C. Lai

677 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 497 citations indexed

About

C. Lai is a scholar working on Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Lai has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 497 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Surgery, 6 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and 2 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in C. Lai's work include Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (7 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (5 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (2 papers). C. Lai is often cited by papers focused on Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (7 papers), Sports injuries and prevention (5 papers) and Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise (2 papers). C. Lai collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Qatar and Sweden. C. Lai's co-authors include Julian A. Feller, Kate E. Webster, Clare L. Ardern, Belinda J. Gabbe, Michael Makdissi, Natalie J. Collins, Hayden G. Morris, Kay M. Crossley, Adam G Culvenor and Bill Vicenzino and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Journal of Sports Medicine, British Journal of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.

In The Last Decade

C. Lai

7 papers receiving 491 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.

Eighty-three per cent of elite athletes return to preinjury sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review with meta-analysis of return to sport rates, graft rupture rates and performance outcomes

2017 353 citations C. Lai, Clare L. Ardern et al. British Journal of Sports Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Lai Australia	4	472	398	87	39	26	7	497
Justin M. Losciale Canada	8	317 0.7×	266 0.7×	78 0.9×	26 0.7×	56 2.2×	26	388
Kostas Patras Greece	9	364 0.8×	312 0.8×	132 1.5×	18 0.5×	13 0.5×	13	465
Ricardo de Paula Leite Cury Brazil	13	362 0.8×	200 0.5×	83 1.0×	48 1.2×	30 1.2×	55	454
Christoffer Thomeé Sweden	15	779 1.7×	529 1.3×	70 0.8×	98 2.5×	52 2.0×	20	821
Aires Duarte Brazil	9	174 0.4×	206 0.5×	56 0.6×	74 1.9×	30 1.2×	20	340
Franceska Zampeli Greece	11	373 0.8×	294 0.7×	152 1.7×	11 0.3×	11 0.4×	18	425
Airelle Hunter‐Giordano United States	7	482 1.0×	407 1.0×	106 1.2×	16 0.4×	13 0.5×	8	542
Margherita Ricci Italy	8	491 1.0×	290 0.7×	90 1.0×	21 0.5×	151 5.8×	9	522
Anne Fältström Sweden	12	479 1.0×	485 1.2×	61 0.7×	58 1.5×	8 0.3×	33	553
Benjamin Léger-St-Jean United States	5	369 0.8×	256 0.6×	58 0.7×	21 0.5×	10 0.4×	8	398

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Lai, C., Julian A. Feller, & Kate E. Webster. (2019). Playing Performance After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Among Australian Football League Players From 1999 to 2013. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 47(7). 1550–1556. 4 indexed citations

2.

Lai, C., Julian A. Feller, & Kate E. Webster. (2018). Fifteen-Year Audit of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions in the Australian Football League From 1999 to 2013: Return to Play and Subsequent ACL Injury. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 46(14). 3353–3360. 49 indexed citations

3.

Lai, C., Clare L. Ardern, Julian A. Feller, & Kate E. Webster. (2017). Eighty-three per cent of elite athletes return to preinjury sport after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a systematic review with meta-analysis of return to sport rates, graft rupture rates and performance outcomes. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 52(2). 128–138. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Lai, C., Kate E. Webster, & Julian A. Feller. (2017). Fifteen-year audit of anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions in the Australian football league. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 20. e82–e83. 1 indexed citations

5.

Lai, C., Clare L. Ardern, Julian A. Feller, & Kate E. Webster. (2017). Return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in elite athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 20. e101–e101. 1 indexed citations

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Lai, C., Kate E. Webster, & Julian A. Feller. (2017). Paper #106: Fifteen‐Year Audit of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructions in the Australian Football League. Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. 33(10S). 1 indexed citations

7.

Culvenor, Adam G, C. Lai, Belinda J. Gabbe, et al.. (2013). Patellofemoral osteoarthritis is prevalent and associated with worse symptoms and function after hamstring tendon autograft ACL reconstruction. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 48(6). 435–439. 88 indexed citations

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