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ACR Open Rheumatology
H-index 25

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 918 207 255 24

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 300
Documents by Best Scientists*: 310
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 27
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.096
Impact Factor: 2.8

Top Publications

  • Experiences of Patients With Rheumatic Diseases in the United States During Early Days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Kaleb Michaud;Kristin Wipfler;Yomei Shaw;Teresa A. Simon

    (2020)
    164 Citations
  • Postapproval Comparative Safety Study of Tofacitinib and Biological Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: 5-Year Results from a United States-Based Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry.

    Joel M. Kremer;Clifton O. Bingham;Laura C. Cappelli;Jeffrey D. Greenberg

    (2021)
    102 Citations
  • Adjunctive Treatment With Avacopan, an Oral C5a Receptor Inhibitor, in Patients With Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis.

    Peter A Merkel;John Niles;Richard Jimenez;Robert F Spiera

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Characteristics and Outcomes of People With Gout Hospitalized Due to COVID‐19: Data From the COVID‐19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Physician‐Reported Registry

    (2022)
    51 Citations
  • Safety of the Zoster Vaccine Recombinant Adjuvanted in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Systemic Rheumatic Disease Patients: A Single Center's Experience With 400 Patients.

    Emma Stevens;Michael E. Weinblatt;Elena Massarotti;Frances Griffin

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Secukinumab Provides Sustained Improvements in the Signs and Symptoms of Psoriatic Arthritis: Final 5-year Results from the Phase 3 FUTURE 1 Study

    Philip J. Mease;Arthur Kavanaugh;Andreas Reimold;Hasan Tahir

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Treatment With Mycophenolate and Cyclophosphamide Leads to Clinically Meaningful Improvements in Patient-Reported Outcomes in Scleroderma Lung Disease: Results of Scleroderma Lung Study II.

    Elizabeth R. Volkmann;Donald P. Tashkin;Holly LeClair;Michael D. Roth

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • Gout, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and the Risk of Death Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019: An Analysis of the UK Biobank.

    Ruth K. Topless;Amanda Phipps‐Green;Megan Leask;Nicola Dalbeth

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Gradual Glucocorticosteroid Withdrawal Is Safe in Clinically Quiescent Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

    Konstantinos Tselios;Dafna D. Gladman;Jiandong Su;Murray B. Urowitz

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • Incidence of Uveitis in Secukinumab-treated Patients With Ankylosing Spondylitis: Pooled Data Analysis From Three Phase 3 Studies.

    Atul A. Deodhar;Corine Miceli‐Richard;Xenofon Baraliakos;Helena Marzo‐Ortega

    (2020)
    37 Citations

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