Imelda McCarthy

932 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 575 citations indexed

About

Imelda McCarthy is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Imelda McCarthy has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 575 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in General Health Professions, 8 papers in Clinical Psychology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Imelda McCarthy's work include Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (6 papers), Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (3 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (2 papers). Imelda McCarthy is often cited by papers focused on Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (6 papers), Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout (3 papers) and Family Business Performance and Succession (2 papers). Imelda McCarthy collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden. Imelda McCarthy's co-authors include Jeremy Dawson, Graham Martin, Mary Dixon‐Woods, Piotr Ozierański, Kathryn Charles, Michael West, Patricia Wilkie, Richard Baker, Joel T. Minion and Janet Willars and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, BMC Health Services Research and The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

In The Last Decade

Imelda McCarthy

17 papers receiving 531 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.

Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large multimethod study

2013 305 citations Mary Dixon‐Woods, Richard Baker et al. BMJ Quality & Safety profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Imelda McCarthy United Kingdom	9	289	148	119	89	85	20	575
Karen Drenkard United States	15	401 1.4×	54 0.4×	78 0.7×	160 1.8×	85 1.0×	50	726
Hannah Cooke United Kingdom	10	291 1.0×	60 0.4×	77 0.6×	177 2.0×	64 0.8×	23	639
Omar Ghazi Baker Saudi Arabia	15	222 0.8×	163 1.1×	31 0.3×	129 1.4×	50 0.6×	47	575
Mary Adams United Kingdom	12	237 0.8×	70 0.5×	35 0.3×	59 0.7×	76 0.9×	22	429
Alexandre Pazetto Balsanelli Brazil	15	338 1.2×	136 0.9×	31 0.3×	101 1.1×	41 0.5×	84	642
Noreen Frisch Canada	16	334 1.2×	108 0.7×	73 0.6×	95 1.1×	140 1.6×	48	752
Sarah Lee United States	9	419 1.4×	123 0.8×	43 0.4×	92 1.0×	99 1.2×	19	765
Jane Roberts United Kingdom	12	279 1.0×	97 0.7×	94 0.8×	73 0.8×	107 1.3×	37	557
Anneli Ensio Finland	8	497 1.7×	111 0.8×	50 0.4×	101 1.1×	66 0.8×	16	740
Rowaida Al‐Maaitah Jordan	12	262 0.9×	79 0.5×	73 0.6×	69 0.8×	103 1.2×	21	497

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Fletcher, Luke, Monder Ram, & Imelda McCarthy. (2025). A review of the empirical literature on ‘engagement’ within the context of entrepreneurship and small business management. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 36(6). 869–894.

Martin, Graham, et al.. (2022). Encouraging openness in health care: Policy and practice implications of a mixed-methods study in the English National Health Service. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 28(1). 14–24. 7 indexed citations

Dawson, Jeremy, Imelda McCarthy, Cath Taylor, et al.. (2021). Effectiveness of a group intervention to reduce the psychological distress of healthcare staff: a pre-post quasi-experimental evaluation. BMC Health Services Research. 21(1). 392–392. 10 indexed citations

Maben, Jill, Cath Taylor, Ellen Reynolds, Imelda McCarthy, & Mary Leamy. (2021). Realist evaluation of Schwartz rounds® for enhancing the delivery of compassionate healthcare: understanding how they work, for whom, and in what contexts. BMC Health Services Research. 21(1). 709–709. 18 indexed citations

McCarthy, Imelda. (2021). Re-Membering and Naturing my Life and Work in a Fifth Province. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 74–86. 2 indexed citations

Ram, Monder, Imelda McCarthy, Anne Green, & Judy Scully. (2021). Towards a more inclusive human resource community: Engaging ethnic minority microbusinesses in human resource development programmes targeted at more productive methods of operating. Human Resource Management Journal. 32(3). 540–554. 8 indexed citations

McCarthy, Imelda, Jeremy Dawson, & Graham Martin. (2020). Openness in the NHS: a secondary longitudinal analysis of national staff and patient surveys. BMC Health Services Research. 20(1). 900–900. 6 indexed citations

McCarthy, Imelda, Cath Taylor, Mary Leamy, Ellie Reynolds, & Jill Maben. (2020). ‘We needed to talk about it’: The experience of sharing the emotional impact of health care work as a panellist in Schwartz Center Rounds® in the UK. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 26(1). 20–27. 5 indexed citations

McCarthy, Imelda, et al.. (2019). The Fifth Province Approach as a Systemic Meditative Practice. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 55–69.

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Maben, Jill, Cath Taylor, Jeremy Dawson, et al.. (2018). A realist informed mixed-methods evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds® in England. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(37). 1–260. 90 indexed citations

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Maben, Jill, Mary Leamy, Cath Taylor, et al.. (2018). An Organisational guide:Understanding, implementing and sustaining Schwartz Rounds.. Aston Publications Explorer (Aston University). 3 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Imelda & Gail Simon. (2016). Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice. University of Bedfordshire Repository (University of Bedfordshire). 18 indexed citations

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Massa, Elena, et al.. (2013). GPS TECHNOLOGY IN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-british Volume. 70–70.

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Dixon‐Woods, Mary, Richard Baker, Kathryn Charles, et al.. (2013). Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large multimethod study. BMJ Quality & Safety. 23(2). 106–115. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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McCarthy, Imelda. (2001). Fifth Province re‐versings: the social construction of women lone parents' inequality and poverty. Journal of Family Therapy. 23(3). 253–277. 22 indexed citations

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Hydén, Margareta & Imelda McCarthy. (1994). Woman Battering and Father-Daughter Incest Disclosure: Discourses of Denial and Acknowledgement. Discourse & Society. 5(4). 543–565. 31 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Imelda. (1993). "Out of Myth Into History". Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. 4(3-4). 37–46. 2 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Imelda. (1990). Paradigms lost: Remembering herstories and other invalid subjects. Contemporary Family Therapy. 12(5). 427–437. 3 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Imelda, et al.. (1988). Moving Statutes: Re-Questing Ambivalence Through Ambiguous Discourse. The Irish Journal of Psychology. 9(1). 173–182. 13 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Imelda, et al.. (1988). Mis‐taken Love: Conversations on the Problem of Incest in an Irish Context.. Family Process. 27(2). 181–199. 32 indexed citations

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