Jefferson R. Wilson

16.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
198 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Jefferson R. Wilson is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jefferson R. Wilson has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Surgery, 152 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 35 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Jefferson R. Wilson's work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (89 papers), Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy (86 papers) and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (82 papers). Jefferson R. Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (89 papers), Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy (86 papers) and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (82 papers). Jefferson R. Wilson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Jefferson R. Wilson's co-authors include Michael G. Fehlings, Christopher S. Ahuja, Satoshi Nori, James S. Harrop, Mark Kotter, Armin Curt, Jetan H. Badhiwala, Claudia Druschel, Brian K. Kwon and Lindsay Tetreault and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Jefferson R. Wilson

181 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

Traumatic spinal cord injury 2012 2026 2016 2021 2017 2012 2017 2013 2020 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Traumatic spinal cord injury
    2017 1.5k citations Jefferson R. Wilson, Mark Kotter et al. profile →
  2. Early versus Delayed Decompression for Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Results of the Surgical Timing in Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study (STASCIS)
    2012 778 citations Michael G. Fehlings, Alexander R. Vaccaro et al. profile →
  3. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury—Repair and Regeneration
    2017 651 citations Jefferson R. Wilson, Brian K. Kwon et al. profile →
  4. Efficacy and Safety of Surgical Decompression in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
    2013 364 citations Michael G. Fehlings, Jefferson R. Wilson et al. profile →
  5. Degenerative cervical myelopathy — update and future directions
    2020 288 citations Jetan H. Badhiwala, Christopher D. Witiw et al. profile →
  6. The influence of timing of surgical decompression for acute spinal cord injury: a pooled analysis of individual patient data
    2020 243 citations Jetan H. Badhiwala, Jefferson R. Wilson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jefferson R. Wilson Canada 45 6.6k 5.1k 1.3k 1.1k 689 198 8.8k
R. John Hurlbert Canada 43 4.9k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 896 0.7× 706 0.6× 354 0.5× 119 6.5k
Bizhan Aarabi United States 54 6.1k 0.9× 6.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 878 0.8× 626 0.9× 171 9.9k
Daniel K. Resnick United States 55 6.4k 1.0× 5.7k 1.1× 520 0.4× 654 0.6× 503 0.7× 274 10.1k
W Young United States 21 3.5k 0.5× 2.0k 0.4× 842 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 497 0.7× 34 5.7k
Maxwell Boakye United States 39 2.9k 0.4× 3.2k 0.6× 476 0.4× 370 0.3× 134 0.2× 200 5.5k
Christopher B. Shields United States 38 2.0k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 332 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 661 1.0× 151 4.5k
Shivanand P. Lad United States 45 1.6k 0.2× 2.7k 0.5× 367 0.3× 597 0.5× 265 0.4× 191 6.0k
Amer F. Samdani United States 40 1.9k 0.3× 4.2k 0.8× 568 0.4× 643 0.6× 328 0.5× 266 6.0k
Shiro Imagama Japan 48 3.6k 0.5× 5.6k 1.1× 387 0.3× 524 0.5× 656 1.0× 525 9.0k
Yukihiro Matsuyama Japan 48 4.2k 0.6× 6.0k 1.2× 489 0.4× 427 0.4× 479 0.7× 445 8.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Malhotra, Armaan K., Amol A. Verma, Husain Shakil, et al.. (2025). Energy Considerations for Scaling Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Medicine: First Do No Harm. NEJM AI. 2(9).
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Shakil, Husain, Armaan K. Malhotra, Alexander Landry, et al.. (2024). Chordoma incidence, treatment, and survival in the 21st century: a population-based Ontario cohort study. Journal of neurosurgery. 142(3). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Shakil, Husain, Armaan K. Malhotra, Jetan H. Badhiwala, et al.. (2024). Contemporary trends in the incidence and timing of spinal metastases: A population-based study. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 6(1). vdae051–vdae051. 9 indexed citations
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Shakil, Husain, Carlo Santaguida, Jefferson R. Wilson, et al.. (2023). Pathophysiology and surgical decision-making in central cord syndrome and degenerative cervical myelopathy: correcting the somatotopic fallacy. Frontiers in Neurology. 14. 1276399–1276399. 3 indexed citations
