Melissa Checker

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Melissa Checker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Checker has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 5 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Melissa Checker's work include Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (14 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers) and Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 papers). Melissa Checker is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (14 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 papers) and Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (4 papers). Melissa Checker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Spain. Melissa Checker's co-authors include James J. Connolly, Galia Shokry, Juliana Maantay, Kenneth A. Gould, Isabelle Anguelovski, J. Timmons Roberts, Andrew Maroko, Tammy L. Lewis, Hamil Pearsall and Cindy Isenhour and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Environment and Resources and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Checker

28 papers receiving 957 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.

  1. Wiped Out by the “Greenwave”: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability
    2011 450 citations Melissa Checker City & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melissa Checker United States 12 516 322 290 154 152 30 1.1k
Tammy L. Lewis United States 17 430 0.8× 244 0.8× 265 0.9× 88 0.6× 110 0.7× 28 1.1k
Jennifer L. Rice United States 20 502 1.0× 147 0.5× 556 1.9× 163 1.1× 64 0.4× 41 1.3k
Harold A. Perkins United States 11 293 0.6× 648 2.0× 502 1.7× 115 0.7× 337 2.2× 22 1.1k
Nikolas C. Heynen United States 5 368 0.7× 357 1.1× 392 1.4× 193 1.3× 230 1.5× 5 1.1k
Lucía Argüelles Spain 13 301 0.6× 473 1.5× 362 1.2× 107 0.7× 238 1.6× 24 977
Hillary Angelo United States 13 340 0.7× 182 0.6× 284 1.0× 377 2.4× 129 0.8× 26 1.1k
Karin Peters Netherlands 14 594 1.2× 645 2.0× 282 1.0× 91 0.6× 209 1.4× 33 1.1k
Kian Goh United States 10 651 1.3× 195 0.6× 514 1.8× 177 1.1× 57 0.4× 16 1.1k
Johan Enqvist Sweden 13 430 0.8× 246 0.8× 483 1.7× 79 0.5× 81 0.5× 24 1.2k
Hilda E. Kurtz United States 13 342 0.7× 206 0.6× 103 0.4× 74 0.5× 331 2.2× 28 883

Countries citing papers authored by Melissa Checker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Checker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Checker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melissa Checker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melissa Checker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Melissa Checker. Melissa Checker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Checker, Melissa, et al.. (2022). Transnational Social Movements: Environmentalist, Indigenous, and Agrarian Visions for Planetary Futures. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 47(1). 583–608. 15 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2021). Environmental Justice and Gentrification in New York City. Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 63(2). 16–27. 6 indexed citations
3.
Checker, Melissa. (2020). The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 9 indexed citations
4.
Checker, Melissa. (2020). Polluted Promises. New York University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Anguelovski, Isabelle, James J. Connolly, Hamil Pearsall, et al.. (2019). Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(52). 26139–26143. 192 indexed citations
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Isenhour, Cindy, Gary W. McDonogh, & Melissa Checker. (2016). Sustainability in the Global City. 4 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2016). From Friend To Foe And Back Again: Industry And Environmental Action.
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Isenhour, Cindy, Melissa Checker, Jennifer Hubbert, et al.. (2014). Sustainability in the Global City. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 28 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2012). “Make Us Whole”: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Skepticism. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 23(3). 35–51. 2 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa, et al.. (2011). “Year That Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11. American Anthropologist. 113(3). 491–497. 1 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2011). Wiped Out by the “Greenwave”: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability. City & Society. 23(2). 210–229. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Checker, Melissa, et al.. (2010). A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews. American Anthropologist. 112(1). 5–6. 12 indexed citations
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Wali, Alaka, et al.. (2010). PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY: Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2010. American Anthropologist. 112(3). 458–458. 1 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2008). Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves: African Diasporic Environmental Justice Movements. Souls. 10(4). 390–408. 7 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2007). “But I Know It’s True”: Environmental Risk Assessment, Justice, and Anthropology. Human Organization. 66(2). 112–124. 89 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2005). From Friend To Foe And Back Again: Industry And Environmental Action In The Urban South. Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development. 34(1). 7–44. 2 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2005). Responsibility and Liability. Anthropology News. 46(8). 6–7. 2 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa. (2005). Environmental Justice Pushed Backwards by Bush Administration. Anthropology News. 46(6). 43–43. 2 indexed citations
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Checker, Melissa, et al.. (2004). Local Actions. Columbia University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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