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Researcher · Hughston Clinic · United States

John Kenneth Burkus

John Kenneth Burkus publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0002-9619-4545 OpenAlex
World rank
#576,054
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#198,382
of 1,627,098
Works
160
Citations
8.1k
Citations per work
50.8
h-index
43
i10-index 74Top 2.4% in Surgery
John Kenneth Burkus

What does John Kenneth Burkus research?

John Kenneth Burkus's work is mostly in Medicine (76%), Engineering (11%).

Health Sciences: 122 works · 76.0% of their workMedicine: 122 works · 76.0% of their workSurgery: 65 works · 40.9% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 41 works · 25.9% of their workPharmacology: 6 works · 3.7% of their workRheumatology: 5 works · 3.0% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 4 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 13.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 10.6% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 10.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 17 works · 10.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn KennethBurkus160works
Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences76%

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. Medicine12276.0%
  2. Everything else2113.4%
    1. Engineering1710.6%
  1. 1Surgery41% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine26% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering11% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology4% of their works
  5. 5Rheumatology3% of their works
  6. 6Orthopedics and Sports Medicine2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Kenneth Burkus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Degenerative Disc Disease, Low Back Pain, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Anterior Cervical Discectomy, Cervical Spine Surgery, Biomechanics and Pedicle Screw Fixation.

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. Degenerative Disc Disease1592 topics
  2. Low Back Pain1272 topics
  3. Intervertebral Disc1121 topic
  4. Lumbar Disc Degeneration1121 topic
  5. Anterior Cervical Discectomy471 topic
  6. Cervical Spine Surgery471 topic
  7. Biomechanics442 topics
  8. Pedicle Screw Fixation371 topic
  9. Vertebroplasty371 topic
  10. Hip Arthroplasty351 topic
  11. Total Hip Replacement351 topic
  12. Spine Segmentation251 topic
  13. Vertebrae Detection251 topic
  14. Biomaterials191 topic
  15. Scaffolds191 topic
  16. Chronic Pain151 topic
  17. Global Burden151 topic
  18. Extracellular Matrix71 topic
  19. Tendon71 topic

Where does John Kenneth Burkus work?

John Kenneth Burkus's main affiliation in the publication record is Hughston Clinic, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Kenneth Burkus have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 8,121 citations for John Kenneth Burkus, an h-index of 43, ranking #576,054 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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