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

Park, Gainbi, Rachel Franklin, Sally Hardy, Simona Iammarino, and Jessie P.H. Poon. (in press). “Mind the Gap: Gender, Geography, and the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Publication in Regional Studies Association Journals,” Regional Studies

Frazier, Amy E., Trisalyn Nelson, Peter Kedron, Eric Shook, Somayeh Dodge, Alan Murray, Michael Goodchild, Sarah Battersby, Justine I. Blanford, Christophe Claramunt, Joseph Holler, Caglar Koylu, Angela Lee, Steven Manson, Seda Şalap-Ayça, John P. Wilson, Bo Zhao, Lauren Bennett, Carmen Cabrera, Rachel Franklin, Grant McKenzie, Harvey Miller, Taylor Oshan, Sergio Rey, Francisco Rowe, Seth Spielman, Wenfei Xu. (2025). “Rethinking GIScience Education in an Age of Disruptions,” Transactions in GIS

Le Petit-Guerin, Mehdi, Sanne Velthuis, Jeroen Royer, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, and Andy Pike. (2025). “Trajectories of regional ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15 from 1982 to 2017,” Advances in Economic Geography (ZFW)

Velthuis, Sanne, Jeroen Royer, Mehdi Le Petit-Guerin, Nicolas Cauchi-Duval, Rachel Franklin, Tim Leibert, Danny MacKinnon, Andy Pike. (2024). “Regional varieties of ‘left-behindness’ in the EU15,” Regional Studies

Nelson, Trisalyn, Amy E. Frazier, Peter Kedron, Somayeh Dodge, Bo Zhao, Michael Goodchild, Alan Murray, Sarah Battersby, Lauren Bennett, Justine I. Blanford, Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Christophe Claramunt, Rachel Franklin, Joseph Holler, Caglar Koylu, Angela Lee, Steven Manson, Grant McKenzie, Harvey Miller, Taylor Oshan, Sergio Rey, Francisco Rowe, Seda Şalap-Ayça, Eric Shook, Seth Spielman, Wenfei Xu, and John Wilson. (2024). “A Research Agenda for GIScience in a Time of Disruptions,” International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Zied Abozied, Eman, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Kate Court, and Jack Roberts. (2024). “A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city,” The Geographical Journal

Houlden, Victoria, Caitlin Robinson, Rachel Franklin, Francisco Rowe, and Andy Pike. (2024). “Left Behind Neighbourhoods in England: Where They Are and Why They Matter,” The Geographical Journal

Wu, Yu-Tzu, Nutthida Kitwiroon, Sean Beevers, Benjamin Barratt, Carol Brayne, Ester Cerin, Rachel Franklin, Vikki Houlden, Bob Woods, Eman Zied Abozied, Matthew Prina, and Fiona Matthews. (2024). “The longitudinal associations between ambient air pollution exposure and dementia in the UK: results from the cognitive function and ageing study II and Wales,” BMC Public Health

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.

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

Franklin, Rachel. (2025). “All Theories Are Wrong but Some Are Useful,” Dialogues in Human Geography

Malleson, Nick, Rachel Franklin, Daniel Arribas-Bel, Tao Cheng, and Mark Birkin. (2024). “Digital twins on trial: Can they actually solve wicked societal problems and change the world for better?,” Environment and Planning B

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.