2026 Susan L. Cutter: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	75	1239	1173	533	489	198	44122

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Susan L. Cutter is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and environmental science, focusing particularly on disaster management and resilience.

The primary fields of study for Cutter include:

Social Sciences
Environmental Science

Within these fields, key subfields of study consist of:

Sociology and Political Science
Global and Planetary Change
Civil and Structural Engineering
Modeling and Simulation
Economics and Econometrics

The main topics covered in their research are:

Disaster Management and Resilience
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Fire effects on ecosystems

Several recent papers by Susan L. Cutter and collaborators demonstrate the scope of their work:

"Urban-rural differences in COVID-19 exposures and outcomes in the South: A preliminary analysis of South Carolina," 2021, published in PLoS ONE
"Toward data-driven, dynamical complex systems approaches to disaster resilience," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Using geotagged tweets to track population movements to and from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria," 2020, published in Population and Environment
"Bridging Twitter and Survey Data for Evacuation Assessment of Hurricane Matthew and Hurricane Irma," 2020, published in Natural Hazards Review
"The Changing Nature of Hazard and Disaster Risk in the Anthropocene," 2020, published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Cutter include:

Sahar Derakhshan
Margot Habets
Qian Huang
Leah Blackwood
Sibel Mcgee

The scientist has published regularly in several venues, notably:

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
PLoS ONE
Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Susan L. Cutter has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1999.

Best Publications

Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards

Susan L. Cutter;Bryan J. Boruff;W. Lynn Shirley

7119
Citations
A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

Susan L. Cutter;Lindsey Barnes;Melissa Berry;Christopher Burton

5312
Citations
Vulnerability to environmental hazards

Susan L. Cutter

2843
Citations
Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions

Susan L. Cutter;Christopher G. Burton;Christopher T. Emrich

2258
Citations
Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places: A Case Study of Georgetown County, South Carolina

Susan L. Cutter;Jerry T. Mitchell;Michael S. Scott

2125
Citations
Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards

Susan L. Cutter;Caroline F. Finch

1703
Citations
The geographies of community disaster resilience

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1213
Citations
The Vulnerability of Science and the Science of Vulnerability

Susan L. Cutter

823
Citations
The landscape of disaster resilience indicators in the USA

Susan L. Cutter

795
Citations
Disaster resilience: A national imperative

Susan L. Cutter;Joseph A. Ahearn;Bernard Amadei;Patrick Crawford

759
Citations
Living with risk : the geography of technological hazards

Susan L. Cutter

729
Citations
Moral Hazard, Social Catastrophe: The Changing Face of Vulnerability along the Hurricane Coasts:

Susan L. Cutter;Christopher T. Emrich

657
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

651
Citations
Erosion Hazard Vulnerability of US Coastal Counties

Bryan J. Boruff;Christopher Emrich;Susan L. Cutter

605
Citations
Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment

J. C J H Aerts;W. J. Botzen;W. J. Botzen;W. J. Botzen;K. C. Clarke;S. L. Cutter

605
Citations
Hazards, Vulnerability and Environmental Justice

Susan L. Cutter

580
Citations
Crying wolf: Repeat responses to hurricane evacuation orders

Kirstin Dow;Susan L. Cutter

536
Citations
Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans

Christina Finch;Christopher T. Emrich;Susan L. Cutter

527
Citations
A Sensitivity Analysis of the Social Vulnerability Index

Mathew C. Schmidtlein;Roland C. Deutsch;Walter W. Piegorsch;Susan L. Cutter

522
Citations
Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities

L. Comfort;B. Wisner;S. Cutter;R. Pulwarty

462
Citations
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William Solecki City University of New York

Kuniyoshi Takeuchi University of Yamanashi

Timothy O'Riordan University of East Anglia

J. Lawrence Aber New York University

Barbara Entwisle University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anthony Leiserowitz Yale University

James K. Mitchell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University

Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park

Catherine C. Eckel Texas A&M University

External Links

Personal website of Susan L. Cutter

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