John B. Holcomb

68.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
745 papers, 44.8k citations indexed

About

John B. Holcomb is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Holcomb has authored 745 papers receiving a total of 44.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 483 papers in Emergency Medicine, 460 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and 231 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in John B. Holcomb's work include Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (446 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (437 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (125 papers). John B. Holcomb is often cited by papers focused on Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (446 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (437 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (125 papers). John B. Holcomb collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. John B. Holcomb's co-authors include Charles E. Wade, Bryan A. Cotton, Philip C. Spinella, Martin A. Schreiber, Rosemary A. Kozar, Jeremy G. Perkins, Anthony E. Pusateri, Howard R. Champion, José Salinas and Lorne H. Blackbourne and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

John B. Holcomb

727 papers receiving 43.1k citations

Hit Papers

Death on the battlefield (2001–2011) 2007 2026 2013 2019 2012 2007 2008 2008 2012 400 800 1.2k
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. Death on the battlefield (2001–2011)
    2012 1.2k citations Brian J. Eastridge, Frank K. Butler et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  2. The Ratio of Blood Products Transfused Affects Mortality in Patients Receiving Massive Transfusions at a Combat Support Hospital
    2007 1.1k citations Charles E. Wade, John B. Holcomb et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  3. Combat Wounds in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
    2008 844 citations Charles E. Wade, John B. Holcomb et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  4. Increased Plasma and Platelet to Red Blood Cell Ratios Improves Outcome in 466 Massively Transfused Civilian Trauma Patients
    2008 782 citations John B. Holcomb, Charles E. Wade et al. Annals of Surgery profile →
  5. Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB*
    2012 739 citations John B. Holcomb et al. profile →
  6. The Prospective, Observational, Multicenter, Major Trauma Transfusion (PROMMTT) Study
    2012 733 citations John B. Holcomb, Erin E. Fox et al. profile →
  7. Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABB
    2016 700 citations John B. Holcomb et al. profile →
  8. The Coagulopathy of Trauma: A Review of Mechanisms
    2008 686 citations John B. Holcomb, Sandro Rizoli et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  9. Causes of Death in U.S. Special Operations Forces in the Global War on Terrorism
    2007 548 citations John B. Holcomb, Charles E. Wade et al. Annals of Surgery profile →
  10. Injury Severity and Causes of Death From Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom: 2003–2004 Versus 2006
    2008 496 citations Charles E. Wade, John B. Holcomb et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  11. Fresh Frozen Plasma Should be Given Earlier to Patients Requiring Massive Transfusion
    2007 438 citations John B. Holcomb et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  12. The Effect of a Golden Hour Policy on the Morbidity and Mortality of Combat Casualties
    2015 314 citations Russ S. Kotwal, Jeffrey A. Bailey et al. profile →
  13. The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry
    2016 305 citations Thomas M. Scalea, Kenji Inaba et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  14. Damage control resuscitation in patients with severe traumatic hemorrhage
    2016 285 citations Mitchell J. Cohen, Bryan A. Cotton et al. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care profile →
  15. Outcomes of traumatic hemorrhagic shock and the epidemiology of preventable death from injury
    2019 222 citations Brian J. Eastridge, John B. Holcomb et al. Transfusion profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John B. Holcomb United States 108 26.7k 25.7k 14.7k 7.1k 5.0k 745 44.8k
Ernest E. Moore United States 113 13.0k 0.5× 18.7k 0.7× 24.4k 1.7× 3.6k 0.5× 6.8k 1.4× 1.1k 49.9k
Thomas M. Scalea United States 78 5.9k 0.2× 12.0k 0.5× 12.3k 0.8× 914 0.1× 3.8k 0.8× 719 24.4k
Rolf Rossaint Germany 61 6.4k 0.2× 6.1k 0.2× 5.5k 0.4× 1.3k 0.2× 2.2k 0.4× 763 21.5k
Dean Fergusson Canada 83 5.0k 0.2× 2.4k 0.1× 5.4k 0.4× 5.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 673 26.8k
Kenji Inaba United States 71 5.2k 0.2× 10.0k 0.4× 9.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.2× 1.8k 0.4× 724 19.4k
Peter Rhee United States 69 5.0k 0.2× 8.8k 0.3× 7.6k 0.5× 664 0.1× 1.9k 0.4× 398 16.7k
Δημήτριος Δημητριάδης United States 78 3.6k 0.1× 11.1k 0.4× 14.4k 1.0× 584 0.1× 2.2k 0.4× 672 23.3k
Avery B. Nathens Canada 84 3.0k 0.1× 13.3k 0.5× 9.6k 0.7× 797 0.1× 4.0k 0.8× 500 24.6k
Rolf Lefering Germany 63 4.2k 0.2× 10.4k 0.4× 8.3k 0.6× 720 0.1× 2.6k 0.5× 593 16.8k
Lorne H. Blackbourne United States 56 5.0k 0.2× 5.5k 0.2× 3.2k 0.2× 896 0.1× 1.2k 0.2× 195 9.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Holcomb, John B., et al.. (2025). Evaluation of the Management Strategies for Adhesive Small-Bowel Obstruction. Journal of Surgical Research. 306. 496–501.
