2026 Karen E. Watkins: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	38	5759	5349	2727	2487	121	19950

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

5759

5349

2727

2487

121

19950

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

19950

World Ranking

5759

National Ranking

2727

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

3411
Citations
Sculpting the Learning Organization: Lessons in the Art and Science of Systemic Change

Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

3003
Citations
Informal and Incidental Learning

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

2198
Citations
Demonstrating the Value of an Organization's Learning Culture: The Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

1551
Citations
Informal and incidental learning in the workplace

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

1358
Citations
The construct of the learning organization: Dimensions, measurement, and validation

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

1316
Citations
Action Research: Rethinking Lewin

Linda Dickens;Karen Watkins

818
Citations
Towards a Theory of Informal and Incidental Learning in Organizations.

Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

769
Citations
Facilitating Learning Organizations: Making Learning Count

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

765
Citations
Managers as facilitators of learning in learning organizations

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

373
Citations
Building the learning organisation: a new role for human resource developers

Karen E. Watkins;Victoria J. Marsick

350
Citations
The learning organization: An integrative vision for HRD

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

328
Citations
Lessons from Informal and Incidental Learning

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

323
Citations
Theory and Practice of Informal Learning in the Knowledge Era

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

296
Citations
Current status and promising directions for research on the learning organization

Karen E. Watkins;Kyoungshin Kim

159
Citations
The emerging power of action inquiry technologies

Ann Brooks;Karen E. Watkins

153
Citations
Looking again at learning in the learning organization: a tool that can turn into a weapon!

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

152
Citations
RETHINKING ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

Karen E. Watkins;Robert T. Golembiewski

140
Citations
A Meta-Analysis of the Dimensions of a Learning Organization Questionnaire Looking Across Cultures, Ranks, and Industries

Karen E. Watkins;Khalil M. Dirani

124
Citations
Adult Educators and the Challenge of the Learning Organization.

Victoria J. Marsick;Karen E. Watkins

120
Citations
Creating the Learning Organization

Karen E. Watkins

118
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria J. Marsick Columbia University

Andrea D. Ellinger The University of Texas at Tyler

Gary N. McLean University of Minnesota

Ronald M. Cervero Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

External Links

Personal website of Karen E. Watkins Google Scholar page

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