Karen Thorpe

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
171 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Karen Thorpe is a scholar working on Education, Clinical Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Thorpe has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Education, 44 papers in Clinical Psychology and 41 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Karen Thorpe's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (59 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (22 papers). Karen Thorpe is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (59 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (22 papers). Karen Thorpe collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Karen Thorpe's co-authors include Susan Danby, Rosemary Greenwood, Jean Golding, Sally Staton, Michael Rutter, Collette Tayler, Elena Jansen, Lynne Daniels, Susan Irvine and Kimberley M. Mallan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, PEDIATRICS and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Karen Thorpe

162 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Measuring Health. A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karen Thorpe Australia	32	1.3k	936	870	690	625	171	4.0k
Jacqueline Barnes United Kingdom	33	827 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	807 0.9×	719 1.0×	963 1.5×	131	3.5k
Frank Oberklaid Australia	37	1.1k 0.9×	2.4k 2.5×	740 0.9×	469 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	157	5.4k
Robert H. Bradley United States	27	1.6k 1.2×	1.9k 2.0×	967 1.1×	492 0.7×	836 1.3×	58	4.2k
Curt Hagquist Sweden	34	881 0.7×	2.2k 2.3×	734 0.8×	835 1.2×	989 1.6×	120	5.4k
David Kerr United States	38	1.1k 0.9×	2.1k 2.2×	429 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	297 0.5×	139	4.4k
Larry H. Ludlow United States	29	1.0k 0.8×	892 1.0×	215 0.2×	661 1.0×	321 0.5×	112	3.8k
Karen McKenzie United Kingdom	30	674 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	635 0.7×	431 0.6×	158 0.3×	250	3.9k
Jan Janssens Netherlands	28	951 0.7×	2.7k 2.8×	873 1.0×	690 1.0×	341 0.5×	92	3.6k
Kenneth R. Ginsburg United States	25	867 0.7×	973 1.0×	561 0.6×	658 1.0×	643 1.0×	75	3.5k
Theodore D. Wachs United States	35	1.7k 1.3×	2.2k 2.4×	932 1.1×	559 0.8×	1.4k 2.3×	112	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Karen Thorpe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Thorpe

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Milton, Alyssa, et al.. (2025). Amplifying children’s leadership roles and voice in decision-making through co-production in outside of school hours care: qualitative findings from the connect promote and protect program. Frontiers in Education. 9.

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McDonald, Paula, et al.. (2024). How women educators frame the scarcity of men in early childhood education and care. Gender and Education. 36(5). 510–526. 2 indexed citations

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Cooke, Emma, et al.. (2023). Poverty for lunch: A case study of agency and food scarcity in mealtimes in disadvantaged ECE. Children & Society. 38(4). 1076–1094. 1 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen, et al.. (2023). Support to stay and thrive: mapping challenges faced by Australia’s early years educators to the national workforce strategy 2022–2031. The Australian Educational Researcher. 51(1). 321–345. 19 indexed citations

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Irvine, Susan, et al.. (2023). Professionalization and Professionalism: Quality Improvement in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Early Childhood Education Journal. 52(8). 1911–1922. 2 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen, Sally Staton, Sandy Houen, & Tony Beatton. (2020). Essential yet discounted: COVID-19 and the early childhood education workforce. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 42(3). 18–21. 7 indexed citations

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Cooke, Emma, et al.. (2019). Three things I learn at sleep-time: children’s accounts of sleep and rest in their early childhood education programs. Early Years Journal of International Research and Development. 41(5). 556–573. 5 indexed citations

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Cloney, Dan, et al.. (2018). Psychometric Properties of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (Pre-K): Implications for Measuring Interaction Quality in Diverse Early Childhood Settings.. PubMed. 18(3). 299–318. 12 indexed citations

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Houen, Sandy, Susan Danby, Ann Farrell, & Karen Thorpe. (2018). Adopting an unknowing stance in teacher–child interactions through ‘I wonder…’ formulations. Classroom Discourse. 10(2). 151–167. 11 indexed citations

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Staton, Sally, Simon S. Smith, C. Pattinson, & Karen Thorpe. (2014). History of childcare & age of cessation of napping in preschool aged children. Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Qld (CARRS-Q); Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation.

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Staton, Sally, et al.. (2014). Getting there, being there, staying and belonging: A case study of two Indigenous Australian children's transition to school. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 9 indexed citations

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Inglis, James, Sally Staton, Simon Smith, C. Pattinson, & Karen Thorpe. (2013). Napping in preschoolers: staff beliefs and experiences in early childhood centres. Sleep and Biological Rhythms. 11(2). 14. 5 indexed citations

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Bekkhus, Mona, Sally Staton, Anne I.H. Borge, & Karen Thorpe. (2011). Conflict, Closeness and Comfort: The Inter-Twin Relationship as a Risk Factor for Behavioral Difficulties. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 14(5). 444–451. 14 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen, et al.. (2006). Being Opposite: Is There Advantage for Social Competence and Friendships in Being an Opposite-Sex Twin?. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 9(1). 131–140. 12 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen, et al.. (2006). Being Opposite: Is There Advantage for Social Competence and Friendships in Being an Opposite-Sex Twin?. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 9(1). 131–140. 13 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen & Susan Danby. (2006). Compromised or Competent: Analyzing Twin Children's Social Worlds. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 9(1). 90–94. 9 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen. (2006). Best Practice: Twin children's Language Development. 2 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen. (2003). Twins and Friendship. Twin Research. 6(6). 532–535. 24 indexed citations

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Dragonas, Thalia, Karen Thorpe, & Jean Golding. (1992). Transition to fatherhood: a cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology. 13(1). 1–19. 18 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Karen & David Satterly. (1990). The development and inter-relationship of metacognitive components among primary school children. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland).

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