D. McCormack

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

D. McCormack is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, D. McCormack has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Surgery, 20 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 18 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in D. McCormack's work include Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (13 papers), Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (9 papers) and Anesthesia and Pain Management (6 papers). D. McCormack is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (13 papers), Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (9 papers) and Anesthesia and Pain Management (6 papers). D. McCormack collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand. D. McCormack's co-authors include R. William G. Watson, M. G. Walsh, Frank E. Dowling, J. Burke, J. M. Fitzpatrick, Alex Shipolini, Omar A. Jarral, Eoin Sheehan, Kevin Mulhall and Amir Sepehripour and has published in prestigious journals such as Spine, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and CHEST Journal.

In The Last Decade

D. McCormack

57 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Intervertebral discs which cause low back pain secrete high levels of proinflammatory mediators

2002 519 citations J. Burke, R. William G. Watson et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. McCormack United Kingdom	18	675	630	507	240	149	64	1.4k
Bo Jacobsson Sweden	23	608 0.9×	223 0.4×	267 0.5×	143 0.6×	275 1.8×	85	1.8k
Richard Kendall United States	20	862 1.3×	434 0.7×	507 1.0×	43 0.2×	57 0.4×	51	1.3k
Mehmet Zileli Türkiye	25	1.3k 1.9×	1.0k 1.6×	111 0.2×	67 0.3×	58 0.4×	126	2.0k
Naonobu Takahira Japan	26	1.2k 1.8×	139 0.2×	126 0.2×	133 0.6×	195 1.3×	148	2.0k
Lukas P. Zebala United States	29	2.3k 3.4×	1.5k 2.3×	156 0.3×	241 1.0×	44 0.3×	68	2.7k
Michael Boyd Canada	31	1.8k 2.7×	1.6k 2.6×	135 0.3×	70 0.3×	111 0.7×	74	2.8k
J. Wilson-MacDonald United Kingdom	20	1.1k 1.6×	732 1.2×	538 1.1×	42 0.2×	31 0.2×	58	1.6k
Ilana Gelernter Israel	22	425 0.6×	365 0.6×	78 0.2×	98 0.4×	359 2.4×	60	1.9k
George M. Ghobrial United States	25	1.3k 1.9×	692 1.1×	61 0.1×	101 0.4×	45 0.3×	73	1.9k
Marinus de Kleuver Netherlands	30	2.5k 3.7×	1.4k 2.2×	644 1.3×	124 0.5×	32 0.2×	113	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. McCormack

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Adair, Pauline, et al.. (2025). A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines for the assessment and management of pain in neonates. Journal of Neonatal Nursing. 31(2). 101603–101603.

Karcher, Christian, et al.. (2022). The Australasian ANZSCTS/ANZICS guidelines on cardiothoracic advanced life support (CALS-ANZ). Critical Care and Resuscitation. 24(3). 218–223. 1 indexed citations

Sharma, Varun, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of the effects of three designs of oxygenators with integrated filters on clinical and haematological outcomes at an Australasian cardiothoracic unit. Perfusion. 38(5). 983–992.

Hogan, Alexandra M., et al.. (2020). A prospective five-year cohort study of undiagnosed sleep apnea in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. 61(5). 648–656. 2 indexed citations

Fisher, Raewyn, et al.. (2019). Primary care management of chest pain after coronary artery bypass surgery. BMJ. 365. l1303–l1303. 6 indexed citations

McCormack, D., et al.. (2019). Inherent Danger of Dabigatran in Cardiothoracic Surgical Patients. Heart Lung and Circulation. 28. S81–S81.

McCormack, D., et al.. (2018). Does the use of an in situ or Y-configuration for bilateral internal thoracic arteries influence long-term survival, patency or repeat revascularization in coronary bypass surgery?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 28(2). 222–226. 3 indexed citations

Odom, N., et al.. (2018). Assessment of the EuroSCORE II in a New Zealand Tertiary Centre. Heart Lung and Circulation. 28(11). 1670–1676. 13 indexed citations

Asfour, Leila, et al.. (2014). In surgeons performing cardiothoracic surgery is sleep deprivation significant in its impact on morbidity or mortality?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 19(3). 479–487. 21 indexed citations

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Shipolini, Alex, et al.. (2012). Does muscle-sparing thoracotomy as opposed to posterolateral thoracotomy result in better recovery?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 16(1). 60–67. 18 indexed citations

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McCormack, D., et al.. (2012). Are intracostal sutures better than pericostal sutures for closing a thoracotomy?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 14(6). 807–815. 18 indexed citations

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Cormack, Francesca, Alex Shipolini, Wael I. Awad, et al.. (2012). A meta-analysis of cognitive outcome following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 36(9). 2118–2129. 69 indexed citations

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Sepehripour, Amir, et al.. (2012). Is there benefit in smoking cessation prior to cardiac surgery?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 15(4). 726–732. 18 indexed citations

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Jarral, Omar A., et al.. (2011). Should a patent foramen ovale found incidentally during isolated coronary surgery be closed?. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 12(5). 794–798. 6 indexed citations

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Butler, Joseph S., Róisín Dolan, Conor Hurson, et al.. (2010). The long-term functional outcome of type II odontoid fractures managed non-operatively. European Spine Journal. 19(10). 1635–1642. 55 indexed citations

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Speirs, Andrew, et al.. (2010). Time of Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiography: A Trap for the Unwary. EJVES Extra. 19(4). e35–e37. 2 indexed citations

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McCarthy, Timothy J., Ellen Crushell, Keith Synnott, Patrick Kiely, & D. McCormack. (2005). Play-wrestlers and their injuries.. PubMed. 98(3). 84–84.

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Singh, Gurminder, D. McCormack, & David R. Roberts. (2004). Readmission and overstay after day case nasal surgery. PubMed. 4(1). 2–2. 16 indexed citations

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Kearns, Stephen R., et al.. (2004). Staphylococcal diaphyseal subacute osteomyelitis of the ulna in a child: an unusual cause of post-traumatic forearm swelling.. PubMed. 97(1). 19–20. 2 indexed citations

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Burke, J., R. William G. Watson, D. McCormack, et al.. (2002). Intervertebral discs which cause low back pain secrete high levels of proinflammatory mediators. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume. 84(2). 196–201. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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