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Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
H-index 34

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

2163-0755

Published by: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/pages/default.aspx

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 587 156 537 32

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 254
Documents by Best Scientists*: 614
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 217
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.29
Impact Factor: 3.7

Top Publications

  • Safety profile and impact of low-titer group O whole blood for emergency use in trauma

    James Williams;Nicholas Merutka;David Meyer;Yu Bai

    (2020)
    172 Citations
  • Updated guidelines to reduce venous thromboembolism in trauma patients: A Western Trauma Association critical decisions algorithm.

    Eric J. Ley;Carlos V.R. Brown;Ernest E. Moore;Jack A. Sava

    (2020)
    161 Citations
  • Laparoscopy at all costs? Not now during COVID-19 outbreak and not for acute care surgery and emergency colorectal surgery: A practical algorithm from a hub tertiary teaching hospital in Northern Lombardy, Italy.

    Salomone Di Saverio;Mansoor Khan;Francesco Pata;Giuseppe Ietto

    (2020)
    121 Citations
  • Bleeding to death in a big city: An analysis of all trauma deaths from hemorrhage in a metropolitan area during 1 year

    (2020)
    119 Citations
  • National guideline for the field triage of injured patients: Recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2021

    (2022)
    115 Citations
  • Is there a role for tissue plasminogen activator as a novel treatment for refractory COVID-19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome?

    Hunter B. Moore;Christopher D. Barrett;Ernest E. Moore;Robert C. McIntyre

    (2020)
    107 Citations
  • Evaluation and management of blunt cerebrovascular injury: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

    Dennis Y Kim;Walter Biffl;Faran Bokhari;Scott Brakenridge

    (2020)
    90 Citations
  • "Safer at Home": The effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Epidemiology, Resource Utilization and Outcomes at a Large Urban Trauma Center.

    Hiroto Chiba;Meghan Lewis;Elizabeth R Benjamin;Dominik A Jakob

    (2021)
    80 Citations
  • Changes in Traumatic Mechanisms of Injury in Southern California Related to COVID-19: Penetrating Trauma as a Second Pandemic.

    Eric O Yeates;Areg Grigorian;Cristobal Barrios;Morgan Schellenberg

    (2021)
    78 Citations
  • A Comprehensive Review of Topical Hemostatic Agents: The Good, The Bad, and the Novel

    Allison J Tompeck;Aniq Ur Reham Gajdhar;Matthew Dowling;Steven B Johnson

    (2020)
    76 Citations

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