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Carico, Christine, Matthew J. Levy, Pawan Acharya, et al.. (2025). Nationwide trends in prehospital blood product use after injury 2020–2023. Transfusion. 65(S1). S30–S39. 2 indexed citations
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Keenan, Sean, Harold R Montgomery, Russ S. Kotwal, et al.. (2024). Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) Position Statement on Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC): 01 May 2024. Journal of Special Operations Medicine. 24(2). 111–111. 2 indexed citations
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Lammers, Daniel, Richard Betzold, Shaun R. Brown, et al.. (2024). Developing the Ready Military Medical Force: military-specific training in Graduate Medical Education. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. 9(1). e001302–e001302. 5 indexed citations
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Butler, Frank K., John B. Holcomb, Warren C. Dorlac, et al.. (2024). Who needs a tourniquet? And who does not? Lessons learned from a review of tourniquet use in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 97(2S). S45–S54. 13 indexed citations
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Gurney, Jennifer M., Russ S. Kotwal, John B. Holcomb, et al.. (2024). A trauma expert consensus: Capabilities are required early to improve survivability from traumatic injury. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 97(2S). S82–S90. 3 indexed citations
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Stephens, Shannon W., Sean P. Collins, Monica D. Wong, et al.. (2021). Exception from informed consent trials: social-media-based community consultation campaigns are representative of target communities. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open. 6(1). e000830–e000830. 3 indexed citations
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Hanseman, Dennis J., Charles C. Caldwell, Yao-Wei Wang, et al.. (2021). Survival analysis by inflammatory biomarkers in severely injured patients undergoing damage control resuscitation. Surgery. 171(3). 818–824. 5 indexed citations
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Drake, Stacy A., Yijiong Yang, Dwayne A. Wolf, et al.. (2021). When falls become fatal—Clinical care sequence. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244862–e0244862. 10 indexed citations
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Miyazawa, Byron, Alpa Trivedi, Padma Priya Togarrati, et al.. (2019). Regulation of endothelial cell permeability by platelet-derived extracellular vesicles. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 86(6). 931–942. 64 indexed citations
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Lester, E, Erin E. Fox, John B. Holcomb, et al.. (2018). The impact of hypothermia on outcomes in massively transfused patients. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 86(3). 458–463. 19 indexed citations
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Galvagno, Samuel M., Erin E. Fox, Savitri Appana, et al.. (2017). Outcomes after concomitant traumatic brain injury and hemorrhagic shock. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 83(4). 668–674. 36 indexed citations
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Aden, James K., Kurt Edwards, Jeffrey A. Bailey, et al.. (2016). Short-Term Outcomes and Complications of Damage Control and Definitive Laparotomy in Deployed Combat Environments: 2002 to 2011. Military Medicine. 181(3). 277–282. 9 indexed citations
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Wade, Charles E., et al.. (2016). Comparison of Sepsis Screening Tools' Ability to Detect Sepsis Accurately. Surgical Infections. 17(5). 525–529. 9 indexed citations
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Scerbo, Michelle H., Heidi B. Kaplan, Anahita Dua, et al.. (2016). Beyond Blood Culture and Gram Stain Analysis: A Review of Molecular Techniques for the Early Detection of Bacteremia in Surgical Patients. Surgical Infections. 17(3). 294–302. 26 indexed citations
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Pati, Shibani, Aarif Y. Khakoo, Jing Zhao, et al.. (2010). Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Inhibit Vascular Permeability by Modulating Vascular Endothelial Cadherin/β-Catenin Signaling. Stem Cells and Development. 20(1). 89–101. 92 indexed citations
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Murray, Clinton K., Florence L. Loo, Duane R. Hospenthal, et al.. (2008). Incidence of systemic fungal infection and related mortality following severe burns. Burns. 34(8). 1108–1112. 110 indexed citations
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Horvath, Edward E., Clinton K. Murray, George M. Vaughan, et al.. (2007). Fungal Wound Infection (Not Colonization) Is Independently Associated With Mortality in Burn Patients. Annals of Surgery. 245(6). 978–985. 113 indexed citations
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McManus, John, et al.. (2007). Combat Trauma Training for Current Casualty Care. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 62(6). S13–S13. 10 indexed citations
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Kheirabadi, Bijan S., Jill L. Sondeen, Kathy L. Ryan, et al.. (2005). Hemostatic Efficacy of Two Advanced Dressings in an Aortic Hemorrhage Model in Swine. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 59(1). 25–35. 105 indexed citations

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