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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
72
Citations
18603
World Ranking
691
National Ranking
127

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Nursing
  • Internal medicine

Roger Watson spends much of his time researching Nursing, Nurse education, MEDLINE, Competence and Dementia. His primary area of study in Nursing is in the field of Nursing research. His Nurse education research includes themes of Longitudinal study, Workforce, Health care, Validity and Cohort study.

His MEDLINE research includes elements of Confirmatory factor analysis, Action plan, Risk factor and Malnutrition. His Competence research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Educational measurement, Curriculum, Rating scale, Higher education and Objective structured clinical examination. His Dementia study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Psychological intervention, Older people, Gerontology, Scale and Randomized controlled trial.

His most cited work include:

  • Clinical competence assessment in nursing: a systematic review of the literature (438 citations)
  • A longitudinal cohort study of burnout and attrition in nursing students (346 citations)
  • Prison health care: a review of the literature (181 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Roger Watson mainly focuses on Nursing, Nurse education, Gerontology, Nursing research and Dementia. His research in Nursing intersects with topics in Workforce, Health care, MEDLINE, Family medicine and Competence. Roger Watson studies CINAHL, a branch of MEDLINE.

Team nursing is the focus of his Nurse education research. Roger Watson is interested in Older people, which is a branch of Gerontology. Roger Watson combines subjects such as Intervention and Psychiatry with his study of Dementia.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Nursing (38.08%)
  • Nurse education (13.12%)
  • Gerontology (11.14%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Nursing (38.08%)
  • Medical education (6.49%)
  • MEDLINE (8.74%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His main research concerns Nursing, Medical education, MEDLINE, Nursing research and Scale. His work investigates the relationship between Nursing and topics such as Patient safety that intersect with problems in Quality. His MEDLINE research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Intervention and Intensive care medicine.

He combines topics linked to Publishing with his work on Nursing research. His Scale research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Item response theory, Mokken scale and Hierarchy. His Nurse education research focuses on Team nursing in particular.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • European Academy of Nursing Science 2016 Summer Conference (52 citations)
  • Representation of age and ageing identities in popular music texts. (46 citations)
  • Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave. (36 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Nursing
  • Health care

His primary areas of investigation include Nursing, Health care, Medical education, Nursing research and Nurse education. His Nursing research is mostly focused on the topic Nursing management. His research investigates the connection between Health care and topics such as MEDLINE that intersect with issues in Library science.

The concepts of his Medical education study are interwoven with issues in Empathy, Focus group, Psychometrics and Mokken scale. His work deals with themes such as Publishing, Pedagogy and Exploratory data analysis, which intersect with Nursing research. His Nurse education research incorporates themes from Scale, Exploratory factor analysis, Mortality rate and Data collection.

Best Publications

  • Clinical competence assessment in nursing: a systematic review of the literature

    Roger Watson;Anne Stimpson;Annie Topping;Davina Porock

  • A longitudinal cohort study of burnout and attrition in nursing students

    Ian J Deary;Roger Watson;Richard Hogston

  • Chi-square for model fit in confirmatory factor analysis

    Mousa Alavi;Denis C Visentin;Deependra K Thapa;Glenn E Hunt

  • Prison health care: a review of the literature

    Roger Watson;Anne Stimpson;Tony Hostick

  • A study of stress and burnout in nursing students in Hong Kong: a questionnaire survey.

    Roger Watson;Ian J Deary;David R Thompson;Gloria Li

  • Reliability and validity in a nutshell

    Katrina Bannigan;Roger Watson

  • Cómo validar un instrumento de medida de la salud

    A. Carvajal;C. Centeno;R. Watson;M. Martínez

  • A review of clinical competence assessment in nursing.

    Chen Yanhua;Roger Watson

  • Use of factor analysis in Journal of Advanced Nursing: literature review

    Roger Watson;David R. Thompson

  • Push and pull factors of nurses' intention to leave.

    Loredana Sasso;Annamaria Bagnasco;Gianluca Catania;Milko Zanini

  • A group music intervention using percussion instruments with familiar music to reduce anxiety and agitation of institutionalized older adults with dementia

    Huei-chuan Sung;Wen-li Lee;Tzai-li Li;Roger Watson

  • Language barriers and their impact on provision of care to patients with limited English proficiency: Nurses' perspectives.

    Parveen Azam Ali;Roger Watson

  • Assessing competence to practise in nursing: a review of the literature

    Sally Redfern;Ian Norman;Lynn Calman;Roger Watson

  • The validity and reliability of methods to assess the competence to practise of pre-registration nursing and midwifery students

    Ian J Norman;Roger Watson;Trevor Murrells;Lynn Calman

  • Nutritional screening and assessment tools for use by nurses: literature review.

    Sue M. Green;Roger Watson

  • A longitudinal study of stress and psychological distress in nurses and nursing students.

    Roger Watson;Eric D Gardiner;Richard Hogston;Helen Gibson

  • Nutritional screening and assessment tools for older adults: literature review

    Sue M. Green;Roger Watson

  • Healthcare workers' (HCWs) attitudes and related factors towards COVID-19 vaccination: a rapid systematic review.

    Mei Li;Yue Luo;Roger Watson;Yu Zheng

  • The caring dimensions inventory (CDI): content validity, reliability and scaling.

    Roger Watson;Amandah Lea

  • Loneliness in elderly people: an important area for nursing research.

    Jean M Donaldson;Roger Watson

  • Nursing Research: Designs and Methods

    Hugh McKenna;Roger Watson;Seamus Cowman;John Keady

  • Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services, 2nd edition

    Roger Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Jill Manthorpe
Jill Manthorpe King's College London
Keith Topping
Keith Topping University of Dundee
Alan J. Gow
Alan J. Gow Heriot-Watt University
John M. Starr
John M. Starr University of Edinburgh
Charles Normand
Charles Normand Trinity College Dublin
Rob R. Meijer
Rob R. Meijer University of Groningen
Linda H. Aiken
Linda H. Aiken University of Pennsylvania
Sam Norton
Sam Norton King's College London
Elizabeth J. Austin
Elizabeth J. Austin University of Edinburgh

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