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Researcher · Neurological Surgery · United States

Frank L. Acosta

Frank L. Acosta publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques and Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy.

ORCID 0000-0002-8352-199X OpenAlex
World rank
#492,736
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#171,955
of 1,627,098
Works
148
Citations
6k
Citations per work
40.3
h-index
43
i10-index 87Top 2.4% in Surgery
Frank L. Acosta

What does Frank L. Acosta research?

Frank L. Acosta's work is mostly in Medicine (78%), Engineering (3%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (2%).

Health Sciences: 116 works · 78.3% of their workMedicine: 116 works · 78.3% of their workSurgery: 77 works · 52.3% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 30 works · 20.4% of their workPharmacology: 6 works · 3.9% of their workEmergency Medicine: 3 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 16.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 3.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 3.2% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 1.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 1.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 1.7% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank L. Acosta148works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences78%

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. Medicine11678.3%
  2. Everything else2516.8%
    1. Engineering53.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.7%
  1. 1Surgery52% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine20% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology4% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  5. 5Emergency Medicine2% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank L. Acosta's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Degenerative Disc Disease, Spinal Fusion, Low Back Pain, Surgical Treatment, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Pedicle Screw Fixation and Vertebroplasty.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Degenerative Disc Disease1252 topics
  2. Spinal Fusion1202 topics
  3. Low Back Pain972 topics
  4. Surgical Treatment892 topics
  5. Intervertebral Disc811 topic
  6. Lumbar Disc Degeneration811 topic
  7. Pedicle Screw Fixation631 topic
  8. Vertebroplasty631 topic
  9. Anterior Cervical Discectomy441 topic
  10. Cervical Spine Surgery441 topic
  11. Scoliosis391 topic
  12. Spinal Deformity391 topic
  13. Epidemiology242 topics
  14. Chronic Pain161 topic
  15. Global Burden161 topic
  16. Metastatic Spine Tumors101 topic
  17. Spinal Metastases101 topic
  18. Spine Segmentation101 topic
  19. Vertebrae Detection101 topic
  20. Acetabular Fractures81 topic
  21. Pelvic Fractures81 topic

Where does Frank L. Acosta work?

Frank L. Acosta's main affiliation in the publication record is Neurological Surgery, United States.

How many publications and citations does Frank L. Acosta have?

OpenAlex counts 148 works and 5,959 citations for Frank L. Acosta, an h-index of 43, ranking #492,736 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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