Jayajit Chakraborty

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Jayajit Chakraborty is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jayajit Chakraborty has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 45 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 12 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Jayajit Chakraborty's work include Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (54 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (35 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (18 papers). Jayajit Chakraborty is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (54 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (35 papers) and Risk Perception and Management (18 papers). Jayajit Chakraborty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Jayajit Chakraborty's co-authors include Sara E. Grineski, Timothy W. Collins, Shawn Landry, Bruce C. Mitchell, Marilyn Montgomery, Marc P. Armstrong, Juliana Maantay, Jean D. Brender, Burrell E. Montz and Graham A. Tobin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Jayajit Chakraborty

89 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice

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Peers

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Timothy W. Collins United States

Sara E. Grineski United States

Bryan Boruff Australia

Sara Meerow United States

James J. Connolly United States

Isabelle Anguelovski Spain

Sammy Zahran United States

Sarah Nicholls United States

Juliana Maantay United States

Sharon L. Harlan United States

Timothy W. Collins United States

Jayajit Chakraborty

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1.3k ×0.7

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1.2k ×0.9

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242 ×0.5

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244 ×0.5

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jayajit Chakraborty

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20 of 20 papers shown

Goodson, Amanda, et al.. (2025). Understanding Interpersonal Violence Incidence in a U.S.–Mexico Border Community. Journal of Forensic Nursing. 21(4). 222–230.

Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2024). Using Local Indicators of Spatial Association to Analyze the Environmental Justice Implications of Ambient Air Pollution in the United States. Environmental Justice. 18(1). 57–67. 1 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Jayajit, et al.. (2023). Social Inequities in Exposure to Traffic-Related Air and Noise Pollution at Public Schools in Texas. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(7). 5308–5308. 5 indexed citations

Basu, Pratyusha & Jayajit Chakraborty. (2021). Hazardous industries and distributive environmental injustice in Ahmedabad, India. Asian Geographer. 39(2). 177–198. 3 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Jayajit & Pratyusha Basu. (2021). Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India: Connecting Particulate Pollution to Social Disadvantages. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(1). 304–304. 30 indexed citations

Mitchell, Bruce C., Jayajit Chakraborty, & Pratyusha Basu. (2021). Social Inequities in Urban Heat and Greenspace: Analyzing Climate Justice in Delhi, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(9). 4800–4800. 39 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2020). Social inequities in the distribution of COVID-19: An intra-categorical analysis of people with disabilities in the U.S.. Disability and health journal. 14(1). 101007–101007. 30 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Jayajit & Pratyusha Basu. (2018). Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities: Environmental Injustice in Gujarat, India. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(1). 42–42. 15 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2018). Proximity to extremely hazardous substances for people with disabilities: A case study in Houston, Texas. Disability and health journal. 12(1). 121–125. 13 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit, Timothy W. Collins, Sara E. Grineski, & Alejandra Maldonado. (2017). Racial Differences in Perceptions of Air Pollution Health Risk: Does Environmental Exposure Matter?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 14(2). 116–116. 41 indexed citations

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Maldonado, Alejandra, Timothy W. Collins, Sara E. Grineski, & Jayajit Chakraborty. (2016). Exposure to Flood Hazards in Miami and Houston: Are Hispanic Immigrants at Greater Risk than Other Social Groups?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 13(8). 775–775. 71 indexed citations

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Collins, Timothy W., et al.. (2015). Downscaling Environmental Justice Analysis: Determinants of Household-Level Hazardous Air Pollutant Exposure in Greater Houston. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(4). 684–703. 79 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit, et al.. (2014). The relationship between industrial air pollution and social disadvantage in Australia: National and regional inequities. 48(4). 35. 2 indexed citations

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Grineski, Sara E., Timothy W. Collins, Jayajit Chakraborty, & Yolanda J. McDonald. (2012). Environmental Health Injustice: Exposure to Air Toxics and Children's Respiratory Hospital Admissions in El Paso, Texas. The Professional Geographer. 65(1). 31–46. 31 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2011). Cancer risk from exposure to hazardous air pollutants: spatial and social inequities in Tampa Bay, Florida. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 22(2). 165–183. 25 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit, et al.. (2010). Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Exposure to Fast Food in Hillsborough County, Florida. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 83–92. 3 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit. (2009). Automobiles, Air Toxics, and Adverse Health Risks: Environmental Inequities in Tampa Bay, Florida. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99(4). 674–697. 119 indexed citations

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Chakraborty, Jayajit, et al.. (2009). Federal Disaster Relief in the U.S.: The Role of Political Partisanship and Preference in Presidential Disaster Declarations and Turndowns. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 6(1). 37 indexed citations

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Basu, Pratyusha & Jayajit Chakraborty. (2008). Land, Labor, and Rural Development: Analyzing Participation in India's Village Dairy Cooperatives. The Professional Geographer. 60(3). 299–313. 18 indexed citations

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Killewo, Japhet, et al.. (2006). Perceived delay in healthcare-seeking for episodes of serious illness and its implications for safe motherhood interventions in rural Bangladesh.. PubMed. 24(4). 403–12. 100 indexed citations

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