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Researcher · Karlstad Central Hospital · Sweden

Leif Spangen

Leif Spangen publishes mostly in Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, on topics such as Hernia repair and management, Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions and Peripheral Artery Disease Management.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,583,869
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#20,487
of 71,437
Works
23
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
48.0
h-index
15
i10-index 17Top 27% in Surgery
Leif Spangen

What does Leif Spangen research?

Leif Spangen's work is mostly in Medicine (89%).

Health Sciences: 20 works · 89.0% of their workMedicine: 20 works · 89.0% of their workSurgery: 14 works · 60.9% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 works · 12.5% of their workEmergency Medicine: 1 works · 4.7% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 works · 4.7% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 works · 3.1% of their workInternal Medicine: 1 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 11.0% of their workTHEIR WORKLeif Spangen23works
Health Sciences89%

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. Medicine2089.0%
  2. Everything else311.0%
  1. 1Surgery61% of their works
  2. 2Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine12% of their works
  3. 3Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging5% of their works
  4. 4Emergency Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Internal Medicine3% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leif Spangen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Complications, Hernia Repair, Mesh Techniques, Peritoneal Adhesions, Small Bowel Obstruction, Guidelines, Risk Factors and Angioplasty.

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. Complications142 topics
  2. Hernia Repair121 topic
  3. Mesh Techniques121 topic
  4. Peritoneal Adhesions71 topic
  5. Small Bowel Obstruction71 topic
  6. Guidelines62 topics
  7. Risk Factors62 topics
  8. Angioplasty41 topic
  9. Diagnosis42 topics
  10. Peripheral Arterial Disease41 topic
  11. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome31 topic
  12. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia31 topic
  13. Electrodiagnostic Studies31 topic
  14. Femoral Access31 topic
  15. Fetal Surgery31 topic
  16. Radial Access31 topic
  17. Antithrombotic Therapy21 topic
  18. Appendicitis21 topic
  19. Management21 topic
  20. Venous Thromboembolism21 topic

Where does Leif Spangen work?

Leif Spangen's main affiliation in the publication record is Karlstad Central Hospital, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Leif Spangen have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 1,103 citations for Leif Spangen, an h-index of 15, ranking #1,583,869 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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