID-19 · 38Patients' Health · 32Mental Health · 28Children's Health · 26Patient Care · 21Cancer · 14Education · 12Men's Health · 10Prostate Cancer · 10Health · 10

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

Topics

Topic	Works
Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies	24
Race, History, and American Society	22
Urbanization and City Planning	20
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis	19
Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics	16
Synthesis and Biological Activity	14
Homelessness and Social Issues	13
Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies	12
Urban Planning and Governance	11
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies	11
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations	10
Species Distribution and Climate Change	10
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism	9
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications	9
Tree-ring climate responses	8
Urban Transport and Accessibility	8
Housing Market and Economics	8
Forest Management and Policy	8
American History and Culture	8
American Environmental and Regional History	8

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

411

56Problem Identifying

37Critical

31Promising

12Cautionary

8Comparative

5Breakthrough

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
Incidence Proportions of Brain Metastases in Patients Diagnosed (1973 to 2001) in the Metropolitan Detroit…	2004	1837	doi
Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit	2016	832	doi
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World	1993	677	doi
Stereotypes and Segregation: Neighborhoods in the Detroit Area	1994	464	doi
Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit	2003	301	doi
Fruit and Vegetable Access Differs by Community Racial Composition and Socioeconomic Position in Detroit…	2006	288	doi
Integration of the adeno-associated virus genome into cellular DNA in latently infected human Detroit 6 cells	1980	284	doi
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Detroit Partnership: Improving Diabetes-Related…	2005	247	doi
Characterizing inflammatory breast cancer among Arab Americans in the California, Detroit and New Jersey…	2013	236	doi
Ozone treatment and the depletion of detectable pharmaceuticals and atrazine herbicide in drinking water…	2006	205	doi
Ecology, distribution, and impact of the newly introduced round tubenose gobies on the biota of the St. Clair…	1995	175	doi
Occurrence of Virulence and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates from Different…	2007	151	doi
Detection of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-specific nucleotide sequences in DNA isolated from latently…	1975	145	doi
Whose Detroit?: politics, labor, and race in a modern American city	2002	142	doi
Effect of age and race on the survival of men with prostate cancer in the Metropolitan Detroit tricounty…	1995	129	doi

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

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