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Researcher · Kings County Hospital Center · United States

Gerald W. Shaftan

Gerald W. Shaftan publishes mostly in Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Abdominal Trauma and Injuries, Trauma Management and Diagnosis and Trauma and Emergency Care Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#376,022
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#134,029
of 1,627,098
Works
107
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
42.5
h-index
37
i10-index 65Top 3.8% in Surgery
Gerald W. Shaftan

What does Gerald W. Shaftan research?

Gerald W. Shaftan's work is mostly in Medicine (72%).

Health Sciences: 78 works · 72.5% of their workMedicine: 78 works · 72.5% of their workSurgery: 43 works · 40.0% of their workEmergency Medicine: 11 works · 10.0% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 9 works · 8.1% of their workEpidemiology: 8 works · 7.4% of their workNeurology: 4 works · 3.7% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 27.5% of their workTHEIR WORKGerald W. Shaftan107works
Health Sciences72%

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. Medicine7872.5%
  2. Everything else2927.5%
  1. 1Surgery40% of their works
  2. 2Emergency Medicine10% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology7% of their works
  5. 5Neurology4% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gerald W. Shaftan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: CT Imaging, Spleen, Trauma, Mortality, Internal Fixation, Rib Fractures, Traumatic Chest Injuries and Injury Severity.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. CT Imaging432 topics
  2. Spleen271 topic
  3. Trauma271 topic
  4. Mortality222 topics
  5. Internal Fixation182 topics
  6. Rib Fractures161 topic
  7. Traumatic Chest Injuries161 topic
  8. Injury Severity131 topic
  9. Trauma Center131 topic
  10. Acetabular Fractures91 topic
  11. Bone Healing91 topic
  12. Fracture Epidemiology91 topic
  13. Pelvic Fractures91 topic
  14. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome81 topic
  15. Intra-abdominal Hypertension81 topic
  16. Cardiac Arrest61 topic
  17. Disaster Response61 topic
  18. Public Health61 topic
  19. Resuscitation61 topic

Where does Gerald W. Shaftan work?

Gerald W. Shaftan's main affiliation in the publication record is Kings County Hospital Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Gerald W. Shaftan have?

OpenAlex counts 107 works and 4,547 citations for Gerald W. Shaftan, an h-index of 37, ranking #376,022 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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