2026 Yngve Falck-Ytter: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	80	16842	15836	8442	7805	242	107910

Overview

Yngve Falck-Ytter is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of medicine, with a focus on infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, surgery, and oncology. Their research has contributed to a variety of clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews, particularly related to COVID-19 and gastrointestinal disorders.

The scientist's recent papers include:

Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Treatment and Management of Patients With COVID-19 (2020), Clinical Infectious Diseases
AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis (2020), Gastroenterology
AGA Institute Rapid Review of the Gastrointestinal and Liver Manifestations of COVID-19, Meta-Analysis of International Data, and Recommendations for the Consultative Management of Patients with COVID-19 (2020), Gastroenterology
AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Role of Probiotics in the Management of Gastrointestinal Disorders (2020), Gastroenterology
AGA Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Medical Management of Moderate to Severe Luminal and Perianal Fistulizing Crohn's Disease (2021), Gastroenterology

Yngve Falck-Ytter's frequent co-authors include:

Shahnaz Sultan
Rebecca L. Morgan
Reem A. Mustafa
Perica Davitkov
M. Hassan Murad

They have published primarily in the following venues:

Gastroenterology
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions

The main fields of study covered by Yngve Falck-Ytter's work include medicine, with subfields focusing on:

Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Surgery
Oncology

Key topics explored by the researcher involve:

Clinical practice guidelines implementation
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Best Publications

GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew David Oxman;Gunn Elisabeth Vist;Regina Kunz

18645
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

Gordon Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Elie A Akl;Regina Kunz

8748
Citations
Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

David Atkins;Dana Best;Peter A Briss;Martin Eccles

7564
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence

Howard Balshem;Mark Helfand;Mark Helfand;Holger J. Schünemann;Andrew D. Oxman

7374
Citations
Prevention of VTE in Nonsurgical Patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Yngve Falck-Ytter;Charles W. Francis;Norman A. Johanson;Catherine Curley

3534
Citations
What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?

Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Gunn E Vist

3345
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Gunn Vist;Regina Kunz

3047
Citations
Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Tamar F. Barlam;Tamar F. Barlam;Sara E. Cosgrove;Lilian M. Abbo;Conan MacDougall

2739
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 6. Rating the quality of evidence-imprecision

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;Jan Brozek

2472
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

2419
Citations
Going from evidence to recommendations

Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Yngve Falck-Ytter

2097
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 2. Framing the question and deciding on important outcomes

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;David Atkins

2081
Citations
Prevention of VTE in Orthopedic Surgery Patients

Yngve Falck-Ytter;Charles W. Francis;Norman A. Johanson;Catherine Curley

2075
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness

Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

1951
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Victor Manuel Montori;Gunn Vist

1948
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence

Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Shahnaz Sultan;Paul P. Glasziou

1551
Citations
GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations

Jeff Andrews;Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Phil Alderson

1432
Citations
Recommendations for the identification of chronic hepatitis C virus infection among persons born during 1945-1965.

Bryce D Smith;Rebecca L Morgan;Geoff A Beckett;Yngve Falck-Ytter

1257
Citations
Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Treatment and Management of Patients with COVID-19.

Adarsh Bhimraj;Rebecca L. Morgan;Amy Hirsch Shumaker;Valery Lavergne

1058
Citations
Eradication of Hepatitis C Virus Infection and the Development of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Meta-analysis of Observational Studies

Rebecca L. Morgan;Brittney Baack;Bryce D. Smith;Anthony Yartel

1013
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger J. Schünemann Humanitas University

Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University

Reem A. Mustafa University of Kansas

Elie A. Akl American University of Beirut

Andrew D Oxman Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Jan Brozek McMaster University

Siddharth Singh University of California, San Diego

Pablo Alonso-Coello Cochrane

Amitabh Chak Case Western Reserve University

Roman Jaeschke McMaster University

External Links

Personal website of Yngve Falck-Ytter

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