Susan Leonard

Decision Sciences · University of Michigan

Mid career · publishing since 2002

Data Quality and Management Historical Economic and Social Studies Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Health disparities and outcomes Migration and Labor Dynamics

Publications

Citations

200

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2002

In context

Among 111 mid career Decision Sciences PIs within our index

Citations: 200cohort median 481

Publications / year (recent): 0.8cohort median 2.6

Typically publishes in teams of ~6 · 30% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 9 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.8/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–1880
Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History · 2025
Breathing new life into death certificates: Extracting handwritten cause of death in the LIFE-M project
Explorations in Economic History · 2022
Breathing New Life into Death Certificates: Extracting Cause of Death from Handwritten Records
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022
Saving social media data: Understanding data management practices among social media researchers and their implications for archives
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2020
Drug- and Alcohol-Associated Deaths in U.S. Jails
Journal of Correctional Health Care · 2020
Farewells, thanks and welcomes
Continuity and Change · 2020
Developing a Social Media Archive at ICPSR
Deep Blue (University of Michigan) · 2018
A3: Innovations in Data Linkage
ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania) · 2018
Immigration, Occupation, and Inequality in Emergent Nineteenth-Century New England Cities
Social Science History · 2017
Migration in the 1930s: Beyond the Dust Bowl
Social Science History · 2016

Publishes in

Deep Blue (University of Michigan)×3
Social Science History×2
International Journal for Population Data Science×2
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology×1
Journal of Correctional Health Care×1

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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