John J. Callaghan

28.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
415 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

John J. Callaghan is a scholar working on Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, John J. Callaghan has authored 415 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 366 papers in Surgery, 24 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and 18 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in John J. Callaghan's work include Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (289 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (273 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (180 papers). John J. Callaghan is often cited by papers focused on Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (289 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (273 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (180 papers). John J. Callaghan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. John J. Callaghan's co-authors include Richard C. Johnston, Devon D. Goetz, Andrew J. Pugely, Thomas D. Brown, Douglas R. Pedersen, Yubo Gao, Steve S. Liu, Nicholas A. Bedard, Christopher T. Martin and Patrick M. Sullivan and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Radiology.

In The Last Decade

John J. Callaghan

409 papers receiving 19.9k citations

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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.

An Analysis of Blood Management in Patients Having a Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty*

1999 784 citations John J. Callaghan et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery profile →
Results of revision for mechanical failure after cemented total hip replacement, 1979 to 1982. A two to five-year follow-up.

1985 526 citations John J. Callaghan et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery profile →
The uncemented porous-coated anatomic total hip prosthesis. Two-year results of a prospective consecutive series.

1988 401 citations John J. Callaghan et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery profile →
The outcome of Charnley total hip arthroplasty with cement after a minimum twenty-year follow-up. The results of one surgeon.

1993 399 citations John J. Callaghan et al. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John J. Callaghan United States	81	18.5k	2.0k	1.0k	989	972	415	20.7k
Harry E. Rubash United States	71	14.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	578 0.6×	3.0k 3.0×	696 0.7×	269	17.7k
Craig J. Della Valle United States	77	20.2k 1.1×	613 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	793 0.8×	656 0.7×	417	22.2k
Fares S. Haddad United Kingdom	66	12.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	829 0.8×	532 0.5×	444	15.0k
Kevin Ong United States	54	23.6k 1.3×	666 0.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	357 0.4×	172	25.8k
Daniel J. Berry United States	82	23.2k 1.3×	944 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	245 0.3×	423	25.0k
Robert T. Trousdale United States	65	13.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	685 0.7×	347 0.4×	362	14.7k
Kevin J. Bozic United States	77	19.0k 1.0×	983 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	948 1.0×	211 0.2×	342	22.8k
Rafael J. Sierra United States	57	10.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	581 0.6×	298	11.1k
Edmund Lau United States	58	25.0k 1.3×	649 0.3×	2.2k 2.1×	1.9k 1.9×	368 0.4×	199	28.7k
Thomas P. Sculco United States	62	10.0k 0.5×	871 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	627 0.6×	363 0.4×	328	11.8k

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Chen, Xiao T., Amy E. Glasgow, Elizabeth B. Habermann, et al.. (2025). The Rise of Medicare Advantage is Impacting the Fidelity of Traditional Medicare Claims Data. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 107(12). 1371–1376.

Chen, Xiao T., Amy E. Glasgow, Nathanael D. Heckmann, et al.. (2024). Is the Rise of Medicare Advantage Impacting the Fidelity of Traditional Medicare Claims Data? Implications for Reporting of Long-Term Total Hip Arthroplasty Survivorship. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 39(9). S241–S245. 1 indexed citations

DeMik, David E., Nicholas A. Bedard, S. Blake Dowdle, et al.. (2018). Complications and Obesity in Arthroplasty—A Hip is Not a Knee. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 33(10). 3281–3287. 77 indexed citations

Owens, Jessell M., John J. Callaghan, Kyle R. Duchman, Nicholas A. Bedard, & Jesse E. Otero. (2018). Short-term Morbidity and Readmissions Increase With Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge After Total Joint Arthroplasty in a Medicare-Eligible and Skilled Nursing Facility–Eligible Patient Cohort. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 33(5). 1343–1347. 35 indexed citations

Gholson, J. Joseph, Nicholas A. Bedard, S. Blake Dowdle, et al.. (2018). Total Joint Arthroplasty in Patients With Schizophrenia: How Much Does It Increase the Risk of Complications?. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 33(7). 2082–2086. 14 indexed citations

Bedard, Nicholas A., David E. DeMik, Jessell M. Owens, et al.. (2018). Tobacco Use and Risk of Wound Complications and Periprosthetic Joint Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Primary Total Joint Arthroplasty Procedures. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 34(2). 385–396.e4. 72 indexed citations

Bedard, Nicholas A., David E. DeMik, Natalie Glass, et al.. (2018). Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on Use of Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid and Corticosteroid Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 100(10). 827–834. 35 indexed citations

Bedard, Nicholas A., Andrew J. Pugely, Robert W. Westermann, et al.. (2017). Opioid Use After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Trends and Risk Factors for Prolonged Use. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 32(8). 2390–2394. 196 indexed citations

Bedard, Nicholas A., et al.. (2017). Big Data and Total Hip Arthroplasty: How Do Large Databases Compare?. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 33(1). 41–45.e3. 55 indexed citations

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Bedard, Nicholas A., Andrew J. Pugely, S. Blake Dowdle, et al.. (2017). Opioid Use Following Total Hip Arthroplasty: Trends and Risk Factors for Prolonged Use. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 32(12). 3675–3679. 103 indexed citations

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Abdel, Matthew P., et al.. (2017). Seasonality of Periprosthetic Femur Fractures in 12,700 Primary and Revision Total Hip Arthroplasties. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 32(6). 2000–2004. 3 indexed citations

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Cooper, Nicholas, Barbara A. Rakel, Bridget Zimmerman, et al.. (2017). Predictors of multidimensional functional outcomes after total knee arthroplasty. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 35(12). 2790–2798. 28 indexed citations

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Glass, Natalie, Neil A. Segal, John J. Callaghan, et al.. (2016). Comparison of the extent to which total hip and total knee arthroplasty restore patient-reported physical function. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 24(11). 1875–1882. 7 indexed citations

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Bedard, Nicholas A., et al.. (2016). Recent Trends in Blood Utilization After Primary Hip and Knee Arthroplasty. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 32(3). 724–727. 71 indexed citations

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Gholson, J. Joseph, et al.. (2016). Can We Predict Discharge Status After Total Joint Arthroplasty? A Calculator to Predict Home Discharge. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 31(12). 2705–2709. 62 indexed citations

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Otero, Jesse E., J. Joseph Gholson, Andrew J. Pugely, et al.. (2016). Length of Hospitalization After Joint Arthroplasty: Does Early Discharge Affect Complications and Readmission Rates?. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 31(12). 2714–2725. 123 indexed citations

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Bedard, Nicholas A., Andrew J. Pugely, Kyle R. Duchman, et al.. (2015). When Hip Scopes Fail, They Do So Quickly. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 31(6). 1183–1187. 35 indexed citations

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Kruger, Karen M., Nishant M. Tikekar, Anneliese D. Heiner, et al.. (2013). Encoding Scratch and Scrape Features for Wear Modeling of Total Joint Replacements. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013. 1–12. 7 indexed citations

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Heckman, James D., Paul P. Lee, Carolyn Jackson, et al.. (1998). Orthopaedic workforce in the next millennium.. PubMed. 80(10). 1533–51. 11 indexed citations

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Buckwalter, Joseph A., et al.. (1994). Adrian E. Flatt--surgeon and scholar.. PubMed. 14. 22–30. 2 indexed citations

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