Bridget C. OʼBrien

17.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
168 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Bridget C. OʼBrien is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Family Practice. According to data from OpenAlex, Bridget C. OʼBrien has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 79 papers in General Health Professions and 27 papers in Family Practice. Recurrent topics in Bridget C. OʼBrien's work include Innovations in Medical Education (105 papers), Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (42 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (27 papers). Bridget C. OʼBrien is often cited by papers focused on Innovations in Medical Education (105 papers), Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (42 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (27 papers). Bridget C. OʼBrien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Bridget C. OʼBrien's co-authors include David A. Cook, Thomas J. Beckman, Ilene Harris, Darcy A. Reed, David M. Irby, Molly Cooke, Lara Varpio, Charlotte E. Rees, Rola Ajjawi and Lynn V. Monrouxe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Green Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Bridget C. OʼBrien

159 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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2014 6.9k citations Bridget C. OʼBrien et al. Academic Medicine profile →
Calls for Reform of Medical Education by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: 1910 and 2010

2010 642 citations David M. Irby, Bridget C. OʼBrien et al. Academic Medicine profile →
Shedding the cobra effect: problematising thematic emergence, triangulation, saturation and member checking

2016 619 citations Lara Varpio, Rola Ajjawi et al. Medical Education profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bridget C. OʼBrien United States	34	5.0k	4.2k	1.3k	1.1k	986	168	11.4k
Thomas J. Beckman United States	38	5.0k 1.0×	4.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	928 0.8×	974 1.0×	135	12.7k
Darcy A. Reed United States	40	4.5k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	788 0.7×	861 0.9×	112	12.2k
Judy A. Shea United States	63	3.6k 0.7×	4.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	910 0.8×	967 1.0×	390	13.8k
Patricia M. Davidson Australia	63	4.3k 0.9×	5.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.8×	734 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	786	18.2k
Ilene Harris United States	30	3.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	750 0.7×	847 0.9×	108	9.2k
Lara Varpio United States	34	3.4k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	891 0.7×	731 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	167	8.8k
Nicky Britten United Kingdom	56	3.0k 0.6×	7.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.6×	2.1k 2.1×	193	17.1k
Carl May United Kingdom	73	4.9k 1.0×	10.4k 2.5×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	380	20.3k
Richard M. Frankel United States	57	3.8k 0.8×	5.7k 1.4×	768 0.6×	2.3k 2.1×	635 0.6×	239	10.6k
Laure Perrier Canada	32	3.2k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	669 0.5×	502 0.4×	804 0.8×	98	9.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roberts, Laura Weiss, et al.. (2024). The Contributions of RIME in Furthering Medical Education Scholarship. Academic Medicine. 99(11). 1171–1172. 1 indexed citations

Cianciolo, Anna T., Bridget C. OʼBrien, Debra L. Klamen, & John D. Mellinger. (2024). Building on Strengths: An Affirmational and Systems-Level Approach to Revisiting Character in Medicine. Academic Medicine. 99(7). 708–715.

Ellaway, Rachel, Bridget C. OʼBrien, Jonathan Sherbino, et al.. (2024). Is There a Problem With Evidence in Health Professions Education?. Academic Medicine. 99(8). 841–848. 4 indexed citations

Young, Meredith, et al.. (2024). Characterizing Research Teams. Academic Medicine. 100(3). 402–402.

OʼBrien, Bridget C., et al.. (2024). The transferability triad: Exploring possibilities for applicability, resonance and theoretical engagement in health professions education scholarship. The Clinical Teacher. 21(6). e13800–e13800.

Hauer, Karen E., Andrea N. Leep Hunderfund, Martha L. Elks, et al.. (2023). The Problem and Power of Professionalism: A Critical Analysis of Medical Students’ and Residents’ Perspectives and Experiences of Professionalism. Academic Medicine. 98(Supplement_3). S32–S41. 21 indexed citations

Fulton, Tracy B., L. James Nixon, Amy L. Wilson‐Delfosse, et al.. (2023). Using a boundary crossing lens to understand basic science educator and clinical educator collaboration in instructional design. Medical Teacher. 46(7). 956–962.

Konopasky, Abigail, Bridget C. OʼBrien, Anthony R. Artino, et al.. (2021). I , we and they : A linguistic and narrative exploration of the authorship process. Medical Education. 56(4). 456–464. 3 indexed citations

Gruenberg, Katherine, et al.. (2021). How do pharmacists select antimicrobials? A model of pharmacists' therapeutic reasoning processes. JACCP JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PHARMACY. 5(4). 398–405. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Nina W., et al.. (2021). Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? Exploring Response Process Validity Evidence for a Workplace-based Assessment for Operative Feedback. Journal of surgical education. 79(2). 475–484. 4 indexed citations

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Schalkwyk, Susan van, et al.. (2020). Exploring perspectives on health professions education scholarship units from sub-Saharan Africa. Perspectives on Medical Education. 9(6). 359–366. 4 indexed citations

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Maggio, Lauren A., Anthony R. Artino, Christopher Watling, Erik W. Driessen, & Bridget C. OʼBrien. (2019). Exploring researchers’ perspectives on authorship decision making. Medical Education. 53(12). 1253–1262. 13 indexed citations

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Varpio, Lara, Bridget C. OʼBrien, Wendy Hu, et al.. (2017). Exploring the institutional logics of health professions education scholarship units. Medical Education. 51(7). 755–767. 25 indexed citations

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OʼBrien, Bridget C., Judith Warren Little, Maria Wamsley, et al.. (2017). Emergent is Authentic: A Sociomaterial Perspective on Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 29(4). 363–367. 8 indexed citations

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Varpio, Lara, Rola Ajjawi, Lynn V. Monrouxe, Bridget C. OʼBrien, & Charlotte E. Rees. (2016). Shedding the cobra effect: problematising thematic emergence, triangulation, saturation and member checking. Medical Education. 51(1). 40–50. 619 indexed citations breakdown →

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Colbert‐Getz, Jorie M., Steven L. Baumann, Janet E. Lindsley, et al.. (2016). What's in a Transition? An Integrative Perspective on Transitions in Medical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 28(4). 347–352. 14 indexed citations

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OʼBrien, Bridget C., Benjamin Dyer, John DeLuca, & Bryan K. Richmond. (2014). Streptococcus bovis bacteremia as the initial presentation of carcinoma of the gallbladder.. PubMed. 110(2). 32–3. 3 indexed citations

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Hauer, Karen E., Bridget C. OʼBrien, & Ann Poncelet. (2009). Longitudinal, Integrated Clerkship Education: Better for Learners and Patients. Academic Medicine. 84(7). 821–821. 36 indexed citations

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OʼBrien, Bridget C. & Andy Pearson. (1993). Unwritten Knowledge In Nursing: Consider the Spoken as Well as the Written Word. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice. 7(2). 111–124. 4 indexed citations

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OʼBrien, Bridget C.. (1987). Matching organ supply with growing demand.. PubMed. 97(5050). 561–561. 1 indexed citations

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