Douglas Mains

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Douglas Mains is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Mains has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in General Health Professions, 3 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 3 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Douglas Mains's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (2 papers) and Smoking Behavior and Cessation (2 papers). Douglas Mains is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (3 papers), Health Policy Implementation Science (2 papers) and Smoking Behavior and Cessation (2 papers). Douglas Mains collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Douglas Mains's co-authors include Kristine Lykens, Patricia Dolan Mullen, Nuha A. Lackan, Karan P. Singh, Christine Sammer, Ramón Vélez, Lawrence W. Green, Denise G. Simons‐Morton, Ralph F. Frankowski and Gilbert Ramı́rez and has published in prestigious journals such as Patient Education and Counseling, Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Evaluation & the Health Professions.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Mains

12 papers receiving 696 citations

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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.

What is Patient Safety Culture? A Review of the Literature

2010 415 citations Christine Sammer, Kristine Lykens et al. Journal of Nursing Scholarship profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas Mains United States	6	315	246	212	134	109	13	771
Donna Woods United States	19	394 1.3×	201 0.8×	271 1.3×	54 0.4×	155 1.4×	51	994
Alison Cracknell United Kingdom	12	396 1.3×	279 1.1×	219 1.0×	65 0.5×	80 0.7×	26	801
Heather Sherman United States	9	497 1.6×	356 1.4×	213 1.0×	51 0.4×	186 1.7×	13	967
Don Berwick United States	9	393 1.2×	197 0.8×	457 2.2×	83 0.6×	220 2.0×	18	1.1k
Elizabeth Lewton United States	7	428 1.4×	145 0.6×	331 1.6×	51 0.4×	218 2.0×	8	953
Christine W. Hartmann United States	18	301 1.0×	164 0.7×	506 2.4×	175 1.3×	148 1.4×	64	1.1k
Diane C. Pinakiewicz United States	4	264 0.8×	177 0.7×	198 0.9×	74 0.6×	101 0.9×	12	566
Nerée Claes Belgium	16	181 0.6×	113 0.5×	180 0.8×	38 0.3×	102 0.9×	43	839
Sarah Scobie United Kingdom	13	244 0.8×	167 0.7×	169 0.8×	51 0.4×	96 0.9×	22	690
Aseel S. Abuzour United Kingdom	10	375 1.2×	184 0.7×	301 1.4×	33 0.2×	146 1.3×	15	857

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Mains

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Sammer, Christine, Kristine Lykens, Karan P. Singh, Douglas Mains, & Nuha A. Lackan. (2010). What is Patient Safety Culture? A Review of the Literature. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 42(2). 156–165. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coustasse, Alberto, Douglas Mains, Kristine Lykens, Sue Lurie, & Fernando M. Treviño. (2008). Organizational Culture in a Terminally Ill Hospital. PubMed. 18(1). 39–60. 6 indexed citations

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Mains, Douglas, et al.. (2007). Barriers to Women's Cardiovascular Risk Knowledge. Health Care For Women International. 29(1). 23–38. 4 indexed citations

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Miller, Thaddeus L., Roderick S. Hooker, & Douglas Mains. (2006). Characteristics of osteopathic physicians choosing to practice rural primary care.. PubMed. 106(5). 274–9. 11 indexed citations

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Mains, Douglas, Thomas Fairchild, & Antônio Renê. (2006). An Employee Assistance Program for Caregiver Support. Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 47(1-2). 157–173. 2 indexed citations

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Coustasse, Alberto, et al.. (2004). Comparative Cost Analysis of CRRT in ICU/CCU Patients Undergoing Cardiovascular Surgery vs. Other Procedures at a Texas Hospital.

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Rubin, Bernard R., et al.. (2003). An analysis of osteoporosis-related hip fractures using hospital discharge data.. PubMed. 103(4). 169–75. 3 indexed citations

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Lykens, Kristine, et al.. (2003). A Sun Awareness Pilot Project in Texas. International Quarterly of Community Health Education. 21(4). 323–341. 2 indexed citations

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Mullen, Patricia Dolan, Denise G. Simons‐Morton, Gilbert Ramı́rez, et al.. (1997). A meta-analysis of trials evaluating patient education and counseling for three groups of preventive health behaviors. Patient Education and Counseling. 32(3). 157–173. 109 indexed citations

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Mullen, Patricia Dolan, Douglas Mains, & Ramón Vélez. (1992). A meta-analysis of controlled trials of cardiac patient education. Patient Education and Counseling. 19(2). 143–162. 180 indexed citations

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Simons‐Morton, Denise G., Patricia Dolan Mullen, Douglas Mains, Ellen R. Tabak, & Lawrence W. Green. (1992). Characteristics of controlled studies of patient education and counseling for preventive health behaviors. Patient Education and Counseling. 19(2). 175–204. 31 indexed citations

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Tabak, Ellen R., Patricia Dolan Mullen, Denise G. Simons‐Morton, et al.. (1991). Definition and Yield of Inclusion Criteria for a Meta-Analysis of Patient Education Studies in Clinical Preventive Services. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 14(4). 388–411. 5 indexed citations

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Lairson, David R., Douglas Mains, Patricia Dolan Mullen, & Ramón Vélez. (1991). Estimating the cost of education and counseling programs. Patient Education and Counseling. 18(2). 179–188. 3 indexed citations

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