Research Studies About Las Vegas - Key Findings

What research studies Las Vegas?

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

Summary

The city is studied as a social laboratory, not merely through tourism. Among 1342 papers, media, gender and advertising leads with 6, while sport and mega-events, aging, tourism, narrative identity and crime recur as themes; gambling behavior, with 4, is only one line of inquiry.

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Research outlook for Las Vegas

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

Sustainability · 15Climate Change · 14Machine Learning · 11Education · 10Women's Health · 10Mental Health · 10Hospitality · 9Agriculture · 8COVID-19 · 8Alzheimer's Disease · 7Children's Health · 7Deep Learning · 7

Concerns the research raises

Healthcare · 16Women's Health · 12Education · 10Children's Health · 7Research · 7Mental Health · 6Health · 4Depression · 4Alzheimer's disease · 4STEM · 4Alzard's disease · 4Climate Change · 4

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

Topics

Topic	Works
Media, Gender, and Advertising	6
Health, Medicine and Society	5
Sport and Mega-Event Impacts	5
Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues	5
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research	5
Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity	5
Crime Patterns and Interventions	5
Gambling Behavior and Treatments	4
Magnetic confinement fusion research	4
Legal Cases and Commentary	4
Urban Planning and Governance	3
Culinary Culture and Tourism	3
Housing Market and Economics	3
Public Relations and Crisis Communication	3
Gun Ownership and Violence Research	3
Water resources management and optimization	3
Impact of Light on Environment and Health	3
Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes	3
Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis	3
Wine Industry and Tourism	3

By year

Orientation (where Prism-tagged)

Descriptive

31Problem Identifying

16Promising

9Breakthrough

8Critical

7Cautionary

6Comparative

Most-cited

Paper	Year	Cited	Doi
A system dynamics model to facilitate public understanding of water management options in Las Vegas, Nevada	2003	362	doi
Optimal speedup of Las Vegas algorithms	1993	348	doi
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	2007	183	doi
Las Vegas: The Social Production of an All-American City	2001	136	doi
The Preceramic Las Vegas Culture of Coastal Ecuador	1985	135	doi
Work-Related Pain and Injury and Barriers to Workers’ Compensation Among Las Vegas Hotel Room Cleaners	2005	133	doi
The impacts of reactive terpene emissions from plants on air quality in Las Vegas, Nevada	2009	100	doi
A Las Vegas algorithm for linear programming when the dimension is small	1988	85	doi
“Ripple effects” and forecasting home prices in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix	2010	84	doi
Towards urban water sustainability: Analyzing management transitions in Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles	2019	82	doi
Perchlorate in water, soil, vegetation, and rodents collected from the Las Vegas Wash, Nevada, USA	2004	80	doi
Stripping customers' feedback on hotels through data mining: The case of Las Vegas Strip	2017	72	doi
People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas	1987	65	doi
NO to NO2 conversion rate analysis and implications for dispersion model chemistry methods using Las Vegas…	2017	62	doi
Possible Large Right-Lateral Displacement Along Fault and Shear Zones in the Death Valley-Las Vegas Area…	1967	57	doi

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

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