Philipp Lirk

8.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
143 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Philipp Lirk is a scholar working on Surgery, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Lirk has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Surgery, 39 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and 30 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Philipp Lirk's work include Anesthesia and Pain Management (74 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (23 papers). Philipp Lirk is often cited by papers focused on Anesthesia and Pain Management (74 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (25 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (23 papers). Philipp Lirk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Austria. Philipp Lirk's co-authors include Markus W. Hollmann, Josef Rieder, Matthias Lechner, Markus F. Stevens, Brian Jenkins, Robin A Seymour, Jeroen Hermanides, C. Keller, Quinn H. Hogan and F. Bodrogi and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Journal of Physiology and Annals of Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Lirk

138 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

The Efficacy of Preemptive Analgesia for Acute Postoperative Pain Management: A Meta-Analysis

2005 476 citations Philipp Lirk, Robin A Seymour et al. Anesthesia & Analgesia profile →
Molecular mechanisms of action of systemic lidocaine in acute and chronic pain: a narrative review

2019 197 citations Henning Hermanns, Markus W. Hollmann et al. British Journal of Anaesthesia profile →
PROSPECT guideline for total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and procedure‐specific postoperative pain management recommendations

2021 144 citations Michael S. Anger, Hélène Beloeil et al. Anaesthesia profile →
Multimodal Analgesia

2022 80 citations Philipp Lirk et al. Anesthesiology Clinics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Lirk United States	39	2.9k	1.3k	875	691	668	143	5.2k
Guy Weinberg United States	44	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	746 0.9×	891 1.3×	710 1.1×	126	6.8k
Akiyoshi Namiki Japan	34	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	901 1.3×	425 0.6×	296	4.6k
Michael G. Irwin Hong Kong	52	2.7k 0.9×	2.6k 2.1×	812 0.9×	1.7k 2.5×	1.4k 2.0×	294	7.9k
Michiaki Yamakage Japan	30	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	696 0.8×	642 0.9×	420 0.6×	317	3.7k
Atsuhiro Sakamoto Japan	35	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 1.1×	723 0.8×	864 1.3×	308 0.5×	193	4.5k
Shuji Dohi Japan	34	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	695 0.8×	908 1.3×	363 0.5×	230	3.9k
John F. Butterworth United States	34	2.4k 0.8×	864 0.7×	402 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	461 0.7×	149	4.9k
Markus Steinfath Germany	40	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	527 0.6×	1.8k 2.6×	231 0.3×	189	4.7k
Dennis M. Fisher United States	42	2.1k 0.7×	3.0k 2.3×	562 0.6×	794 1.1×	154 0.2×	141	5.7k
Shung‐Tai Ho Taiwan	34	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	744 0.9×	445 0.6×	392 0.6×	183	4.0k

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Gasteiger, Lukas, et al.. (2025). Is It Time to Reassess Local Anesthetic and Adjuvant Mixtures? A Narrative Review of Practice, Evidence, and Risks. Anesthesiology. 144(1). 177–190.

Lirk, Philipp, et al.. (2024). Psychometric development and validation of the Hospital Resilience Index. 3(1).

Hermanides, Jeroen, et al.. (2023). The Effectiveness of Adductor Canal Block Compared to Femoral Nerve Block on Readiness for Discharge in Patients Undergoing Outpatient Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Multi-Center Randomized Clinical Trial. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(18). 6019–6019. 3 indexed citations

Stone, Alexander B., Philipp Lirk, & Kamen Vlassakov. (2022). Rebound Pain After Peripheral Nerve Blockade—Bad Timing or Rude Awakening?. Anesthesiology Clinics. 40(3). 445–454. 12 indexed citations

Keudell, Arvind von, Girish P. Joshi, Kamen Vlassakov, et al.. (2021). Procedure-specific acute pain trajectory after elective total hip arthroplasty: systematic review and data synthesis. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 127(1). 110–132. 34 indexed citations

Lemoine, Adrien, Hélène Beloeil, Françis Bonnet, et al.. (2021). PROSPECT guidelines update for evidence-based pain management after prostatectomy for cancer. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine. 40(4). 100922–100922. 13 indexed citations

Anger, Michael S., Hélène Beloeil, Philipp Lirk, et al.. (2021). PROSPECT guideline for total hip arthroplasty: a systematic review and procedure‐specific postoperative pain management recommendations. Anaesthesia. 76(8). 1082–1097. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

Ridderikhof, Milan L., et al.. (2019). The relationship between patient factors and the refusal of analgesics in adult Emergency Department patients with extremity injuries, a case-control study. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 20(1). 87–94. 1 indexed citations

Živković, Nenad, Henning Hermanns, Philipp Lirk, et al.. (2019). Face and construct validity of TU-Delft epidural simulator and the value of real-time visualization. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 44(3). 298–302. 4 indexed citations

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Lirk, Philipp, et al.. (2019). Pain management after laparoscopic hysterectomy: systematic review of literature and PROSPECT recommendations. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 44(4). 425–436. 58 indexed citations

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Barazanchi, Ahmed, Wiremu MacFater, Andrew Hill, et al.. (2018). Evidence-based management of pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a PROSPECT review update. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 121(4). 787–803. 123 indexed citations

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Hollmann, Markus W., et al.. (2016). Local Anesthetic-Induced Neurotoxicity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(3). 339–339. 146 indexed citations

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Mungroop, Timothy H., Denise P. Veelo, Olivier R. Busch, et al.. (2016). Continuous wound infiltration versus epidural analgesia after hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery (POP-UP): a randomised controlled, open-label, non-inferiority trial. The Lancet. Gastroenterology & hepatology. 1(2). 105–113. 42 indexed citations

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Sammour, Tarik, Ahmed Barazanchi, Andrew Hill, et al.. (2016). Evidence‐Based Management of Pain After Excisional Haemorrhoidectomy Surgery: A PROSPECT Review Update. World Journal of Surgery. 41(2). 603–614. 65 indexed citations

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Lirk, Philipp, et al.. (2015). Adjuvanzien in der modernen Anästhesie – Lidocain. AINS - Anästhesiologie · Intensivmedizin · Notfallmedizin · Schmerztherapie. 50(5). 322–327. 1 indexed citations

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Lirk, Philipp, et al.. (2015). Adjuvanzien in der modernen Anästhesie – Magnesium. AINS - Anästhesiologie · Intensivmedizin · Notfallmedizin · Schmerztherapie. 50(6). 380–387. 1 indexed citations

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Loon, Anouk M. van, H. Steven Scholte, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, et al.. (2013). Ketamine changes the neural representation of object recognition in early visual cortex.. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 129–129. 1 indexed citations

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Rigaud, Marcel, et al.. (2008). Guidance of Block Needle Insertion by Electrical Nerve Stimulation. Anesthesiology. 109(3). 473–478. 35 indexed citations

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Fridrich, Peter, Ajay D. Wasan, Philipp Lirk, et al.. (2007). Phase 1A Safety Assessment of Intravenous Amitriptyline. Journal of Pain. 8(7). 549–555. 12 indexed citations

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Lirk, Philipp, et al.. (2005). The Efficacy of Preemptive Analgesia for Acute Postoperative Pain Management: A Meta-Analysis. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 100(3). 757–773. 476 indexed citations breakdown →

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