Matthew Desmond

7.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
75 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Matthew Desmond is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Desmond has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 39 papers in General Health Professions and 24 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Matthew Desmond's work include Homelessness and Social Issues (37 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (33 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (23 papers). Matthew Desmond is often cited by papers focused on Homelessness and Social Issues (37 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (33 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (23 papers). Matthew Desmond collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Matthew Desmond's co-authors include Carl Gershenson, Mustafa Emirbayer, Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, David S. Kirk, Andrew V. Papachristos, Tracey Shollenberger, Ruth N. López Turley, Peter Hepburn, Barbara Kiviat and Nathan Wilmers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, JAMA and American Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Desmond

70 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2016 2015 2012 2015 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty
    2012 447 citations Matthew Desmond profile →
  2. Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community
    2016 369 citations Matthew Desmond, Andrew V. Papachristos et al. American Sociological Review profile →
  3. Eviction's Fallout: Housing, Hardship, and Health
    2015 326 citations Matthew Desmond et al. Social Forces profile →
  4. Disposable Ties and the Urban Poor
    2012 319 citations Matthew Desmond profile →
  5. Forced Displacement From Rental Housing: Prevalence and Neighborhood Consequences
    2015 239 citations Matthew Desmond et al. profile →
  6. Relational ethnography
    2014 230 citations Matthew Desmond profile →

Peers

Matthew Desmond
Kyle Crowder United States
Christopher T. Whelan Ireland
Nathaniel Hendren United States
Peter Saunders Australia
Roberto M. Fernández United States
Patrick Sharkey United States
Barrett A. Lee United States
Mary Pattillo United States
Michael Dear United States
Charles Noble Netherlands
Kyle Crowder United States
Matthew Desmond
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Countries citing papers authored by Matthew Desmond

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Desmond

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Desmond

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gershenson, Carl & Matthew Desmond. (2024). Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America☆. Rural Sociology. 89(1). 86–105. 2 indexed citations
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Graetz, Nicholas, Peter Hepburn, Carl Gershenson, et al.. (2024). Examining Excess Mortality Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic for Renters Threatened With Eviction. JAMA. 331(7). 592–592. 1 indexed citations
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Hepburn, Peter, et al.. (2023). Beyond Gentrification: Housing Loss, Poverty, and the Geography of Displacement. Social Forces. 102(3). 880–901. 9 indexed citations
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Hepburn, Peter, et al.. (2023). Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(3). 186–207. 22 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Using natural language processing to construct a National Zoning and Land Use Database. Urban Studies. 60(13). 2564–2584. 13 indexed citations
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Massey, Douglas S., et al.. (2023). The Racially Disparate Influence of Filing Fees on Eviction Rates. Housing Policy Debate. 33(6). 1463–1483. 3 indexed citations
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Graetz, Nicholas, et al.. (2023). The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000–2019. Social Science & Medicine. 340. 116398–116398. 14 indexed citations
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Graetz, Nicholas, Carl Gershenson, Peter Hepburn, et al.. (2023). A comprehensive demographic profile of the US evicted population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2305860120–e2305860120. 26 indexed citations
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Gershenson, Carl, et al.. (2023). Fracking Evictions: Housing Instability in a Fossil Fuel Boomtown. Society & Natural Resources. 37(3). 347–364. 5 indexed citations
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Hepburn, Peter, et al.. (2023). The Suburbanization of Eviction: Increasing Displacement and Inequality Within American Suburbs. RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. 9(1). 104–125. 9 indexed citations
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Fellows, Ian, et al.. (2022). Estimating eviction prevalence across the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(21). e2116169119–e2116169119. 62 indexed citations
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Benfer, Emily A., et al.. (2022). COVID-19 Housing Policy: State and Federal Eviction Moratoria and Supportive Measures in the United States During the Pandemic. Housing Policy Debate. 33(6). 1390–1414. 35 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew, Deborah A. Schwengel, Deborah A. Rusy, et al.. (2021). Paediatric patients in mass casualty incidents: a comprehensive review and call to action. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 128(2). e109–e119. 11 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew, et al.. (2021). The Concentrated Geography of Eviction. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 693(1). 64–81. 28 indexed citations
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Hepburn, Peter, et al.. (2021). U.S. Eviction Filing Patterns in 2020. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 7. 32 indexed citations
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Hepburn, Peter, et al.. (2021). Neighborhoods with the Highest Eviction Filing Rates Have the Lowest Levels of COVID-19 Vaccination. Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 7. 4 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew, Andrew V. Papachristos, & David S. Kirk. (2020). Evidence of the Effect of Police Violence on Citizen Crime Reporting. American Sociological Review. 85(1). 184–190. 36 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew. (2018). Heavy is the House: Rent Burden among the American Urban Poor. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 42(1). 160–170. 105 indexed citations
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Desmond, Matthew, et al.. (2013). Evicting Children. Social Forces. 92(1). 303–327. 102 indexed citations
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Turley, Ruth N. López & Matthew Desmond. (2010). Contributions to College Costs by Married, Divorced, and Remarried Parents. Journal of Family Issues. 32(6). 767–790. 39 indexed citations

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