Colleen Cheek

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 855 citations indexed

About

Colleen Cheek is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Emergency Medical Services and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Colleen Cheek has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 855 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 9 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Colleen Cheek's work include Global Health Workforce Issues (7 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (7 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (5 papers). Colleen Cheek is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Workforce Issues (7 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (7 papers) and Innovations in Medical Education (5 papers). Colleen Cheek collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and Denmark. Colleen Cheek's co-authors include Theresa Fleming, Karolina Stasiak, Mathijs Lucassen, Sally Merry, Sarah Hetrick, Lynda Bavin, Penny Allen, Matthew Shepherd, Heather Bridgman and Richard Hays and has published in prestigious journals such as The Gerontologist, Medical Education and BMC Health Services Research.

In The Last Decade

Colleen Cheek

30 papers receiving 827 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.

Serious Games and Gamification for Mental Health: Current Status and Promising Directions

2017 387 citations Theresa Fleming, Lynda Bavin et al. Frontiers in Psychiatry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colleen Cheek Australia	12	289	213	186	185	133	34	855
Dan Robotham United Kingdom	14	177 0.6×	119 0.6×	436 2.3×	250 1.4×	205 1.5×	33	1.0k
Linda F. Campbell United States	15	137 0.5×	71 0.3×	205 1.1×	371 2.0×	202 1.5×	43	990
Heli Hätönen Finland	20	253 0.9×	111 0.5×	462 2.5×	312 1.7×	170 1.3×	41	1.1k
Emma Rowley United Kingdom	17	107 0.4×	60 0.3×	366 2.0×	244 1.3×	196 1.5×	34	925
Lorena Gutiérrez‐Puertas Spain	17	80 0.3×	357 1.7×	200 1.1×	194 1.0×	91 0.7×	43	974
J. Allan Best Canada	20	308 1.1×	86 0.4×	347 1.9×	226 1.2×	264 2.0×	35	1.3k
Genoveva Granados Gámez Spain	17	81 0.3×	310 1.5×	262 1.4×	253 1.4×	111 0.8×	52	1.0k
Gabriel Aguilera‐Manrique Spain	15	74 0.3×	343 1.6×	186 1.0×	187 1.0×	93 0.7×	54	963
Malakeh Z. Malak Jordan	17	70 0.2×	191 0.9×	223 1.2×	263 1.4×	127 1.0×	106	934
Heidi Cramm Canada	20	79 0.3×	298 1.4×	431 2.3×	915 4.9×	104 0.8×	109	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colleen Cheek

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lyng, Hilda Bø, Colleen Cheek, & Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland. (2025). Two sides of the story: bridging organizational and individual resilience - a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. 25(1). 1050–1050.

Dominello, Amanda, Colleen Cheek, & Robyn Clay‐Williams. (2025). The use of personas to involve consumers in healthcare co-design: a scoping review. BMC Health Services Research. 25(1). 649–649. 4 indexed citations

Tomchek, Scott, et al.. (2024). Development, field testing, and initial validation of an adherence rubric for caregiver coaching. Frontiers in Education. 9.

Testa, Luke, Colleen Cheek, Elizabeth Austin, et al.. (2024). Strategies to improve care for older adults who present to the emergency department: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 24(1). 178–178. 3 indexed citations

Testa, Luke, Colleen Cheek, Elizabeth Austin, et al.. (2024). Correction: Strategies to improve care for older adults who present to the emergency department: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 24(1). 304–304. 1 indexed citations

Austin, Elizabeth, Colleen Cheek, Luke Testa, et al.. (2024). Improving emergency department care for adults presenting with mental illness: a systematic review of strategies and their impact on outcomes, experience, and performance. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15. 1368129–1368129. 3 indexed citations

Francis‐Auton, Emilie, Colleen Cheek, Elizabeth Austin, et al.. (2024). Exploring and Understanding the ‘Experience’ in Experience-Based Codesign: A State-of-The-Art Review. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 23. 8 indexed citations

Cheek, Colleen, Elizabeth Austin, Luke Testa, et al.. (2023). Strategies to Improve Care in the Emergency Department for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Adults: a Systematic Review. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 12(1). 326–346. 1 indexed citations

Cheek, Colleen, et al.. (2021). Decommissioning and recommissioning a regional hospital in response to a COVID-19 outbreak. Rural and Remote Health. 21(2). 6256–6256. 2 indexed citations

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Seal, Alexa, Amanda S. Barnard, Colleen Cheek, et al.. (2019). The Australian Rural Clinical School (RCS) program supports rural medical workforce: evidence from a cross-sectional study of 12 RCSs. Rural and Remote Health. 19(1). 4971–4971. 61 indexed citations

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Walker, Gary & Colleen Cheek. (2018). Building business intelligence into health workforce research: a graduate outcome tracking system. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania).

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Cheek, Colleen, et al.. (2017). Building a local medical workforce in Tasmania: where are international fee-paying medical graduates likely to work?. Rural and Remote Health. 17(3). 4292–4292. 7 indexed citations

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Fleming, Theresa, Lynda Bavin, Karolina Stasiak, et al.. (2017). Serious Games and Gamification for Mental Health: Current Status and Promising Directions. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 7. 215–215. 387 indexed citations breakdown →

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Due, Clemence, et al.. (2017). A pilot study of social inclusion and quality of life for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability. 43(1). 73–82. 8 indexed citations

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Allen, Penny, et al.. (2016). Early intervention for children with autism: An Australian rural hub and spokes model. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 3(1). 71–84. 1 indexed citations

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Cheek, Colleen, Theresa Fleming, Mathijs Lucassen, et al.. (2015). Integrating Health Behavior Theory and Design Elements in Serious Games. JMIR Mental Health. 2(2). e11–e11. 69 indexed citations

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Fleming, Theresa, Colleen Cheek, Sally Merry, et al.. (2015). Juegos serios para el tratamiento o la prevención de la depresión: una revisión sistemática. Revista de Psicopatología y Psicología Clínica. 19(3). 227–227. 80 indexed citations

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Cheek, Colleen, Heather Bridgman, Theresa Fleming, et al.. (2014). Views of Young People in Rural Australia on SPARX, a Fantasy World Developed for New Zealand Youth With Depression. JMIR Serious Games. 2(1). e3–e3. 34 indexed citations

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Cheek, Colleen, et al.. (2013). Preliminary Report on the January 2013 Fires in the South-Eastern Tasmania Research Project. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 11 indexed citations

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Piercy, Kathleen W., et al.. (2011). Challenges and Psychosocial Growth for Older Volunteers Giving Intensive Humanitarian Service. The Gerontologist. 51(4). 550–560. 23 indexed citations

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