Heather Castleden

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Heather Castleden is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Castleden has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in General Health Professions, 45 papers in Health and 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Heather Castleden's work include Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (42 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (30 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (10 papers). Heather Castleden is often cited by papers focused on Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (42 papers), Indigenous Studies and Ecology (30 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (10 papers). Heather Castleden collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Heather Castleden's co-authors include Theresa Garvin, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, Christopher Lamb, Valorie A. Crooks, Debbie Martin, Graham A. Gagnon, Carolin Kreber, Nadine Schuurman, Chris Furgal and Neil Hanlon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Heather Castleden

94 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Modifying Photovoice for community-based participatory In... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. Modifying Photovoice for community-based participatory Indigenous research
    2008 464 citations Heather Castleden et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heather Castleden Canada 25 985 903 569 259 191 95 2.3k
Jason Corburn United States 31 1.1k 1.1× 940 1.0× 553 1.0× 97 0.4× 259 1.4× 61 3.9k
Jeni Klugman United States 20 974 1.0× 654 0.7× 312 0.5× 147 0.6× 455 2.4× 61 3.1k
Laura Camfield United Kingdom 26 934 0.9× 413 0.5× 266 0.5× 379 1.5× 142 0.7× 90 2.5k
Lisa Bourke Australia 23 565 0.6× 909 1.0× 248 0.4× 186 0.7× 428 2.2× 128 2.5k
Barbara Entwisle United States 31 1.4k 1.4× 365 0.4× 267 0.5× 154 0.6× 115 0.6× 87 3.0k
Richard M. Carpiano Canada 30 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 1.3k 2.2× 166 0.6× 295 1.5× 68 3.9k
Lance Freeman United States 23 1.4k 1.4× 474 0.5× 354 0.6× 99 0.4× 449 2.4× 45 2.8k
Christina Derrick United States 7 467 0.5× 344 0.4× 253 0.4× 225 0.9× 175 0.9× 8 2.0k
Deborah McGregor Canada 24 469 0.5× 630 0.7× 532 0.9× 103 0.4× 34 0.2× 44 1.6k
Cathleen D. Zick United States 31 919 0.9× 515 0.6× 448 0.8× 185 0.7× 652 3.4× 109 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Castleden

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Castleden

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Castleden

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heather Castleden. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heather Castleden based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Heather Castleden. Heather Castleden is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2024). “Dear John”: Overriding institutional axiology by privileging Indigenous relational ethics. Research Ethics. 21(4). 559–574. 1 indexed citations
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Yeung, Sharon, et al.. (2021). Bonding social capital and health within four First Nations communities in Canada: A cross-sectional study. SSM - Population Health. 16. 100962–100962. 5 indexed citations
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Masuda, Jeffrey R., et al.. (2021). Implementing Indigenous Gender-Based Analysis in Research: Principles, Practices and Lessons Learned. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(21). 11572–11572. 2 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2019). The tools at their fingertips: How settler colonial geographies shape medical educators’ strategies for grappling with Anti-Indigenous racism. Social Science & Medicine. 237. 112363–112363. 25 indexed citations
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Shaw, Karena, et al.. (2018). "We need more data!" The politics of scientific information for water governance in the context of hydraulic fracturing.. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 142–162. 6 indexed citations
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Yeung, Sharon, et al.. (2018). Predictors of medical student interest in Indigenous health learning and clinical practice: a Canadian case study. BMC Medical Education. 18(1). 307–307. 12 indexed citations
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Crooks, Valorie A., Melissa Giesbrecht, Heather Castleden, et al.. (2018). Community readiness and momentum: identifying and including community-driven variables in a mixed-method rural palliative care service siting model. BMC Palliative Care. 17(1). 59–59. 4 indexed citations
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Cunsolo, Ashlee, et al.. (2017). The Expanding Digital Media Landscape of Qualitative and Decolonizing Research: Examining Collaborative Podcasting as a Research Method. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12 indexed citations
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Hansen, Lisbeth Truelstrup, et al.. (2017). Chemical and microbial characteristics of municipal drinking water supply systems in the Canadian Arctic. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(33). 32926–32937. 28 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2015). Leashes and Lies: Navigating the Colonial Tensions of Institutional Ethics of Research Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2014). An argument for ethical physical geography research on Indigenous landscapes in Canada. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes. 58(4). 393–399. 9 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2014). The human dimension of water safety plans: a critical review of literature and information gaps. Environmental Reviews. 23(1). 24–29. 49 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2013). Settlers unsettled: using field schools and digital stories to transform geographies of ignorance about Indigenous peoples in Canada. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 37(4). 487–499. 33 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, et al.. (2011). Unintended consequences of regulating drinking water in rural Canadian communities: Examples from Atlantic Canada. Health & Place. 17(5). 1030–1037. 41 indexed citations
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Crooks, Valorie A., Heather Castleden, & Ilja van Meerveld. (2010). Teaching Research Methods Courses in Human Geography: Critical Reflections. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 34(2). 155–171. 18 indexed citations
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Castleden, Heather, Valorie A. Crooks, Neil Hanlon, & Nadine Schuurman. (2010). Providers’ perceptions of Aboriginal palliative care in British Columbia’s rural interior. Health & Social Care in the Community. 18(5). 483–491. 34 indexed citations
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Kreber, Carolin, et al.. (2004). Self-regulated learning about university teaching: an exploratory study. Teaching in Higher Education. 10(1). 75–97. 44 indexed citations

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