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Richard L. Cruess

Richard L. Cruess

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
11842
World Ranking
4607
National Ranking
272

Richard L. Cruess 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 Richard L. Cruess sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 139 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard L. Cruess 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 Richard L. Cruess sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Richard L. Cruess is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes in the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on various subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; General Health Professions; Family Practice; Psychiatry and Mental Health; and Education. Their research spans multiple topics primarily centered on Innovations in Medical Education, Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills, Interprofessional Education and Collaboration, Empathy and Medical Education, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Diversity and Career in Medicine, and Higher Education Learning Practices.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, including several recent papers such as:

  • Professionalism, Communities of Practice, and Medicine's Social Contract (2020) published in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Clinical Teachers' Perceptions of Their Role in Professional Identity Formation (2020) published in Academic Medicine
  • Medical competence as a multilayered construct (2023) published in Medical Education
  • Contradictions and Opportunities: Reconciling Professional Identity Formation and Competency-Based Medical Education (2023) published in Perspectives on Medical Education
  • Being, becoming, and belonging: reconceptualizing professional identity formation in medicine (2024) published in Frontiers in Medicine

Richard L. Cruess frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Sylvia R. Cruess
  • Robert Sternszus
  • Yvonne Steinert
  • J. Donald Boudreau
  • Olle ten Cate

Their work is also published in notable venues that have featured multiple of their contributions, such as:

  • Medical Education
  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society
  • The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Academic Medicine
  • Frontiers in Medicine

The scientist was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1985 by the Academy of Science, reflecting a recognized contribution to their field.

Best Publications

  • Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter

    Troy Brennan;Linda Blank;Jordan Cohen;Neil Smelser

  • Reframing medical education to support professional identity formation.

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;J. Donald Boudreau;Linda Snell

  • A Schematic Representation of the Professional Identity Formation and Socialization of Medical Students and Residents: A Guide for Medical Educators

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;J. Donald Boudreau;Linda Snell

  • Role modelling—making the most of a powerful teaching strategy

    Sylvia R Cruess;Richard L Cruess;Yvonne Steinert

  • Amending Miller's Pyramid to Include Professional Identity Formation.

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;Yvonne Steinert

  • Teaching professionalism: general principles

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess

  • Assessment of professionalism: Recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 Conference

    Brian David Hodges;Shiphra R. Ginsburg;Richard Cruess;Sylvia Cruess

  • Medicine as a Community of Practice: Implications for Medical Education.

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;Yvonne Steinert

  • Supporting the development of a professional identity: General principles

    Sylvia R Cruess;Richard L Cruess;Yvonne Steinert

  • Professionalism must be taught

    Sylvia R Cruess;Richard L Cruess

  • "Profession": a working definition for medical educators.

    Sylvia R Cruess;Sharon Johnston;Richard L Cruess

  • Expectations and obligations: professionalism and medicine's social contract with society.

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess

  • Faculty development for teaching and evaluating professionalism: from programme design to curriculum change

    Yvonne Steinert;Sylvia Cruess;Richard Cruess;Linda Snell

  • Teaching medicine as a profession in the service of healing.

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess

  • The Professionalism Mini-evaluation Exercise: a preliminary investigation.

    Richard Cruess;Jodi Herold McIlroy;Sylvia Cruess;Shiphra Ginsburg

  • Teaching Medical Professionalism

    Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;Yvonne Steinert

  • Professionalism: an ideal to be sustained

    Richard L Cruess;Sylvia R Cruess;Sharon E Johnston

  • Experience with steroid-induced avascular necrosis of the shoulder and etiologic considerations regarding osteonecrosis of the hip.

    Richard L. Cruess

  • PROFESSIONALISM FOR MEDICINE: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBLIGATIONS*

    Sylvia R Cruess;Sharon Johnston;Richard L Cruess

  • Faculty development as an instrument of change: a case study on teaching professionalism.

    Yvonne Steinert;Richard L. Cruess;Sylvia R. Cruess;J Donald Boudreau

  • Professionalism and Medicine's Social Contract with Society

    Sylvia R. Cruess;Richard L. Cruess

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvonne Steinert
Yvonne Steinert McGill University
Linda Snell
Linda Snell McGill University
Olle ten Cate
Olle ten Cate Utrecht University
Shiphra Ginsburg
Shiphra Ginsburg University of Toronto
Larry D. Gruppen
Larry D. Gruppen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alden H. Harken
Alden H. Harken University of California, San Francisco
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
Eric S. Holmboe
Eric S. Holmboe California University of Pennsylvania
Brian Hodges
Brian Hodges University Health Network
Andrea Conti
Andrea Conti University of Ferrara

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