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Carole A. Estabrooks

Carole A. Estabrooks

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
80
Citations
22639
World Ranking
381
National Ranking
23

Carole A. Estabrooks 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 Carole A. Estabrooks sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 301 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carole A. Estabrooks 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 Carole A. Estabrooks sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 80 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Individual determinants of research utilization: a systematic review

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

  • A guide to knowledge translation theory.

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

  • Will Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Make Practice Perfect?

    Carole A. Estabrooks

  • Clarifying the concepts in knowledge transfer: a literature review.

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

  • The conceptual structure of research utilization.

    Carole A. Estabrooks

  • Workplace violence in Alberta and British Columbia hospitals

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

  • Influence of organizational characteristics and context on research utilization.

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

  • Development and assessment of the Alberta Context Tool

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Aggregating Qualitative Findings: An Approach to Theory Development

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

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

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

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

    Greta Cummings;Leslie Hayduk;Carole Estabrooks

  • Sources of Practice Knowledge Among Nurses

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

  • 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

  • Factors contributing to frailty: literature review.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Predicting research use in nursing organizations: a multilevel analysis.

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Wallin
Lars Wallin Dalarna University
Bonnie Stevens
Bonnie Stevens University of Toronto
Brian H. Rowe
Brian H. Rowe University of Alberta
Debra Morgan
Debra Morgan University of Saskatchewan
Trish Reay
Trish Reay University of Alberta
Jeremy M. Grimshaw
Jeremy M. Grimshaw Ottawa Hospital
Ian D. Graham
Ian D. Graham Ottawa Hospital
Heather K. Spence Laschinger
Heather K. Spence Laschinger University of Western Ontario
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Marie-Pierre Gagnon Université Laval
Carol A. Wong
Carol A. Wong University of Western Ontario

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