Renaud Lafage

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
293 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Renaud Lafage is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Renaud Lafage has authored 293 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 277 papers in Surgery, 156 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 20 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Renaud Lafage's work include Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment (245 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (219 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (153 papers). Renaud Lafage is often cited by papers focused on Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment (245 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (219 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (153 papers). Renaud Lafage collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Renaud Lafage's co-authors include Virginie Lafage, Frank J. Schwab, Christopher P. Ames, Bassel G. Diebo, Shay Bess, Justin S. Smith, Eric O. Klineberg, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Themistocles S. Protopsaltis and Vincent Challier and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Spine and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.

In The Last Decade

Renaud Lafage

269 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Defining Spino-Pelvic Alignment Thresholds

2015 316 citations Renaud Lafage, Frank J. Schwab et al. Spine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renaud Lafage United States	36	4.7k	3.1k	306	186	134	293	4.9k
Bassel G. Diebo United States	31	4.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	329 1.1×	237 1.3×	192 1.4×	333	4.4k
Richard A. Hostin United States	46	7.3k 1.6×	5.4k 1.8×	322 1.1×	226 1.2×	221 1.6×	215	7.6k
Adam S. Kanter United States	34	2.8k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	282 0.9×	432 2.3×	103 0.8×	146	3.2k
Justin K. Scheer United States	41	6.2k 1.3×	4.4k 1.4×	412 1.3×	339 1.8×	182 1.4×	194	6.7k
Gregory M. Mundis United States	50	8.3k 1.8×	5.8k 1.9×	436 1.4×	427 2.3×	199 1.5×	346	8.6k
D. Kojo Hamilton United States	28	1.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	244 0.8×	166 0.9×	130 1.0×	155	2.3k
Khaled M. Kebaish United States	23	2.5k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	106 0.3×	130 0.7×	148 1.1×	125	2.8k
Go Yoshida Japan	24	2.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	144 0.5×	205 1.1×	82 0.6×	161	2.3k
Khaled M. Kebaish United States	42	4.9k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	148 0.5×	369 2.0×	204 1.5×	174	5.5k
Aaron J. Buckland United States	28	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	176 0.6×	263 1.4×	103 0.8×	181	2.9k

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Galetta, Matthew S., et al.. (2025). When Does the Construct Need to Extend further Into the Thoracic Spine in Patients Undergoing Correction for Cervical Deformity?. Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication. 39(2). E81–E85.

Mathey, C., et al.. (2024). 7594 Diagnostic utility of 11C-Methionine PET-CT imaging in persistent or recurrent Cushing’s disease after transsphenoidal surgery. Journal of the Endocrine Society. 8(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Galetta, Matthew S., Nima Alan, Renaud Lafage, et al.. (2024). Durability of substantial clinical benefit leading to optimal outcomes in adult spinal deformity corrective surgery: a minimum 5-year analysis. Journal of Neurosurgery Spine. 41(6). 765–773. 1 indexed citations

Lafage, Renaud, Junho Song, Jonathan Elysée, et al.. (2024). Unsupervised Clustering of Adult Spinal Deformity Patterns Predicts Surgical and Patient-Reported Outcomes. Global Spine Journal. 15(4). 2265–2273.

Daher, Mohammad, Ayman Assi, Mariah Balmaceno-Criss, et al.. (2023). Functional assessment of patients with adult spinal deformity: Too complicated or a must-have?. Seminars in Spine Surgery. 35(4). 101057–101057. 1 indexed citations

Diebo, Bassel G., Sarah Stroud, Neil V. Shah, et al.. (2023). Can We Predict Imbalance in Patients? Analysis of the CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(5). 1943–1943.

Balmaceno-Criss, Mariah, Mohammad Daher, Renaud Lafage, et al.. (2023). Hip-spine syndrome in adult spinal deformity patients. Seminars in Spine Surgery. 35(4). 101066–101066. 2 indexed citations

Williamson, Tyler K., Oscar Krol, Peter Tretiakov, et al.. (2022). An Economic Analysis of Early and Late Complications After Adult Spinal Deformity Correction. Global Spine Journal. 14(3). 789–795. 6 indexed citations

Fourman, Mitchell S., Renaud Lafage, Francis Lovecchio, et al.. (2022). How Does Gravity Influence the Distribution of Lordosis in Patients With Sagittal Malalignment?. Global Spine Journal. 13(8). 2446–2453. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Justin S., Shay Bess, Eric O. Klineberg, et al.. (2021). Use of rhBMP-2 for adult spinal deformity surgery: patterns of usage and changes over the past decade. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 50(6). E4–E4. 12 indexed citations

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Barrios, Carlos, Virginie Lafage, Renaud Lafage, et al.. (2021). Vertebral Coplanar Alignment Technique Versus Bilateral Apical Vertebral Derotation Technique in Neuromuscular Scoliosis. Global Spine Journal. 13(1). 104–112. 1 indexed citations

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Saliby, Renée Maria, Rami Rachkidi, Abir Massaad, et al.. (2021). Gait kinematic alterations in subjects with adult spinal deformity and their radiological determinants. Gait & Posture. 88. 203–209. 25 indexed citations

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Steinhaus, Michael E., Renaud Lafage, Ram K. Alluri, et al.. (2021). Postoperative Evolution of Sagittal Parameters Over Time Does Not Differ by Upper Instrumented Vertebra. Spine. 47(11). 800–807. 5 indexed citations

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Naessig, Sara, Waleed Ahmad, Katherine E. Pierce, et al.. (2021). 221. Defining clinically relevant distal failure in the treatment of adult cervical deformity: an improved definition based on functional outcomes and need for reoperation. The Spine Journal. 21(9). S113–S114. 2 indexed citations

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Alas, Haddy, Peter G. Passias, Avery Brown, et al.. (2021). Predictors of serious, preventable, and costly medical complications in a population of adult spinal deformity patients. The Spine Journal. 21(9). 1559–1566. 7 indexed citations

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Diebo, Bassel G., Neil V. Shah, Saad Tarabichi, et al.. (2020). Osteoporosis and Spine Surgery. JBJS Reviews. 8(6). e0160–e0160. 10 indexed citations

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Elysée, Jonathan, Francis Lovecchio, Renaud Lafage, et al.. (2020). Supine Imaging Is a Superior Predictor of Long-Term Alignment Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. Global Spine Journal. 12(4). 631–637. 7 indexed citations

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George, Stephen, Matthew Spiegel, Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, et al.. (2020). Mandibular slope: a reproducible and simple measure of horizontal gaze. Spine Deformity. 8(5). 893–899. 4 indexed citations

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Bumpass, David B., Lawrence G. Lenke, Jeffrey L. Gum, et al.. (2017). Male sex may not be associated with worse outcomes in primary all-posterior adult spinal deformity surgery: a multicenter analysis. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 43(6). E9–E9. 10 indexed citations

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Diebo, Bassel G., Virginie Lafage, Jeffrey Varghese, et al.. (2017). After 9 Years of 3-Column Osteotomies, Are We Doing Better? Performance Curve Analysis of 573 Surgeries With 2-Year Follow-up. Neurosurgery. 83(1). 69–75. 16 indexed citations

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