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Alan R Turner-Smith

Alan R Turner-Smith publishes mostly in Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Occupational Therapy, on topics such as Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility and Medical Imaging and Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,141,484
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#91,070
of 367,258
Works
69
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
25.1
h-index
21
i10-index 29Top 15% in Surgery

What does Alan R Turner-Smith research?

Alan R Turner-Smith's work is mostly in Medicine (30%), Engineering (11%), Health Professions (8%).

Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences38%Social Sciences7%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else3044.1%
    1. Medicine2029.5%
    2. Health Professions68.4%
    1. Engineering710.8%
    1. Social Sciences57.2%
  1. 1Surgery26% of their works
  2. 2Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  3. 3Occupational Therapy8% of their works
  4. 4Demography5% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology3% of their works
  6. 6Education2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan R Turner-Smith's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Disability, Scoliosis, Spinal Deformity, Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement, Assistive Technology, Augmentative and Alternative Communication and Epidemiology.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Disability192 topics
  2. Scoliosis161 topic
  3. Spinal Deformity161 topic
  4. Revision Surgery152 topics
  5. Total Hip Replacement152 topics
  6. Assistive Technology141 topic
  7. Augmentative and Alternative Communication141 topic
  8. Epidemiology132 topics
  9. Arthroplasty81 topic
  10. Spine Segmentation81 topic
  11. Total Knee Replacement81 topic
  12. Vertebrae Detection81 topic
  13. Hip Arthroplasty71 topic
  14. Wear Particles71 topic
  15. Older Adults61 topic
  16. Technology Use61 topic
  17. Chronic Pain51 topic
  18. Femoroacetabular Impingement51 topic
  19. Global Burden51 topic
  20. Hip Arthroscopy51 topic

Where does Alan R Turner-Smith work?

Alan R Turner-Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Alan R Turner-Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 69 works and 1,731 citations for Alan R Turner-Smith, an h-index of 21, ranking #1,141,484 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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