Wendy Jepson

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Wendy Jepson is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Political Science and International Relations and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wendy Jepson has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 21 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 16 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wendy Jepson's work include Child Nutrition and Water Access (33 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (21 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (16 papers). Wendy Jepson is often cited by papers focused on Child Nutrition and Water Access (33 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (21 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (16 papers). Wendy Jepson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Wendy Jepson's co-authors include Amber Wutich, Christian Brannstrom, Sera L. Young, Justin Stoler, Kyungsun Lee, Godfred O. Boateng, Anthony M. Filippi, Alexandra Brewis, Chad Staddon and Daniel Redo and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecological Economics and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Wendy Jepson

65 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

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. BMJ Global Health profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wendy Jepson United States	30	993	599	560	516	453	69	2.9k
Leila M. Harris Canada	36	633 0.6×	770 1.3×	1.4k 2.5×	1.3k 2.5×	525 1.2×	100	3.7k
Gordon McGranahan United Kingdom	24	459 0.5×	1.3k 2.1×	507 0.9×	982 1.9×	246 0.5×	76	4.5k
Jessica Budds United Kingdom	23	438 0.4×	429 0.7×	1.6k 2.8×	734 1.4×	621 1.4×	45	2.8k
Lyla Mehta United Kingdom	26	299 0.3×	547 0.9×	771 1.4×	981 1.9×	418 0.9×	103	2.6k
Katrina Charles United Kingdom	29	444 0.4×	372 0.6×	337 0.6×	586 1.1×	263 0.6×	75	2.5k
Chad Staddon United Kingdom	20	382 0.4×	385 0.6×	353 0.6×	369 0.7×	247 0.5×	74	1.7k
Shuaib Lwasa Uganda	30	332 0.3×	1.2k 1.9×	341 0.6×	672 1.3×	76 0.2×	105	3.5k
Katie Meehan United States	18	197 0.2×	386 0.6×	493 0.9×	559 1.1×	167 0.4×	34	1.6k
Barbara van Koppen South Africa	22	425 0.4×	175 0.3×	451 0.8×	438 0.8×	742 1.6×	89	1.6k
Alex de Sherbinin United States	37	215 0.2×	1.9k 3.1×	151 0.3×	2.0k 3.8×	204 0.5×	91	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wendy Jepson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jepson, Wendy, Amber Wutich, Amber L. Pearson, et al.. (2025). Beyond peak water security: Household-scale experiential metrics can offer new perspectives on contemporary water challenges in the United States. PLOS Water. 4(8). e0000413–e0000413. 1 indexed citations

Pearson, Amber L., Wendy Jepson, Alexandra Brewis, et al.. (2025). A protocol for the development of a validated scale of household water insecurity in the United States: HWISE-USA. PLoS ONE. 20(8). e0330087–e0330087. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Kyungsun & Wendy Jepson. (2025). Toward sustainable desalination: a patent analysis of technology-development trajectories. Sustainability Science Practice and Policy. 21(1).

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

Jepson, Wendy, et al.. (2023). Insegurança Hídrica Domiciliar e Vulnerabilidade Social em Contexto Municipal do Semiárido Cearense. Sociedade & natureza. 35(1). 3 indexed citations

Wutich, Amber, Patrick Thomson, Wendy Jepson, et al.. (2023). MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 10(6). 30 indexed citations

Jepson, Wendy, et al.. (2023). Household Water Insecurity and Social Vulnerability in the Municipal Context of the Semi-Arid Region of Ceará. Sociedade & natureza.

Stoler, Justin, Wendy Jepson, Alexandra Brewis, & Amber Wutich. (2023). Frontiers of household water insecurity metrics: severity, adaptation and resilience. BMJ Global Health. 8(5). e011756–e011756. 11 indexed citations

Dobbin, Kristin B., Amanda Fencl, Gregory Pierce, et al.. (2023). Understanding perceived climate risks to household water supply and their implications for adaptation: evidence from California. Climatic Change. 176(4). 6 indexed citations

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Roque, Anaís, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis, et al.. (2023). Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research. Field Methods. 36(1). 80–90. 8 indexed citations

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Wutich, Amber, Wendy Jepson, Anaís Roque, et al.. (2022). Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 9(4). 30 indexed citations

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Calow, Roger, Katrina Charles, Sara de Wit, et al.. (2021). Engaging with the politics of climate resilience towards clean water and sanitation for all. npj Clean Water. 4(1). 20 indexed citations

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Jepson, Wendy, et al.. (2021). A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil. Water International. 46(5). 697–722. 13 indexed citations

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Jepson, Wendy, Justin Stoler, Juha Baek, et al.. (2021). Cross-sectional study to measure household water insecurity and its health outcomes in urban Mexico. BMJ Open. 11(3). e040825–e040825. 30 indexed citations

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Stoler, Justin, Wendy Jepson, & Amber Wutich. (2020). Beyond handwashing: Water insecurity undermines COVID-19 response in developing areas. Journal of Global Health. 10(1). 10355–10355. 42 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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Young, Sera L., Godfred O. Boateng, Zeina Jamaluddine, et al.. (2019). The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle-income countries. BMJ Global Health. 4(5). e001750–e001750. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wutich, Amber, Jessica Budds, Wendy Jepson, et al.. (2018). Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(6). 67 indexed citations

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Brannstrom, Christian, et al.. (2011). Social Perspectives on Wind-Power Development in West Texas. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 101(4). 839–851. 60 indexed citations

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Millington, Andrew & Wendy Jepson. (2008). Land-change science in the tropics : changing agricultural landscapes. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 38 indexed citations

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