Recent Publications

See CV for exhaustive list.

Books

Rey, Sergio and Rachel S. Franklin, editors. (2022). Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences, Elgar.

Franklin, Rachel S., editor. (2019). Population, Place, and Spatial Interaction: Essays in Honor of David Plane. Springer.

Franklin, Rachel S., Eveline S. van Leeuwen, and Antonio Paez, editors. (2018). Population Loss: The Role of Transportation and Other Issues. Elsevier.

Ballas, Dimitris, Graham Clarke, Rachel S. Franklin, and Andy Newing. (2017). GIS and the Social Sciences: Theory and Applications. London: Routledge.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles

Houlden, Victoria, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Francisco Rowe, and Andy Pike. (in press). “Left Behind Neighbourhoods in England: Where They Are and Why They Matter,” The Geographical Journal

Sanderson, Rachael, Rachel Franklin, Danny MacKinnon, and Joe Matthews. (2024). “Left Out and Invisible?: Exploring Social Media Representation of ‘Left Behind Places’,” GeoJournal

Franklin, Rachel. (2023). “Quantitative Methods III: Strength in Numbers?,” Progress in Human Geography

Sanderson, Rachael, Rachel Franklin, Danny MacKinnon, and Joe Matthews. (2023). “Left behind and left out: Evaluating (dis)connections in the spatially focused migration network of England and Wales,” Population, Space and Place

Park, Gainbi and Rachel Franklin. (2023). “The Changing Demography of Hurricane At-Risk Areas in the United States (1970–2018),” Population, Space and Place

Pike, Andy, Vincent Béal, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Nadir Kinossian, Thilo Lang, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, Max Rousseau, Jeroen Royer, Loris Servillo, John Tomaney, and Sanne Velthuis. (2023). “‘Left behind places’: A geographical etymology,” Regional Studies

Franklin, Rachel. (2023). “Quantitative methods II: Big theory,” Progress in Human Geography

Robinson, Caitlin, Rachel S. Franklin, and Jack Roberts. (2022). “Optimising for equity: Sensor coverage, networks and the responsive city,” The Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Wallace, Rosalind, Rachel Franklin, Susan Grant-Muller, Alison Heppenstall, and Victoria Houlden. (2022). “Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Wu, Yu-Tzu, Andrew Kingston, Victoria Houlden, and Rachel Franklin. (2022). “The longitudinal associations between proximity to local grocery shops and functional ability in the very old living with and without multimorbidity: results from the Newcastle 85+ study,” Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.

Franklin, Rachel S., Elizabeth C. Delmelle, Clio Andris, Tao Cheng, Somayeh Dodge, Janet Franklin, Alison Heppenstall, Mei-Po Kwan, WenWen Li, Sara McLafferty, Jennifer A. Miller, Darla K. Munroe, Trisalyn Nelson, Özge Öner, Denise Pumain, Kathleen Stewart, Daoqin Tong, Elizabeth A. Wentz. (2022). “Making Space in Geographical Analysis,” Geographical Analysis.

Franklin, Rachel. (2022). “Quantitative methods I: Reckoning with uncertainty,” Progress in Human Geography

Robinson, Caitlin and Rachel S. Franklin. (2021). “The sensor desert quandary: What does it mean (not) to count in the smart city?,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(2), 238-254.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2021). “The Demographic Burden of Population Loss in U.S. Cities, 2000–2010,” Journal of Geographical Systems, 23(2), 209-230.

Franklin, Rachel S., Victoria Houlden, Caitlin Robinson, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Elizabeth C. Delmelle, Urška Demšar, Harvey J. Miller, and David O’Sullivan. (2020). “Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography,” The Professional Geographer, 73(1), 48-61.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2020). “I come to bury (population) growth, not to praise it,” Spatial Economic Analysis, 15(4), 359-373.

Seymour, Eric, K. Arthur Endsley, and Rachel S. Franklin. (2020). “Differential drivers of rent burden in growing and shrinking cities,” Applied Geography, 125, 102302.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2020). “Geographical Analysis at Midlife,” Geographical Analysis, 53(1), 47-60.

Bagchi-Sen, Sharmistha, Rachel S. Franklin, Peter Rogerson, and Eric Seymour. (2020). “Urban Inequality and the Demographic Transformation of Shrinking Cities: The Role of the Foreign Born,” Applied Geography, 116, 102168.

Book Chapters, Working Papers, Blog Contributions, and Other Publications

Franklin, Rachel. (2024). “Not the Data Revolution We Want, but Maybe the Data Revolution We Need,” SubStack Newsletter

Franklin, Rachel. (2023). “Waking Up Early to Ponder the Future of Urban Analytics,” SubStack Newsletter

Royer, Jeroen, Sanne Velthuis, Mehdi Le Petit-Guerin, Rachel S. Franklin, Tim Leibert, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Danny MacKinnon, and Andy Pike. (2022). “Regional travel times to services of general interest in the EU15,” CURDS Working Paper, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/c2bvh

Velthuis, Sanne, Jeroen Royer, Mehdi Le Petit-Guerin, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel S. Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, and Andy Pike. (2022). “Geographically uneven structural change in EU15 regions from 1980 to 2017: a cluster analysis,” CURDS Working Paper, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/xsgf9

Franklin, Rachel S. (2021). “Introduction to the Fiftieth Anniversary Special Issue: Happy Birthday, Geographical Analysis!,” Geographical Analysis, 53(1), 3-12.

Franklin, Rachel S. and Jacques Poot. (2021). “Guest Editorial: Spatial demography in regional science,” Journal of Geographical Systems, 23(2), 139-141.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2020). “Why We Count: Geographers and the US Decennial Census,” Ohio State University, Department of Geography, Census 2020 Blog Series.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2019). “Interpreting the Geography of Human Capital Stock Variations,” Population, Place, and Spatial Interaction: Essays in Honor of David Plane. Springer.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2 April 2019). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Depopulation,” The Regional Studies Blog.

Franklin, Rachel S., Eveline van Leeuwen, and Antonio Paez. (2018). “Transportation Where People Leave: An Introduction,” Population Loss: The Role of Transportation and Other Issues, Rachel S. Franklin, Eveline van Leeuwen, and Antonio Paez, eds., Elsevier.

Franklin, Rachel S. (2017). “Shrinking Smart: U.S. Population Decline and Footloose Human Capital,” Demographic Transition, Labour Markets and Regional Resilience, Cristina Martinez, Tamara Weyman, and Jouke van Dijk, eds., Springer.

Franklin, Rachel S. and David A. Plane. (2017). “The View from Over the Hill: Regional Research in a Post–Demographic Transition World,” Regional Research Frontiers: The Next 50 Years, Randall Jackson and Peter Schaeffer, eds., Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50547-3_20.