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Researcher · Keiser University · United States

Ralph A. Kruse

Ralph A. Kruse publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0001-8591-4546 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,896,760
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,565,717
of 1,627,098
Works
24
Citations
251
Citations per work
10.5
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 55% in Surgery
Ralph A. Kruse

What does Ralph A. Kruse research?

Ralph A. Kruse's work is mostly in Medicine (66%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%).

Health Sciences: 16 works · 66.2% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 66.2% of their workSurgery: 6 works · 25.4% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 works · 19.7% of their workPharmacology: 4 works · 15.5% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 24.0% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 9.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 9.8% of their workEndocrinology: 1 works · 5.6% of their workCell Biology: 1 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRalph A. Kruse24works
Life Sciences10%Health Sciences66%

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. Medicine1666.2%
  2. Everything else624.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology29.8%
  1. 1Surgery25% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine20% of their works
  3. 3Pharmacology16% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology6% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health6% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralph A. Kruse's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Low Back Pain, Spinal Fusion, Degenerative Disc Disease, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Epidemiology, Chronic Pain and Global Burden.

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. Low Back Pain252 topics
  2. Spinal Fusion222 topics
  3. Degenerative Disc Disease202 topics
  4. Intervertebral Disc141 topic
  5. Lumbar Disc Degeneration141 topic
  6. Epidemiology132 topics
  7. Chronic Pain111 topic
  8. Global Burden111 topic
  9. Scoliosis81 topic
  10. Spinal Deformity81 topic
  11. Anterior Cervical Discectomy61 topic
  12. Cervical Spine Surgery61 topic
  13. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome31 topic
  14. Myofascial Trigger Points31 topic
  15. Pain Management31 topic
  16. Spinal Cord Stimulation31 topic
  17. Cholera21 topic
  18. Nosocomial Infections21 topic
  19. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia21 topic
  20. Vibrio cholerae21 topic

Where does Ralph A. Kruse work?

Ralph A. Kruse's main affiliation in the publication record is Keiser University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ralph A. Kruse have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 251 citations for Ralph A. Kruse, an h-index of 9, ranking #6,896,760 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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