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64
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13985
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1501
National Ranking
669

Overview

James M. Brooks is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and health professions, with significant contributions to surgery and general health professions as primary subfields.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to shoulder injury and treatment, healthcare policy and management, mobile health and mHealth applications, clinical practice guidelines implementation, health systems and economic evaluations, quality of life, physical activity and health, as well as health disparities and outcomes.

Recent papers by James M. Brooks include:

  • Frequency and factors associated with foregone and delayed medical care due to COVID-19 among nonelderly US adults from August to December 2020, 2021, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
  • Association of Surgical Treatment With Adverse Events and Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Proximal Humerus Fracture, 2020, JAMA Network Open
  • Risk Adjustment of the Modified Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire and Neck Disability Index to Benchmark Physical Therapist Performance: Analysis From an Outcomes Registry, 2020, Physical Therapy
  • Patient preferences as human factors for health data recommender systems and shared decision making in orthopaedic practice, 2023, Frontiers in Digital Health
  • ICD-10 diagnosis codes in electronic health records do not adequately capture fracture complexity for proximal humerus fractures, 2023, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

Frequent coauthors in James M. Brooks's body of work include:

  • Sarah B. Floyd
  • Michael J. Kissenberth
  • Charles A. Thigpen
  • Cole G. Chapman
  • Stephan G. Pill

James M. Brooks's publications are regularly found in several key venues, such as:

  • Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • Research Square

Their work largely focuses on the intersection of surgical practice and healthcare systems, emphasizing outcomes, physical therapy, data-driven decision making in orthopaedic practice, and public health issues such as the impact of COVID-19 on medical care access. Additionally, exploration of health information management and economic evaluations also characterize their research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Natural gas seepage in the Gulf of Mexico

    B.B. Bernard;J.M. Brooks;W.M. Sackett

  • Light hydrocarbons in recent Texas continental shelf and slope sediments

    Bernie B. Bernard;James M. Brooks;William M. Sackett

  • Impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a deep-water coral community in the Gulf of Mexico

    Helen K. White;Pen Yuan Hsing;Walter Cho;Timothy M. Shank

  • A methanotrophic marine molluscan (bivalvia, mytilidae) symbiosis: mussels fueled by gas.

    James J. Childress;C. R. Fisher;J. M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt

  • Gas hydrate that breaches the sea floor on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico

    I. R. MacDonald;N. L. Guinasso;R. Sassen;J. M. Brooks

  • Deep-sea hydrocarbon seep communities: evidence for energy and nutritional carbon sources

    James M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt;C. R. Fisher;S. A. Macko

  • Vent-type taxa in a hydrocarbon seep region on the Louisiana slope

    Mahlon C. Kennicutt;James M. Brooks;Robert R. Bidigare;Roger R. Fay

  • Thermogenic Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico

    J. M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt;R. R. Fay;T. J. Mcdonald

  • Association of gas hydrates and oil seepage in the Gulf of Mexico

    James M. Brooks;H.Benjamin Cox;William R. Bryant;M.C. Kennicutt

  • Trace organic contamination in the Americas: An overview of the US National Status & Trends and the International ‘Mussel Watch’ programmes

    J.L. Sericano;T.L. Wade;T.J. Jackson;J.M. Brooks

  • Natural Oil Slicks in the Gulf of Mexico Visible From Space

    I. R. Macdonald;N. L. Guinasso;S. G. Ackleson;J. F. Amos

  • Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep communities

    I. R. MacDonald;G. S. Boland;J. S. Baker;J. M. Brooks

  • Sediment contaminants in Casco Bay, Maine: inventories, sources, and potential for biological impact.

    M. C. Kennicutt;T. L. Wade;B. J. Presley;A. G. Requejo

  • Chemosynthetic mussels at a brine-filled pockmark in the northern gulf of Mexico.

    I. Rosman MacDonald;James F. Reilly;Norman L. Guinasso;James M. Brooks

  • NOAA Gulf of Mexico Status and Trends Program: Trace Organic Contaminant Distribution in Sediments and Oysters

    T. L. Wade;E. L. Atlas;J. M. Brooks;M. C. Kennicutt

  • A Geochemical Model For Characterization Of Hydrocarbon Gas Sources In Marine Sediments

    Bernie Bernard;James M. Brooks;William M. Sackett

  • 13C12c ratios in individual fatty acids of marine mytilids with and without bacterial symbionts

    T.A. Abrajano;D.E. Murphy;J. Fang;P. Comet

  • Asphalt volcanism and chemosynthetic life in the Campeche Knolls, Gulf of Mexico.

    I. R. MacDonald;G. Bohrmann;E. Escobar;F. Abegg

  • Metabolic potential of uncultured bacteria and archaea associated with petroleum seepage in deep-sea sediments.

    Xiyang Dong;Chris Greening;Jayne E. Rattray;Anirban Chakraborty

  • Footprint of Deepwater Horizon blowout impact to deep-water coral communities

    Charles R. Fisher;Pen Yuan Hsing;Carl L. Kaiser;Dana R. Yoerger

  • Errors associated with the standard fluorimetric determination of chlorophylls and phaeopigments

    Charles C Trees;Mahlon C Kennicutt;James M Brooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Mahlon C. Kennicutt
Mahlon C. Kennicutt Texas A&M University
Terry L. Wade
Terry L. Wade Texas A&M University
Thomas J. McDonald
Thomas J. McDonald Texas A&M University
Ian R. MacDonald
Ian R. MacDonald Florida State University
Roger Sassen
Roger Sassen Texas A&M University
Keith A. Kvenvolden
Keith A. Kvenvolden United States Geological Survey
Charles R. Fisher
Charles R. Fisher Pennsylvania State University
Jose L. Sericano
Jose L. Sericano Texas A&M University
James J. Childress
James J. Childress University of California, Santa Barbara
Harry H. Roberts
Harry H. Roberts Louisiana State University

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