Pavithra Vasudevan

930 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

Pavithra Vasudevan is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Pavithra Vasudevan has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Pavithra Vasudevan's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (6 papers) and Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 papers). Pavithra Vasudevan is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (6 papers) and Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 papers). Pavithra Vasudevan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Pavithra Vasudevan's co-authors include Sara Smith, Whitney R. Robinson, Elizabeth S. McClure, Zinzi Bailey, Snehal Patel, Mabel Denzin Gergan, Lizy K. John, Malini Ranganathan, R. E. Emanuel and Martina Angela Caretta and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Epidemiology, Environment and Planning D Society and Space and American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Pavithra Vasudevan

17 papers receiving 498 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.

Racial Capitalism Within Public Health—How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities

2020 183 citations Elizabeth S. McClure, Pavithra Vasudevan et al. American Journal of Epidemiology profile →

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Camilla Lewis United Kingdom

Felix Stein United Kingdom

Caroline Miller New Zealand

Holly R. Barcus United States

Andrew Benjamin United States

James Struthers United States

Surinder M. Bhardwaj United States

Michael Shin United States

Mike Evans Canada

Julia Christensen Canada

Camilla Lewis United Kingdom

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pavithra Vasudevan

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19 of 19 papers shown

Gergan, Mabel Denzin, et al.. (2024). Desirable Futures: Write Me a Letter. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 23(2). 91–106. 4 indexed citations

Gergan, Mabel Denzin, et al.. (2024). Desirable futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 42(1). 3–16. 3 indexed citations

Vasudevan, Pavithra, Whitney R. Robinson, Elizabeth S. McClure, Zinzi Bailey, & Snehal Patel. (2024). Racial Capitalism Within Public Health—How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities. UNC Libraries.

McClure, Elizabeth S., Whitney R. Robinson, Pavithra Vasudevan, et al.. (2023). Disparities in job characteristics by race and sex in a Southern aluminum smelting facility. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 66(4). 307–319.

Vasudevan, Pavithra, et al.. (2022). Storytelling Earth and Body. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(7). 1728–1744. 13 indexed citations

Emanuel, R. E., Martina Angela Caretta, Louie Rivers, & Pavithra Vasudevan. (2021). Natural Gas Gathering and Transmission Pipelines and Social Vulnerability in the United States. GeoHealth. 5(6). e2021GH000442–e2021GH000442. 28 indexed citations

Gergan, Mabel Denzin, et al.. (2021). Introduction to the special issue: Rethinking difference in India through racialization. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45(2). 193–215. 28 indexed citations

Vasudevan, Pavithra & Sara Smith. (2020). The domestic geopolitics of racial capitalism. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 38(7-8). 1160–1179. 34 indexed citations

McClure, Elizabeth S., Pavithra Vasudevan, Nathan DeBono, et al.. (2020). Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 63(9). 755–765. 13 indexed citations

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McClure, Elizabeth S., Pavithra Vasudevan, Zinzi Bailey, Snehal Patel, & Whitney R. Robinson. (2020). Racial Capitalism Within Public Health—How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities. American Journal of Epidemiology. 189(11). 1244–1253. 183 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vasudevan, Pavithra. (2019). Memory and the re-invention of place: The legacies of environmental justice in Warren County, North Carolina. Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Sara, et al.. (2019). Breaking families: Whiteness, state violence, and the alienable rights of kin. Political Geography. 72. 144–146. 18 indexed citations

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Vasudevan, Pavithra. (2019). An Intimate Inventory of Race and Waste. Antipode. 53(3). 770–790. 50 indexed citations

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Gergan, Mabel Denzin, Sara Smith, & Pavithra Vasudevan. (2018). Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 38(1). 91–110. 45 indexed citations

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Smith, Sara & Pavithra Vasudevan. (2017). Race, biopolitics, and the future: Introduction to the special section. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 35(2). 210–221. 53 indexed citations

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Vasudevan, Pavithra, et al.. (2015). RememberingKearneytown: race, place and collective memory in collaborative filmmaking. Area. 48(4). 455–462. 9 indexed citations

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Vasudevan, Pavithra, et al.. (2014). The Resilience of Race: A Cultural Sustainability Manifesto. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1(2). 3 indexed citations

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Vasudevan, Pavithra. (2012). Performance and Proximity: Revisiting environmental justice in Warren County, North Carolina. Performance Research. 17(4). 18–26. 12 indexed citations

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John, Lizy K., et al.. (2002). Workload characterization: motivation, goals and methodology. 3–14. 38 indexed citations

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