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54
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13456
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2133
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1027

Douglas A. Luke 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 Douglas A. Luke sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas A. Luke 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 Douglas A. Luke sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Douglas A. Luke is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions, with significant contributions in areas such as general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, organizational behavior and human resource management, and oncology.

The main topics covered in Douglas A. Luke's work include:

  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Public Health Policies and Education
  • Community Health and Development
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes

Their recent papers are as follows:

  • Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health, 2022, Annual Review of Public Health
  • The Clinical Sustainability Assessment Tool: measuring organizational capacity to promote sustainability in healthcare, 2021, Implementation Science Communications
  • A scoping review of strategies for financing the implementation of evidence-based practices in behavioral health systems: State of the literature and future directions, 2020, Implementation Research and Practice
  • Systems Science Approaches for Global Environmental Health Research: Enhancing Intervention Design and Implementation for Household Air Pollution (HAP) and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programs, 2020, Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Simulating the role of knowledge brokers in policy making in state agencies: An agent-based model, 2022, Health Services Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Douglas A. Luke include:

  • Sara Malone
  • Todd Combs
  • Bobbi J. Carothers
  • Kim Prewitt
  • Laura Brossart

Among the publication venues where Douglas A. Luke's work has appeared frequently are:

  • Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
  • UNC Libraries
  • Implementation Science Communications
  • Frontiers in Oncology

Douglas A. Luke has also contributed to book publications, including titles published by RAND Corporation eBooks, such as:

  • The Fiscal Mapping Process: A Strategic Planning Tool for Sustainable Financing of Evidence-Based Treatment Programs in Youth Behavioral Health Services, 2023
  • A Better Future for Ukraine and Its Partners, 2023

Best Publications

  • DECLINING RATES OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES: What Are the Contributors?

    Ross C. Brownson;Tegan K. Boehmer;Douglas A. Luke

  • Network Analysis in Public Health: History, Methods, and Applications

    Douglas A. Luke;Jenine K. Harris

  • Systems science methods in public health: dynamics, networks, and agents.

    Douglas A. Luke;Katherine A. Stamatakis

  • Further Validation and Reliability Testing of the Trust in Physician Scale

    David H. Thom;Kurt M. Ribisl;Anita L. Stewart;Douglas A. Luke

  • Public health program capacity for sustainability: a new framework

    Sarah F Schell;Douglas A Luke;Michael W Schooley;Michael B Elliott

  • Shaping the context of health: a review of environmental and policy approaches in the prevention of chronic diseases.

    Ross C. Brownson;Debra Haire-Joshu;Douglas A. Luke

  • Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Banning Outdoor Tobacco Advertising Near Schools and Playgrounds

    Douglas A. Luke;Kurt M. Ribisl;Carson Smith;Amy A. Sorg

  • Sustainability of evidence-based healthcare: research agenda, methodological advances, and infrastructure support

    Enola Proctor;Douglas Luke;Annaliese Calhoun;Curtis McMillen

  • Cluster analysis in community research: Epistemology and practice.

    Bruce D. Rapkin;Douglas A. Luke

  • The Program Sustainability Assessment Tool: A New Instrument for Public Health Programs

    Douglas A. Luke;Annaliese Calhoun;Christopher B. Robichaux;Michael B. Elliott

  • Minimizing participant attrition in panel studies through the use of effective retention and tracking strategies: Review and recommendations

    Kurt M. Ribisl;Maureen A. Walton;Carol T. Mowbray;Douglas A. Luke

  • Designing for Dissemination and Sustainability to Promote Equitable Impacts on Health

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  • Getting the big picture in community science: methods that capture context.

    Douglas A. Luke

  • A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R

    Douglas A. Luke

  • Heterogeneity in adjustment among children of battered women.

    Honore M. Hughes;Douglas A. Luke

  • Giving and Receiving Help: Interpersonal Transactions in Mutual‐Help Meetings and Psychosocial Adjustment of Members

    Linda J. Roberts;Deborah Salem;Julian Rappaport;Paul A. Toro

  • Perceptions of neighborhood environment for physical activity: Is it “who you are” or “where you live?”

    Sarah E. Boslaugh;Douglas A. Luke;Ross C. Brownson;Kimberly S. Naleid

  • How Much Is Enough? New Recommendations for Using Constructed Week Sampling in Newspaper Content Analysis of Health Stories

    Douglas A. Luke;Charlene A. Caburnay;Elisia L. Cohen

  • An odd measure of risk: use and misuse of the odds ratio.

    William L Holcomb;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Douglas A Luke;Kevin D Burgdorf

  • Occupation and workplace policies predict smoking behaviors: analysis of national data from the current population survey.

    David Cal Ham;Thomas Przybeck;Jaime R. Strickland;Douglas A. Luke

  • Smoke signs: patterns of tobacco billboard advertising in a metropolitan region

    Douglas Luke;Emily Esmundo;Yael Bloom

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross C. Brownson
Ross C. Brownson Washington University in St. Louis
Kurt M. Ribisl
Kurt M. Ribisl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lisa Henriksen
Lisa Henriksen Stanford University
Matthew W. Kreuter
Matthew W. Kreuter Washington University in St. Louis
Jin-Moo Lee
Jin-Moo Lee Washington University in St. Louis
Carol T. Mowbray
Carol T. Mowbray University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William S. Davidson
William S. Davidson Michigan State University
Enola K. Proctor
Enola K. Proctor Washington University in St. Louis
Glen T. Cameron
Glen T. Cameron University of Missouri
John Landsverk
John Landsverk Boston Children's Hospital

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