İlker Uçkay

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
227 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

İlker Uçkay is a scholar working on Surgery, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, İlker Uçkay has authored 227 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Surgery, 69 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 55 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in İlker Uçkay's work include Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (103 papers), Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management (68 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (52 papers). İlker Uçkay is often cited by papers focused on Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (103 papers), Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management (68 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (52 papers). İlker Uçkay collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. İlker Uçkay's co-authors include Didier Pittet, Benjamin A. Lipsky, Daniel Lew, Hugo Sax, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Benedetta Allegranzi, Stephan Harbarth, Elaine Larson, John M. Boyce and Louis Bernard and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

İlker Uçkay

216 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. ‘My five moments for hand hygiene’: a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene
    2007 549 citations İlker Uçkay et al. profile →
  2. IWGDF/IDSA guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes‐related foot infections (IWGDF/IDSA 2023)
    2023 107 citations Éric Senneville, Javier Aragón‐Sánchez et al. Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
İlker Uçkay Switzerland 39 2.3k 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 946 227 5.4k
Albert Sotto France 42 559 0.2× 1.4k 0.9× 889 0.7× 842 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 285 5.9k
Éric Senneville France 35 2.1k 0.9× 733 0.5× 2.9k 2.2× 2.1k 1.9× 666 0.7× 166 5.0k
Carl W. Norden United States 35 1.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 839 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 88 4.1k
Ojan Assadian Austria 40 1.6k 0.7× 994 0.7× 196 0.1× 887 0.8× 814 0.9× 242 5.1k
John M. Embil Canada 49 1.9k 0.8× 2.0k 1.3× 4.6k 3.5× 3.7k 3.3× 1.8k 1.9× 177 9.6k
B. I. Duerden United Kingdom 33 920 0.4× 2.0k 1.3× 320 0.2× 941 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 144 5.7k
Lennox K. Archibald United States 37 596 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 356 0.3× 221 0.2× 1.1k 1.2× 87 4.3k
John Z. Montgomerie United States 35 1.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 363 0.3× 337 0.3× 1.7k 1.8× 126 4.7k
Nele Brusselaers Sweden 37 1.5k 0.6× 716 0.5× 205 0.2× 576 0.5× 2.1k 2.2× 166 5.6k
Charles E. Edmiston United States 39 2.2k 1.0× 761 0.5× 107 0.1× 428 0.4× 617 0.7× 160 4.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of İlker Uçkay

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All Works

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Schaefer, Raymond, et al.. (2025). Pathogen-Specific Risk for Iterative Surgical Debridement in Orthopedic Infections: A Prospective Multicohort Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 14(24). 8750–8750.
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Aragón‐Sánchez, Javier, et al.. (2025). A research-based, current approach to diabetes-related acute foot infections and chronic osteomyelitis. Expert Review of Endocrinology & Metabolism. 20(6). 481–495. 1 indexed citations
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Laguna, Javier Muñoz, Miquel Serra‐Burriel, Jakob M. Burgstaller, et al.. (2024). Fusion versus decompression alone for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis and spinal stenosis: a target trial emulation with index trial benchmarking. European Spine Journal. 33(11). 4281–4291. 1 indexed citations
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Sendi, Parham, Jaime Lora-Tamayo, Nicolás Cortés-Penfield, & İlker Uçkay. (2023). Early switch from intravenous to oral antibiotic treatment in bone and joint infections. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 29(9). 1133–1138. 13 indexed citations
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Pham, Truong‐Thanh, Diego O. Andrey, Susanne Stampf, et al.. (2022). Epidemiology and outcomes of bone and joint infections in solid organ transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 22(12). 3031–3046. 5 indexed citations
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Prinz, Julia, B. Schmid, Reinhard Zbinden, et al.. (2022). Fast and Sensitive Multiplex Real-Time Quantitative PCR to Detect Cutibacterium Periprosthetic Joint Infections. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 24(6). 666–673. 11 indexed citations
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Wieser, Karl, et al.. (2022). Acne cream reduces the deep Cutibacterium acnes tissue load before elective open shoulder surgery: a randomized controlled pilot trial. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 31(5). 897–905. 10 indexed citations
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Zambelli, Pierre‐Yves, et al.. (2022). Diagnostic Utility of Synovial Fluid Cell Counts and CRP in Pediatric Knee Arthritis: A 10-Year Monocentric, Retrospective Study. Children. 9(9). 1367–1367. 2 indexed citations
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McCallin, Shawna, et al.. (2022). Short and oral antimicrobial therapy for diabetic foot infection: a narrative review of current knowledge. Journal of Bone and Joint Infection. 7(2). 61–70. 9 indexed citations
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Hruby, Laura A., et al.. (2021). Impact of a total lockdown for pandemic SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) on deep surgical site infections and other complications after orthopedic surgery: a retrospective analysis. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 10(1). 112–112. 13 indexed citations
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Waibel, Felix W. A., Martin Berli, Sabrina Catanzaro, et al.. (2020). Optimization of the antibiotic management of diabetic foot infections: protocol for two randomized controlled trials. Trials. 21(1). 24 indexed citations
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Gariani, Karim, et al.. (2020). Plantar Fasciitis in Diabetic Foot Patients: Risk Factors, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Müller, Carsten, et al.. (2019). Outcomes of Septic Joint Arthritis of the Hand: A Dual-Center Study. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 4. 2356. 2 indexed citations
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Post, Virginia, Peter Wahl, İlker Uçkay, et al.. (2014). BIOFILM FORMATION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS ISOLATED FROM ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANT RELATED INFECTIONS DEPENDS ON TYPE OF DEVICE. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-british Volume. 283–283. 1 indexed citations
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Trampuž, Andrej, et al.. (2010). Nouvelles méthodes pour le diagnostic des infections liées aux implants. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 1 indexed citations

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