Martin A. Makary

24.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
311 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Martin A. Makary is a scholar working on Surgery, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin A. Makary has authored 311 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Surgery, 109 papers in Oncology and 63 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Martin A. Makary's work include Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (86 papers), Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment (52 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (48 papers). Martin A. Makary is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (86 papers), Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment (52 papers) and Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes (48 papers). Martin A. Makary collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Martin A. Makary's co-authors include Peter J. Pronovost, Christine G. Holzmueller, Christopher L. Wolfgang, John L. Cameron, Andrew D. Shore, Dora Syin, Kenzo Hirose, J. Bryan Sexton, Elizabeth C. Wick and Lara Devgan and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Martin A. Makary

293 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Frailty as a Predictor of Surgical Outcomes in Older Patients

2010 1.5k citations Martin A. Makary, Dorry L. Segev et al. Journal of the American College of Surgeons profile →
Operating Room Teamwork among Physicians and Nurses: Teamwork in the Eye of the Beholder

2006 489 citations Martin A. Makary, Christine G. Holzmueller et al. Journal of the American College of Surgeons profile →
Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy Is Associated With Significantly Less Overall Morbidity Compared to the Open Technique

2012 374 citations Barish H. Edil, Martin A. Makary et al. Annals of Surgery profile →
Opioid-Prescribing Guidelines for Common Surgical Procedures: An Expert Panel Consensus

2018 271 citations Martin A. Makary et al. Journal of the American College of Surgeons profile →
An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination

2025 18 citations Martin A. Makary et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin A. Makary United States	60	6.5k	4.0k	2.8k	2.6k	1.7k	311	13.8k
Vijaya Sundararajan Australia	40	4.3k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	404 0.2×	209	20.3k
Marja A. Boermeester Netherlands	63	10.9k 1.7×	3.6k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	332	16.6k
Shukri F. Khuri United States	75	11.2k 1.7×	2.6k 0.7×	9.0k 3.2×	5.0k 1.9×	844 0.5×	221	20.8k
Justin B. Dimick United States	83	13.1k 2.0×	4.2k 1.1×	8.3k 3.0×	6.1k 2.3×	1.7k 1.0×	501	26.0k
Anne Elixhauser United States	48	3.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	896 0.5×	218	15.7k
Karl Y. Bilimoria United States	69	9.6k 1.5×	7.0k 1.7×	4.3k 1.5×	4.4k 1.7×	831 0.5×	413	20.3k
C. Seth Landefeld United States	79	3.3k 0.5×	4.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	504 0.3×	175	24.9k
Darrell A. Campbell United States	57	6.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	3.6k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	765 0.4×	252	12.5k
John Z. Ayanian United States	87	3.1k 0.5×	6.4k 1.6×	3.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	684 0.4×	355	26.1k
Braden Manns Canada	80	3.1k 0.5×	778 0.2×	2.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.2×	2.7k 1.5×	478	22.3k

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Høeg, Tracy Beth, et al.. (2025). The Promise of Animal Testing Alternatives at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health. NEJM AI. 3(1).

McDermott, Katherine M., Chen Dun, Jialin Mao, et al.. (2024). Infrapopliteal Endovascular Interventions for Claudication Are Associated With Poor Long-term Outcomes in Medicare-matched Registry Patients. Annals of Surgery. 282(6). 1127–1133. 2 indexed citations

Kinny‐Köster, Benedict, Christi Walsh, Zhaoli Sun, et al.. (2024). Minimally invasive total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation for chronic pancreatitis: the robotic approach. Surgical Endoscopy. 38(7). 3948–3956. 1 indexed citations

Dun, Chen, Katherine M. McDermott, James H. Black, et al.. (2024). Competitive Regional Markets Are Associated With Higher Rates Of Tibial Peripheral Vascular Interventions For The Treatment Of Claudication - A National Claims Analysis. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 79(6). e319–e320.

Dun, Chen, Oliver D. Schein, Pradeep Y. Ramulu, et al.. (2023). Early Endophthalmitis Incidence and Risk Factors after Glaucoma Surgery in the Medicare Population from 2016 to 2019. Ophthalmology. 131(2). 179–187. 2 indexed citations

Dun, Chen, Christina R. Prescott, Allen O. Eghrari, et al.. (2022). Predictors of Receiving Keratoplasty for Fuchs’ Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy among Medicare Beneficiaries. Ophthalmology. 130(1). 28–38. 9 indexed citations

Dun, Chen, Christi Walsh, Sunjae Bae, et al.. (2022). A Machine Learning Study of 534,023 Medicare Beneficiaries with COVID-19: Implications for Personalized Risk Prediction for People Over 65. 4(1). 2 indexed citations

Zafar, Sidra, Chen Dun, Divya Srikumaran, et al.. (2021). Endophthalmitis Rates among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Cataract Surgery between 2011 and 2019. Ophthalmology. 129(3). 250–257. 28 indexed citations

Gemenetzis, Georgios, Vincent P. Groot, Alex B. Blair, et al.. (2018). Incidence and risk factors for abdominal occult metastatic disease in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 118(8). 1277–1284. 31 indexed citations

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John, George Kunnackal, Vikesh K. Singh, Robert A. Moran, et al.. (2017). Chronic Gastrointestinal Dysmotility and Pain Following Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 21(4). 622–627. 16 indexed citations

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Faghih, Mahya, Francisco García González, Martin A. Makary, & Vikesh K. Singh. (2017). Total pancreatectomy for recurrent acute and chronic pancreatitis: a critical review of patient selection criteria. Current Opinion in Gastroenterology. 33(5). 330–338. 5 indexed citations

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Sinha, Amitasha, Yuval A. Patel, Michael Cruise, et al.. (2016). Predictors of Post-Operative Pain Relief in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis Undergoing the Frey or Whipple Procedure. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 20(4). 734–740. 13 indexed citations

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Matsuno, Rayna K., James P. Moriarty, Bijan J. Borah, et al.. (2016). Disparities in Surgical Care Among Women With Endometrial Cancer. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 128(3). 526–534. 34 indexed citations

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Saxena, Payal, Mohamad El Zein, Martin A. Makary, Vivek Kumbhari, & Mouen A. Khashab. (2016). Submucosal tunneling and en bloc endoscopic resection facilitates laparoscopic transgastric removal of a large GI stromal tumor at the esophagogastric junction. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 84(1). 179–180. 3 indexed citations

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Edil, Barish H., Michol A. Cooper, & Martin A. Makary. (2014). Laparoscopic Pancreaticojejunostomy Using a Barbed Suture: A Novel Technique. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. 24(12). 887–891. 23 indexed citations

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Wick, Elizabeth C., Andrew D. Shore, Kenzo Hirose, et al.. (2011). Readmission Rates and Cost Following Colorectal Surgery. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum. 54(12). 1475–1479. 269 indexed citations

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Syin, Dora, Thomas Magnuson, David R. Flum, et al.. (2007). Pregnancy Outcomes after Bariatric Surgery. Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care. 2(2). 113–118. 1 indexed citations

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Makary, Martin A., et al.. (2007). Needle-stick injuries among surgeons in training. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 46(3). 609–609. 23 indexed citations

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Makary, Martin A. & Hazem Elariny. (2006). Laparoscopic Transduodenal Sphincteroplasty. Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. 16(6). 629–632. 1 indexed citations

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Makary, Martin A., Arnab Mukherjee, Bryan Sexton, et al.. (2006). Operating Room Briefings and Wrong-Site Surgery. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 204(2). 236–243. 180 indexed citations

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