Surgery

4.2M papers and 86.8M indexed citations i.

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4.2M papers covering Surgery have received a total of 86.8M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Pancreatic Islet Dysfunction and Regeneration, Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty and Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation and also cover the fields of Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. Some of the most active scholars covering Surgery are Russell Ross, Peter Libby, Paul M. Ridker, Joseph L. Goldstein, Henrik Kehlet, Michael S. Brown, D. Grahame Hardie, Julian P. T. Higgins, Daniel J. Drucker and Simon G. Thompson.

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Fields of papers citing papers about Surgery

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers covering Surgery. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers covering Surgery.

Countries where authors publish papers about Surgery

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This map shows the geographic impact of research in Surgery. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers about Surgery with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Surgery more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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