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Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961–2005

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, April 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#49 of 654)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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2 policy sources
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6 X users
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3 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961–2005
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, April 2008
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-7-16
Pubmed ID
Authors

Kristian Larsen, Jason Gilliland

Abstract

A growing body of research suggests that the suburbanization of food retailers in North America and the United Kingdom in recent decades has contributed to the emergence of urban 'food deserts', or disadvantaged areas of cities with relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food. This paper explores the evolution of food deserts in a mid-sized Canadian city (London, Ontario) by using a geographic information system (GIS) to map the precise locations of supermarkets in 1961 and 2005; multiple techniques of network analysis were used to assess changing levels of supermarket access in relation to neighbourhood location, socioeconomic characteristics, and access to public transit.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 12 3%
Canada 9 2%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Unknown 450 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 117 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 69 14%
Student > Bachelor 59 12%
Researcher 52 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 7%
Other 81 17%
Unknown 67 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 132 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 46 10%
Environmental Science 42 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 5%
Other 107 22%
Unknown 96 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 November 2023.
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#1,513,888
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Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#49
of 654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,466
of 94,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#2
of 8 outputs
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