Katie Meehan

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Katie Meehan is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katie Meehan has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Katie Meehan's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (16 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers). Katie Meehan is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (16 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (7 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers). Katie Meehan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Katie Meehan's co-authors include Nicole Klenk, Kendra Strauss, Ian Shaw, Cerian Gibbes, Jason R. Jurjevich, Sallie A. Marston, Paul Robbins, Hannah Gosnell, Fabián Méndez and Susan J. Gilbertz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Katie Meehan

34 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Tool-power: Water infrastructure as wellsprings of state power

2013 202 citations Katie Meehan Geoforum profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katie Meehan United States	18	559	493	386	198	197	34	1.6k
Chad Staddon United Kingdom	20	369 0.7×	353 0.7×	385 1.0×	58 0.3×	382 1.9×	74	1.7k
Lyla Mehta United Kingdom	26	981 1.8×	771 1.6×	547 1.4×	90 0.5×	299 1.5×	103	2.6k
Tom Perreault United States	14	686 1.2×	664 1.3×	291 0.8×	155 0.8×	42 0.2×	25	1.7k
Jessica Budds United Kingdom	23	734 1.3×	1.6k 3.2×	429 1.1×	245 1.2×	438 2.2×	45	2.8k
Maria Rusca Netherlands	26	446 0.8×	554 1.1×	662 1.7×	76 0.4×	383 1.9×	58	2.1k
David Manuel‐Navarrete United States	27	938 1.7×	110 0.2×	773 2.0×	108 0.5×	63 0.3×	55	2.2k
Leila M. Harris Canada	36	1.3k 2.3×	1.4k 2.9×	770 2.0×	360 1.8×	633 3.2×	100	3.7k
Anna Wesselink Netherlands	22	541 1.0×	298 0.6×	797 2.1×	32 0.2×	81 0.4×	52	1.6k
Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt Australia	23	869 1.6×	389 0.8×	104 0.3×	83 0.4×	43 0.2×	128	1.8k
Marcus Taylor Canada	23	1.0k 1.8×	257 0.5×	1.0k 2.6×	48 0.2×	34 0.2×	44	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katie Meehan

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Underhill, Helen, et al.. (2025). Water, sanitation, and hygiene inequities in high-income countries: an introduction and agenda. Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 15(3). iii–xii. 2 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie, et al.. (2024). Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities. Nature Cities. 2(1). 93–103. 13 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie. (2024). Water shutoffs, social reproduction, and the carceral state: Policing life's work through the weaponization of water. Political Geography. 117. 103087–103087. 4 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Sharlene Mollett, & Laura Pulido. (2023). Unsettling Race, Nature, and Environment in Geography. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(7). 1535–1542. 3 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie, et al.. (2023). Homelessness and water insecurity in the Global North: Trapped in the dwelling paradox. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 10(4). 12 indexed citations

Wutich, Amber, Wendy Jepson, Justin Stoler, et al.. (2021). A Global Agenda for Household Water Security: Measurement, Monitoring, and Management. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 57(4). 530–538. 11 indexed citations

Staddon, Chad, Mark Everard, Julie Mytton, et al.. (2020). Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis. Water International. 45(5). 416–422. 44 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie, et al.. (2020). Geographies of insecure water access and the housing–water nexus in US cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(46). 28700–28707. 117 indexed citations

Meehan, Katie. (2019). Water Justice and the Law in Latin America. Latin American Research Review. 54(2). 517–523. 1 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie, et al.. (2017). Sociotechnical imaginaries of urban development: social movements around “traditional” water infrastructure in the Kathmandu Valley. Urban Geography. 39(5). 763–782. 14 indexed citations

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Klenk, Nicole, et al.. (2017). Local knowledge in climate adaptation research: moving knowledge frameworks from extraction to co‐production. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 8(5). 155 indexed citations

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Griffin, Nicholas, et al.. (2016). The cultural dimensions of household water security: the case of Kathmandu’s stone spout systems. Water International. 41(7). 982–997. 12 indexed citations

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Klenk, Nicole & Katie Meehan. (2015). Climate change and transdisciplinary science: Problematizing the integration imperative. Environmental Science & Policy. 54. 160–167. 167 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie, et al.. (2013). Remaking Waste as Water: The Governance of Recycled Effluent for Potable Water Supply. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 25 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie. (2013). Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities. By Martin V. Melosi. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. xiv + 288 pp. Illustrations, tables, maps, notes, and index. Paper $27.95.. Environmental History. 18(1). 242–243. 1 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie, Ian Shaw, & Sallie A. Marston. (2013). Political geographies of the object. Political Geography. 33. 1–10. 82 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie. (2013). Disciplining De Facto Development: Water Theft and Hydrosocial Order in Tijuana. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 31(2). 319–336. 80 indexed citations

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Meehan, Katie. (2013). Tool-power: Water infrastructure as wellsprings of state power. Geoforum. 57. 215–224. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meehan, Katie. (2010). Greywater and the grid: Explaining informal water use in Tijuana. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 2(3). 191–196. 3 indexed citations

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Robbins, Paul, Katie Meehan, Hannah Gosnell, & Susan J. Gilbertz. (2009). Writing the New West: A Critical Review*. Rural Sociology. 74(3). 356–382. 82 indexed citations

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