John W. Best

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

John W. Best is a scholar working on Surgery, Urology and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Best has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Surgery, 2 papers in Urology and 2 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in John W. Best's work include Urologic and reproductive health conditions (2 papers), Urological Disorders and Treatments (2 papers) and Genital Health and Disease (1 paper). John W. Best is often cited by papers focused on Urologic and reproductive health conditions (2 papers), Urological Disorders and Treatments (2 papers) and Genital Health and Disease (1 paper). John W. Best collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. John W. Best's co-authors include James V. Kahn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Urology and Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government).

In The Last Decade

John W. Best

3 papers receiving 711 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Research in Education

1970 1.1k citations John W. Best, James V. Kahn Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John W. Best United Kingdom	3	605	175	131	118	103	4	1.1k
James V. Kahn United States	10	632 1.0×	330 1.9×	141 1.1×	145 1.2×	105 1.0×	25	1.4k
Joyce P. Gall	5	777 1.3×	185 1.1×	133 1.0×	117 1.0×	169 1.6×	6	1.2k
Michael Bassey United Kingdom	9	723 1.2×	160 0.9×	207 1.6×	60 0.5×	52 0.5×	29	1.1k
Raymond J. Wlodkowski United States	18	899 1.5×	228 1.3×	145 1.1×	156 1.3×	73 0.7×	29	1.3k
Roger Hiemstra United States	19	1.0k 1.7×	406 2.3×	127 1.0×	140 1.2×	133 1.3×	75	1.6k
Walt Haney United States	15	780 1.3×	168 1.0×	136 1.0×	44 0.4×	51 0.5×	42	1.1k
Robert R. Sherman United States	7	440 0.7×	85 0.5×	171 1.3×	62 0.5×	34 0.3×	18	733
Rodman B. Webb United States	9	499 0.8×	95 0.5×	181 1.4×	67 0.6×	37 0.4×	23	865
Geoffrey Squires United Kingdom	10	1.1k 1.9×	237 1.4×	212 1.6×	155 1.3×	81 0.8×	22	1.9k
David Tripp Australia	13	1.0k 1.7×	179 1.0×	412 3.1×	111 0.9×	66 0.6×	41	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by John W. Best

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Fields of papers citing papers by John W. Best

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by John W. Best. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John W. Best. The network helps show where John W. Best may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of John W. Best

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John W. Best. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John W. Best based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John W. Best. John W. Best is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Best, John W. & James V. Kahn. (1970). Research in Education. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Québec government). 1101 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Best, John W., et al.. (1969). Vesicointestinal Fistulas. The Journal of Urology. 101(1). 62–65. 12 indexed citations

3.

Best, John W., et al.. (1962). Complete Traumatic Amputation of the Penis. The Journal of Urology. 87(2). 134–138. 35 indexed citations

4.

Best, John W., et al.. (1953). Congenital Contracture of the Vesical Neck in Children. The Journal of Urology. 70(6). 884–889.

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