Amber Wutich

10.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
192 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Amber Wutich is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Amber Wutich has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 32 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Amber Wutich's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (61 papers), Water resources management and optimization (29 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (27 papers). Amber Wutich is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (61 papers), Water resources management and optimization (29 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (27 papers). Amber Wutich collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Amber Wutich's co-authors include Alexandra Brewis, Ashley Hagaman, Wendy Jepson, Sera L. Young, Kathleen Ragsdale, Dave D. White, Justin Stoler, Kelli L. Larson, Melissa Beresford and Paul Westerhoff and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amber Wutich

182 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

How Many Interviews Are Enough to Identify Metathemes in Multisited and Cross-cultural Research? Another Perspective on Guest, Bunce, and Johnson’s (2006) Landmark Study

2016 357 citations Amber Wutich et al. profile →
The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle-income countries

2019 214 citations Sera L. Young, Godfred O. Boateng et al. BMJ Global Health profile →
Sample Sizes for 10 Types of Qualitative Data Analysis: An Integrative Review, Empirical Guidance, and Next Steps

2024 48 citations Amber Wutich, Melissa Beresford et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amber Wutich United States	44	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	1.1k	961	192	6.6k
Sera L. Young United States	43	2.9k 1.4×	938 0.7×	2.7k 2.5×	485 0.5×	477 0.5×	203	9.4k
Alexandra Brewis United States	37	1.1k 0.5×	743 0.5×	872 0.8×	289 0.3×	312 0.3×	194	4.9k
Paul Gertler United States	61	3.0k 1.4×	2.2k 1.6×	2.8k 2.7×	151 0.1×	555 0.6×	229	14.6k
Susan J. Elliott Canada	45	628 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	128 0.1×	166 0.2×	265	6.6k
Godfred O. Boateng United States	26	892 0.4×	690 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	195 0.2×	191 0.2×	74	4.9k
Amber L. Pearson United States	31	471 0.2×	614 0.4×	497 0.5×	206 0.2×	250 0.3×	146	3.7k
Justin Stoler United States	35	1.1k 0.5×	762 0.5×	326 0.3×	386 0.4×	498 0.5×	104	3.1k
Günther Fink Switzerland	51	3.6k 1.7×	926 0.7×	2.3k 2.1×	66 0.1×	204 0.2×	312	10.7k
Quentin Wodon United States	36	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.4×	935 0.9×	208 0.2×	413 0.4×	359	7.2k
James D. Ford Canada	70	544 0.3×	7.2k 5.2×	5.1k 4.8×	292 0.3×	260 0.3×	339	16.1k

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Ulian, Mariana Dimitrov, et al.. (2025). What is the felt experience of weight stigma in Latin America and the Caribbean? A systematic narrative review. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. 101353–101353.

Roque, Anaís, Asher Y. Rosinger, Ellis Adjei Adams, et al.. (2024). Household water sharing: Implications for disaster recovery and water policy. 23. 100178–100178. 4 indexed citations

Snodgrass, Jeffrey G., Michael G. Lacy, Amber Wutich, et al.. (2024). Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice. 48(1). 20–35. 1 indexed citations

Roque, Anaís, Amber Wutich, Wenwen Li, et al.. (2024). Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research. Minerva. 63(3). 535–555. 2 indexed citations

Wutich, Amber, Robin Nelson, L. Zachary DuBois, et al.. (2024). “Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology”. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 186(S78). e70008–e70008. 3 indexed citations

Wutich, Amber, H. Russell Bernard, Krista Harper, et al.. (2024). New Teaching in Participatory Methods for Practicing Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology. 46(2). 104–107. 1 indexed citations

Thomson, Patrick, Amber L. Pearson, Emily Kumpel, et al.. (2024). Water Supply Interruptions Are Associated with More Frequent Stressful Behaviors and Emotions but Mitigated by Predictability: A Multisite Study. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(16). 7010–7019. 7 indexed citations

Wutich, Amber, Patrick Thomson, Wendy Jepson, et al.. (2023). MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 10(6). 30 indexed citations

Stoler, Justin, Wendy Jepson, Alexandra Brewis, & Amber Wutich. (2023). Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience. BMJ Global Health. 8(5). e011756–e011756. 11 indexed citations

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Wilson, Nicole J., Yanna Lambrinidou, Leila M. Harris, et al.. (2022). From “trust” to “trustworthiness”: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 6(1). 42–68. 37 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, Wendy Jepson, Anaís Roque, et al.. (2022). Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 9(4). 30 indexed citations

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Brewis, Alexandra, et al.. (2022). Water, economic systems, and mental health: A review of theorized relationships. CABI Reviews. 1 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, Melissa Beresford, Julia C. Bausch, et al.. (2020). Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management: Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Social Network Approaches. Society & Natural Resources. 33(7). 941–948. 13 indexed citations

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Young, Sera L., Shalean M. Collins, Godfred O. Boateng, et al.. (2019). Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. BMJ Open. 9(1). e023558–e023558. 75 indexed citations

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Young, Sera L., Godfred O. Boateng, Zeina Jamaluddine, et al.. (2019). The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 4(5). e001750–e001750. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brewis, Alexandra, et al.. (2019). Household water insecurity may influence common mental disorders directly and indirectly through multiple pathways: Evidence from Haiti. Social Science & Medicine. 238. 112520–112520. 67 indexed citations

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Schuster, Roseanne C., et al.. (2019). “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far‐reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low‐ and middle‐income countries. American Journal of Human Biology. 32(1). e23357–e23357. 65 indexed citations

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Stoler, Justin, Alexandra Brewis, Leila M. Harris, et al.. (2018). Household water sharing: a missing link in international health. International Health. 11(3). 163–165. 38 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, Jessica Budds, Wendy Jepson, et al.. (2018). Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(6). 67 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, et al.. (2017). Emotion, Coping, and Climate Change in Island Nations: Implications for Environmental Justice. Environmental Justice. 10(4). 102–107. 12 indexed citations

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