Simon Malfait

835 total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 468 citations indexed

About

Simon Malfait is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Emergency Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Malfait has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 468 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in General Health Professions, 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 11 papers in Emergency Medicine. Recurrent topics in Simon Malfait's work include Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (17 papers), Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (14 papers) and Hospital Admissions and Outcomes (11 papers). Simon Malfait is often cited by papers focused on Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (17 papers), Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (14 papers) and Hospital Admissions and Outcomes (11 papers). Simon Malfait collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Simon Malfait's co-authors include Ann Van Hecke, Kristof Eeckloo, Wim Van Biesen, Getty Huisman‐de Waal, Thóra B. Hafsteinsdøttir, Dominique Benoît, Veerle Duprez, Dimitri Beeckman, Tine Van Regenmortel and Stijn Vansteelandt and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Advanced Nursing and Patient Education and Counseling.

In The Last Decade

Simon Malfait

39 papers receiving 453 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Nurses' motivations to leave the nursing profession: A qualitative meta‐aggregation

2023 62 citations Simon Malfait, Thóra B. Hafsteinsdøttir et al. Journal of Advanced Nursing profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Malfait Belgium	15	277	107	71	65	58	47	468
Caitlin W. Brennan United States	12	225 0.8×	60 0.6×	102 1.4×	63 1.0×	41 0.7×	24	435
Pamela K. Greenhouse United States	17	309 1.1×	73 0.7×	86 1.2×	76 1.2×	45 0.8×	34	579
Li‐Anne Audet Canada	9	154 0.6×	46 0.4×	52 0.7×	57 0.9×	39 0.7×	14	340
Clémence Dallaire Canada	13	231 0.8×	64 0.6×	87 1.2×	41 0.6×	51 0.9×	68	449
Amanda Fox Australia	11	260 0.9×	87 0.8×	71 1.0×	60 0.9×	20 0.3×	26	385
Grainne Lowe Australia	11	300 1.1×	56 0.5×	69 1.0×	124 1.9×	52 0.9×	32	416
Carolina Herrera United States	13	225 0.8×	42 0.4×	62 0.9×	77 1.2×	43 0.7×	27	392
Christian N. Burchill United States	8	232 0.8×	54 0.5×	132 1.9×	105 1.6×	30 0.5×	28	445
Baoyue Li Netherlands	8	327 1.2×	71 0.7×	49 0.7×	80 1.2×	35 0.6×	10	528
Patricia Folcarelli United States	15	430 1.6×	91 0.9×	174 2.5×	141 2.2×	69 1.2×	29	771

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2025). Building the Ship While Sailing: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis of the Implementation of Nursing Care Delivery Models in a Hospital Setting. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 82(3). 2119–2135. 1 indexed citations

Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2025). The job content of head nurses in a hospital setting: A scoping review and multinational Delphi study. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 167. 105067–105067.

Hirt, Julian, et al.. (2024). Comparing different scoping and mapping review methodologies: A practical example using the nursing mobile workstation. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 56(6). 802–814.

Duprez, Veerle, et al.. (2024). The effect of different care delivery models in a hospital setting on patient‐ and nurse‐related outcomes: A systematic review with narrative synthesis. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 81(1). 140–155. 1 indexed citations

Vanderwee, Katrien, et al.. (2024). How to choose between single‐use and reusable medical materials for sustainable nursing: Methodological lessons learned from a national study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 81(12). 8357–8370. 2 indexed citations

Eeckloo, Kristof, et al.. (2024). How much do we know about nursing care delivery models in a hospital setting? A mapping review. Nursing Inquiry. 31(3). e12636–e12636. 6 indexed citations

Hecke, Ann Van, et al.. (2024). Bedside handovers in mental health care: An explorative review. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. 51. 10–16.

Hecke, Ann Van, et al.. (2023). Implementing bedside handovers in mental health care: Insights from an experience-based co-design. Patient Education and Counseling. 119. 108051–108051. 1 indexed citations

Duprez, Veerle, et al.. (2023). Understanding strategies that foster nurses to act as clinical leaders in hospitals: A realist review. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 80(4). 1248–1261. 2 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2022). Designing a patient room: the process of stakeholders’ involvement.

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Benoît, Dominique, et al.. (2022). Implementing mixed nursing care teams in intensive care units during COVID ‐19: A rapid qualitative descriptive study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 78(10). 3345–3357. 6 indexed citations

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Heinen, Maud, Simon Malfait, Kristof Eeckloo, et al.. (2021). Individualised care in Flemish and Dutch hospitals: Comparing patients’ and nurses’ perceptions. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. 36(3). 635–649. 3 indexed citations

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Duprez, Veerle, Branko Vermote, Ann Van Hecke, et al.. (2021). Are internship experiences during a pandemic related to students’ commitment to nursing education? A cross-sectional study. Nurse Education Today. 107. 105124–105124. 20 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2020). The impact of bedside handovers on relevant clinical indicators: A matched‐controlled multicentre longitudinal study. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 76(8). 2104–2112. 5 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2020). Perceptions of interdisciplinary bedside rounds by head nurses in Flanders: a cross-sectional exploration. Acta Clinica Belgica. 77(2). 307–314. 1 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2020). Patient empowerment in Flemish hospital wards: a cross-sectional study. Acta Clinica Belgica. 76(6). 453–461. 3 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2018). Co-design for implementing patient participation in hospital services: A discussion paper. Patient Education and Counseling. 101(7). 1302–1305. 37 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, Ann Van Hecke, Wim Van Biesen, & Kristof Eeckloo. (2018). Do Bedside Handovers Reduce Handover Duration? An Observational Study With Implications for Evidence‐Based Practice. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 15(6). 432–439. 14 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2018). Patient and public involvement in hospital policy-making: Identifying key elements for effective participation. Health Policy. 122(4). 380–388. 21 indexed citations

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Malfait, Simon, et al.. (2017). The Development and Validation of the Patient Participation Culture Tool for Inpatient Psychiatric Wards (PaCT-PSY). Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. 31(5). 463–469. 2 indexed citations

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