| Latino access to community colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions: A national study AM Núñez, P Johnelle Sparks, EA Hernández Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 10 (1), 18-40, 2011 | 306 | 2011 |
| Do biological, sociodemographic, and behavioral characteristics explain racial/ethnic disparities in preterm births? PJ Sparks Social science & medicine 68 (9), 1667-1675, 2009 | 96 | 2009 |
| Racial/ethnic differences in breastfeeding duration among WIC-eligible families PJ Sparks Women's Health Issues 21 (5), 374-382, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| Rural-urban differences in breastfeeding initiation in the United States PJ Sparks Journal of Human Lactation 26 (2), 118-129, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| An application of spatially autoregressive models to the study of US county mortality rates PJ Sparks, CS Sparks Population, Space and Place 16 (6), 465-481, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
| Who are linguistic minority students in higher education?: An analysis of the Beginning Postsecondary Students Study 2004 AM Nuñez, PJ Sparks Linguistic minority students go to college, 110-129, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| Does allostatic load calculation method matter? Evaluation of different methods and individual biomarkers functioning by race/ethnicity and educational level JT Howard, PJ Sparks American Journal of Human Biology 28 (5), 627-635, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| The role of education in explaining racial/ethnic allostatic load differentials in the United States JT Howard, PJ Sparks Biodemography and social biology 61 (1), 18-39, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Differential neonatal and postneonatal infant mortality rates across US counties: the role of socioeconomic conditions and rurality PJ Sparks, DK McLaughlin, CS Stokes The Journal of Rural Health 25 (4), 332-341, 2009 | 48 | 2009 |
| One size does not fit all: an examination of low birthweight disparities among a diverse set of racial/ethnic groups P Johnelle Sparks Maternal and child health journal 13, 769-779, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| An application of Bayesian spatial statistical methods to the study of racial and poverty segregation and infant mortality rates in the US P Johnelle Sparks, CS Sparks, JJA Campbell GeoJournal 78, 389-405, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Barriers to health care among adults with minoritized identities in the United States, 2013–2017 SM Hernandez, PJ Sparks American journal of public health 110 (6), 857-862, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| The role of postsecondary institutional urbanicity in college persistence. PJ Sparks, AM Nuňez Journal of Research in Rural Education 29 (6), 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Rural health disparities PJ Sparks International handbook of rural demography, 255-271, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| The effects of allostatic load on racial/ethnic mortality differences in the United States JT Howard, PJ Sparks Population Research and Policy Review 35, 421-443, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Who gets held back? An analysis of grade retention using stratified frailty models VN Locke, PJ Sparks Population Research and Policy Review 38 (5), 695-731, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Socioeconomic position, rural residence, and marginality influences on obesity status in the adult Mexican population PJ Sparks, CS Sparks International Journal of Population Research 2012, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| A demographic profile of obesity in the adult and veteran US populations in 2008 P Johnelle Sparks, M Bollinger Population research and policy review 30, 211-233, 2011 | 16 | 2011 |
| Towards conceptualizing and empirically examining legacy of place: An exploratory consideration of historic neighborhood characteristics on contemporary dropout behavior MJ Martinez, PJ Sparks Population Research and Policy Review 37, 419-441, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Childhood morbidities among income-and categorically-eligible WIC program participants and non-participants PJ Sparks Journal of Children and Poverty 16 (1), 47-66, 2010 | 9 | 2010 |
