Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

R. James Aitken

R. James Aitken publishes mostly in Surgery, General Health Professions and Oncology, on topics such as Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Surgical Simulation and Training and Dental Education, Practice, Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-5653-6478 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,431,814
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#23,336
of 29,826
Works
21
Citations
263
Citations per work
12.5
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 62% in Surgery
R. James Aitken

What does R. James Aitken research?

R. James Aitken's work is mostly in Medicine (44%), Health Professions (24%).

Health Sciences: 14 works · 67.9% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 44.1% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 30.5% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 works · 6.8% of their workOncology: 1 works · 6.8% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 23.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 2 works · 10.2% of their workEmergency Medical Services: 1 works · 6.8% of their workHealth Information Management: 1 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 32.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR. James Aitken21works
Health Sciences68%

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. Medicine944.1%
    2. Health Professions523.8%
  2. Everything else732.1%
  1. 1Surgery30% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions10% of their works
  3. 3Oncology7% of their works
  4. 4Emergency Medical Services7% of their works
  5. 5Health Information Management7% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. James Aitken's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Laparoscopic Surgery, Adjuvant Chemotherapy, Cardiac Risk, Perioperative, Surgical Skills, Virtual Reality Training, Career Choice and Healthcare Accreditation.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Laparoscopic Surgery72 topics
  2. Adjuvant Chemotherapy52 topics
  3. Cardiac Risk41 topic
  4. Perioperative41 topic
  5. Surgical Skills41 topic
  6. Virtual Reality Training41 topic
  7. Career Choice31 topic
  8. Healthcare Accreditation31 topic
  9. Motivation31 topic
  10. Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy31 topic
  11. Quality Improvement31 topic
  12. Rectal Cancer31 topic
  13. Entamoeba histolytica21 topic
  14. Health Workforce21 topic
  15. Microsatellite Instability21 topic
  16. Molecular Characterization21 topic
  17. Rural Health21 topic
  18. pyogenic liver abscess21 topic

Where does R. James Aitken work?

R. James Aitken's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does R. James Aitken have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 263 citations for R. James Aitken, an h-index of 8, ranking #5,431,814 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about R. James Aitken. Posts are plain text and can be reported.