2026 Carole A. Estabrooks: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	80	381	328	23	22	301	22639

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Carole A. Estabrooks is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada, contributing extensively to research in health professions and medicine, with a particular focus on geriatrics and gerontology. Their work spans numerous subfields, including general health professions, economics and econometrics, psychiatry and mental health, and clinical psychology.

Their primary research areas cover several topics related to health care for older adults and system-level health policy issues. These topics include geriatric care and nursing homes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, health policy implementation science, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life, frailty in older adults, palliative care and end-of-life issues, and health disparities and outcomes.

Estabrooks has published in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

Innovation in Aging
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Implementation Science
Journal of Applied Gerontology
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Frequent collaborators include Matthias Hoben, Peter Norton, Yinfei Duan, Yuting Song, and Greta G. Cummings, reflecting ongoing partnerships across numerous projects and fields of study.

Their recent publications incorporate key topics in collaborative research, long-term care, and intervention assessment methodologies:

"How does integrated knowledge translation (IKT) compare to other collaborative research approaches to generating and translating knowledge? Learning from experts in the field" (2020, Health Research Policy and Systems)
"Restoring trust: COVID-19 and the future of long-term care in Canada" (2020, FACETS)
"Fidelity is not easy! Challenges and guidelines for assessing fidelity in complex interventions" (2021, Trials)
"Association of Work Environment With Missed and Rushed Care Tasks Among Care Aides in Nursing Homes" (2020, JAMA Network Open)
"Care Aides Working Multiple Jobs: Considerations for Staffing Policies in Long-Term Care Homes During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association)

Estabrooks has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020, cited under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

Ingredients for change: revisiting a conceptual framework

Jo Rycroft-Malone;A. L. Kitson;Gillian Harvey;Brendan G. McCormack

1015
Citations
The impact of hospital nursing characteristics on 30-day mortality.

Carole A. Estabrooks;William K. Midodzi;Greta G. Cummings;Kathryn L. Ricker

900
Citations
Individual determinants of research utilization by nurses: a systematic review update

Janet E Squires;Carole A Estabrooks;Petter Gustavsson;Lars Wallin

728
Citations
Individual determinants of research utilization: a systematic review

Carole A. Estabrooks;Judith A. Floyd;Shannon Scott‐Findlay;Katherine A. O'Leary

715
Citations
A guide to knowledge translation theory.

Carole A. Estabrooks;David S. Thompson;J. Jacque E. Lovely;Anne Hofmeyer

681
Citations
Will Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Make Practice Perfect?

Carole A. Estabrooks

516
Citations
Clarifying the concepts in knowledge transfer: a literature review.

Genevieve N. Thompson;Carole A. Estabrooks;Lesley F. Degner

477
Citations
The conceptual structure of research utilization.

Carole A. Estabrooks

473
Citations
Workplace violence in Alberta and British Columbia hospitals

Kathryn L Hesketh;Susan M Duncan;Carole A Estabrooks;Marlene A Reimer

468
Citations
Influence of organizational characteristics and context on research utilization.

Greta G. Cummings;Carole A. Estabrooks;William K. Midodzi;Lars Wallin

432
Citations
Development and assessment of the Alberta Context Tool

Carole A Estabrooks;Janet E Squires;Greta G Cummings;Judy M Birdsell

404
Citations
The Barriers scale - the barriers to research utilization scale : a systematic review

Kerstin Nilsson Kajermo;Anne-Marie Boström;Anne-Marie Boström;David S Thompson;Alison M Hutchinson

399
Citations
Health researchers in Alberta: an exploratory comparison of defining characteristics and knowledge translation activities.

Mandi S Newton;Carole A Estabrooks;Peter Norton;Judy M Birdsell

379
Citations
Aggregating Qualitative Findings: An Approach to Theory Development

Carole A. Estabrooks;Peggy Anne Field;Janice M. Morse

362
Citations
Why (we think) facilitation works: insights from organizational learning theory.

Whitney Berta;Lisa Cranley;James W. Dearing;Elizabeth J. Dogherty

338
Citations
Mitigating the impact of hospital restructuring on nurses: the responsibility of emotionally intelligent leadership

Greta Cummings;Leslie Hayduk;Carole Estabrooks

334
Citations
Sources of Practice Knowledge Among Nurses

Carole A. Estabrooks;William Rutakumwa;Katherine A. O’Leary;Joanne Profetto-McGrath

334
Citations
Assessing the relationships between contextual factors and research utilization in nursing: systematic literature review.

Judith M.M. Meijers;Maaike A.P. Janssen;Greta G. Cummings;Lars Wallin

329
Citations
Factors contributing to frailty: literature review.

Merry-Jo Levers;Carole A. Estabrooks;Janet C. Ross Kerr

324
Citations
Interventions aimed at increasing research use in nursing: a systematic review

David S Thompson;Carole A Estabrooks;Shannon Scott-Findlay;Katherine Sledge Moore

307
Citations
The intellectual structure and substance of the knowledge utilization field: A longitudinal author co-citation analysis, 1945 to 2004

Carole A Estabrooks;Linda Derksen;Connie Winther;John N Lavis

255
Citations
Predicting research use in nursing organizations: a multilevel analysis.

Carole A. Estabrooks;William K. Midodzi;Greta G. Cummings;Lars Wallin

252
Citations
The Internet and access to evidence: how are nurses positioned?

Carole A. Estabrooks;Katherine A. O'Leary;Kathryn L. Ricker;Charles K. Humphrey

237
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Wallin Dalarna University

Debra Morgan University of Saskatchewan

Trish Reay University of Alberta

Marie-Pierre Gagnon Université Laval

John N. Lavis McMaster University

Carol A. Wong University of Western Ontario

Mark J. Gierl University of Alberta

Gill Harvey University of Adelaide

Janice M. Morse University of Utah

Christine T. Chambers Dalhousie University

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