Megan Crowley‐Matoka

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Megan Crowley‐Matoka is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Crowley‐Matoka has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 13 papers in General Health Professions and 13 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Megan Crowley‐Matoka's work include Organ Donation and Transplantation (16 papers), Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (13 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 papers). Megan Crowley‐Matoka is often cited by papers focused on Organ Donation and Transplantation (16 papers), Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (13 papers) and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 papers). Megan Crowley‐Matoka collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Megan Crowley‐Matoka's co-authors include Galen E. Switzer, Kelly B. Hyman, Amy M. Kilbourne, Michael J. Fine, Yael Schenker, Robert M. Arnold, Douglas B. White, Greer A. Tiver, Diana J. Burgess and Michelle van Ryn and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Cancer and American Journal of Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Megan Crowley‐Matoka

39 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Advancing Health Disparities Research Within the Health Care System: A Conceptual Framework

2006 545 citations Galen E. Switzer, Megan Crowley‐Matoka et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Crowley‐Matoka United States	17	1.0k	537	406	314	207	46	1.8k
Megan Johnson Shen United States	26	1.1k 1.1×	906 1.7×	345 0.8×	361 1.1×	479 2.3×	101	2.6k
Ella Danielson Sweden	32	921 0.9×	1.0k 1.9×	395 1.0×	645 2.1×	354 1.7×	95	2.7k
Saskia Jünger Germany	20	1.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.9×	407 1.0×	441 1.4×	124 0.6×	52	2.7k
Dave Tomson United Kingdom	5	921 0.9×	1.7k 3.1×	259 0.6×	242 0.8×	191 0.9×	5	2.7k
Katherine Bristowe United Kingdom	27	1.0k 1.0×	547 1.0×	446 1.1×	430 1.4×	97 0.5×	93	2.1k
Cynthia H. Chuang United States	30	1.3k 1.3×	686 1.3×	688 1.7×	293 0.9×	69 0.3×	92	2.5k
Stewart C. Alexander United States	34	1.9k 1.9×	1.7k 3.2×	557 1.4×	506 1.6×	371 1.8×	80	3.5k
Christine May United Kingdom	11	617 0.6×	713 1.3×	201 0.5×	232 0.7×	134 0.6×	16	1.6k
Sheryl T. Kelber United States	24	520 0.5×	576 1.1×	186 0.5×	451 1.4×	53 0.3×	63	2.1k
Amy Lloyd United Kingdom	13	1.3k 1.3×	2.5k 4.6×	336 0.8×	294 0.9×	245 1.2×	18	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Crowley‐Matoka

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Rak, Kimberly J., Betty Ferrell, Douglas B. White, et al.. (2025). Factors influencing engagement with patient‐directed and facilitated advance care planning interventions for patients with advanced cancer. Cancer. 131(16). e70025–e70025.

Schenker, Yael, Tianxiu Wang, Rebecca L. Sudore, et al.. (2025). Facilitated Versus Patient-Directed Advance Care Planning Among Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JCO Oncology Practice. 21(10). 1447–1457. 1 indexed citations

Barrera, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). Pediatric Intensive Care Provider Attitudes About Children with Medical Complexity and Neurologic Impairment: A Qualitative Study. Children. 12(1). 34–34. 1 indexed citations

Selvaraj, Kavitha, et al.. (2022). Parent Perspectives on Adverse Childhood Experiences & Unmet Social Needs Screening in the Medical Home: A Qualitative Study. Academic Pediatrics. 22(8). 1309–1317. 6 indexed citations

Crowley‐Matoka, Megan. (2020). Operating (for) legitimacy. American Ethnologist. 47(1). 58–71. 4 indexed citations

Keller, Eric J., Megan Crowley‐Matoka, Jeremy D. Collins, et al.. (2017). Fostering better policy adoption and inter-disciplinary communication in healthcare: A qualitative analysis of practicing physicians’ common interests. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172865–e0172865. 5 indexed citations

Keller, Eric J., Jeremy D. Collins, Megan Crowley‐Matoka, et al.. (2017). Why Vascular Surgeons and Interventional Radiologists Collaborate or Compete: A Look at Endovascular Stent Placements. CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology. 40(6). 814–821. 9 indexed citations

Halverson, Colin, et al.. (2016). Living Kidney Donors Who Develop Kidney Failure: Excerpts of Their Thoughts. American Journal of Nephrology. 43(6). 389–396. 13 indexed citations

Crowley‐Matoka, Megan. (2015). Cultural Factors. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan & Sherine Hamdy. (2015). Gendering the Gift of Life: Family Politics and Kidney Donation in Egypt and Mexico. Medical Anthropology. 35(1). 31–44. 19 indexed citations

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Schenker, Yael, Douglas B. White, Megan Crowley‐Matoka, et al.. (2013). “It Hurts To Know…And It Helps”: Exploring How Surrogates in the ICU Cope with Prognostic Information. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 16(3). 243–249. 65 indexed citations

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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan. (2013). Anthropological issues in renal care. Kidney International Supplements. 3(2). 219–222.

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Schenker, Yael, Megan Crowley‐Matoka, Daniel Dohan, et al.. (2012). I Don’t Want to Be the One Saying ‘We Should Just Let Him Die’: Intrapersonal Tensions Experienced by Surrogate Decision Makers in the ICU. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 27(12). 1657–1665. 134 indexed citations

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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan. (2012). How to parse the protective, the punitive and the prejudicial in chronic opioid therapy?. Pain. 154(1). 5–6. 3 indexed citations

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Myaskovsky, Larissa, Donna M. Posluszny, Mary Amanda Dew, et al.. (2012). Rates and Correlates of Health Maintenance Behaviors after Living Kidney Donation. Progress in Transplantation. 22(2). 147–154. 6 indexed citations

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Testa, Giuliano, Peter Angelos, Megan Crowley‐Matoka, & Mark Siegler. (2009). Elective Surgical Patients as Living Organ Donors: A Clinical and Ethical Innovation. American Journal of Transplantation. 9(10). 2400–2405. 7 indexed citations

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Burgess, Diana J., Megan Crowley‐Matoka, Sean M. Phelan, et al.. (2008). Patient race and physicians' decisions to prescribe opioids for chronic low back pain. Social Science & Medicine. 67(11). 1852–1860. 122 indexed citations

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Mangione, Michael P. & Megan Crowley‐Matoka. (2008). Improving Pain Management Communication: How Patients Understand the Terms “Opioid” and “Narcotic”. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 23(9). 1336–1338. 18 indexed citations

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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan & Margaret Lock. (2006). Organ transplantation in a globalised world. Mortality. 11(2). 166–181. 28 indexed citations

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Crowley‐Matoka, Megan & Robert M. Arnold. (2004). The Dead Donor Rule: How Much Does the Public Care. .. And How Much Should We Care?. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 14(3). 319–332. 6 indexed citations

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