Lea Berrang‐Ford

14.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
143 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Lea Berrang‐Ford is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lea Berrang‐Ford has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in General Health Professions, 41 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 37 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Lea Berrang‐Ford's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (37 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (26 papers) and Indigenous Studies and Ecology (24 papers). Lea Berrang‐Ford is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (37 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (26 papers) and Indigenous Studies and Ecology (24 papers). Lea Berrang‐Ford collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Uganda. Lea Berrang‐Ford's co-authors include James D. Ford, Jaclyn Paterson, Robbert Biesbroek, Alexandra Lesnikowski, Tristan Pearce, Jody Heymann, Stéphanie Austin, Malcolm Araos, Shuaib Lwasa and Sherilee L. Harper and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lea Berrang‐Ford

141 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Are we adapting to climate change?

2010 645 citations Lea Berrang‐Ford, James D. Ford et al. profile →
Systematic review approaches for climate change adaptation research

2015 348 citations Lea Berrang‐Ford, James D. Ford et al. profile →
Climate change adaptation planning in large cities: A systematic global assessment

2016 255 citations Lea Berrang‐Ford, James D. Ford et al. profile →
Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake

2023 63 citations Nicholas P. Simpson, Portia Adade Williams et al. iScience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lea Berrang‐Ford Canada	50	2.7k	2.3k	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	143	7.3k
Pim Martens Netherlands	48	1.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	428 0.3×	916 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	188	11.0k
Jamie Bartram United States	61	1.3k 0.5×	499 0.2×	649 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	267	16.3k
Solomon Hsiang United States	29	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	916 0.6×	873 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	65	10.1k
Bryan Boruff Australia	29	3.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.2×	898 0.5×	540 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	108	8.0k
Diarmid Campbell‐Lendrum Switzerland	41	810 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	433 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	3.6k 3.4×	67	8.1k
Isaac Luginaah Canada	45	1.3k 0.5×	491 0.2×	412 0.3×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	348	7.4k
Deborah Balk United States	29	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	600 0.4×	472 0.4×	717 0.7×	79	11.0k
Melissa Leach United Kingdom	48	2.8k 1.0×	3.6k 1.6×	558 0.3×	505 0.4×	135 0.1×	159	10.2k
Marc A. Levy United States	26	1.3k 0.5×	3.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	365 0.3×	646 0.6×	50	13.7k
James D. Ford Canada	70	7.2k 2.6×	4.3k 1.8×	3.0k 1.8×	5.1k 4.0×	1.8k 1.7×	339	16.1k

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Bavel, Bianca van, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Piers Forster, et al.. (2025). The (Co)Benefits Portal—an evidence-based and climate policy-relevant tool for decision-making. Environmental Research Letters. 20(10). 103009–103009. 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, Dann, Y. T. Eunice Lo, Oliver Andrews, et al.. (2024). Expert judgement reveals current and emerging UK climate-mortality burden. The Lancet Planetary Health. 8(9). e684–e694. 5 indexed citations

Simpson, Nicholas P., Portia Adade Williams, Katharine J. Mach, et al.. (2023). Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake. iScience. 26(2). 105926–105926. 63 indexed citations breakdown →

Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, César Cárcamo, Lea Berrang‐Ford, et al.. (2023). The seasonality of nutrition status in Shawi Indigenous children in the Peruvian Amazon. PLOS Climate. 2(9). e0000284–e0000284. 1 indexed citations

Scarpa, Giulia, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, et al.. (2023). Assessing dietary adequacy and temporal variability in the context of Covid-19 among Indigenous and rural communities in Kanungu District, Uganda: a mixed-methods study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 25008–25008. 1 indexed citations

Turek‐Hankins, Lynée L., Erin Coughlan de Perez, Giulia Scarpa, et al.. (2021). Climate change adaptation to extreme heat: a global systematic review of implemented action. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1(1). 86 indexed citations

Coggins, Shaugn, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Keith Hyams, et al.. (2021). Empirical assessment of equity and justice in climate adaptation literature: a systematic map. Environmental Research Letters. 16(7). 73003–73003. 47 indexed citations

Scarpa, Giulia, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, et al.. (2021). A Community-Based Approach to Integrating Socio, Cultural and Environmental Contexts in the Development of a Food Database for Indigenous and Rural Populations: The Case of the Batwa and Bakiga in South-Western Uganda. Nutrients. 13(10). 3503–3503. 5 indexed citations

Patterson, Kaitlin, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Shuaib Lwasa, et al.. (2021). Seasonality, climate change, and food security during pregnancy among Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in rural Uganda: Implications for maternal-infant health. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0247198–e0247198. 32 indexed citations

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Scarpa, Giulia, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo, et al.. (2021). Developing an online food composition database for an Indigenous population in south-western Uganda. Public Health Nutrition. 24(9). 2455–2464. 11 indexed citations

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Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol, James D. Ford, Ingrid Arotoma‐Rojas, et al.. (2020). Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing Indigenous food systems. The Lancet Planetary Health. 4(9). e381–e382. 41 indexed citations

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Bavel, Bianca van, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Rebecca King, et al.. (2020). Integrating climate in Ugandan health and subsistence food systems: where diverse knowledges meet. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 1864–1864. 5 indexed citations

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Sanmartin, Claudia, et al.. (2020). The influence of low social support and living alone on premature mortality among aging Canadians. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 111(4). 594–605. 16 indexed citations

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Berrang‐Ford, Lea, Frances Wang, Alexandra Lesnikowski, James D. Ford, & Robbert Biesbroek. (2017). Towards the assessment of adaptation progress at the global level. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 34–47. 2 indexed citations

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Ford, James D. & Lea Berrang‐Ford. (2015). The 4Cs of adaptation tracking: consistency, comparability, comprehensiveness, coherency. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 21(6). 839–859. 92 indexed citations

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Hackett, Finola, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Eric M. Fèvre, & Pere P. Simarro. (2014). Incorporating Scale Dependence in Disease Burden Estimates: The Case of Human African Trypanosomiasis in Uganda. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 8(2). e2704–e2704. 14 indexed citations

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Farrell, Maxwell J., Lea Berrang‐Ford, & T. Jonathan Davies. (2013). The study of parasite sharing for surveillance of zoonotic diseases. Environmental Research Letters. 8(1). 15036–15036. 17 indexed citations

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Ford, James D. & Lea Berrang‐Ford. (2011). Climate change adaptation in developed nations : from theory to practice. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 88 indexed citations

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Berrang‐Ford, Lea, Olaf Berke, Sean Sweeney, & Abdelrahman Lubowa. (2010). Sleeping Sickness in Southeastern Uganda: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Disease Risk, 1970–2003. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 10(10). 977–988. 7 indexed citations

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Berrang‐Ford, Lea, Olaf Berke, Abdelrahman Lubowa, David Waltner‐Toews, & John McDermott. (2006). Spatial Analysis of Sleeping Sickness, Southeastern Uganda, 1970–2003. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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