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Researcher · East Carolina University · United States

Thomas Bruce Ferguson

Thomas Bruce Ferguson publishes mostly in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments.

ORCID 0000-0003-2136-309X OpenAlex
World rank
#89,182
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,415
of 1,627,098
Works
403
Citations
46k
Citations per work
113.1
h-index
79
i10-index 248Top 0.8% in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Thomas Bruce Ferguson

What does Thomas Bruce Ferguson research?

Thomas Bruce Ferguson's work is mostly in Medicine (70%), Engineering (3%).

Health Sciences: 283 works · 70.1% of their workMedicine: 283 works · 70.1% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 125 works · 31.0% of their workSurgery: 94 works · 23.4% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 32 works · 8.0% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 19 works · 4.6% of their workEpidemiology: 12 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 109 works · 27.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 2.8% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 2.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 11 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas BruceFerguson403works
Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences70%

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. Medicine28370.1%
  2. Everything else10927.1%
    1. Engineering112.8%
  1. 1Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine31% of their works
  2. 2Surgery23% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine8% of their works
  4. 4Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology3% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Bruce Ferguson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Guidelines, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Cardiac Risk, Perioperative, Catheter Ablation, Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement and Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement.

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. Guidelines1152 topics
  2. Cardiopulmonary Bypass1041 topic
  3. Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery1041 topic
  4. Cardiac Risk811 topic
  5. Perioperative811 topic
  6. Catheter Ablation742 topics
  7. Surgical Aortic-Valve Replacement671 topic
  8. Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement671 topic
  9. Coronary Stents521 topic
  10. Myocardial Revascularization521 topic
  11. Cardiac Imaging411 topic
  12. Coronary Artery Disease411 topic
  13. Arrhythmias401 topic
  14. Ventricular Tachycardia401 topic
  15. Anticoagulant Therapy341 topic
  16. Atrial Fibrillation341 topic
  17. Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy261 topic
  18. Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator261 topic

Where does Thomas Bruce Ferguson work?

Thomas Bruce Ferguson's main affiliation in the publication record is East Carolina University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Bruce Ferguson have?

OpenAlex counts 403 works and 45,579 citations for Thomas Bruce Ferguson, an h-index of 79, ranking #89,182 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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