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57
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1801
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100

Colleen Varcoe 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 Colleen Varcoe sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 161 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Colleen Varcoe 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 Colleen Varcoe 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: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Colleen Varcoe is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several fields primarily within social sciences, health professions, and medicine, with a notable focus on general health professions, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, as well as public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Varcoe's research topics cover a range of social and health issues. These include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Their scholarly output includes publications in several frequent venues, indicating active engagement with both health and social science communities. These venues are:

  • Nursing Inquiry
  • BMC Public Health
  • International Journal of Qualitative Methods
  • Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Research Square

Colleen Varcoe has collaborated extensively with a group of frequent coauthors, which include:

  • Annette J. Browne
  • C. Nadine Wathen
  • Vicky Bungay
  • Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
  • Nancy Perrin

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Varcoe include:

  • "What About the Men? A Critical Review of Men's Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence," published in 2022 in Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • "Towards health equity for people experiencing chronic pain and social marginalization," published in 2021 in International Journal for Equity in Health
  • "Longitudinal impacts of an online safety and health intervention for women experiencing intimate partner violence: randomized controlled trial," published in 2020 in BMC Public Health
  • "San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training as an Educational Intervention: Promoting Anti-Racism and Equity in Health Systems, Policies, and Practices," published in 2021 in International Indigenous Policy Journal
  • "We went as a team closer to the truth": impacts of interprofessional education on trauma- and violence- informed care for staff in primary care settings," published in 2020 in Journal of Interprofessional Care

Varcoe has also contributed to book publications, including a volume titled Women's Health in Canada published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Moral Distress and Ethical Climate:

    Bernadette Pauly;Colleen Varcoe;Janet Storch;Lorelei Newton

  • Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research.

    Olena Hankivsky;Colleen Reid;Renee Cormier;Colleen Varcoe

  • Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study

    Annette J. Browne;Colleen Varcoe;Josée Lavoie;Victoria Smye

  • The Relevance of Postcolonial Theoretical Perspectives to Research in Aboriginal Health

    Annette J Browne;Victoria L Smye;Colleen Varcoe

  • Closing the health equity gap: evidence-based strategies for primary health care organizations

    Annette J Browne;Colleen M Varcoe;Sabrina T Wong;Victoria L Smye

  • Framing the Issues: Moral Distress in Health Care

    Bernadette M. Pauly;Colleen Varcoe;Jan Storch

  • Ethical practice in nursing: working the in-betweens.

    Colleen Varcoe;Gweneth Doane;Bernadette Pauly;Paddy Rodney

  • Cultural safety and the challenges of translating critically oriented knowledge in practice

    Annette J. Browne;Colleen Varcoe;Victoria Smye;Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham

  • Family Nursing as Relational Inquiry Developing Health Promoting Practice

    Gweneth Hartrick Doane;Colleen Varcoe

  • Cultural adaptation and translation of measures: An integrated method

    Souraya Sidani;Sepali Guruge;Joyal Miranda;Marilyn Ford-Gilboe

  • Nurses’ perceptions of and responses to morally distressing situations:

    Colleen Varcoe;Bernie Pauly;Jan Storch;Lorelei Newton

  • Development of a brief measure of intimate partner violence experiences: the Composite Abuse Scale (Revised)—Short Form (CASR-SF)

    Marilyn Ford-Gilboe;C Nadine Wathen;Colleen Varcoe;Harriet L MacMillan

  • Critical cultural perspectives and health care involving Aboriginal peoples

    Annette J Browne;Colleen Varcoe

  • Women's health and use of crack cocaine in context: Structural and ‘everyday’ violence

    Vicky Bungay;Joy L. Johnson;Colleen Varcoe;Susan Boyd

  • Chronic pain in women survivors of intimate partner violence.

    Judith Wuest;Marilyn Merritt-Gray;Marilyn Ford-Gilboe;Barbara Lent

  • What About the Men? A Critical Review of Men’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence

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  • Modelling the effects of intimate partner violence and access to resources on women's health in the early years after leaving an abusive partner

    Marilyn Ford-Gilboe;Judith Wuest;Colleen Varcoe;Lorraine Davies

  • Turning around the intergenerational impact of residential schools on Aboriginal people: implications for health policy and practice.

    Dawn Smith;Colleen Varcoe;Nancy Edwards

  • Relational practice and nursing obligations.

    Gweneth Hartrick Doane;Colleen Varcoe

  • Moral distress: tensions as springboards for action.

    Colleen Varcoe;Bernadette Pauly;George Webster;Janet Storch

  • Harm reduction, methadone maintenance treatment and the root causes of health and social inequities: An intersectional lens in the Canadian context

    Victoria Smye;Annette J Browne;Colleen Varcoe;Viviane Josewski

  • Reinterpretations Across Studies: An Approach to Meta-Analysis

    Janice McCormick;Patricia Rodney;Colleen Varcoe

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette J. Browne
Annette J. Browne University of British Columbia
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe
Marilyn Ford-Gilboe University of Western Ontario
Judith Wuest
Judith Wuest University of New Brunswick
Sabrina T. Wong
Sabrina T. Wong University of British Columbia
C. Nadine Wathen
C. Nadine Wathen University of Western Ontario
Nancy A. Perrin
Nancy A. Perrin Johns Hopkins University
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Jacquelyn C. Campbell Johns Hopkins University
Harriet L. MacMillan
Harriet L. MacMillan McMaster University
Joy L. Johnson
Joy L. Johnson Simon Fraser University
Susan M. Jack
Susan M. Jack McMaster University

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