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Valorie A. Crooks

Valorie A. Crooks

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
7505
World Ranking
4748
National Ranking
287

Valorie A. Crooks 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 Valorie A. Crooks sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 228 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Valorie A. Crooks 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 Valorie A. Crooks sits on this spectrum.

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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.

Overview

Valorie A. Crooks is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research broadly covers areas within the social sciences, medicine, and health professions. With 31 publications in social sciences, 21 in medicine, and 20 in health professions, their work spans interdisciplinary fields connecting health and societal issues.

Their subfields of study include general health professions, sociology and political science, management information systems, economics and econometrics, and health. This diversity reflects a multidisciplinary approach.

The principal research topics addressed by Valorie A. Crooks focus on FinTech, crowdfunding, and digital finance; migration, aging, and tourism studies; microfinance and financial inclusion; health disparities and outcomes; sharing economy and platforms; patient satisfaction in healthcare; and blood donation and transfusion practices.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Crooks include Jeremy Snyder, Nadine Schuurman, John Pickering, Trudie Milner, and Janice Sorensen. The extensive collaboration with Jeremy Snyder is notable, with 21 co-authored publications.

The scientist has published research in several venues multiple times. These include Tropical Diseases Travel Medicine and Vaccines (4 publications), BMC Public Health (2 publications), Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (2 publications), BMC Digital Health (2 publications), and Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing (2 publications).

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Valorie A. Crooks are:

  • Collecting, analyzing, and visualizing location-based social media data: review of methods in GIS-social media analysis (2022) in GeoJournal
  • Is there room for privacy in medical crowdfunding? (2020) in Journal of Medical Ethics
  • What Medical Crowdfunding Campaigns Can Tell Us About Local Health System Gaps and Deficiencies: Exploratory Analysis of British Columbia, Canada (2020) in Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • How the design and implementation of centralized waiting lists influence their use and effect on access to healthcare - A realist review (2020) in Health Policy
  • Selling cannabidiol products in Canada: A framing analysis of advertising claims by online retailers (2021) in BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • What is known about the patient's experience of medical tourism? A scoping review

    Valorie A Crooks;Paul Kingsbury;Jeremy Snyder;Rory Johnston

  • What is known about the effects of medical tourism in destination and departure countries? A scoping review

    Rory Johnston;Valorie A Crooks;Jeremy Snyder;Paul Kingsbury

  • Promoting medical tourism to India: messages, images, and the marketing of international patient travel

    Valorie A. Crooks;Leigh Turner;Jeremy Snyder;Rory Johnston

  • Measuring potential spatial access to primary health care physicians using a modified gravity model

    Nadine Schuurman;Myriam Bérubé;Valorie A. Crooks

  • A Mixed Method Approach to Quality of Life Research: A Case Study Approach

    Heather Dunning;Allison Williams;Sylvia Abonyi;Valorie Crooks

  • Risk communication and informed consent in the medical tourism industry: A thematic content analysis of canadian broker websites

    Kali Penney;Jeremy Snyder;Valorie A Crooks;Rory Johnston

  • Pedestrian injury and the built environment: an environmental scan of hotspots

    Nadine Schuurman;Jonathan Cinnamon;Valorie A Crooks;S Morad Hameed

  • "I didn't even know what I was looking for": A qualitative study of the decision-making processes of Canadian medical tourists.

    Rory Johnston;Valorie A Crooks;Jeremy Snyder

  • The ‘patient's physician one-step removed’: the evolving roles of medical tourism facilitators

    Jeremy Snyder;Valorie A Crooks;Krystyna Adams;Paul Kingsbury

  • Fly-By medical care: Conceptualizing the global and local social responsibilities of medical tourists and physician voluntourists

    Jeremy Snyder;Shafik Dharamsi;Valorie A Crooks

  • A method to determine spatial access to specialized palliative care services using GIS

    Jonathan Cinnamon;Nadine Schuurman;Valorie A Crooks

  • Fund my treatment!: A call for ethics-focused social science research into the use of crowdfunding for medical care

    Jeremy Snyder;Annalise Mathers;Valorie A. Crooks

  • Ethical and legal implications of the risks of medical tourism for patients: a qualitative study of Canadian health and safety representatives’ perspectives

    Valorie A Crooks;Leigh Turner;I Glenn Cohen;Janet Bristeir

  • ‘Because they have all the power and I have none’: state restructuring of income and employment supports and disabled women's lives in Ontario, Canada

    Vera Chouinard;Valorie A. Crooks

  • Immigrant and Refugee Social Networks: Determinants and Consequences of Social Support Among Women Newcomers to Canada

    Michaela Hynie;Valorie A Crooks;Jackeline Barragan

  • Appealing to the crowd: ethical justifications in Canadian medical crowdfunding campaigns

    Jeremy Snyder;Valorie A Crooks;Annalise Mathers;Peter Chow-White

  • An embodied geography of disablement: chronically ill women's struggles for enabling places in spaces of health care and daily life.

    Valorie A. Crooks;Vera Chouinard

  • Exploring the altered daily geographies and lifeworlds of women living with fibromyalgia syndrome: a mixed-method approach.

    Valorie A. Crooks

  • Critically examining diversity in end-of-life family caregiving: implications for equitable caregiver support and Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit

    Melissa Giesbrecht;Valorie A Crooks;Allison Williams;Olena Hankivsky

  • Tracking the evolution of hospice palliative care in Canada: A comparative case study analysis of seven provinces

    Allison M Williams;Valorie A Crooks;Kyle Whitfield;Mary-Lou Kelley

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadine Schuurman
Nadine Schuurman Simon Fraser University
Allison Williams
Allison Williams McMaster University
Gavin Andrews
Gavin Andrews University of New South Wales
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Sabrina T. Wong
Sabrina T. Wong University of British Columbia
I. Glenn Cohen
I. Glenn Cohen Harvard University
Judy Illes
Judy Illes University of British Columbia
Timothy Caulfield
Timothy Caulfield University of Alberta
Robert Wilton
Robert Wilton McMaster University

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