Rolf Graf

28.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
305 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Rolf Graf is a scholar working on Surgery, Epidemiology and Hepatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Graf has authored 305 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Surgery, 67 papers in Epidemiology and 66 papers in Hepatology. Recurrent topics in Rolf Graf's work include Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment (60 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (56 papers) and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (37 papers). Rolf Graf is often cited by papers focused on Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment (60 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (56 papers) and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (37 papers). Rolf Graf collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Rolf Graf's co-authors include Pierre–Alain Clavien, Ksenija Slankamenac, Jeffrey Barkun, René Vonlanthen, Pierre A. Clavien, Daniel Dindo, Jean‐Nicolas Vauthey, Robert Padbury, Richard D. Schulick and Masatoshi Makuuchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Graf

299 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications

2009 8.4k citations Rolf Graf et al. profile →
The Comprehensive Complication Index

2013 1.2k citations Rolf Graf et al. profile →
Strategies for Safer Liver Surgery and Partial Liver Transplantation

2007 730 citations Pierre–Alain Clavien, Rolf Graf et al. profile →
Platelet-Derived Serotonin Mediates Liver Regeneration

2006 603 citations Rolf Graf, Yinghua Tian et al. profile →
An integrated perfusion machine preserves injured human livers for 1 week

2020 241 citations Rolf Graf, Pierre–Alain Clavien et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rolf Graf Switzerland	58	12.5k	5.2k	4.6k	4.4k	3.7k	305	21.3k
Pierre–Alain Clavien Switzerland	92	18.3k 1.5×	13.1k 2.5×	5.6k 1.2×	3.4k 0.8×	6.4k 1.8×	480	28.0k
David A. Geller United States	78	7.0k 0.6×	7.0k 1.3×	5.1k 1.1×	3.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.0×	387	23.3k
Yves Panís France	64	11.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.3×	6.3k 1.4×	3.0k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	426	18.8k
Hans J. Schlitt Germany	65	7.1k 0.6×	3.7k 0.7×	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	510	15.7k
Tooru Shimosegawa Japan	80	13.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.4×	7.0k 1.5×	2.8k 0.6×	7.1k 2.0×	702	25.7k
Allan Tsung United States	70	4.5k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	342	18.1k
Markus W. Büchler Germany	79	14.7k 1.2×	1.0k 0.2×	8.2k 1.8×	3.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.7×	501	21.0k
Shinji Üemoto Japan	79	15.3k 1.2×	13.9k 2.7×	4.5k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	6.7k 1.8×	954	26.7k
Ronald W. Busuttil United States	99	19.8k 1.6×	18.3k 3.5×	2.6k 0.6×	3.8k 0.8×	10.9k 3.0×	757	37.7k
Ming‐Shiang Wu Taiwan	70	9.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.3×	4.5k 1.0×	5.5k 1.2×	3.2k 0.9×	596	20.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rolf Graf

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Widmer, Jonas, et al.. (2025). Failure forces of different interspinous vertebropexy techniques. The Spine Journal. 25(8). 1841–1848.

Giori, Luca, et al.. (2024). Development and validation of an ELISA to measure regenerating island‐derived protein 3E in canine blood. Veterinary Clinical Pathology. 53(2). 261–272. 2 indexed citations

Brun, R., Marcel Schneider, Theresia Reding, et al.. (2023). Serum Pancreatic Stone Protein Reference Values in Healthy Pregnant Women: A Prospective Cohort Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(9). 3200–3200. 4 indexed citations

Brun, R., Marcel Schneider, Theresia Reding, et al.. (2023). The Role of Pancreatic Stone Protein (PSP) as a Biomarker of Pregnancy-Related Diseases. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(13). 4428–4428. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Rong, Thorsten Hornemann, Saša Štefanić, et al.. (2020). Serine administration as a novel prophylactic approach to reduce the severity of acute pancreatitis during diabetes in mice. Diabetologia. 63(9). 1885–1899. 18 indexed citations

