2026 Sara Ahmed: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	72	655	571	37	34	289	62400

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

655

571

289

62400

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

62400

World Ranking

655

National Ranking

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

14231
Citations
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others

Sara Ahmed

6246
Citations
Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

Sara Ahmed

5228
Citations
The Promise of Happiness

Sara Ahmed

4859
Citations
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Sara Ahmed

3444
Citations
A phenomenology of whiteness

Sara Ahmed

2726
Citations
Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

2452
Citations
Collective feelings: Or, the impressions left by others

Sara Ahmed

1329
Citations
Home and away Narratives of migration and estrangement

Sara Ahmed

1222
Citations
'Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism'

Sara Ahmed

1115
Citations
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

927
Citations
Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration

Sara Ahmed

860
Citations
Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology

Sara Ahmed

836
Citations
The Nonperformativity of Antiracism

Sara Ahmed

731
Citations
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

724
Citations
Disablement following stroke.

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

700
Citations
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism

Sara Ahmed

585
Citations
Responsiveness and predictability of gait speed and other disability measures in acute stroke.

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

577
Citations
‘You end up doing the document rather than doing the doing’: Diversity, race equality and the politics of documentation

Sara Ahmed

560
Citations
Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the `New Materialism'

Sara Ahmed

528
Citations
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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolyn E. Schwartz Tufts University

Guy Paré HEC Montréal

Frans J. Oort University of Amsterdam

Annette Majnemer McGill University

Vanessa L. Malcarne San Diego State University

External Links

Personal website of Sara Ahmed

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