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Volker Alt

Volker Alt publishes mostly in Surgery, Epidemiology and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, on topics such as Orthopedic Infections and Treatments, Bone fractures and treatments and Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty.

World rank
#177,992
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#10,949
of 86,443
Works
62
Citations
170
Citations per work
2.7

What does Volker Alt research?

Surgery: 36.7%Epidemiology: 10.1%Orthopedics and Sports Medicine: 5.1%Molecular Biology: 3.8%other fields: 44.3%37%top field
Surgery36.7%Epidemiology10.1%Orthopedics and Sports Medicine5.1%Molecular Biology3.8%other fields44.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Surgery37% of their works
  2. 2Epidemiology10% of their works
  3. 3Orthopedics and Sports Medicine5% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Emergency Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Volker Alt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Periprosthetic Joint Infection, Prosthetic Joint Infections, Complications, Revision Surgery, Total Hip Replacement, Bone Healing, Epidemiology and Fracture Epidemiology.

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.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Periprosthetic Joint Infection101 topic
  2. Prosthetic Joint Infections101 topic
  3. Complications93 topics
  4. Revision Surgery82 topics
  5. Total Hip Replacement82 topics
  6. Bone Healing61 topic
  7. Epidemiology62 topics
  8. Fracture Epidemiology61 topic
  9. Surgery52 topics
  10. Arthroplasty41 topic
  11. Hip Arthroplasty41 topic
  12. Total Knee Replacement41 topic
  13. Wear Particles41 topic
  14. Hip Fracture31 topic
  15. Mortality31 topic
  16. Artificial Intelligence21 topic
  17. Diagnosis21 topic
  18. Ecology21 topic
  19. Infective Endocarditis21 topic
  20. Machine Learning21 topic
  21. Virus21 topic

Where does Volker Alt work?

Volker Alt's main affiliation in the publication record is University Hospital Regensburg, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Volker Alt have?

Science Explorer counts 62 works and 170 citations for Volker Alt, ranking #177,992 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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