Christopher T. Emrich

8.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
64 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Christopher T. Emrich is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher T. Emrich has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher T. Emrich's work include Disaster Management and Resilience (42 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (34 papers) and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (16 papers). Christopher T. Emrich is often cited by papers focused on Disaster Management and Resilience (42 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (34 papers) and Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (16 papers). Christopher T. Emrich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Christopher T. Emrich's co-authors include Susan L. Cutter, Christopher G. Burton, Kevin D. Ash, Eric Tate, Bryan Boruff, Melanie Gall, Zhenlong Li, Christopher Sampson, Mathew C. Schmidtlein and Wenfang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher T. Emrich

59 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions

2010 1.2k citations Susan L. Cutter, Christopher G. Burton et al. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management profile →
The geographies of community disaster resilience

2014 790 citations Susan L. Cutter, Kevin D. Ash et al. profile →
Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States

2021 263 citations Eric Tate, Christopher T. Emrich et al. Natural Hazards profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher T. Emrich United States	31	4.2k	3.3k	1.1k	930	595	64	6.3k
Eric Tate United States	24	4.0k 0.9×	3.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	865 0.9×	757 1.3×	48	6.4k
Christopher G. Burton United States	14	4.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	602 0.6×	627 1.1×	25	6.0k
Ilan Kelman United Kingdom	41	4.9k 1.2×	2.6k 0.8×	546 0.5×	841 0.9×	545 0.9×	261	7.7k
Bryan Boruff Australia	29	3.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	477 0.4×	831 0.9×	898 1.5×	108	8.0k
Rajib Shaw Japan	52	4.6k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	612 0.6×	580 0.6×	898 1.5×	377	9.3k
Joern Birkmann Germany	39	3.7k 0.9×	4.4k 1.3×	713 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.6k 2.7×	141	8.9k
Terry Cannon United Kingdom	22	5.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.0×	482 0.4×	675 0.7×	1.5k 2.5×	44	7.8k
John Handmer Australia	39	3.3k 0.8×	4.0k 1.2×	377 0.3×	699 0.8×	386 0.6×	161	6.8k
Mark Pelling United Kingdom	47	6.2k 1.5×	4.8k 1.4×	660 0.6×	714 0.8×	1.7k 2.9×	166	11.1k
Philip Berke United States	40	3.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	720 0.7×	404 0.4×	203 0.3×	113	6.1k

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Werder, Emily J., et al.. (2025). Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors associated with residential natural hazard risk. The Science of The Total Environment. 977. 179335–179335.

Ali, Javed, Alejandra R. Enríquez, Sanam K. Aksha, et al.. (2025). Transdisciplinary research promoting clean and resilient energy systems for socially vulnerable communities: A review. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 213. 115434–115434. 1 indexed citations

Stevens, Kelly A., Zhihua Qu, Yue Ge, et al.. (2025). Reimagining urban resilience and education hubs using a community-engaged, equity-centered approach. Progress in Disaster Science. 26. 100414–100414. 1 indexed citations

Mostafiz, Rubayet Bin, Melanie Gall, Robert V. Rohli, et al.. (2024). Wind risk and mitigation calculator framework for determining the wind annualized risk for single- and multi-family homes to support resilient community decision-making. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 21–33.

Thiamwong, Ladda, Rui Xie, Christopher T. Emrich, et al.. (2024). CLIMATE-CREATIVE COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH EQUITY IN LOW-INCOME SETTINGS. Innovation in Aging. 8(Supplement_1). 265–265.

Schumann, Ronald L., Christopher T. Emrich, Van Butsic, et al.. (2024). The geography of social vulnerability and wildfire occurrence (1984–2018) in the conterminous USA. Natural Hazards. 120(5). 4297–4327. 6 indexed citations

Derakhshan, Sahar, Christopher T. Emrich, & Susan L. Cutter. (2022). Degree and direction of overlap between social vulnerability and community resilience measurements. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0275975–e0275975. 21 indexed citations

Tate, Eric, et al.. (2021). Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States. Natural Hazards. 106(1). 435–457. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

Georgantopoulos, Peter, Jan M. Eberth, Bo Cai, et al.. (2021). A spatial assessment of prostate cancer mortality-to-incidence ratios among South Carolina veterans: 1999–2015. Annals of Epidemiology. 59. 24–32. 2 indexed citations

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Goodman, Zachary T., Caitlin A. Stamatis, Justin Stoler, Christopher T. Emrich, & María M. Llabre. (2021). Methodological challenges to confirmatory latent variable models of social vulnerability. Natural Hazards. 106(3). 2731–2749. 17 indexed citations

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Georgantopoulos, Peter, Jan M. Eberth, Bo Cai, et al.. (2020). Patient- and area-level predictors of prostate cancer among South Carolina veterans: a spatial analysis. Cancer Causes & Control. 31(3). 209–220. 6 indexed citations

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Reinhart, Debra R., et al.. (2020). Characterization of Florida, U.S. landfills with elevated temperatures. Waste Management. 118. 55–61. 19 indexed citations

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Knox, Claire Connolly, et al.. (2019). Advancing emergency management higher education: Importance of cultural competence scholarship. Journal of Emergency Management. 17(2). 111–117. 5 indexed citations

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Rufat, Samuel, et al.. (2019). How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models?. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109(4). 1131–1153. 181 indexed citations

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Emrich, Christopher T., et al.. (2019). Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding. Environmental Hazards. 19(3). 228–250. 119 indexed citations

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Li, Zhenlong, Cuizhen Wang, Christopher T. Emrich, & Diansheng Guo. (2017). A novel approach to leveraging social media for rapid flood mapping: a case study of the 2015 South Carolina floods. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 45(2). 97–110. 173 indexed citations

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Stoler, Justin, et al.. (2016). A GIS Approach to Identifying Socially and Medically Vulnerable Older Adult Populations in South Florida. The Gerontologist. 57(6). 1133–1141. 20 indexed citations

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Emrich, Christopher T., et al.. (2012). Research‐Based Decision Support in Hazard Mitigation: Louisiana Northshore Flood and Hurricane Protection. Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. 3(3). 38–68. 1 indexed citations

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Cutter, Susan L., Christopher G. Burton, & Christopher T. Emrich. (2010). Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 7(1). 1240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmidtlein, Mathew C., et al.. (2007). Vulnerability of U.S. Cities to Environmental Hazards. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 4(2). 168 indexed citations

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