2026 Karlene H. Roberts: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	55	716	659	316	284	127	24077

Karlene H. Roberts publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karlene H. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

35 publications 436+

This scientist: 127 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Karlene H. Roberts D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karlene H. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Karlene H. Roberts is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within business, management, and health professions.

The scientist's main fields of study include Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Health Professions. More specific subfields of their work cover General Health Professions, Management Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

Throughout their career, Karlene H. Roberts has contributed to several topics, notably:

Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
Collaboration in agile enterprises
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Health and Conflict Studies
Global Health Care Issues
Employment and Welfare Studies

Their publication record features recent papers, including:

"Reliability-Seeking virtual organizations at the margins of systems, resources and capacity" (2023), published in Safety Science
"Health Care in Times of War" (2020), published in Academy of Management Perspectives

Karlene H. Roberts frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

Peter F. Martelli
Martha Grabowski
Gordon C Shen
Paul Knox Clarke
Rangaraj Ramanujam

Their work appears in academic venues such as Safety Science and Academy of Management Perspectives, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach that merges management theories with practical applications in health and organizational contexts.

Best Publications

Collective mind in organizations: Heedful interrelating on flight decks.

Karl E. Weick;Karlene H. Roberts

6144
Citations
The General Managers

John P. Kotter

1642
Citations
The Incident Command System: High-Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environments

Gregory A. Bigley;Karlene H. Roberts

1175
Citations
Some Characteristics of One Type of High Reliability Organization

Karlene H. Roberts

1142
Citations
Handbook of Organizational Communication.

Stewart L. Tubbs;Frederic M. Jablin;Linda L. Putnam;Karlene H. Roberts

966
Citations
Measuring organizational communication.

Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

777
Citations
Handbook of Organizational Communication: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Fredric M. Jablin;Linda L. Putnam;Karlene Roberts;Lyman Porter

659
Citations
The Self-Designing High-Reliability Organization: Aircraft Carrier Flight Operations at Sea

Gene I. Rochlin;Todd R. La Porte;Karlene H. Roberts

595
Citations
Failures in Upward Communication in Organizations: Three Possible Culprits

Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

579
Citations
The job characteristics approach to task design: A critical review.

Karlene H. Roberts;William Glick

458
Citations
Some correlations of communication roles in organizations.

Karlene H. Roberts;Charles A. O'Reilly

452
Citations
Managing High Reliability Organizations

Karlene H. Roberts

427
Citations
Must accidents happen? Lessons from high-reliability organizations

Karlene H. Roberts;Robert Bea

403
Citations
Task group structure, communication, and effectiveness in three organizations.

Charles A. O'Reilly;Karlene H. Roberts

366
Citations
Developing an Interdisciplinary Science of Organizations.

Rabi S. Bhagat;Karlene H. Roberts;Charles L. Hulin;Denise M. Rousseau

353
Citations
Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations

Martha Grabowski;Karlene H. Roberts

353
Citations
Information filtration in organizations: Three experiments

Charles A. O'Reilly;Karlene H. Roberts

314
Citations
Decision Dynamics in Two High Reliability Military Organizations

Karlene H. Roberts;Suzanne K. Stout;Jennifer J. Halpern

308
Citations
New Challenges to Understanding Organizations

Karlene H. Roberts

307
Citations
3. Cross-national Organizational Research: The Grasp of the Blind Men

Karlene H. Roberts;Nakiye A. Boyacigiller

294
Citations
Communication in Organizations.

Lyman W. Porter;Karlene H. Roberts

129
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. O'Reilly Stanford University

Daniel A. Farber University of California, Berkeley

Lyman W. Porter University of California, Irvine

Joseph Wartman University of Washington

Brian D. Collins United States Geological Survey

Charles L. Hulin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jean-Louis Briaud Texas A&M University

Raymond B. Seed University of California, Berkeley

Denise M. Rousseau Carnegie Mellon University

William H. Glick Rice University

External Links

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