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Christopher R. Browning

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

Established · publishing since 1977

Publications

251

Citations

8,558

Est. group size

~8

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

50

Publishing since 1977

Research summary
AI-generated

This researcher studies how neighborhoods and everyday movement patterns shape people's lives, using GPS and mobile-phone tracking data to examine issues like racial and economic segregation, crime exposure, and safety perceptions among youth and adults. Much of the work develops new methods for measuring where people go throughout the day ('activity spaces') and how that exposure relates to social inequality. Note that some publications under this name (on Holocaust history) appear to reflect a different individual sharing the same name, since they fall outside the social science focus of the rest of the body of work.

Neighborhood effects and residential segregationActivity space and mobility measurement (GPS/mobile-phone data)Urban crime and safety perceptionsRacial and socioeconomic inequalityResearch methods for spatial and longitudinal data

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 4 and 17 papers per year with no clear long-term upward or downward trend.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 10.0/year recently
2017: 9 publications172018: 10 publications182019: 16 publications192020: 11 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 17 publications17222023: 8 publications232024: 13 publications242025: 9 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Berghahn Books×15
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology×9
  • Social Forces×4
  • Urban Studies×3
  • Wallstein Verlag eBooks×3
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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