Christopher Barrington‐Leigh

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Barrington‐Leigh is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Barrington‐Leigh has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Social Psychology, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Christopher Barrington‐Leigh's work include Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (22 papers), Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (10 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Christopher Barrington‐Leigh is often cited by papers focused on Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (22 papers), Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena (10 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Christopher Barrington‐Leigh collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Spain. Christopher Barrington‐Leigh's co-authors include Adam Millard‐Ball, U. S. Inan, M. A. Stanley, John F. Helliwell, R. P. Lin, David M. Smith, T. F. Bell, Steven A. Cummer, E. A. Gerken and Brian E. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Barrington‐Leigh

52 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Jeremy Morley United Kingdom

Jonathan M. Gilligan United States

John E. Anderson United States

Milan Radovanović Serbia

Thomas Wilson New Zealand

P.A.B. James United Kingdom

Li Chen China

Simon Bell United Kingdom

Michael O. Rodgers United States

D. R. Williams United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Barrington‐Leigh

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Ashik, Fajle Rabbi, Christopher Barrington‐Leigh, & Kevin Manaugh. (2025). Street network connectivity leads to denser urban form in Canadian cities. Cities. 161. 105844–105844. 3 indexed citations

Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher & Adam Millard‐Ball. (2025). A high-resolution global time series of street-network sprawl. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 52(6). 1525–1536.

Zhang, Xiang, Christopher Barrington‐Leigh, & Brian E. Robinson. (2024). Rural household energy transition in China: Trends and challenges. Journal of Cleaner Production. 450. 141871–141871. 2 indexed citations

Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher. (2024). Economic Inequality and Subjective Well-Being: Is Inequality Good for the Rich?. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Millard‐Ball, Adam, et al.. (2023). Urban development & street-network sprawl in Tokyo. Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 1–20. 3 indexed citations

Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher, et al.. (2023). A Public, Open, and Independently-Curated Database of Happiness Coefficients. Journal of Happiness Studies. 24(4). 1505–1531. 1 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoying, Jill Baumgartner, Sam Harper, et al.. (2022). Field measurements of indoor and community air quality in rural Beijing before, during, and after the COVID ‐19 lockdown. Indoor Air. 32(8). e13095–e13095. 8 indexed citations

Galbraith, Eric D., et al.. (2022). Interdisciplinary applications of human time use with generalized lexicons. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0270583–e0270583. 1 indexed citations

Miñarro, Sara, Victòria Reyes-García, Shankar Aswani, et al.. (2021). Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244569–e0244569. 19 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher. (2021). Life satisfaction and sustainability: a policy framework. SN Social Sciences. 1(7). 176–176. 10 indexed citations

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Helliwell, John F., et al.. (2019). How happy are your neighbours? Variation in life satisfaction among 1200 Canadian neighbourhoods and communities. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0210091–e0210091. 28 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher & Adam Millard‐Ball. (2019). A global assessment of street-network sprawl. PLoS ONE. 14(11). e0223078–e0223078. 38 indexed citations

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Gariépy, Geneviève, Frank J. Elgar, Mariane Sentenac, & Christopher Barrington‐Leigh. (2017). Early-life family income and subjective well-being in adolescents. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0179380–e0179380. 25 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher & Adam Millard‐Ball. (2017). The world’s user-generated road map is more than 80% complete. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0180698–e0180698. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher. (2015). Life Satisfaction Among Aboriginals in the Canadian Prairies: Evidence from the Equality, Security and Community Survey. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher, et al.. (2015). The Short-Run Household, Industrial, and Labour Impacts of the Quebec Carbon Market. Canadian Public Policy. 41(4). 265–280. 10 indexed citations

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Aknin, Lara B., Christopher Barrington‐Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, et al.. (2010). Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 104(4). 635–652. 28 indexed citations

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Helliwell, John F., Christopher Barrington‐Leigh, Anthony Harris, & Haifang Huang. (2009). International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher. (2008). Veblen goods and neighbourhoods: endogenising consumption reference groups. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 2 indexed citations

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Barrington‐Leigh, Christopher & U. S. Inan. (1999). Elves triggered by positive and negative lightning discharges. Geophysical Research Letters. 26(6). 683–686. 101 indexed citations

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