Megan Sandel

8.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
117 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Megan Sandel is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Sandel has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in General Health Professions, 18 papers in Health and 18 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Megan Sandel's work include Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (43 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (33 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers). Megan Sandel is often cited by papers focused on Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (43 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (33 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (18 papers). Megan Sandel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Iran. Megan Sandel's co-authors include Barry Zuckerman, George O'connor, Laura M. Gottlieb, Leonard B. Bacharier, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Robert S. Zeiger, Scott T. Weiss, Augusto A. Litonjua, Ellen Lawton and Kathleen Conroy and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Megan Sandel

113 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Effect of Prenatal Supplementation With Vitamin D on Asthma or Recurrent Wheezing in Offspring by Age 3 Years

2016 292 citations Augusto A. Litonjua, George O'connor et al. profile →
Implementing an EHR-based Screening and Referral System to Address Social Determinants of Health in Primary Care

2019 221 citations Allison Bovell-Ammon, Arvin Garg et al. profile →
Part II: A Qualitative Study of Social Risk Screening Acceptability in Patients and Caregivers

2019 174 citations Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Megan Sandel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Sandel United States	43	2.3k	827	695	645	560	117	5.2k
Nawi Ng Sweden	38	1.1k 0.5×	490 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	755 1.2×	389 0.7×	180	4.9k
Beti Thompson United States	41	2.1k 0.9×	862 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	382 0.6×	489 0.9×	181	6.0k
S. V. Subramanian United States	40	1.5k 0.7×	415 0.5×	853 1.2×	1.7k 2.6×	343 0.6×	105	4.4k
Silvia Stringhini Switzerland	36	1.5k 0.6×	546 0.7×	1.3k 1.9×	1.5k 2.4×	470 0.8×	167	5.3k
Regine Haardörfer United States	29	957 0.4×	668 0.8×	562 0.8×	387 0.6×	202 0.4×	177	3.3k
Kenneth C. Schoendorf United States	38	1.2k 0.5×	793 1.0×	808 1.2×	567 0.9×	1.2k 2.1×	69	5.0k
Stig Wall Sweden	44	1.2k 0.5×	387 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	646 1.0×	473 0.8×	142	6.6k
Lauren M. Rossen United States	31	964 0.4×	421 0.5×	998 1.4×	553 0.9×	258 0.5×	78	3.4k
Ria Laubscher South Africa	35	1.1k 0.5×	497 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	456 0.7×	129 0.2×	117	4.4k
Vânia Naomi Hirakata Brazil	22	1.2k 0.5×	476 0.6×	991 1.4×	515 0.8×	180 0.3×	100	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Sandel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Sandel

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Cuba, Stephanie Ettinger de, David K. Jones, Diana B. Cutts, et al.. (2025). “But who takes care of the mom?”: The daily experiences of immigrant mothers navigating health in family life. Social Science & Medicine. 372. 117948–117948. 1 indexed citations

Lê‐Scherban, Félice, S. M. Coleman, Deborah A. Frank, et al.. (2025). Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health. Social Science & Medicine. 366. 117695–117695. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Man, Meghan Perkins, Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro, et al.. (2023). Association between unmet social needs and healthy lifestyle parenting behaviors. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 11. 1015610–1015610. 4 indexed citations

Sandel, Megan, et al.. (2023). The Legacy of Slavery and the Socialization of Black Female Health and Human Services Workforce Members in Addressing Social Determinants of Health. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 11(1). 192–202. 1 indexed citations

Parker, Margaret G., Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Megan Sandel, et al.. (2023). Associations of household unmet basic needs and health outcomes among very low birth weight children. Journal of Perinatology. 43(3). 364–370. 3 indexed citations

Cuba, Stephanie Ettinger de, Allison Bovell-Ammon, Ana Poblacion, et al.. (2023). Child Care Feeding Programs Associated With Food Security and Health for Young Children From Families With Low Incomes. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 123(10). 1429–1439. 4 indexed citations

Parker, Margaret G., Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Megan Sandel, et al.. (2022). Household unmet basic needs in the first 1000 days and preterm birth status. Journal of Perinatology. 42(3). 389–396. 9 indexed citations

Sandel, Megan, et al.. (2022). Perpetuating Commodification of Suffering: How Social Determinants of Health Framing Prolongs Historical Racial Inequities. Women s Health Reports. 3(1). 281–285. 3 indexed citations

Zanobetti, Antonella, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Ana Poblacion, et al.. (2022). Critical windows of susceptibility for the effects of prenatal exposure to heat and heat variability on gestational growth. Environmental Research. 216(Pt 2). 114607–114607. 13 indexed citations

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Sheward, Richard, et al.. (2019). Promoting Caregiver and Child Health through Housing Stability Screening in Clinical Settings.. Zero to three. 39(4). 52–59. 5 indexed citations

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Chandra, Shilpi, Gerhard Wingender, Jason Greenbaum, et al.. (2018). Development of Asthma in Inner-City Children: Possible Roles of MAIT Cells and Variation in the Home Environment. The Journal of Immunology. 200(6). 1995–2003. 34 indexed citations

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Bacharier, Leonard B., Avraham Beigelman, Agustin Calatroni, et al.. (2018). Longitudinal Phenotypes of Respiratory Health in a High-Risk Urban Birth Cohort. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 199(1). 71–82. 64 indexed citations

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Savage, Jessica H., Kathleen Lee‐Sarwar, Joanne E. Sordillo, et al.. (2017). A prospective microbiome‐wide association study of food sensitization and food allergy in early childhood. Allergy. 73(1). 145–152. 183 indexed citations

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Ramratnam, Sima, Cynthia M. Visness, Katy F. Jaffee, et al.. (2016). Relationships among Maternal Stress and Depression, Type 2 Responses, and Recurrent Wheezing at Age 3 Years in Low-Income Urban Families. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 195(5). 674–681. 41 indexed citations

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Sandel, Megan, Diana B. Cutts, Alan Meyers, et al.. (2015). Co-enrollment for Child Health: How Receipt and Loss of Food and Housing Subsidies Relate to Housing Security and Statutes for Streamlined, Multi-Subsidy Application. Journal of Applied Research on Children Informing Policy for Children at Risk. 5(2). 12 indexed citations

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Sandel, Megan, Asa Bradman, J. P. W. Hughes, et al.. (2010). Housing Interventions and Control of Health-Related Chemical Agents. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 16(5). S24–S33. 31 indexed citations

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Wright, Rosalind J., Cynthia M. Visness, Agustin Calatroni, et al.. (2010). Prenatal Maternal Stress and Cord Blood Innate and Adaptive Cytokine Responses in an Inner-City Cohort. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 182(1). 25–33. 181 indexed citations

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Gern, James E., Cynthia M. Visness, Peter J. Gergen, et al.. (2009). The Urban Environment and Childhood Asthma (URECA) birth cohort study: design, methods, and study population. BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 9(1). 17–17. 73 indexed citations

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Silverstein, Michael, Kathleen Conroy, & Megan Sandel. (2008). Screening for Social Determinants of Health in Pediatric Primary Care. Pediatric Annals. 37(11). 740–746. 29 indexed citations

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Lawton, Ellen, et al.. (2008). Public Health Legal Services: A New Vision. SSRN Electronic Journal. 15. 729–780. 2 indexed citations

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