Sara Ahmed

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 427 citations indexed

About

Sara Ahmed is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Ahmed has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 427 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 1 paper in Soil Science and 1 paper in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sara Ahmed's work include Land Rights and Reforms (1 paper), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (1 paper) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 paper). Sara Ahmed is often cited by papers focused on Land Rights and Reforms (1 paper), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (1 paper) and Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 paper). Sara Ahmed collaborates with scholars based in France. Sara Ahmed's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as Gender & Development and Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).

In The Last Decade

Sara Ahmed

7 papers receiving 391 citations

Hit Papers

On Being Included 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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. On Being Included
    2012 333 citations Sara Ahmed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara Ahmed France 5 217 122 102 63 52 8 427
Joyce M. Bell United States 7 351 1.6× 112 0.9× 141 1.4× 62 1.0× 54 1.0× 11 510
Leslie G. Roman Canada 9 231 1.1× 182 1.5× 110 1.1× 67 1.1× 27 0.5× 25 427
Tabassum Fahim Ruby United States 4 385 1.8× 93 0.8× 63 0.6× 81 1.3× 30 0.6× 9 528
Elizabeth H. McEneaney United States 10 286 1.3× 96 0.8× 109 1.1× 158 2.5× 62 1.2× 21 491
Elizabeth J. Clifford United States 5 283 1.3× 112 0.9× 35 0.3× 52 0.8× 23 0.4× 9 432
Ruth Frankenberg United States 9 345 1.6× 106 0.9× 85 0.8× 49 0.8× 29 0.6× 13 528
Paul O’Connell United Kingdom 8 135 0.6× 302 2.5× 48 0.5× 104 1.7× 78 1.5× 12 484
Jo Reger United States 13 290 1.3× 77 0.6× 176 1.7× 72 1.1× 146 2.8× 27 526
Catrin Lundström Sweden 12 402 1.9× 96 0.8× 110 1.1× 95 1.5× 25 0.5× 34 587
Baukje Prins Netherlands 9 322 1.5× 48 0.4× 243 2.4× 104 1.7× 74 1.4× 15 573

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Ahmed

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Ahmed

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Ahmed, Sara, et al.. (2025). Transforming land rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis. Gender & Development. 33(1). 1–15. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2021). Complaint!. 40 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2019). What's the Use?. 11 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2019). What's the Use?. 1 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2019). What's the Use?. 3 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2019). What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 15 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2014). Willful Subjects. 23 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Sara. (2012). On Being Included. 333 indexed citations breakdown →

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