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Franklin Dexter publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Franklin Dexter sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 686 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Franklin Dexter D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Franklin Dexter sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Franklin Dexter is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States and has a significant body of work in the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their research spans several subfields including Surgery, Emergency Medical Services, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

The research topics covered by Franklin Dexter include:

  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
  • Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
  • Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Surgical site infection prevention
  • Infection Control and Ventilation

They have published extensively in several key journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Cureus
  • Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
  • Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management
  • Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Perioperative COVID-19 Defense: An Evidence-Based Approach for Optimization of Infection Control and Operating Room Management (2020, Anesthesia & Analgesia)
  • Strategies for daily operating room management of ambulatory surgery centers following resolution of the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, Journal of Clinical Anesthesia)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Richard H. Epstein
  • Randy W. Loftus
  • Bradley J. Hindman
  • Anil A. Marian
  • Brenda G. Fahy

Best Publications

  • The impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: a tutorial using data from an Australian hospital.

    Catherine McIntosh;Franklin Dexter;Richard H Epstein

  • An Operating Room Scheduling Strategy to Maximize the Use of Operating Room Block Time: Computer Simulation of Patient Scheduling and Survey of Patients' Preferences for Surgical Waiting Time

    Franklin Dexter;Alex Macario;Rodney D. Traub;Margaret Hopwood

  • How to schedule elective surgical cases into specific operating rooms to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time.

    Franklin Dexter;Rodney D. Traub

  • Perioperative COVID-19 Defense: An Evidence-Based Approach for Optimization of Infection Control and Operating Room Management.

    Franklin Dexter;Michelle C. Parra;Jeremiah R. Brown;Randy W. Loftus

  • Analysis of Strategies to Decrease Postanesthesia Care Unit Costs

    Franklin Dexter;John H. Tinker

  • Analysis of statistical tests to compare visual analog scale measurements among groups.

    Franklin Dexter;David H. Chestnut

  • Making management decisions on the day of surgery based on operating room efficiency and patient waiting times.

    Franklin Dexter;Richard H Epstein;Rodney D Traub;Yan Xiao

  • Development of a measure of patient satisfaction with monitored anesthesia care: the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale.

    Franklin Dexter;John Aker;Will A. Wright

  • Which Algorithm for Scheduling Add-on Elective Cases Maximizes Operating Room Utilization? Use of Bin Packing Algorithms and Fuzzy Constraints in Operating Room Management

    Franklin Dexter;Alex Macario;Rodney D. Traub

  • Operating room managers' use of integer programming for assigning block time to surgical groups: a case study.

    John T. Blake;Franklin Dexter;Joan Donald

  • Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs

    Franklin Dexter;Amr E. Abouleish;Richard H. Epstein;Charles W. Whitten

  • Decreases in anesthesia-controlled time cannot permit one additional surgical operation to be reliably scheduled during the workday.

    Franklin Dexter;Stacy Coffin;John H. Tinker

  • Impact of surgical sequencing on post anesthesia care unit staffing.

    Eric Marcon;Franklin Dexter

  • Electroencephalographic Burst Suppression Is Not Required to Elicit Maximal Neuroprotection from Pentobarbital in a Rat Model of Focal Cerebral Ischemia

    David S. Warner;Seiji Takaoka;Bo Wu;Paula S. Ludwig

  • Theoretical Analysis of Cerebral Venous Blood Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation as an Index of Cerebral Oxygenation During Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass: A Counterproposal to the ???Luxury Perfusion??? Hypothesis

    Franklin Dexter;Bradley J. Hindman

  • Validation of statistical methods to compare cancellation rates on the day of surgery

    Franklin Dexter;Eric Marcon;Richard H. Epstein;Johannes Ledolter

  • Hospital profitability per hour of operating room time can vary among surgeons.

    Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter;Rodney D. Traub

  • Bayesian Prediction Bounds and Comparisons of Operating Room Times Even for Procedures with Few or No Historic Data

    Franklin Dexter;Johannes Ledolter

  • What are the most important risk factors for a patient's developing intraoperative hypothermia?

    Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter

  • Estimating the duration of a case when the surgeon has not recently scheduled the procedure at the surgical suite.

    Alex Macario;Franklin Dexter

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Warner
David S. Warner Duke University
Michael M. Todd
Michael M. Todd University of Minnesota
Yoram Rudy
Yoram Rudy Washington University in St. Louis
Steven L. Shafer
Steven L. Shafer Stanford University
Daniel I. Sessler
Daniel I. Sessler The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Robert H. Dworkin
Robert H. Dworkin University of Rochester Medical Center
Dennis C. Turk
Dennis C. Turk University of Washington
Pratik P. Pandharipande
Pratik P. Pandharipande Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David Gozal
David Gozal Marshall University
John D. Lee
John D. Lee University of Wisconsin–Madison

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