B Summers

826 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 647 citations indexed

About

B Summers is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, B Summers has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 647 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Surgery, 4 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 2 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in B Summers's work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (3 papers), Hip disorders and treatments (2 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (2 papers). B Summers is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (3 papers), Hip disorders and treatments (2 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (2 papers). B Summers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Japan. B Summers's co-authors include A. Simon Turner, Jaspreet Singh, M McClelland and W S El Masri and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Radiology, Spinal Cord and Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume.

In The Last Decade

B Summers

5 papers receiving 610 citations

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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.

Donor site pain from the ilium. A complication of lumbar spine fusion

1989 590 citations B Summers et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B Summers United Kingdom	4	503	307	234	97	57	5	647
Nabil A. Ebraheim United States	14	694 1.4×	388 1.3×	96 0.4×	164 1.7×	32 0.6×	19	804
Rongming Xu United States	14	829 1.6×	629 2.0×	122 0.5×	75 0.8×	31 0.5×	14	923
Alan Hilibrand United States	6	295 0.6×	207 0.7×	88 0.4×	54 0.6×	27 0.5×	8	391
Akif Muhtar Öztürk Türkiye	14	474 0.9×	135 0.4×	101 0.4×	118 1.2×	24 0.4×	30	622
Lester Wilson United Kingdom	10	258 0.5×	158 0.5×	214 0.9×	24 0.2×	89 1.6×	17	479
C. Morin France	15	684 1.4×	148 0.5×	187 0.8×	70 0.7×	69 1.2×	55	822
Giuseppe Mineo Italy	12	433 0.9×	162 0.5×	65 0.3×	207 2.1×	36 0.6×	29	642
Keiichi Shigenobu Japan	19	851 1.7×	656 2.1×	229 1.0×	41 0.4×	36 0.6×	28	1.0k
RG Burwell United Kingdom	10	401 0.8×	63 0.2×	112 0.5×	55 0.6×	64 1.1×	17	523
KEIRO ONO Japan	8	420 0.8×	170 0.6×	112 0.5×	35 0.4×	51 0.9×	9	526

Countries citing papers authored by B Summers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B Summers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of B Summers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of B Summers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with B Summers. B Summers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Summers, B, et al.. (2008). The radiological reporting of lumbar Scheuermann's disease: an unnecessary source of confusion amongst clinicians and patients. British Journal of Radiology. 81(965). 383–385. 16 indexed citations

2.

Summers, B, et al.. (2003). LOW BACK PAIN ON PASSIVE STRAIGHT LEG RAISING: THE ANTERIOR THECA AS A SOURCE OF PAIN. 165–165. 1 indexed citations

3.

Summers, B, et al.. (1989). Donor site pain from the ilium. A complication of lumbar spine fusion. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume. 71-B(4). 677–680. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Summers, B, M McClelland, & W S El Masri. (1988). A clinical review of the adult hip guidance orthosis (ParaWalker) in traumatic paraplegics. Spinal Cord. 26(1). 19–26. 13 indexed citations

5.

Summers, B, et al.. (1988). The shelf operation in the management of late presentation of congenital hip dysplasia. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume. 70-B(1). 63–68. 27 indexed citations

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