Rolf Lefering

30.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
593 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

Rolf Lefering is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Lefering has authored 593 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 434 papers in Emergency Medicine, 342 papers in Surgery and 85 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Rolf Lefering's work include Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (390 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (134 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (117 papers). Rolf Lefering is often cited by papers focused on Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (390 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (134 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (117 papers). Rolf Lefering collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Rolf Lefering's co-authors include Edmund Neugebauer, Bertil Bouillon, Marc Maegele, Charles E. Wade, David S. Kauvar, Thomas Paffrath, C. Simanski, Stefan Sauerland, Arasch Wafaisade and Stefan Huber‐Wagner and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, PLoS ONE and Annals of Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Lefering

567 papers receiving 16.1k 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.

  1. Impact of Hemorrhage on Trauma Outcome: An Overview of Epidemiology, Clinical Presentations, and Therapeutic Considerations
    2006 1.2k citations Rolf Lefering et al. profile →
  2. Effect of whole-body CT during trauma resuscitation on survival: a retrospective, multicentre study
    2009 613 citations Rolf Lefering et al. profile →
  3. Early coagulopathy in multiple injury: An analysis from the German Trauma Registry on 8724 patients
    2007 549 citations Marc Maegele, Rolf Lefering et al. Injury profile →
  4. The definition of polytrauma revisited
    2014 255 citations Hans‐Christoph Pape, Rolf Lefering et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rolf Lefering 10.4k 8.3k 4.2k 2.6k 1.7k 593 16.8k
Peter Rhee 8.8k 0.8× 7.6k 0.9× 5.0k 1.2× 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 398 16.7k
Eileen M. Bulger 7.5k 0.7× 4.3k 0.5× 3.7k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 347 12.9k
Kenji Inaba 10.0k 1.0× 9.9k 1.2× 5.2k 1.2× 1.8k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 724 19.4k
David B. Hoyt 9.0k 0.9× 7.3k 0.9× 3.5k 0.8× 2.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.5× 369 20.0k
Edmund Neugebauer 5.2k 0.5× 7.6k 0.9× 3.4k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 285 17.1k
Howard R. Champion 9.0k 0.9× 6.3k 0.8× 3.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 2.1k 1.2× 129 13.8k
Gregory J. Jurkovich 13.7k 1.3× 11.3k 1.4× 2.6k 0.6× 3.1k 1.2× 3.5k 2.1× 332 23.5k
Andrew B. Peitzman 6.0k 0.6× 5.0k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 984 0.6× 270 11.6k
Δημήτριος Δημητριάδης 11.1k 1.1× 14.4k 1.7× 3.6k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 2.7k 1.6× 672 23.3k
Alí Salim 7.3k 0.7× 7.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 2.3k 1.4× 433 15.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Bagheri, Mahsa, et al.. (2024). Is It Possible to Monitor the Safest Time to Perform Secondary Surgery on Free Flaps? A Clinical Evaluation of the Tewameter®. Medicina. 60(8). 1327–1327. 1 indexed citations
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Teuben, Michel, Sascha Halvachizadeh, Till Berk, et al.. (2023). Timing of Spinal Surgery in Polytrauma: The Relevance of Injury Severity, Injury Level and Associated Injuries. Global Spine Journal. 15(2). 906–915. 5 indexed citations
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Mader, Marius Marc-Daniel, Rolf Lefering, Manfred Westphal, Marc Maegele, & Patrick Czorlich. (2023). Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in traumatic brain injury – A retrospective, multicenter cohort study. Injury. 54(5). 1271–1277. 6 indexed citations
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Paul, Mila M., Rolf Lefering, Martin C. Jordan, et al.. (2023). Impact of a Femoral Fracture on Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury—A Matched-Pair Analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(11). 3802–3802. 5 indexed citations
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Jongh, Mariska A. C. de, İngo Marzi, Fiona Lecky, et al.. (2023). Concepts, utilization, and perspectives on the Dutch Nationwide Trauma registry: a position paper. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 49(4). 1619–1626. 5 indexed citations
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Lefering, Rolf, et al.. (2022). Endotracheal intubation in trauma patients with isolated shock: universally recommended but rarely performed. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 48(6). 4623–4630. 6 indexed citations
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Lefering, Rolf, Marc Maegele, Michael Caspers, et al.. (2022). Is ROTEM Diagnostic in Trauma Care Associated with Lower Mortality Rates in Bleeding Patients?—A Retrospective Analysis of 7461 Patients Derived from the TraumaRegister DGU®. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(20). 6150–6150. 5 indexed citations
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Halvachizadeh, Sascha, Kai Oliver Jensen, Till Berk, et al.. (2021). Curiosity or Underdiagnosed? Injuries to Thoracolumbar Spine with Concomitant Trauma to Pancreas. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(4). 700–700. 2 indexed citations
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Geisthoff, Urban W., et al.. (2020). Trauma Can Induce Telangiectases in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(5). 1507–1507. 16 indexed citations
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Mader, Marius Marc-Daniel, Roman Rotermund, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2020). The faster the better? Time to first CT scan after admission in moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury and its association with mortality. Neurosurgical Review. 44(5). 2697–2706. 4 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Matthias, Michael Caspers, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2019). Do elderly trauma patients receive the required treatment? Epidemiology and outcome of geriatric trauma patients treated at different levels of trauma care. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 46(6). 1463–1469. 26 indexed citations
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Seewald, Stephan, Jan Wnent, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2019). CaRdiac Arrest Survival Score (CRASS) — A tool to predict good neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 146. 66–73. 48 indexed citations
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Seewald, Stephan, Rolf Lefering, Andreas Böhn, et al.. (2019). Application of mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices and their value in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A retrospective analysis of the German Resuscitation Registry. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0208113–e0208113. 19 indexed citations
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Czorlich, Patrick, Marius Marc-Daniel Mader, Pedram Emami, et al.. (2019). Operative versus non-operative treatment of traumatic brain injuries in patients 80 years of age or older. Neurosurgical Review. 43(5). 1305–1314. 6 indexed citations
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Wagner, Nils, Borna Relja, Thomas Lustenberger, et al.. (2019). The influence of alcohol on the outcome of trauma patients: a matched-pair analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 46(3). 463–472. 8 indexed citations

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