Sameer H. Shah

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 607 citations indexed

About

Sameer H. Shah is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sameer H. Shah has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 607 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sameer H. Shah's work include Water Governance and Infrastructure (11 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (9 papers). Sameer H. Shah is often cited by papers focused on Water Governance and Infrastructure (11 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (9 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (9 papers). Sameer H. Shah collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Sameer H. Shah's co-authors include Leila M. Harris, Amber Wutich, Sera L. Young, Justin Stoler, Amber L. Pearson, Jessica Budds, Chad Staddon, Laura Eichelberger, Emma S. Norman and Kathleen O’Reilly and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

Sameer H. Shah

31 papers receiving 593 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.

A systematic scoping review of the Social Vulnerability Index as applied to natural hazards

2024 30 citations Sameer H. Shah, Fernando Tormos‐Aponte et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sameer H. Shah Canada	12	198	189	165	125	88	34	607
Jamie E. Shinn United States	9	141 0.7×	146 0.8×	143 0.9×	92 0.7×	88 1.0×	23	455
Luke Whaley United Kingdom	10	131 0.7×	152 0.8×	124 0.8×	113 0.9×	108 1.2×	20	461
Deepa Joshi United Kingdom	14	252 1.3×	107 0.6×	260 1.6×	57 0.5×	106 1.2×	43	684
Larry A. Swatuk Canada	16	211 1.1×	94 0.5×	322 2.0×	279 2.2×	133 1.5×	53	701
Anna Mdee United Kingdom	15	90 0.5×	51 0.3×	132 0.8×	58 0.5×	72 0.8×	51	490
Lucy Rodina Canada	12	128 0.6×	55 0.3×	251 1.5×	109 0.9×	219 2.5×	15	576
Kathleen O’Reilly United States	8	202 1.0×	336 1.8×	157 1.0×	95 0.8×	31 0.4×	11	604
Emma S. Norman United States	16	378 1.9×	202 1.1×	340 2.1×	252 2.0×	160 1.8×	36	1.0k
Anjal Prakash India	14	60 0.3×	62 0.3×	287 1.7×	98 0.8×	243 2.8×	38	712
Henry Bikwibili Tantoh South Africa	12	76 0.4×	72 0.4×	82 0.5×	67 0.5×	65 0.7×	23	308

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shah, Sameer H.. (2025). Sustainability for the Forgotten. The AAG Review of Books. 13(2). 23–24. 1 indexed citations

Roque, Anaís, et al.. (2025). Mitigating compounding hazard impacts on public health through a community co-created toolkit on food-energy-water (FEW) insecurity. Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal. 34(4). 500–513.

Stoler, Justin, et al.. (2025). The rise of hazard gentrification. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 126. 105618–105618.

Shah, Sameer H., et al.. (2025). Beyond unintentionality: considering climate maladaptation as cyclical. Climatic Change. 178(4).

Shah, Sameer H., Leila M. Harris, K. J. Joy, Trevor Birkenholtz, & Idowu Ajibade. (2024). Re-conceptualizing climate maladaptation: Complementing social-ecological interactions with relational socionatures. Global Environmental Change. 88. 102910–102910. 2 indexed citations

Beresford, Melissa, Ellis Adjei Adams, Jessica Budds, et al.. (2024). Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures. Environmental Research Letters. 20(1). 13003–13003. 2 indexed citations

Wilson, Nicole J., et al.. (2024). Climate–water crises: critically engaging relational, spatial, and temporal dimensions. Ecology and Society. 29(4). 2 indexed citations

Shah, Sameer H., Leila M. Harris, Justin Stoler, et al.. (2023). Variations in household water affordability and water insecurity: An intersectional perspective from 18 low- and middle-income countries. PubMed. 2(3). 369–398. 19 indexed citations

Workman, Cassandra L., et al.. (2023). Frequency and perceived difficulty of household water experiences in Morogoro, Tanzania: Evidence of the psychosocial burden of water insecurity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100295–100295. 4 indexed citations

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Roque, Anaís, et al.. (2023). Justice and injustice in “Modular, Adaptive and Decentralized” (MAD) water systems. 20. 100151–100151. 5 indexed citations

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Shah, Sameer H., Leila M. Harris, Mark S. Johnson, & Hannah Wittman. (2021). A 'Drought-Free' Maharashtra? Politicising Water Conservation for Rain-Dependent Agriculture. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations

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Park, Hogeun, et al.. (2021). How do farmers adapt to agricultural risks in northern India? An agent-based exploration of alternate theories of decision-making. Journal of Environmental Management. 298. 113353–113353. 10 indexed citations

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Shah, Sameer H.. (2021). Advancing livelihood water security in the rural global south. Open Collections. 3 indexed citations

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Harris, Leila M., et al.. (2019). Water Governance: Retheorizing Politics. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 2 indexed citations

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Shah, Sameer H., et al.. (2019). Does Household Capital Mediate the Uptake of Agricultural Land, Crop, and Livestock Adaptations? Evidence From the Indo-Gangetic Plains (India). Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 3. 20 indexed citations

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Shah, Sameer H. & Vishal Narain. (2019). Re-framing India’s “water crisis”: An institutions and entitlements perspective. Geoforum. 101. 76–79. 23 indexed citations

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Angeles, Leonora C. & Sameer H. Shah. (2019). Re-scaling and re-contextualizing agriculture-industry synergies for rural development: the case of an urbanizing rurality in the Philippines. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 48(5). 1033–1053. 8 indexed citations

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Shah, Sameer H. & Lucy Rodina. (2018). Water ethics, justice, and equity in social-ecological systems conservation: lessons from the Queensland Wild Rivers Act. Water Policy. 20(5). 933–952. 6 indexed citations

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Jepson, Wendy, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger, et al.. (2017). Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 1. 46–52. 195 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, Jessica Budds, Laura Eichelberger, et al.. (2017). Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance. PubMed. 2. 1–10. 97 indexed citations

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