Cecilia Sorensen

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Cecilia Sorensen is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cecilia Sorensen has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 18 papers in General Health Professions and 9 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Cecilia Sorensen's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (46 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (11 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (9 papers). Cecilia Sorensen is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (46 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (11 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (9 papers). Cecilia Sorensen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Cecilia Sorensen's co-authors include Jay Lemery, Jeremy Hess, Kristina T. Phillips, Andrew A. Monte, Kristen DeSanto, Laura M. Borgelt, John Balbus, Satchit Balsari, Lee S. Newman and Jaime Butler-Dawson and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Cecilia Sorensen

56 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

2018 402 citations Nishant Kishore, Ayesha S. Mahmud et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cecilia Sorensen United States	21	903	361	318	253	191	60	1.8k
Shin Yamazaki Japan	32	1.0k 1.1×	366 1.0×	468 1.5×	158 0.6×	139 0.7×	135	3.7k
Bian Liu United States	28	875 1.0×	222 0.6×	150 0.5×	163 0.6×	31 0.2×	169	2.7k
Nicos Middleton Cyprus	32	362 0.4×	835 2.3×	284 0.9×	311 1.2×	57 0.3×	155	3.1k
Yona Amitai Israel	27	829 0.9×	109 0.3×	363 1.1×	84 0.3×	128 0.7×	99	2.5k
Susan Williams Australia	24	1.4k 1.6×	694 1.9×	540 1.7×	185 0.7×	19 0.1×	69	2.2k
Amy Wolkin United States	25	631 0.7×	213 0.6×	94 0.3×	376 1.5×	156 0.8×	75	1.8k
Jean Peters United Kingdom	27	493 0.5×	964 2.7×	326 1.0×	294 1.2×	76 0.4×	70	3.5k
Jian Cheng China	31	2.3k 2.5×	557 1.5×	675 2.1×	80 0.3×	29 0.2×	163	3.4k
Lijun Wang China	27	1.4k 1.5×	646 1.8×	514 1.6×	44 0.2×	31 0.2×	109	3.5k
Tubao Yang China	31	175 0.2×	222 0.6×	258 0.8×	165 0.7×	52 0.3×	104	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Cecilia Sorensen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cecilia Sorensen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Breakey, Suellen, et al.. (2025). Nursing Climate Resources for Health Education (N-CRHE): Advancing education and empowering nurses for action. Nurse Education Today. 152. 106778–106778.

Hertelendy, Attila J., Courtney Howard, Cecilia Sorensen, et al.. (2024). Seasons of smoke and fire: preparing health systems for improved performance before, during, and after wildfires. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(8). e588–e602. 18 indexed citations

Sorensen, Cecilia & Linda P. Fried. (2024). Defining Roles and Responsibilities of the Health Workforce to Respond to the Climate Crisis. JAMA Network Open. 7(3). e241435–e241435. 11 indexed citations

Sorensen, Cecilia, Anneliese Depoux, Madelon Lubin Finkel, et al.. (2023). Core competencies to prepare health professionals to respond to the climate crisis. PLOS Climate. 2(6). e0000230–e0000230. 24 indexed citations

Sorensen, Cecilia, et al.. (2023). The impacts of climate migration on perinatal health and opportunities to safeguard perinatal well-being. Seminars in Perinatology. 47(8). 151845–151845. 1 indexed citations

Sorensen, Cecilia, et al.. (2023). Climate and health capacity building for health professionals in the Caribbean: A pilot course. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1077306–1077306. 12 indexed citations

Gonzales‐Pacheco, Diana, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms underlying food insecurity in the aftermath of climate-related shocks: a systematic review. The Lancet Planetary Health. 7(3). e242–e250. 18 indexed citations

Senay, Emily, J. Marshall Shepherd, Albert Rizzo, et al.. (2022). Mental Health and Well-Being for Patients and Clinicians. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 64(10). e661–e666. 3 indexed citations

Calderon, Jordan L., et al.. (2022). Managing upstream oil and gas emissions: A public health oriented approach. Journal of Environmental Management. 310. 114766–114766. 20 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Cecilia, John A. House, Katelyn O’Dell, et al.. (2021). Associations Between Wildfire‐Related PM_2.5 and Intensive Care Unit Admissions in the United States, 2006–2015. GeoHealth. 5(5). e2021GH000385–e2021GH000385. 25 indexed citations

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Dally, Miranda, Jaime Butler-Dawson, Cecilia Sorensen, et al.. (2020). Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and Recorded Occupational Injury Rates among Sugarcane Harvesters in Southwest Guatemala. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(21). 8195–8195. 20 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Cecilia, Lyndsay Krisher, Jaime Butler-Dawson, et al.. (2020). Workplace Screening Identifies Clinically Significant and Potentially Reversible Kidney Injury in Heat-Exposed Sugarcane Workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(22). 8552–8552. 14 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Cecilia, Renee N. Salas, Caitlin Rublee, et al.. (2020). Clinical Implications of Climate Change on US Emergency Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 76(2). 168–178. 43 indexed citations

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Lemery, Jay, et al.. (2019). Science Policy Training for a New Physician Leader: Description and Framework of a Novel Climate and Health Science Policy Fellowship. AEM Education and Training. 3(3). 233–242. 17 indexed citations

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Dally, Miranda, Jaime Butler-Dawson, Lyndsay Krisher, et al.. (2018). The impact of heat and impaired kidney function on productivity of Guatemalan sugarcane workers. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0205181–e0205181. 39 indexed citations

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Kishore, Nishant, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Mathew V. Kiang, et al.. (2018). Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. New England Journal of Medicine. 379(2). 162–170. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sorensen, Cecilia, Jaime Butler-Dawson, Miranda Dally, et al.. (2018). Risk Factors and Mechanisms Underlying Cross-Shift Decline in Kidney Function in Guatemalan Sugarcane Workers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 61(3). 239–250. 67 indexed citations

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Griffin, Benjamin R., Jaime Butler-Dawson, Miranda Dally, et al.. (2018). Unadjusted point of care creatinine results overestimate acute kidney injury incidence during field testing in Guatemala. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0204614–e0204614. 24 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Cecilia, et al.. (2017). Community Awareness of Stroke, Hypertension and Modifiable Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Nkonya-Wurupong, Ghana. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 32(S1). S208–S209. 6 indexed citations

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Sorensen, Cecilia. (2015). Hidden in Plain Sight: A Crowdsourced Public Art Contest to Make Automated External Defibrillators More Visible. Journal of Emergency Medicine. 48(3). 399–399. 1 indexed citations

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