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Researcher · AEgis Technologies (United States) · United States

Stephen S. Tower

Stephen S. Tower publishes mostly in Surgery, Oral Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, Orthopedic Infections and Treatments and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes.

ORCID 0000-0002-2686-3213 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,715,989
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#530,085
of 1,627,098
Works
25
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
93.2
h-index
14
i10-index 15Top 30% in Surgery
Stephen S. Tower

What does Stephen S. Tower research?

Stephen S. Tower's work is mostly in Medicine (66%), Engineering (4%), Dentistry (4%).

Health Sciences: 18 works · 73.2% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 65.7% of their workSurgery: 15 works · 59.7% of their workEpidemiology: 1 works · 3.0% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 works · 3.0% of their workDentistry: 1 works · 4.5% of their workOral Surgery: 1 works · 4.5% of their workHealth Professions: 1 works · 3.0% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 1 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 22.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 4.5% of their workEngineering: 1 works · 4.5% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 1 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen S. Tower25works
Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences73%

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. Medicine1665.7%
    2. Dentistry14.5%
    3. Health Professions13.0%
  2. Everything else622.3%
    1. Engineering14.5%
  1. 1Surgery60% of their works
  2. 2Oral Surgery4% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering4% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions3% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology3% of their works
  6. 6Orthopedics and Sports Medicine3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen S. Tower's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement, Hip Arthroplasty, Wear Particles, Periprosthetic Joint Infection, Prosthetic Joint Infections, Complications and Arthroplasty.

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. Revision Surgery242 topics
  2. Total Hip Replacement242 topics
  3. Hip Arthroplasty171 topic
  4. Wear Particles171 topic
  5. Periprosthetic Joint Infection111 topic
  6. Prosthetic Joint Infections111 topic
  7. Complications102 topics
  8. Arthroplasty71 topic
  9. Total Knee Replacement71 topic
  10. Bone Regeneration52 topics
  11. Dental Implants31 topic
  12. Hip Fracture31 topic
  13. Mortality31 topic
  14. Peri-implant Diseases31 topic
  15. Biomaterials21 topic
  16. Bone Healing21 topic
  17. Bone Mineral Density21 topic
  18. Fracture Epidemiology21 topic
  19. Fractures21 topic
  20. Scaffolds21 topic

Where does Stephen S. Tower work?

Stephen S. Tower's main affiliation in the publication record is AEgis Technologies (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen S. Tower have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 2,330 citations for Stephen S. Tower, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,715,989 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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