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Researcher · Methodist Sports Medicine · United States

K. Donald Shelbourne

K. Donald Shelbourne publishes mostly in Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes and Sports injuries and prevention.

ORCID 0000-0003-3145-3507 OpenAlex
World rank
#108,560
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#41,464
of 1,627,098
Works
248
Citations
17k
Citations per work
68.2
h-index
72
i10-index 149Top 0.4% in Surgery
K. Donald Shelbourne

What does K. Donald Shelbourne research?

K. Donald Shelbourne's work is mostly in Medicine (88%), Engineering (8%).

Health Sciences: 217 works · 87.7% of their workMedicine: 217 works · 87.7% of their workSurgery: 154 works · 62.1% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 51 works · 20.5% of their workRheumatology: 10 works · 4.0% of their workEpidemiology: 3 works · 1.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 20 works · 7.9% of their workEngineering: 20 works · 7.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 12 works · 5.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 7 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKK. DonaldShelbourne248works
Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences88%

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. Medicine21787.7%
    1. Engineering207.9%
  3. Everything else114.4%
  1. 1Surgery62% of their works
  2. 2Orthopedics and Sports Medicine20% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Rheumatology4% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials3% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe K. Donald Shelbourne's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Injury Risk, Arthroplasty, Total Knee Replacement, Biomechanics, Muscle Injuries and Sports Injury.

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. Epidemiology2212 topics
  2. Anterior Cruciate Ligament2051 topic
  3. Injury Risk2051 topic
  4. Arthroplasty1421 topic
  5. Total Knee Replacement1421 topic
  6. Biomechanics832 topics
  7. Muscle Injuries791 topic
  8. Sports Injury791 topic
  9. Regeneration772 topics
  10. Extracellular Matrix531 topic
  11. Tendon531 topic
  12. Distal Radius Fractures411 topic
  13. Flexor Tendon Repair411 topic
  14. Rotator Cuff Tears371 topic
  15. Shoulder Pathology371 topic
  16. Foot Strike Patterns301 topic
  17. Running Injuries301 topic
  18. Cartilage241 topic
  19. Osteoarthritis241 topic

Where does K. Donald Shelbourne work?

K. Donald Shelbourne's main affiliation in the publication record is Methodist Sports Medicine, United States.

How many publications and citations does K. Donald Shelbourne have?

OpenAlex counts 248 works and 16,903 citations for K. Donald Shelbourne, an h-index of 72, ranking #108,560 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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