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Researcher · AO Foundation · Switzerland

Torsten Pastor

Torsten Pastor publishes mostly in Surgery, Epidemiology and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, on topics such as Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Bone fractures and treatments and Shoulder Injury and Treatment.

ORCID 0000-0003-4357-236X OpenAlex
World rank
#4,958,593
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#65,053
of 80,918
Works
117
Citations
545
Citations per work
4.7
h-index
13
i10-index 20Top 34% in Surgery
Torsten Pastor

What does Torsten Pastor research?

Torsten Pastor's work is mostly in Medicine (89%), Engineering (3%).

Health Sciences: 104 works · 89.3% of their workMedicine: 104 works · 89.3% of their workSurgery: 64 works · 54.5% of their workEpidemiology: 20 works · 16.9% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 9 works · 7.9% of their workRehabilitation: 8 works · 7.2% of their workRheumatology: 3 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 7.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 3.1% of their workEngineering: 4 works · 3.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKTorsten Pastor117works
Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences89%

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. Medicine10489.3%
  2. Everything else97.6%
    1. Engineering43.1%
  1. 1Surgery55% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology17% of their works
  3. 3Orthopedics and Sports Medicine8% of their works
  4. 4Rehabilitation7% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Rheumatology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Torsten Pastor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rehabilitation, Distal Radius Fractures, Flexor Tendon Repair, Complications, Bone Healing, Fracture Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Rotator Cuff Tears.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Rehabilitation523 topics
  2. Distal Radius Fractures471 topic
  3. Flexor Tendon Repair471 topic
  4. Complications322 topics
  5. Bone Healing301 topic
  6. Fracture Epidemiology301 topic
  7. Epidemiology292 topics
  8. Rotator Cuff Tears291 topic
  9. Shoulder Pathology291 topic
  10. Acromioclavicular Joint191 topic
  11. Clavicle Fractures191 topic
  12. Elbow Injuries191 topic
  13. Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction191 topic
  14. Hip Fracture131 topic
  15. Mortality131 topic
  16. Ankle Injuries101 topic
  17. Sprains101 topic
  18. Hip Arthroplasty81 topic
  19. Total Hip Replacement81 topic

Where does Torsten Pastor work?

Torsten Pastor's main affiliation in the publication record is AO Foundation, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Torsten Pastor have?

OpenAlex counts 117 works and 545 citations for Torsten Pastor, an h-index of 13, ranking #4,958,593 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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