Samuel D. Brody

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Samuel D. Brody is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel D. Brody has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 28 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Samuel D. Brody's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (60 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (31 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). Samuel D. Brody is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (60 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (31 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (27 papers). Samuel D. Brody collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Samuel D. Brody's co-authors include Wesley E. Highfield, Sammy Zahran, Himanshu Grover, Arnold Vedlitz, Walter Gillis Peacock, Jung Eun Kang, Russell Blessing, David R. Godschalk, Raymond J. Burby and Zhenghong Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Samuel D. Brody

111 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Examining the Relationship Between Physical Vulnerability and Public Perceptions of Global Climate Change in the United States

2007 471 citations Samuel D. Brody, Sammy Zahran et al. profile →

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Richard J. T. Klein Sweden

Joern Birkmann Germany

Mark Pelling United Kingdom

Suraje Dessai United Kingdom

Ian Burton Canada

Susanne C. Moser United States

Amy Luers United States

Robert W. Kates United States

Karen O’Brien Norway

Jon Barnett Australia

Richard J. T. Klein Sweden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel D. Brody

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel D. Brody

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samuel D. Brody. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samuel D. Brody 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 Samuel D. Brody. Samuel D. Brody is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Grover, Himanshu, et al.. (2025). Indirect experiences and storm risk perceptions: Case study – Texas, United States. The Science of The Total Environment. 1001. 180491–180491.

Ho, Yu‐Hsuan, et al.. (2025). Improving flood damage estimation by integrating property elevation data. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 118. 105251–105251.

Fares, Ali, et al.. (2025). Revealing Emerging Hydroclimatic Shifts: Advanced Trend Analysis of Rainfall and Streamflow in the Navasota River Watershed. Hydrology. 13(1). 12–12.

Blessing, Russell, et al.. (2024). Non-locality and spillover effects of residential flood damage on community recovery: Insights from high-resolution flood claim and mobility data. Sustainable Cities and Society. 117. 105947–105947. 3 indexed citations

Stephens, Keri K., et al.. (2024). Rectifying a flood data desert one step at a time: a co-created, engaged scholarship approach. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 52(3). 421–434. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Cheng‐Chun, et al.. (2024). Predicting peak inundation depths with a physics informed machine learning model. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14826–14826. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Faxi, Cheng-Chun Lee, William H. Mobley, et al.. (2023). Predicting road flooding risk with crowdsourced reports and fine-grained traffic data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 8 indexed citations

Newman, Galen, et al.. (2021). Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas. Environmental Conservation. 48(2). 118–126. 17 indexed citations

Mobley, William H., et al.. (2021). Quantification of continuous flood hazard using random forest classification and flood insurance claims at large spatial scales: a pilot study in southeast Texas. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(2). 807–822. 52 indexed citations

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Sebastian, Antonia, Wesley E. Highfield, Samuel D. Brody, & William H. Mobley. (2019). Leveraging Machine Learning and Twitter Data to Identify High Hazard Areas during Hurricane Harvey.

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Brody, Samuel D., et al.. (2017). Hurricane Recovery and Ecological Resilience: Measuring the Impacts of Wetland Alteration Post Hurricane Ike on the Upper TX Coast. Environmental Management. 60(6). 1116–1126. 18 indexed citations

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Newman, Galen, Alison Smith, & Samuel D. Brody. (2017). Repurposing Vacant Land through Landscape Connectivity. Landscape Journal. 36(1). 37–57. 29 indexed citations

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Louchouarn, Patrick, Karl Kaiser, Matthew J. Norwood, et al.. (2015). From Ecosystem-Scale to Litter Biochemistry: Controls on Carbon Sequestration in Coastal Wetlands of the Western Gulf of Mexico. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Armitage, Anna R., Wesley E. Highfield, Samuel D. Brody, & Patrick Louchouarn. (2015). The Contribution of Mangrove Expansion to Salt Marsh Loss on the Texas Gulf Coast. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0125404–e0125404. 124 indexed citations

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Highfield, Wesley E., et al.. (2012). Examining the 100‐Year Floodplain as a Metric of Risk, Loss, and Household Adjustment. Risk Analysis. 33(2). 186–191. 89 indexed citations

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Zahran, Sammy, Samuel D. Brody, Walter Gillis Peacock, Arnold Vedlitz, & Himanshu Grover. (2008). Social vulnerability and the natural and built environment: a model of flood casualties in Texas. Disasters. 32(4). 537–560. 239 indexed citations

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Brody, Samuel D., Sammy Zahran, Wesley E. Highfield, Himanshu Grover, & Arnold Vedlitz. (2007). Identifying the impact of the built environment on flood damage in Texas. Disasters. 32(1). 1–18. 121 indexed citations

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Brody, Samuel D., et al.. (2004). Conflict on the Coast: Using Geographic Information Systems to Map Potential Environmental Disputes in Matagorda Bay, Texas. Environmental Management. 34(1). 11–25. 39 indexed citations

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Brody, Samuel D., B. Mitchell Peck, & Wesley E. Highfield. (2004). Examining Localized Patterns of Air Quality Perception in Texas: A Spatial and Statistical Analysis. Risk Analysis. 24(6). 1561–1574. 170 indexed citations

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Brody, Samuel D.. (1996). Marine protected areas in the Gulf of Maine. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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