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38
Citations
19950
World Ranking
5758
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2727

Karen E. Watkins 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 Karen E. Watkins sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 121 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen E. Watkins 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 Karen E. Watkins sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 38 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karen E. Watkins is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Medicine, Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. Their work focuses on key subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Family Practice, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Watkins has contributed to multiple main topics within these areas, such as:

  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Organizational Learning and Leadership
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Innovations in Medical Education
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Family Business Performance and Succession

Their publication record includes work in notable venues, especially in

  • European Journal of Training and Development
  • Academic Medicine
  • AEM Education and Training
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Advances in Developing Human Resources

Some recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Watkins include:

  • Informal and Incidental Learning in the time of COVID-19, 2020, Advances in Developing Human Resources
  • Further evolving the critical incident technique (CIT) by applying different contemporary approaches for analyzing qualitative data in CIT studies, 2022, European Journal of Training and Development

Watkins frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Victoria J. Marsick
  • Henriette Lundgren
  • Dimitrios Papanagnou
  • Urvashi Vaid
  • Deborah Ziring

In addition to articles, Watkins has authored a book titled Rethinking Workplace Learning and Development, published in 2023 by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Informal and Incidental Learning in the Workplace (Routledge Revivals)

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen Watkins

  • Sculpting the Learning Organization: Lessons in the Art and Science of Systemic Change

    Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

  • Informal and Incidental Learning

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Demonstrating the Value of an Organization's Learning Culture: The Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Informal and incidental learning in the workplace

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • The construct of the learning organization: Dimensions, measurement, and validation

    Baiyin Yang;Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

  • Action Research: Rethinking Lewin

    Linda Dickens;Karen Watkins

  • Towards a Theory of Informal and Incidental Learning in Organizations.

    Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

  • Facilitating Learning Organizations: Making Learning Count

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Managers as facilitators of learning in learning organizations

    Andrea D. Ellinger;Karen E. Watkins;Robert P. Bostrom

  • Building the learning organisation: a new role for human resource developers

    Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

  • The learning organization: An integrative vision for HRD

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Lessons from Informal and Incidental Learning

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Theory and Practice of Informal Learning in the Knowledge Era

    Victoria J. Marsick;Marie Volpe;Karen E. Watkins

  • Current status and promising directions for research on the learning organization

    Karen E. Watkins;Kyoungshin Kim

  • The emerging power of action inquiry technologies

    Ann Brooks;Karen E. Watkins

  • Looking again at learning in the learning organization: a tool that can turn into a weapon!

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • RETHINKING ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

    Karen E. Watkins;Robert T. Golembiewski

  • A Meta-Analysis of the Dimensions of a Learning Organization Questionnaire Looking Across Cultures, Ranks, and Industries

    Karen E. Watkins;Khalil M. Dirani

  • Adult Educators and the Challenge of the Learning Organization.

    Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

  • Creating the Learning Organization

    Karen E. Watkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria J. Marsick
Victoria J. Marsick Columbia University
Andrea D. Ellinger
Andrea D. Ellinger The University of Texas at Tyler
Robert P. Bostrom
Robert P. Bostrom University of Georgia
Gary N. McLean
Gary N. McLean University of Minnesota
Ronald M. Cervero
Ronald M. Cervero Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Baiyin Yang
Baiyin Yang Jiangnan University

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