Alí Salim

24.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
433 papers, 15.6k citations indexed

About

Alí Salim is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alí Salim has authored 433 papers receiving a total of 15.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 255 papers in Emergency Medicine, 205 papers in Surgery and 73 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alí Salim's work include Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (174 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (93 papers) and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (63 papers). Alí Salim is often cited by papers focused on Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (174 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (93 papers) and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (63 papers). Alí Salim collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Alí Salim's co-authors include Δημήτριος Δημητριάδης, Peter Rhee, Carlos Brown, Matthew J. Martin, Kenji Inaba, Linda S. Chan, Adil H. Haider, Eric J. Ley, Daniel R. Margulies and Joaquim M. Havens and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alí Salim

406 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Use of National Burden to Define Operative Emergency General Surgery

2016 351 citations John W. Scott, Olubode A. Olufajo et al. profile →
The excess morbidity and mortality of emergency general surgery

2015 331 citations Joaquim M. Havens, Zara Cooper et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alí Salim	7.3k	7.0k	2.3k	2.1k	1.7k	433	15.6k
Edmund Neugebauer	5.2k 0.7×	7.6k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	285	17.1k
Linda S. Chan	4.6k 0.6×	6.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	298	15.6k
David B. Hoyt	9.0k 1.2×	7.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	369	20.0k
Peter Rhee	8.8k 1.2×	7.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	398	16.7k
Jeffrey L. Johnson	3.4k 0.5×	4.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.3×	838 0.5×	266	13.3k
Rolf Lefering	10.4k 1.4×	8.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	728 0.4×	593	16.8k
James W. Davis	2.5k 0.3×	5.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	378	14.6k
Kenji Inaba	10.0k 1.4×	9.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.7×	3.7k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	724	19.4k
George C. Velmahos	3.9k 0.5×	4.3k 0.6×	737 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	337	10.1k
Δημήτριος Δημητριάδης	11.1k 1.5×	14.4k 2.1×	2.7k 1.2×	4.7k 2.2×	1.3k 0.8×	672	23.3k

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Biffl, Walter L., Todd W. Costantini, José J. Diaz, et al.. (2025). Evidence-based, cost-effective management of acute diverticulitis. An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery emergency general surgery algorithms work group. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 99(1). 24–28. 1 indexed citations

Biffl, Walter L., Jeffrey Weiss, Todd W. Costantini, et al.. (2025). Evidence-based, cost-effective management of acute mesenteric ischemia: An algorithm of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Emergency General Surgery Algorithms working group. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 99(3). 339–344.

Ilkhani, Saba, Juan P. Herrera‐Escobar, Alí Salim, et al.. (2024). The impact of frailty on long-term functional outcomes in severely injured geriatric patients. Surgery. 176(4). 1148–1154. 1 indexed citations

Herrera‐Escobar, Juan P., Jordan Rosen, Saba Ilkhani, et al.. (2024). Determinants of long-term physical and mental health outcomes after intensive care admission for trauma survivors. The American Journal of Surgery. 233. 72–77. 2 indexed citations

Sanchez, Sabrina E., et al.. (2023). Loss of independence after traumatic injury: A patient-centered study. Surgery. 174(4). 1021–1025. 5 indexed citations

Biffl, Walter L., David H. Livingston, Robert J. Winchell, et al.. (2023). The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery position on the issue of disclosure of conflict of interests by authors of scientific manuscripts. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 95(1). 1–3. 1 indexed citations

Zogg, Cheryl K., Robert D. Becher, Michael K. Dalton, et al.. (2022). Defining Referral Regions for Inpatient Trauma Care: The Utility of a Novel Geographic Definition. Journal of Surgical Research. 275. 115–128. 4 indexed citations

Maurer, Lydia R., Chukwuma N. Eruchalu, Apostolos Gaitanidis, et al.. (2022). Trauma patients with limited English proficiency: Outcomes from two level one trauma centers. The American Journal of Surgery. 225(4). 769–774. 6 indexed citations

Sokas, Claire, Juan P. Herrera‐Escobar, Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, et al.. (2021). Impact of chronic illness on functional outcomes and quality of life among injured older adults. Injury. 52(9). 2638–2644. 4 indexed citations

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Ingraham, Angela M., Jessica R. Schumacher, Sara Fernandes‐Taylor, et al.. (2021). General surgeon involvement in the care of patients designated with an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma–endorsed ICD-10-CM emergency general surgery diagnosis code in Wisconsin. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 92(1). 117–125. 11 indexed citations

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Uribe‐Leitz, Tarsicio, Molly P. Jarman, Daniel J. Sturgeon, et al.. (2019). National Study of Triage and Access to Trauma Centers for Older Adults. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 75(2). 125–135. 36 indexed citations

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Castillo‐Angeles, Manuel, Molly P. Jarman, Tarsicio Uribe‐Leitz, et al.. (2019). Risk Prediction Accuracy Differs for Transferred and Nontransferred Emergency General Surgery Cases in the ACS-NSQIP. Journal of Surgical Research. 247. 364–371. 4 indexed citations

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Taghavi, Sharven, Manuel Castillo‐Angeles, Tarsicio Uribe‐Leitz, et al.. (2019). Emergency general surgery procedures in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. The American Journal of Surgery. 218(5). 972–977. 1 indexed citations

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Herrera‐Escobar, Juan P., Terri A. deRoon‐Cassini, Karen J. Brasel, et al.. (2019). Development and validation of a revised trauma-specific quality of life instrument. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 88(4). 501–507. 16 indexed citations

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Cornwell, Edward E., Joaquim M. Havens, Zain G. Hashmi, et al.. (2018). Surgeon-driven variability in emergency general surgery outcomes: Does it matter who is on call?. Surgery. 164(5). 1109–1116. 15 indexed citations

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Herrera‐Escobar, Juan P., Michel Apoj, Alyssa F. Harlow, et al.. (2018). Association of pain after trauma with long-term functional and mental health outcomes. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 85(4). 773–779. 35 indexed citations

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Rios-Diaz, Arturo J., Wei Jiang, Vihas Patel, et al.. (2016). The obesity paradox in patients with severe soft tissue infections. The American Journal of Surgery. 214(3). 385–389. 26 indexed citations

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Metcalfe, David, Olubode A. Olufajo, Arturo J. Rios-Diaz, et al.. (2016). Are appendectomy outcomes in level I trauma centers as good as we think?. Journal of Surgical Research. 202(2). 239–245. 10 indexed citations

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Zogg, Cheryl K., Wei Jiang, Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, et al.. (2016). Racial disparities in emergency general surgery. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 80(5). 764–777. 83 indexed citations

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Malinoski, Darren, Madhukar S. Patel, Donald P. Green, et al.. (2010). A Diagnostic Delay of 5 Hours Increases the Risk of Death After Blunt Hollow Viscus Injury. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 69(1). 84–87. 77 indexed citations

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