Sarah Wright

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sarah Wright is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Wright has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 16 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Sarah Wright's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (19 papers), Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (14 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (12 papers). Sarah Wright is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (19 papers), Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (14 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (12 papers). Sarah Wright collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Sarah Wright's co-authors include Kate Lloyd, Sandie Suchet‐Pearson, Laklak Burarrwanga, Bawaka Country, Banbapuy Ganambarr, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Djawundil Maymuru, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr‐Stubbs, Kathleen Mee and Matalena Tofa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Human Relations and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Wright

74 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Co-becoming Bawaka 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 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. Co-becoming Bawaka
    2015 305 citations Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet‐Pearson et al. Progress in Human Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sarah Wright Australia 25 926 688 345 307 249 75 2.2k
Sandie Suchet‐Pearson Australia 24 1.1k 1.2× 779 1.1× 379 1.1× 346 1.1× 241 1.0× 61 2.6k
Deborah Bird Rose Australia 23 749 0.8× 988 1.4× 433 1.3× 342 1.1× 166 0.7× 77 2.8k
Sarah Hunt Canada 11 647 0.7× 220 0.3× 389 1.1× 218 0.7× 111 0.4× 14 1.3k
Zoe Todd Canada 10 544 0.6× 514 0.7× 177 0.5× 217 0.7× 103 0.4× 16 1.5k
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Canada 7 724 0.8× 210 0.3× 585 1.7× 293 1.0× 296 1.2× 14 1.7k
Chris Philo United Kingdom 37 2.4k 2.6× 1.3k 1.9× 262 0.8× 893 2.9× 306 1.2× 139 5.0k
Bronislaw Szerszynski United Kingdom 22 1.8k 2.0× 433 0.6× 421 1.2× 128 0.4× 220 0.9× 68 3.2k
Laklak Burarrwanga Australia 13 368 0.4× 427 0.6× 235 0.7× 166 0.5× 127 0.5× 22 1.1k
Glen Coulthard Canada 9 1.5k 1.6× 313 0.5× 1.1k 3.1× 454 1.5× 311 1.2× 16 2.9k
Laura Pulido United States 26 3.1k 3.3× 895 1.3× 192 0.6× 380 1.2× 219 0.9× 67 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Wright

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Wright

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sarah Wright. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sarah Wright. The network helps show where Sarah Wright may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Wright

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Wright. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Wright 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 Sarah Wright. Sarah Wright 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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Kuntz, Joana, et al.. (2025). Understanding belongingness at work: the self in a relational context. International journal of organizational analysis. 33(11). 4067–4088. 2 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Storying Pandemia Collectively: Sharing Plural Experiences of Interruption, Dislocation, Care, and Connection. GeoHumanities. 9(1). 1–23. 2 indexed citations
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Sherval, Meg, et al.. (2023). The emotional geographies of a coal mining transition: a case study of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia. Australian Geographer. 55(1). 1–21. 1 indexed citations
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Jack, Gavin, et al.. (2022). Development as freedom? Insights from a farmer-led sustainable agriculture non-governmental organisation in the Philippines. Human Relations. 75(10). 1875–1902. 9 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah, et al.. (2021). Ethics and consent in more‐than‐human research: Some considerations from/with/as Gumbaynggirr Country, Australia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 47(3). 709–724. 17 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Arnan, Sarah Wright, Sandie Suchet‐Pearson, et al.. (2020). Dukarr lakarama: Listening to Guwak, talking back to space colonization. Political Geography. 81. 102218–102218. 17 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah, et al.. (2020). Second Bone Spring Sand Development Strategies Within the Delaware Basin, West Texas and Southeast New Mexico. Proceedings of the 8th Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. 2 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah. (2019). Towards an affective politics of hope: Learning from land struggles in the Philippines. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 6(3). 1501–1522. 14 indexed citations
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Burarrwanga, Laklak, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr‐Stubbs, et al.. (2019). Songspirals: Sharing Women's Wisdom of Country Through Songlines. 32 indexed citations
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Rapport, Frances, Hayley Hutchings, Marcus A. Doel, et al.. (2018). How Are University Gyms Used by Staff and Students? A Mixed-Method Study Exploring Gym Use, Motivation, and Communication in Three UK Gyms. Societies. 8(1). 15–15. 8 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah. (2016). ‘Serious public mischief’: young women, alcohol and the New Zealand press. Continuum. 30(6). 636–645. 3 indexed citations
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Bracke, Marianne Stowell, et al.. (2014). Sustainable Agricultural Research: Data Information Literacy throughout the Scientist's 'Lifecycle'. eCommons (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah. (2014). More-than-human, emergent belongings. Progress in Human Geography. 39(4). 391–411. 153 indexed citations
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Rich, Jane, Sarah Wright, & Deborah Loxton. (2012). ‘Patience, hormone replacement therapy and rain!’ Women, ageing and drought in Australia: Narratives from the mid‐age cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 20(6). 324–328. 14 indexed citations
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Lloyd, Kate, et al.. (2010). Stories of crossings and connections from Bawaka, North East Arnhem Land, Australia. Social & Cultural Geography. 11(7). 701–717. 21 indexed citations
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Hodge, Paul, et al.. (2010). Revisiting ‘how we learn’ in academia: practice‐based learning exchanges in three Australian universities. Studies in Higher Education. 36(2). 167–183. 40 indexed citations
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Muller, Samantha, Emma Power, Sandie Suchet‐Pearson, Sarah Wright, & Kate Lloyd. (2009). “Quarantine Matters!”: Quotidian Relationships around Quarantine in Australia's Northern Borderlands. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 41(4). 780–795. 16 indexed citations
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Wright, Sarah. (2008). Locating a Politics of Knowledge: struggles over intellectual property in the Philippines. Australian Geographer. 39(4). 409–426. 3 indexed citations
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Roberts, Susan M., Sarah Wright, & Philip O’Neill. (2007). Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility. Geoforum. 38(5). 967–984. 22 indexed citations
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Newman, Stanton, et al.. (1993). A developmental study of specific spelling disability. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 63(2). 287–296. 20 indexed citations

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