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Mary C. Waters publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary C. Waters sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 167 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Mary C. Waters D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary C. Waters sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Mary C. Waters is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and psychology, with particular emphasis on sociology, political science, and clinical psychology.

The main fields of study for this researcher include Social Sciences with 25 publications and Psychology with 14. Their work further extends into several subfields, notably Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medical Services, Health, and Transportation.

Their research topics frequently cover areas such as Disaster Response and Management, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Resilience and Mental Health, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Urban Transport and Accessibility, and Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies.

Mary C. Waters has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • Annual Review of Sociology
  • Health Affairs
  • PLoS ONE

Recent papers authored or co-authored by this researcher include:

  • Gentrification, Neighborhood Change, and Population Health: a Systematic Review (2020) in Journal of Urban Health
  • The Social Consequences of Disasters: Individual and Community Change (2020) in Annual Review of Sociology
  • Mitigating Health Disparities After Natural Disasters: Lessons From The RISK Project (2020) in Health Affairs
  • Predisaster predictors of posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories: An analysis of low-income women in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • Physical Health Symptoms and Hurricane Katrina: Individual Trajectories of Development and Recovery More Than a Decade After the Storm (2020) in American Journal of Public Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mary C. Waters are:

  • Mariana Arcaya
  • Sarah R. Lowe
  • Ethan J. Raker
  • Jean E. Rhodes
  • Meghan Zacher

Throughout their career, Mary C. Waters has received several notable recognitions, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1993)

Best Publications

  • Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America

    Mary C. Waters

  • Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities

    Mary C. Waters

  • Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age

    Philip Kasnitz;John H. Mollenkopf;Mary C. Waters;Jennifer Holdaway

  • Ethnic and Racial Identities of Second-Generation Black Immigrants in New York City.

    Mary C. Waters

  • ASSESSING IMMIGRANT ASSIMILATION: New Empirical and Theoretical Challenges

    Mary C. Waters;Tomás R. Jiménez

  • Flexible Coding of In-depth Interviews: A Twenty-first-century Approach:

    Nicole M. Deterding;Mary C. Waters

  • From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America

    Stanley Lieberson;Mary C. Waters

  • The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation

    Peggy Levitt;Mary C. Waters

  • Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

    Mary C. Waters;Karl Eschbach

  • Segmented Assimilation Revisited: Types of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Mobility in Young Adulthood.

    Mary C. Waters;Van C. Tran;Philip Kasinitz;John H. Mollenkopf

  • Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation

    Philip Kasinitz;John H. Mollenkopf;Mary C. Waters

  • The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mental and Physical Health of Low-Income Parents in New Orleans

    Jean Rhodes;Christian Chan;Christina Paxson;Cecilia Elena Rouse

  • Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City

    Philip Kasinitz;John Mollenkopf;Mary C. Waters

  • Refugee communities : a comparative field study

    Mary C. Waters;Steven J. Gold

  • The intersection of gender, race, and ethnicity in identity development of Caribbean American teens.

    Mary C. Waters;Bonnie Leadbeater;Niobe Way

  • Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York

    Philip Kasinitz;John Mollenkopf;Mary C. Waters;Merih Anih

  • Five years later: Recovery from post traumatic stress and psychological distress among low-income mothers affected by Hurricane Katrina

    Christina Paxson;Elizabeth Fussell;Jean Rhodes;Mary Waters

  • The process of ethnogenesis among Haitian and Israeli immigrants in the United States

    David Mittelberg;Mary C. Waters

  • The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: Second-Generation Assimilation: Comments on Haller, Portes and Lynch

    Richard Alba;Philip Kasinitz;Mary C. Waters

  • The new Americans : a guide to immigration since 1965

    Mary C. Waters;Reed Ueda;Helen B. Marrow

  • Immigrants and African Americans

    Mary C. Waters;Philip Kasinitz;Asad Lugman Asad

  • Gentrification, Neighborhood Change, and Population Health: a Systematic Review.

    Alina S Schnake-Mahl;Jaquelyn L Jahn;S V Subramanian;Mary C Waters

  • Introducing the Issue

    Gordon Berlin;Frank F. Furstenberg;Mary C. Waters

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean E. Rhodes
Jean E. Rhodes University of Massachusetts Boston
Stanley Lieberson
Stanley Lieberson Harvard University
Sarah R. Lowe
Sarah R. Lowe Yale University
Richard D. Alba
Richard D. Alba City University of New York
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Nancy Foner
Nancy Foner City University of New York
Frank F. Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania
Rubén G. Rumbaut
Rubén G. Rumbaut University of California, Irvine
Peggy Levitt
Peggy Levitt Wellesley College
Erin C. Dunn
Erin C. Dunn Harvard University

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