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Researcher · Fortius Clinic · United Kingdom

Simon Ball

Simon Ball publishes mostly in Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes and Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,104,771
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#88,429
of 367,258
Works
38
Citations
976
Citations per work
25.7
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 30% in Surgery
Simon Ball

What does Simon Ball research?

Simon Ball's work is mostly in Medicine (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%), Engineering (7%).

Health Sciences: 21 works · 54.9% of their workMedicine: 21 works · 54.9% of their workSurgery: 16 works · 43.4% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 4 works · 11.5% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 23.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 22.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 8.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 8.0% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 7.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 3 works · 7.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 3.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 works · 3.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 3.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Ball38works
Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences55%

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. Medicine2154.9%
  2. Everything else923.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences38.0%
    2. Engineering37.1%
    3. Environmental Science13.5%
    4. Physics and Astronomy13.5%
  1. 1Surgery43% of their works
  2. 2Orthopedics and Sports Medicine12% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Ball's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Anterior Cruciate Ligament, Injury Risk, Arthroplasty, Total Knee Replacement, Biomechanics, Foot Strike Patterns and Running Injuries.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology212 topics
  2. Anterior Cruciate Ligament161 topic
  3. Injury Risk161 topic
  4. Arthroplasty151 topic
  5. Total Knee Replacement151 topic
  6. Biomechanics122 topics
  7. Foot Strike Patterns71 topic
  8. Running Injuries71 topic
  9. Muscle Injuries61 topic
  10. Sports Injury61 topic
  11. Extracellular Matrix51 topic
  12. Ozone Depletion51 topic
  13. Stratospheric Water Vapor51 topic
  14. Tendon51 topic
  15. Atmospheric Aerosols41 topic
  16. Black Carbon41 topic
  17. Rotator Cuff Tears41 topic
  18. Shoulder Pathology41 topic

Where does Simon Ball work?

Simon Ball's main affiliation in the publication record is Fortius Clinic, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Ball have?

OpenAlex counts 38 works and 976 citations for Simon Ball, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,104,771 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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