Sera L. Young

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
203 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Sera L. Young is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, General Health Professions and Safety Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sera L. Young has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 64 papers in General Health Professions and 31 papers in Safety Research. Recurrent topics in Sera L. Young's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (106 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (51 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (30 papers). Sera L. Young is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (106 papers), Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (51 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (30 papers). Sera L. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Sera L. Young's co-authors include Godfred O. Boateng, Edward A. Frongillo, Torsten B. Neilands, Hugo Melgar‐Quiñonez, Gretel H. Pelto, Joshua D. Miller, Amber Wutich, Andrew D. Jones, Francis Ngure and Asher Y. Rosinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sera L. Young

193 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer

2018 2.7k citations Godfred O. Boateng, Torsten B. Neilands et al. profile →
What Are We Assessing When We Measure Food Security? A Compendium and Review of Current Metrics

2013 578 citations Sera L. Young et al. profile →
The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle-income countries

2019 214 citations Sera L. Young, Godfred O. Boateng et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sera L. Young United States	43	2.9k	2.7k	1.0k	938	900	203	9.4k
Günther Fink Switzerland	51	3.6k 1.3×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	926 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	312	10.7k
Alex Ezeh Kenya	46	1.5k 0.5×	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	127	8.6k
Kingsley Agho Australia	55	5.5k 1.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	709 0.8×	1.4k 1.6×	291	10.3k
Dean T. Jamison United States	50	1.5k 0.5×	3.6k 1.3×	2.9k 2.8×	920 1.0×	788 0.9×	185	16.4k
André M. N. Renzaho Australia	49	2.0k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.8×	1.5k 1.6×	654 0.7×	290	8.4k
Jody Heymann United States	46	875 0.3×	2.2k 0.8×	832 0.8×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.3×	242	7.2k
Shane A. Norris South Africa	55	3.3k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	4.7k 4.6×	605 0.6×	918 1.0×	538	14.1k
Paul Gertler United States	61	3.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.1×	545 0.5×	2.2k 2.3×	3.6k 4.0×	229	14.6k
Eva Rehfuess Germany	44	1.1k 0.4×	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	659 0.7×	381 0.4×	180	8.8k
David Osrin United Kingdom	46	2.6k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	930 0.9×	454 0.5×	544 0.6×	171	7.6k

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Young, Sera L., Joshua D. Miller, Shalean M. Collins, et al.. (2025). The Water Insecurity Experiences (WISE) Scales are suitable for use in high-income settings: findings from cognitive interviews and nationally representative surveys. International Journal for Equity in Health. 24(1). 338–338.

Bethancourt, Hilary J., et al.. (2025). Mental Distress and Resource Insecurity in the Kingdom of Tonga After the 2022 Volcanic Eruption: Associations of Water and Food Insecurity With Mental Distress. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. 156191–156191.

Spencer, Wendy, et al.. (2025). Global Drinking Water Standards Lack Clear Health-Based Limits for Sodium. Nutrients. 17(13). 2190–2190.

Miller, Joshua D., et al.. (2024). Water and Food Insecurity Are Differentially Associated With Healthy Diets Among Men and Women in Mexico: Findings From the 2021 National Health and Nutrition Survey. Current Developments in Nutrition. 8. 102968–102968.

Miller, Joshua D., et al.. (2024). Self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water across 141 countries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7320–7320. 12 indexed citations

Rosen, F., et al.. (2023). Associations between food insecurity and child and parental physical, nutritional, psychosocial and economic well‐being globally during the first 1000 days: A scoping review. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 20(1). e13574–e13574. 6 indexed citations

Miller, Joshua D., Sera L. Young, Elizabeth Bryan, & Claudia Ringler. (2023). Water insecurity is associated with greater food insecurity and lower dietary diversity: panel data from sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. Food Security. 16(1). 149–160. 7 indexed citations

Miller, Joshua D., Shalean M. Collins, Godfred O. Boateng, et al.. (2022). Pathways linking social support, self-efficacy, and exclusive breastfeeding among women in northern Uganda. Global Public Health. 17(12). 3506–3518. 8 indexed citations

Miller, Joshua D., Edward A. Frongillo, Elly Weke, et al.. (2021). Household Water and Food Insecurity Are Positively Associated with Poor Mental and Physical Health among Adults Living with HIV in Western Kenya. Journal of Nutrition. 151(6). 1656–1664. 45 indexed citations

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Tuthill, Emily L., Lila A. Sheira, Joshua D. Miller, et al.. (2020). Persistent Food Insecurity, but not HIV, is Associated with Depressive Symptoms Among Perinatal Women in Kenya: A Longitudinal Perspective. AIDS and Behavior. 25(3). 847–855. 13 indexed citations

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Miller, Joshua D., Shalean M. Collins, Marianne V. Santoso, et al.. (2020). Social Support Mitigates Negative Impact of Food Insecurity on Antiretroviral Adherence Among Postpartum Women in Western Kenya. AIDS and Behavior. 24(10). 2885–2894. 11 indexed citations

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Pebsworth, Paula A., Thibaud Gruber, Joshua D. Miller, Klaus Zuberbühler, & Sera L. Young. (2020). Selecting between iron-rich and clay-rich soils: a geophagy field experiment with black-and-white colobus monkeys in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Primates. 62(1). 133–142. 2 indexed citations

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Staddon, Chad, Mark Everard, Julie Mytton, et al.. (2020). Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis. Water International. 45(5). 416–422. 44 indexed citations

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Hannah, David M., Iseult Lynch, Feng Mao, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Water and sanitation for all in a pandemic. Nature Sustainability. 3(12). 1068–1068. 2 indexed citations

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Chung, Esther O., Brian Mattah, Matthew D. Hickey, et al.. (2019). Characteristics of Pica Behavior among Mothers around Lake Victoria, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(14). 2510–2510. 5 indexed citations

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Young, Sera L., Shalean M. Collins, Godfred O. Boateng, et al.. (2019). Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. BMJ Open. 9(1). e023558–e023558. 75 indexed citations

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Widen, Elizabeth M., Shalean M. Collins, Pauline Wekesa, et al.. (2018). HIV infection and increased food insecurity are associated with adverse body composition changes among pregnant and lactating Kenyan women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 73(3). 474–482. 15 indexed citations

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Boateng, Godfred O., Stephanie Martin, Shalean M. Collins, Barnabas Natamba, & Sera L. Young. (2018). Measuring exclusive breastfeeding social support: Scale development and validation in Uganda. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 14(3). e12579–e12579. 24 indexed citations

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Stoler, Justin, Alexandra Brewis, Leila M. Harris, et al.. (2018). Household water sharing: a missing link in international health. International Health. 11(3). 163–165. 38 indexed citations

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Miller, Joshua D., Shalean M. Collins, Moshood Olanrewaju Omotayo, et al.. (2018). Geophagic earths consumed by women in western Kenya contain dangerous levels of lead, arsenic, and iron. American Journal of Human Biology. 30(4). e23130–e23130. 20 indexed citations

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