Seleznik, Gitta, Theresia Reding, Anurag Gupta, et al.. (2017). Development of autoimmune pancreatitis is independent of CDKN1A/p21-mediated pancreatic inflammation. Gut. 67(9). 1663–1673. 16 indexed citations

Speicher, Tobias, Roman L. Bogorad, Friederike Böhm, et al.. (2017). Large-Scale Quantitative Proteomics Identifies the Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4-1 as an Essential Regulator of Liver Regeneration. Developmental Cell. 42(6). 616–625.e8. 23 indexed citations

Limani, Përparim, Michael Linecker, Christoph Tschuor, et al.. (2016). Antihypoxic Potentiation of Standard Therapy for Experimental Colorectal Liver Metastasis through Myo-Inositol Trispyrophosphate. Clinical Cancer Research. 22(23). 5887–5897. 19 indexed citations

Stracquadanio, Giovanni, Bart Vrugt, Renata Flury, et al.. (2016). CD44 SNPrs187115: A Novel Biomarker Signature that Predicts Survival in Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Clinical Cancer Research. 22(24). 6069–6077. 7 indexed citations

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Furrer, Katarzyna, Andreas Rickenbacher, Yinghua Tian, et al.. (2011). Serotonin reverts age-related capillarization and failure of regeneration in the liver through a VEGF-dependent pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(7). 2945–2950. 70 indexed citations

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Delodder, Frederik, Lucas Liaudet, Yi Que, et al.. (2010). Pancreatic stone protein (PSP): a biomarker of sepsis. IRIS. 1 indexed citations

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Garuti, Cinzia, Yinghua Tian, Giuliana Montosi, et al.. (2010). Hepcidin Expression Does Not Rescue the Iron-Poor Phenotype of Kupffer Cells in Hfe-Null Mice After Liver Transplantation. Gastroenterology. 139(1). 315–322.e1. 18 indexed citations

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Nocito, Antonio, Felix Dahm, Wolfram Jochum, et al.. (2008). Serotonin Regulates Macrophage-Mediated Angiogenesis in a Mouse Model of Colon Cancer Allografts. Cancer Research. 68(13). 5152–5158. 118 indexed citations

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Hoekstra, Harm, Yinghua Tian, Wolfram Jochum, et al.. (2008). Dearterialization of the Liver Causes Intrahepatic Cholestasis due to Reduced Bile Transporter Expression. Transplantation. 85(8). 1159–1166. 14 indexed citations

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Moritz, Wolfgang, et al.. (2007). Preconditioning with death ligands FasL and TNF- protects the cirrhotic mouse liver against ischaemic injury. Gut. 57(4). 492–499. 17 indexed citations

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Graf, Rolf, Stefan Neuenschwander, Mark R. Brown, & Uwe Ackermann. (1997). Insulin‐mediated secretion of ecdysteroids from mosquito ovaries and molecular cloning of the insulin receptor homologue from ovaries of bloodfed Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology. 6(2). 151–163. 69 indexed citations

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Graf, Rolf, et al.. (1994). [Sonography of the infant hip. Sources of error, progress and current clinical relevance].. PubMed. 34(1). 30–8. 14 indexed citations

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Graf, Rolf, et al.. (1992). [Ultrasound diagnosis of hip dysplasia--current status and future perspectives].. PubMed. 27(2). A19–22. 2 indexed citations

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Birnbaumer, Lutz, Juan Codina, Rafael Mattera, et al.. (1988). Receptor-Effector Coupling by G Proteins: Purification of Human Erythrocyte Gi-2 and Gi-3 and Analysis of Effector Regulation Using Recombinant Subunits Synthesized in Escherichia coli. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 53(0). 229–239. 12 indexed citations

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Graf, Rolf. (1985). [Hip sonography in infancy. Procedure and clinical significance].. PubMed. 103(4). 62–6. 3 indexed citations

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