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Lesley M Wilkes 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 Lesley M Wilkes sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 201 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lesley M Wilkes 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 Lesley M Wilkes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Lesley M Wilkes is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and health professions. Their work addresses several main fields and subfields, including public health, environmental and occupational health, radiological and ultrasound technology, clinical psychology, critical care and intensive care medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their research focuses on a variety of topics, such as family and patient care in intensive care units, palliative care and end-of-life issues, ethics in clinical research, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, healthcare decision-making and restraints, migration, health and trauma, and global health workforce issues.

Lesley M Wilkes has authored multiple publications appearing in frequent academic venues. These include:

  • Journal of Advanced Nursing
  • Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia
  • Nurse Researcher
  • Chronic Illness

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by this researcher are:

  • Point of care ultrasound use by Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners in clinical practice: An integrative review, 2021, Collegian Journal of the Royal College of Nursing Australia
  • Understanding nurses' perspectives of physical restraints during mechanical ventilation in intensive care: A qualitative study, 2021, Journal of Clinical Nursing
  • One size does not fit all - overcoming barriers to participant recruitment in qualitative research, 2022, Nurse Researcher
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and advance care planning: A synthesis of qualitative literature on patients' experiences, 2021, Chronic Illness
  • Embedding nurse-led supportive care in an outpatient service for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2023, Journal of Advanced Nursing

This researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors whose repeated partnerships indicate ongoing academic engagement. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Judy Mannix
  • Linda Ora
  • Dawn Perez
  • Gillian Murphy
  • Kath Peters

Best Publications

  • Women's perceptions and experiences of a traumatic birth: a meta-ethnography

    Rakime Elmir;Virginia Schmied;Lesley M Wilkes;Debra Jackson

  • Workplace bullying in nursing: towards a more critical organisational perspective.

    Marie Hutchinson;Margaret H. Vickers;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes

  • Interviewing people about potentially sensitive topics.

    Rakime Elmir;Virginia Schmied;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes

  • Integrating individual, work group and organizational factors: Testing a multidimensional model of bullying in the nursing workplace

    Marie Hutchinson;Lesley M Wilkes;Debra Jackson;Margaret H. Vickers

  • A work-based educational intervention to support the development of personal resilience in nurses and midwives

    Glenda E McDonald;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes;Margaret H. Vickers

  • Journaling: identification of challenges and reflection on strategies.

    Brenda Hayman;Lesley Marie Wilkes;Debra Jackson

  • A typology of bullying behaviours: the experiences of Australian nurses

    Marie Hutchinson;Margaret H. Vickers;Lesley M Wilkes;Debra Jackson

  • Personal resilience in nurses and midwives: effects of a work-based educational intervention.

    Glenda E McDonald;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes;Margaret H. Vickers

  • A new model of bullying in the nursing workplace: organizational characteristics as critical antecedents.

    Marie Hutchinson;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes;Margaret H. Vickers

  • Fieldwork in nursing research: positionality, practicalities and predicaments

    Sally Borbasi;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes

  • Surviving workplace adversity: a qualitative study of nurses and midwives and their strategies to increase personal resilience

    Glenda E McDonald;Debra Jackson;Debra Jackson;Margaret H. Vickers;Lesley M Wilkes

  • “The Worse You Behave, The More You Seem, to be Rewarded”: Bullying in Nursing as Organizational Corruption

    Marie Hutchinson;Margaret H. Vickers;Lesley M Wilkes;Debra Jackson

  • Living in the red zone: the experience of child-to-mother violence

    Michel A Edenborough;Debra Jackson;Judy Mannix;Lesley M Wilkes

  • Attributes of clinical leadership in contemporary nursing: An integrative review

    Judy Mannix;Lesley M Wilkes;John Daly

  • The challenges of being an insider in storytelling research.

    Stacy L Blythe;Lesley M Wilkes;Debra Jackson;Elizabeth Halcomb

  • Bullying as circuits of power: an Australian nursing perspective

    Marie Hutchinson;Margaret H. Vickers;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes

  • Empowerment through information: supporting rural families of oncology patients in palliative care.

    Lesley Wilkes;Kate White;Libba O’Riordan

  • The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace.

    Marie Hutchinson;Lesley M Wilkes;Margaret H. Vickers;Debra Jackson

  • Marginalised mothers: lesbian women negotiating heteronormative healthcare services.

    Brenda Gail Hayman;Lesley Wilkes;Elizabeth J Halcomb;Debra Jackson

  • Understanding whistleblowing: qualitative insights from nurse whistleblowers

    Debra Jackson;Kathleen Peters;Sharon Andrew;Michel A Edenborough

  • ‘They stand you in a corner; you are not to speak’: Nurses tell of abusive indoctrination in work teams dominated by bullies

    Marie Hutchinson;Margaret H. Vickers;Debra Jackson;Lesley M Wilkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Debra Jackson
Debra Jackson University of Sydney
Margaret H. Vickers
Margaret H. Vickers Western Sydney University
Katherine M. White
Katherine M. White Queensland University of Technology
Linda J. Kristjanson
Linda J. Kristjanson Curtin University
Roger Watson
Roger Watson University of Hull
Elizabeth Manias
Elizabeth Manias Deakin University
Lesley Barclay
Lesley Barclay University of Sydney
Tracy Levett-Jones
Tracy Levett-Jones University of Technology Sydney
Simeon I. Taylor
Simeon I. Taylor National Institutes of Health
Patricia M. Davidson
Patricia M. Davidson Johns Hopkins University

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