Standout Papers

Effect of ultraclean air ... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Effect of ultraclean air in operating rooms on deep sepsis in the joint after total hip or knee replacement: a randomised study.
    1982 495 citations O. M. Lidwell, E. J. L. Lowbury et al. BMJ profile →

Immediate Impact

55 from Science/Nature 76 hit
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Citing Papers

Surgical Site Infection Prevention
2023 Hit
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2019 HitNature
4 intermediate papers

Works of D. Lowe being referenced

Randomised controlled feasibility trial on the use of medical grade honey following microvascular free tissue transfer to reduce the incidence of wound infection
2011
Airborne contamination of wounds in joint replacement operations: the relationship to sepsis rates
1983
and 2 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
D. Lowe 1.7k 886 679 578 271 76 3.5k
Robert E. Wood 900 0.5× 388 0.4× 2.7k 3.9× 327 0.6× 315 1.2× 97 3.8k
Michael T. Brennan 1.2k 0.7× 1.5k 1.7× 2.1k 3.1× 1.2k 2.0× 284 1.0× 170 7.0k
Peter Small 2.1k 1.2× 389 0.4× 840 1.2× 90 0.2× 138 0.5× 133 3.6k
Rosário Madero 2.2k 1.3× 113 0.1× 1.1k 1.6× 759 1.3× 437 1.6× 148 5.6k
H. Stützer 1.3k 0.7× 338 0.4× 890 1.3× 705 1.2× 150 0.6× 81 3.2k
Susan Furness 596 0.3× 643 0.7× 849 1.3× 471 0.8× 65 0.2× 45 3.9k
Michael A. Maddaus 1.8k 1.0× 171 0.2× 3.8k 5.6× 1.4k 2.4× 161 0.6× 130 6.0k
Annette Boehler 2.7k 1.5× 116 0.1× 1.5k 2.2× 573 1.0× 167 0.6× 97 3.8k
Göran Hallmans 835 0.5× 506 0.6× 538 0.8× 1.5k 2.5× 616 2.3× 76 6.9k
Chien‐Yu Lin 396 0.2× 260 0.3× 465 0.7× 301 0.5× 140 0.5× 134 2.9k

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