2026 Alan S. Hilibrand: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	86	14024	13205	7114	6586	608	30136

Overview

Alan S. Hilibrand is affiliated with Thomas Jefferson University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a significant emphasis on surgery. The main fields of study cover a wide range of topics related to spinal health and pathology.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields, including:

Surgery
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Pharmacology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Biomedical Engineering

Key research topics addressed in their publications are:

Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Anesthesia and Pain Management
Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
Medical Imaging and Analysis

Recent notable papers include:

"Safety and efficacy of riluzole in patients undergoing decompressive surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (CSM-Protect): a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, phase 3 trial" (2020), published in The Lancet Neurology
"Preoperative Mental Health Component Scoring Is Related to Patient Reported Outcomes Following Lumbar Fusion" (2020), published in Spine
"Updated Return-to-Play Recommendations for Collision Athletes After Cervical Spine Injury: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study With the Cervical Spine Research Society" (2020), published in Neurosurgery
"The Outcomes of Patients With Neck Pain Following ACDF" (2020), published in Spine
"Development of a Telemedicine Neurological Examination for Spine Surgery" (2020), published in Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication

Alan S. Hilibrand has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Alexander R. Vaccaro
Gregory D. Schroeder
Christopher K. Kepler
José A. Canseco
Mark F. Kurd

Their work is disseminated in key publication venues dedicated to spine research and surgery. The most frequent venues where their research appears are:

The Spine Journal
Spine
Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication
World Neurosurgery
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Best Publications

Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna N.A. Tosteson

1500
Citations
Surgical versus Nonsurgical Therapy for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

James N Weinstein;Tor D Tosteson;Jon D Lurie;Anna N A Tosteson

1420
Citations
Donor site morbidity after anterior iliac crest bone harvest for single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion.

Jeff S. Silber;D. Greg Anderson;Scott D. Daffner;Brian T. Brislin

1200
Citations
Adjacent segment degeneration and adjacent segment disease: the consequences of spinal fusion?

Alan S. Hilibrand;Matthew Robbins

1140
Citations
Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Brett Hanscom

1054
Citations
Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis four-year results of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.

James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna Tosteson

657
Citations
Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation

James Weinstein;Jon Lurie;Tor Tosteson;Anna Tosteson

502
Citations
Pedicle screw constructs for spine fixation systems

Michael S. Butler;Jim A. Youssef;Alan S. Hilibrand

463
Citations
Comparison of Transcranial Electric Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potential Monitoring During Cervical Spine Surgery

Alan S. Hilibrand;Daniel M. Schwartz;Venkat Sethuraman;Alexander R. Vaccaro

441
Citations
Lumbar adjacent segment degeneration and disease after arthrodesis and total disc arthroplasty.

James S. Harrop;Jim A. Youssef;Mitch Maltenfort;Peggy Vorwald

437
Citations
Proposal of a modified, treatment-oriented classification of odontoid fractures.

Jonathan N. Grauer;Bilal Shafi;Alan S. Hilibrand;James S. Harrop

352
Citations
The influence of obesity on the outcome of treatment of lumbar disc herniation: analysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).

Jeffrey A. Rihn;Mark Kurd;Alan S. Hilibrand;Jon Lurie

341
Citations
Cervical myelopathy. current diagnostic and treatment strategies.

Charles C Edwards;K.Daniel Riew;Paul A Anderson;Alan S Hilibrand

336
Citations
Increased fusion rates with cervical plating for three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Point of view

Jeffrey C. Wang;Paul W. Mcdonough;Linda E. A. Kanim;Kevin K. Endow

310
Citations
Cervical Radiculopathy: Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Barrett I. Woods;Alan S. Hilibrand

288
Citations
Complications associated with single-level transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion

Jeffrey A. Rihn;Ravi Patel;Junaid Makda;Joseph Hong

263
Citations
Impact of neck and arm pain on overall health status.

Scott D. Daffner;Alan S. Hilibrand;Brett S. Hanscom;Brian T. Brislin

255
Citations
Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Spectrum of Related Disorders Affecting the Aging Spine.

Lindsay Tetreault;Christina L. Goldstein;Paul Arnold;James Harrop

253
Citations
Adjacent segment disease in the lumbar spine following different treatment interventions.

Kristen E. Radcliff;Christopher K. Kepler;Andre Jakoi;Gursukhman S. Sidhu

250
Citations
Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: the effect of various instrumentation techniques on the flexibility of the lumbar spine.

Basil M. Harris;Alan S. Hilibrand;Paul E. Savas;Anthony Pellegrino

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander R. Vaccaro Thomas Jefferson University

Todd J. Albert Hospital for Special Surgery

James S. Harrop Thomas Jefferson University

James Neil Weinstein Microsoft (United States)

Michael G. Fehlings University of Toronto

Tor D. Tosteson Dartmouth College

Ashwini Sharan Thomas Jefferson University

Brian K. Kwon University of British Columbia

Jeffrey C. Wang University of Southern California

Scott D. Boden Emory University

External Links

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