Alai Tan

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Alai Tan is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alai Tan has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in General Health Professions, 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 26 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alai Tan's work include Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (13 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (13 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (12 papers). Alai Tan is often cited by papers focused on Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (13 papers), Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (13 papers) and Global Cancer Incidence and Screening (12 papers). Alai Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Vietnam and China. Alai Tan's co-authors include Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Gregg S. Wilkinson, James S. Goodwin, Yong‐Fang Kuo, Lynn Gallagher‐Ford, Abbey B. Berenson, Jacqueline M. Hirth, Andreanna Pavan Hsieh, Kate Sustersic Gawlik and Cindy Zellefrow and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alai Tan

121 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

The First U.S. Study on Nurses’ Evidence‐Based Practice C... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The First U.S. Study on Nurses’ Evidence‐Based Practice Competencies Indicates Major Deficits That Threaten Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Patient Outcomes
    2017 248 citations Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Sharon Tucker et al. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alai Tan United States 26 946 453 421 390 244 135 2.7k
Elizabeth Papathanassoglou Canada 30 1.0k 1.1× 489 1.1× 331 0.8× 416 1.1× 89 0.4× 129 2.8k
Monica W. Nortvedt Norway 34 1.1k 1.1× 426 0.9× 179 0.4× 176 0.5× 218 0.9× 71 3.3k
Hjördis Björvell Sweden 33 1.1k 1.2× 634 1.4× 469 1.1× 139 0.4× 203 0.8× 63 2.9k
Brian Haynes Canada 13 937 1.0× 624 1.4× 150 0.4× 253 0.6× 99 0.4× 15 2.7k
Linda C. Pugh United States 24 478 0.5× 703 1.6× 265 0.6× 571 1.5× 270 1.1× 48 2.3k
Éric Belzile Canada 35 1.5k 1.6× 760 1.7× 512 1.2× 501 1.3× 226 0.9× 130 5.7k
Diana Sherifali Canada 29 676 0.7× 418 0.9× 305 0.7× 473 1.2× 178 0.7× 152 3.0k
Shiow‐Luan Tsay Taiwan 24 565 0.6× 260 0.6× 449 1.1× 294 0.8× 266 1.1× 95 2.4k
Gail D’Eramo Melkus United States 33 1.1k 1.2× 569 1.3× 395 0.9× 529 1.4× 321 1.3× 125 3.2k
Elizabeth A. Schlenk United States 21 488 0.5× 236 0.5× 143 0.3× 249 0.6× 102 0.4× 76 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alai Tan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alai Tan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weller, Susan C., Monique R. Pappadis, Shilpa Krishnan, et al.. (2025). Understanding motivations of older women to continue or discontinue breast cancer screening. PLoS ONE. 20(6). e0319141–e0319141.
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Tate, Judith A., Cathy A. Maxwell, Paul Newhouse, et al.. (2025). Engaging Older Adults and Staff in the Co-Design and Evaluation of Socially Assistive Robot and Virtual Reality Activities for Long-Term Care: User-Centered Study. JMIR Aging. 8. e75288–e75288. 1 indexed citations
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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek, Judy E. Davidson, Sharon Tucker, et al.. (2025). Burnout, Mental Health, and Workplace Characteristics: Contributors and Protective Factors Associated With Suicidal Ideation in High‐Risk Nurses. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 22(3). e70042–e70042.
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Souza‐Talarico, Juliana Nery de, Todd B. Monroe, Alai Tan, et al.. (2024). Dyadic Comparison of Pain and Stress in Alzheimer's Disease and Caregivers. Pain Management Nursing. 26(2). 190–197.
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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek, Andreanna Pavan Hsieh, Alai Tan, et al.. (2023). State of Mental Health, Healthy Behaviors, and Wellness Support in Big 10 University Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty, Staff, and Students During COVID-19. Journal of Professional Nursing. 48. 152–162. 12 indexed citations
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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek, et al.. (2023). The State of Health, Burnout, Healthy Behaviors, Workplace Wellness Support, and Concerns of Medication Errors in Pharmacists During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 65(8). 699–705. 9 indexed citations
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Hu, Jie, David Kline, Alai Tan, et al.. (2022). Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Glycemic Control Among African American People with Type 2 diabetes: The Jackson Heart Study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 56(12). 1300–1311. 9 indexed citations
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Anderson, Cindy M., Jodi L. Ford, Amy R. Mackos, et al.. (2022). DNA Methylation Patterns of Glucocorticoid Pathway Genes in Preterm Birth Among Black Women. Biological Research For Nursing. 24(4). 493–502. 4 indexed citations
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Faulds, Eileen R., Margaret Grey, Heather L. Tubbs‐Cooley, et al.. (2021). Expect the unexpected: Adolescent and pre‐teens' experience of diabetes technology self‐management. Pediatric Diabetes. 22(7). 1051–1062. 4 indexed citations
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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek, et al.. (2021). Beliefs, mental health, healthy lifestyle behaviors and coping strategies of college faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of American College Health. 71(9). 2740–2750. 18 indexed citations
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Balas, Michele C., et al.. (2021). Evaluation of the Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Timely Extubation of Critically Ill Adults: An Interprofessional Survey. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 18(3). 201–209. 9 indexed citations
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Giurgescu, Carmen, Jodi L. Ford, Amy R. Mackos, et al.. (2021). Methodologic Considerations for Epigenomic Investigation of Preterm Birth in African American Women. Western Journal of Nursing Research. 44(1). 81–93. 2 indexed citations
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Faulds, Eileen R., Robert P. Hoffman, Margaret Grey, et al.. (2020). Self‐management among pre‐teen and adolescent diabetes device users. Pediatric Diabetes. 21(8). 1525–1536. 5 indexed citations
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Thrane, Susan E., Maryanna Klatt, Annette DeVito Dabbs, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Urban Zen Integrative Therapy on Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 23(5). 703–711. 6 indexed citations
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Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek, Liana Orsolini, Alai Tan, et al.. (2017). A National Study Links Nurses’ Physical and Mental Health to Medical Errors and Perceived Worksite Wellness. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 60(2). 126–131. 198 indexed citations
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Karmarkar, Amol, James E. Graham, Alai Tan, et al.. (2015). Hospital Readmission Following Discharge From Inpatient Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Debility. Physical Therapy. 96(2). 241–251. 24 indexed citations
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Zhou, QiQi, Liuqing Yang, Shehzad Merwat, et al.. (2015). Decreased miR-199 augments visceral pain in patients with IBS through translational upregulation of TRPV1. Gut. 65(5). 797–805. 105 indexed citations
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Trikha, Anita, Jacques Baillargeon, Yong‐Fang Kuo, et al.. (2013). Development of food allergies in patients with G astroesophageal R eflux D isease treated with gastric acid suppressive medications. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. 24(6). 582–588. 42 indexed citations
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Tan, Alai, Daniel Freeman, James S. Goodwin, & Jean L. Freeman. (2006). Variation in false-positive rates of mammography reading among 1067 radiologists: a population-based assessment. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 100(3). 309–318. 29 indexed citations

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