Michael Dunbar

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Dunbar is a scholar working on Surgery, Rheumatology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Dunbar has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Surgery, 28 papers in Rheumatology and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michael Dunbar's work include Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (116 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (82 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (49 papers). Michael Dunbar is often cited by papers focused on Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (116 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (82 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (49 papers). Michael Dunbar collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Michael Dunbar's co-authors include Janie L. Astephen Wilson, Cheryl L. Hubley‐Kozey, Otto Robertsson, Kevin J. Deluzio, Lars Lidgren, William D. Stanish, Graham E. Caldwell, Éric Bohm, Kaj Knutson and Glen Richardson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Pain.

In The Last Decade

Michael Dunbar

162 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

Patient satisfaction after knee arthroplasty: A report on 27,372 knees operated on between 1981 and 1995 in Sweden

2000 547 citations Otto Robertsson, Michael Dunbar et al. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Dunbar Canada	47	5.5k	1.5k	1.5k	932	797	168	7.7k
Charlotte Ekdahl Sweden	41	4.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 2.0×	1.7k 2.2×	102	8.7k
Inger Holm Norway	45	4.2k 0.8×	555 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	2.7k 2.9×	1.4k 1.8×	140	7.0k
Jennifer E. Stevens‐Lapsley United States	39	2.9k 0.5×	720 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	305 0.3×	396 0.5×	180	4.8k
Donna M. Urquhart Australia	43	1.9k 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	770 0.5×	760 0.8×	2.7k 3.3×	137	5.5k
Søren Thorgaard Skou Denmark	33	2.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	523 0.3×	389 0.4×	1.2k 1.6×	292	5.0k
Mark D. Miller United States	46	4.6k 0.8×	340 0.2×	568 0.4×	1.8k 2.0×	826 1.0×	255	8.0k
Ian A. Harris Australia	47	4.6k 0.8×	434 0.3×	427 0.3×	619 0.7×	1.5k 1.9×	363	7.4k
Isam Atroshi Sweden	38	5.8k 1.0×	478 0.3×	367 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	902 1.1×	111	7.2k
Michael Hurley United Kingdom	30	1.1k 0.2×	1.2k 0.8×	683 0.5×	444 0.5×	869 1.1×	91	3.5k
Marcel F. Dvorak Canada	66	10.0k 1.8×	438 0.3×	899 0.6×	281 0.3×	804 1.0×	342	13.8k

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Lethbridge, Lynn, et al.. (2025). Disparities in Utilization Rates of Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty Among Racially Visible Populations in Canada: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 40(11). 2805–2810.e3.

Dunbar, Michael & Leif Ryd. (2025). The power of registries and radiostereometric analysis (RSA). Acta Orthopaedica. 96. 11–12. 1 indexed citations

Abou-Abbas, Lina, et al.. (2024). Unveiling distinct kinematic profiles among total knee arthroplasty candidates through clustering technique. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 19(1). 479–479. 1 indexed citations

Wilson, Janie L. Astephen, et al.. (2024). The Association of Biomechanical Outcomes of Knee Arthroplasty Surgery with Pre-Operative Joint Kinematics. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 32. S162–S163.

Nelissen, Rob G. H. H., Carl Holder, Stephen E. Graves, et al.. (2024). Sex-based differences in risk of revision for infection after hip, knee, shoulder, and ankle arthroplasty in osteoarthritis patients: a multinational registry study of 4,800,000 implants. Acta Orthopaedica. 95. 730–736. 1 indexed citations

Waddell, James P., Éric Bohm, Sam Adie, et al.. (2023). Quality indicators in primary elective total hip and knee arthroplasty. International Orthopaedics. 47(3). 647–658. 2 indexed citations

Laende, Elise, et al.. (2023). 6-month migration sufficient for evaluation of total knee replacements: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Orthopaedica. 94. 577–587. 9 indexed citations

Laende, Elise, et al.. (2023). A low-dose biplanar X-ray imager has RSA level precision in total knee arthroplasty. Acta Orthopaedica. 94. 555–559.

Hawker, Gillian, Éric Bohm, Michael Dunbar, et al.. (2023). Patient appropriateness for total knee arthroplasty and predicted probability of a good outcome. RMD Open. 9(2). e002808–e002808. 16 indexed citations

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Hawker, Gillian, Éric Bohm, Michael Dunbar, et al.. (2022). The Effect of Patient Age and Surgical Appropriateness and Their Influence on Surgeon Recommendations for Primary TKA. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 104(8). 700–708. 7 indexed citations

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Dewar, David, Mark Loewenthal, Laurens Manning, et al.. (2022). A desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) for periprosthetic joint infection – a Delphi analysis. Journal of Bone and Joint Infection. 7(6). 221–229. 9 indexed citations

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King, Lauren, Esther J. Waugh, C Allyson Jones, et al.. (2021). Comorbidities do not limit improvement in pain and physical function after total knee arthroplasty in patients with knee osteoarthritis: the BEST-Knee prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 11(6). e047061–e047061. 10 indexed citations

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Atrey, Amit, Amir Khoshbin, Ola Rolfson, et al.. (2021). Infection: The Final Frontier of Arthroplasty Management. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 103(6). e22–e22. 4 indexed citations

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Dunbar, Michael, et al.. (2020). Individual Gait Features Are Associated with Clinical Improvement After Total Knee Arthroplasty. JBJS Open Access. 5(2). e0038–e0038. 10 indexed citations

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Conner‐Spady, Barbara, Deborah A. Marshall, Éric Bohm, Michael Dunbar, & Tom Noseworthy. (2018). Comparing the validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D-5L to the Oxford hip and knee scores and SF-12 in osteoarthritis patients 1 year following total joint replacement. Quality of Life Research. 27(5). 1311–1322. 50 indexed citations

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Guy, Pierre, Katie Jane Sheehan, Suzanne N. Morin, et al.. (2017). Feasibility of using administrative data for identifying medical reasons to delay hip fracture surgery: a Canadian database study. BMJ Open. 7(10). e017869–e017869. 15 indexed citations

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Dunbar, Michael & Glen Richardson. (2011). Minimizing Infection Risk: Fortune Favors the Prepared Mind. Orthopedics. 34(9). e467–9. 3 indexed citations

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Bohm, Éric, et al.. (2010). Experience with physician assistants in a Canadian arthroplasty program.. PubMed. 53(2). 103–8. 43 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Maxime, et al.. (2007). Fibroblastic interactions with high‐porosity Ti‐6Al‐4V metal foam. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 82B(2). 440–449. 14 indexed citations

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Robertsson, Otto, Michael Dunbar, Kaj Knutson, & Lars Lidgren. (2000). Past incidence and future demand for knee arthroplasty in Sweden: A report from the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register regarding the effect of past and future population changes on the number of arthroplasties performed. Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica. 71(4). 376–380. 77 indexed citations

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