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Researcher · Indiana Spine Group · United States

Rick Sasso

Rick Sasso publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques.

ORCID 0000-0001-8794-7915 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,311,246
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#688,997
of 1,627,098
Works
104
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
15.7
h-index
16
i10-index 21Top 24% in Surgery
Rick Sasso

What does Rick Sasso research?

Rick Sasso's work is mostly in Medicine (87%), Engineering (5%).

Health Sciences: 90 works · 86.7% of their workMedicine: 90 works · 86.7% of their workSurgery: 57 works · 54.9% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 26 works · 25.1% of their workPharmacology: 4 works · 4.3% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 works · 1.2% of their workRheumatology: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 8.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 5.1% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 5.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 5.1% of their workTHEIR WORKRick Sasso104works
Physical Sciences5%Health Sciences87%

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. Medicine9086.7%
  2. Everything else98.2%
    1. Engineering55.1%
  1. 1Surgery55% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine25% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  4. 4Pharmacology4% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health1% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rick Sasso's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Degenerative Disc Disease, Surgical Treatment, Low Back Pain, Spinal Fusion, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Cervical Spine Surgery.

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. Degenerative Disc Disease1112 topics
  2. Surgical Treatment772 topics
  3. Low Back Pain752 topics
  4. Spinal Fusion742 topics
  5. Intervertebral Disc641 topic
  6. Lumbar Disc Degeneration641 topic
  7. Anterior Cervical Discectomy471 topic
  8. Cervical Spine Surgery471 topic
  9. Pedicle Screw Fixation291 topic
  10. Vertebroplasty291 topic
  11. Epidemiology242 topics
  12. Acetabular Fractures131 topic
  13. Pelvic Fractures131 topic
  14. Spine Segmentation131 topic
  15. Vertebrae Detection131 topic
  16. Chronic Pain111 topic
  17. Global Burden111 topic
  18. Hip Arthroplasty101 topic
  19. Scoliosis101 topic
  20. Spinal Deformity101 topic
  21. Total Hip Replacement101 topic

Where does Rick Sasso work?

Rick Sasso's main affiliation in the publication record is Indiana Spine Group, United States.

How many publications and citations does Rick Sasso have?

OpenAlex counts 104 works and 1,636 citations for Rick Sasso, an h-index of 16, ranking #2,311,246 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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