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D-Index
72
Citations
62400
World Ranking
655
National Ranking
37

Sara Ahmed publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara Ahmed sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 289 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Sara Ahmed D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara Ahmed sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sara Ahmed is affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, with a substantial focus on implementation science and health systems.

The main fields of study in Ahmed's work include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions

Within these fields, their subfields of focus consist of:

  • General Health Professions
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Epidemiology

The core topics that characterize Ahmed's research outputs are:

  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Occupational Therapy Practice and Research

Ahmed has multiple recent papers reflecting these areas, including the following publications:

  • "Using an implementation science approach to implement and evaluate patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) initiatives in routine care settings" (2020), published in Quality of Life Research
  • "Why nanoparticles prefer liver macrophage cell uptake in vivo" (2022), published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
  • "Prospective application of implementation science theories and frameworks to inform use of PROMs in routine clinical care within an integrated pain network" (2020), published in Quality of Life Research
  • "Telerehabilitation for Children and Youth with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families: A Systematic Review" (2022), published in Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics
  • "Environmental Factors that Impact the Workplace Participation of Transition-Aged Young Adults with Brain-Based Disabilities: A Scoping Review" (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Ahmed frequently publishes in several academic venues, notably:

  • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Research Square
  • Quality of Life Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Collaborations form a significant part of Ahmed's research activity, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Aliki Thomas
  • Claudine Auger
  • André Bussières
  • Rehab Alhasani
  • Rebecca Ataman

Best Publications

  • The Cultural Politics of Emotion

    Sara Ahmed

  • Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

    Sara Ahmed

  • Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

    Sara Ahmed

  • The Promise of Happiness

    Sara Ahmed

  • On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

    Sara Ahmed

  • A phenomenology of whiteness

    Sara Ahmed

  • Living a Feminist Life

    Sara Ahmed

  • Collective feelings: Or, the impressions left by others

    Sara Ahmed

  • Home and away Narratives of migration and estrangement

    Sara Ahmed

  • 'Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism'

    Sara Ahmed

  • ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

    Bryce B. Reeve;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Albert W. Wu;Galina Velikova

  • Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration

    Sara Ahmed

  • Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology

    Sara Ahmed

  • The Nonperformativity of Antiracism

    Sara Ahmed

  • Reduction of Inappropriate Benzodiazepine Prescriptions Among Older Adults Through Direct Patient Education: The EMPOWER Cluster Randomized Trial

    Cara Tannenbaum;Philippe Martin;Robyn Tamblyn;Andrea Benedetti;Andrea Benedetti

  • Disablement following stroke.

    Nancy E. Mayo;Sharon Wood-Dauphinee;Sara Ahmed;Carron Gordon

  • Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

    Sara Ahmed

  • Responsiveness and predictability of gait speed and other disability measures in acute stroke.

    Nancy M. Salbach;Nancy E. Mayo;Johanne Higgins;Sara Ahmed

  • ‘You end up doing the document rather than doing the doing’: Diversity, race equality and the politics of documentation

    Sara Ahmed

  • Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the `New Materialism'

    Sara Ahmed

  • Influence of parameters on the heterogeneous photocatalytic degradation of pesticides and phenolic contaminants in wastewater : a short review

    S. Ahmed;M.G. Rasul;R. Brown;Hashib

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn E. Schwartz
Carolyn E. Schwartz Tufts University
Pierre Ernst
Pierre Ernst McGill University
Jean Bourbeau
Jean Bourbeau McGill University
James A. Hanley
James A. Hanley McGill University
Clifton O. Bingham
Clifton O. Bingham Johns Hopkins University
Philippe Archambault
Philippe Archambault Université Laval
Guy Paré
Guy Paré HEC Montréal
Mohammad. Rasul
Mohammad. Rasul Central Queensland University
Annette Majnemer
Annette Majnemer McGill University
Frans J. Oort
Frans J. Oort University of Amsterdam

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