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Rodrigues‐Pinto, Ricardo, Benjamin M. Davies, So Kato, et al.. (2022). Optimizing the Application of Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 10]. Global Spine Journal. 12(1_suppl). 147S–158S. 23 indexed citations
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Kwon, Brian K., Michael G. Fehlings, Timothy F. Boerger, et al.. (2022). Developing Novel Therapies for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 7]: Opportunities From Restorative Neurobiology. Global Spine Journal. 12(1_suppl). 109S–121S. 7 indexed citations
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Boerger, Timothy F., Allison S. Hyngstrom, Julio C. Furlan, et al.. (2022). Developing Peri-Operative Rehabilitation in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 6]: An Unexplored Opportunity?. Global Spine Journal. 12(1_suppl). 97S–108S. 8 indexed citations
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Tetreault, Lindsay, Oliver Mowforth, Danyal Z. Khan, et al.. (2022). James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM]: An Overview of the Methodology Used to Process and Short-List Research Uncertainties. Global Spine Journal. 12(1_suppl). 19S–27S. 4 indexed citations
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Malhotra, Armaan K., et al.. (2022). Pure extraosseous spinal epidural cavernous hemangioma presenting with acute paraplegia: a case report. Spinal Cord Series and Cases. 8(1). 63–63. 1 indexed citations
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Martin, Allan R., Lindsay Tetreault, Aria Nouri, et al.. (2021). Imaging and Electrophysiology for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 9]. Global Spine Journal. 12(1_suppl). 130S–146S. 33 indexed citations
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Balas, Michael, Jetan H. Badhiwala, Gerald Lebovic, et al.. (2021). Earlier Surgery Reduces Complications in Acute Traumatic Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury: Analysis of a Multi-Center Cohort of 4108 Patients. Journal of Neurotrauma. 39(3-4). 277–284. 21 indexed citations
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Rösner, Jan, Lise Bélanger, Angela Tsang, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Hyperacute Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective Study. Journal of Pain. 23(1). 89–97. 7 indexed citations
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Jentzsch, Thorsten, David W. Cadotte, Jefferson R. Wilson, et al.. (2021). Spinal Cord Signal Change on Magnetic Resonance Imaging May Predict Worse Clinical In- and Outpatient Outcomes in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective Multicenter Study in 459 Patients. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(20). 4778–4778. 8 indexed citations
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Wilson, Jefferson R., Michael G. Fehlings, Brian K. Kwon, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology and Impact of Spinal Cord Injury in the Elderly: Results of a Fifteen-Year Population-Based Cohort Study. Journal of Neurotrauma. 37(15). 1740–1751. 40 indexed citations
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Jaja, Blessing N. R., Fan Jiang, Jetan H. Badhiwala, et al.. (2019). Association of Pneumonia, Wound Infection, and Sepsis with Clinical Outcomes after Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 36(21). 3044–3050. 35 indexed citations
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Evaniew, Nathan, Nader Fallah, Carly S. Rivers, et al.. (2019). Unbiased Recursive Partitioning to Stratify Patients with Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries: External Validity in an Observational Cohort Study. Journal of Neurotrauma. 36(18). 2732–2742. 11 indexed citations
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Grossman, Robert G., Michael G. Fehlings, Ralph F. Frankowski, et al.. (2013). A Prospective, Multicenter, Phase I Matched-Comparison Group Trial of Safety, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Efficacy of Riluzole in Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 31(3). 239–255. 158 indexed citations
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Wilson, Jefferson R., Robert G. Grossman, Ralph F. Frankowski, et al.. (2012). A Clinical Prediction Model for Long-Term Functional Outcome after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Based on Acute Clinical and Imaging Factors. Journal of Neurotrauma. 29(13). 2263–2271. 143 indexed citations

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