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Researcher · NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde · United Kingdom

Paul Witherspoon

Paul Witherspoon publishes mostly in Surgery, Oncology and Physiology, on topics such as Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Hernia repair and management and Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,807,765
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#194,188
of 367,258
Works
24
Citations
628
Citations per work
26.2
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 49% in Surgery
Paul Witherspoon

What does Paul Witherspoon research?

Paul Witherspoon's work is mostly in Medicine (77%).

Health Sciences: 19 works · 77.3% of their workMedicine: 19 works · 77.3% of their workSurgery: 9 works · 36.4% of their workOncology: 5 works · 21.2% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 6.1% of their workPhysiology: 1 works · 6.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 works · 4.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 22.7% of their workTHEIR WORKPaul Witherspoon24works
Health Sciences77%

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. Medicine1977.3%
  2. Everything else522.7%
  1. 1Surgery36% of their works
  2. 2Oncology21% of their works
  3. 3Physiology6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Witherspoon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Guidelines, Mortality, Colorectal Cancer, Screening, Complications, Laparoscopic Surgery, Postoperative Complications and Hernia Repair.

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. Guidelines123 topics
  2. Mortality102 topics
  3. Colorectal Cancer71 topic
  4. Screening71 topic
  5. Complications62 topics
  6. Laparoscopic Surgery62 topics
  7. Postoperative Complications62 topics
  8. Hernia Repair41 topic
  9. Mesh Techniques41 topic
  10. Single-Incision Laparoscopy41 topic
  11. Transgastric Surgery41 topic
  12. Cardiac Risk31 topic
  13. Perioperative31 topic
  14. Peritoneal Adhesions31 topic
  15. Preanalytical Variables31 topic
  16. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy31 topic
  17. Rectal Cancer31 topic
  18. Reference Intervals31 topic
  19. Small Bowel Obstruction31 topic
  20. Appendicitis21 topic
  21. Diagnosis21 topic

Where does Paul Witherspoon work?

Paul Witherspoon's main affiliation in the publication record is NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Paul Witherspoon have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 628 citations for Paul Witherspoon, an h-index of 10, ranking #2,807,765 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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