Thomas Paffrath

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Paffrath is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Paffrath has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Emergency Medicine, 63 papers in Surgery and 25 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine. Recurrent topics in Thomas Paffrath's work include Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (74 papers), Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (25 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (25 papers). Thomas Paffrath is often cited by papers focused on Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (74 papers), Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation (25 papers) and Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (25 papers). Thomas Paffrath collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Thomas Paffrath's co-authors include Rolf Lefering, Bertil Bouillon, Marc Maegele, Arasch Wafaisade, Thorsten Tjardes, C. Simanski, Dieter Rixen, Edmund Neugebauer, Ulrike Nienaber and B. Bouillon and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Spine and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Paffrath

94 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Early coagulopathy in multiple injury: An analysis from t... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400 500
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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. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Paffrath Germany 29 2.8k 2.1k 1.6k 722 355 97 4.2k
Clay Cothren Burlew United States 36 1.8k 0.6× 2.4k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 586 0.8× 489 1.4× 135 4.1k
Fredric M. Pieracci United States 37 1.9k 0.7× 2.7k 1.3× 999 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 397 1.1× 143 4.4k
Peep Talving United States 36 2.1k 0.8× 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 490 0.7× 785 2.2× 154 4.4k
Gary Vercruysse United States 30 1.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 787 0.5× 354 0.5× 329 0.9× 109 3.1k
Jeremy W. Cannon United States 32 2.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 1.3× 357 0.5× 494 1.4× 178 4.2k
Arasch Wafaisade Germany 28 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 930 0.6× 440 0.6× 294 0.8× 87 2.4k
Sandro Rizoli Canada 38 2.7k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 3.0k 1.9× 563 0.8× 727 2.0× 112 4.8k
Clay C. Cothren United States 33 1.7k 0.6× 2.6k 1.3× 908 0.6× 669 0.9× 978 2.8× 71 4.3k
Vladimír Černý Czechia 15 2.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 2.5k 1.6× 374 0.5× 287 0.8× 52 3.8k
Joshua B. Brown United States 38 2.9k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 253 0.4× 217 0.6× 137 3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Paffrath

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bieler, Dan, et al.. (2023). Education and training as a key enabler of successful patient care in mass-casualty terrorist incidents. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 49(2). 595–605. 10 indexed citations
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Sammito, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Performing Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) across Borders: Midterm Follow-Up of the Aeromedical Evacuation after Civilian Bus Accident at Madeira. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(14). 4556–4556. 1 indexed citations
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Franke, Axel, Dan Bieler, Gerhard Achatz, et al.. (2023). Schwerstverletztenversorgung beim Massenanfall von Verletzten. Die Unfallchirurgie. 126(7). 516–524. 5 indexed citations
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Bieler, Dan, Heiko Trentzsch, Axel Franke, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of a standardized instrument for post hoc analysis of trauma-team-activation-criteria in 75,613 injured patients an analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 48(2). 1101–1109. 7 indexed citations
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Schibilsky, David, Arne Driessen, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2020). Traumatic tracheobronchial injuries: incidence and outcome of 136.389 patients derived from the DGU traumaregister. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20555–20555. 11 indexed citations
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Bieler, Dan, Thomas Paffrath, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2020). Why do some trauma patients die while others survive? A matched-pair analysis based on data from Trauma Register DGU®. Chinese Journal of Traumatology. 23(4). 224–232. 15 indexed citations
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Bieler, Dan, Heiko Trentzsch, Markus Baacke, et al.. (2018). Optimierung der Kriterien zur Schockraumalarmierung. Vermeidung von Über- und Untertriage. Der Unfallchirurg. 121(10). 788–793. 1 indexed citations
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Schieren, Mark, Andreas Böhmer, Rolf Lefering, et al.. (2018). Impact of body mass index on outcomes after thoracic trauma—A matched-triplet analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU®. Injury. 50(1). 96–100. 8 indexed citations
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Bieler, Dan, Axel Franke, Sebastian Hentsch, et al.. (2014). Schuss- und Stichverletzungen in Deutschland – Epidemiologie und Outcome: Eine Analyse aus dem TraumaRegister DGU®. Der Unfallchirurg. 117(11). 995–1004. 2 indexed citations
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Burkhardt, Markus, Ulrike Nienaber, J. Krause, et al.. (2014). Das komplexe Beckentrauma. Der Unfallchirurg. 118(11). 957–962. 13 indexed citations
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Wafaisade, Arasch, Thomas Paffrath, & Sascha Flohé. (2013). Neue orale Antikoagulanzien. Der Unfallchirurg. 116(1). 90–91. 3 indexed citations
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Mutschler, Manuel, Christoph Wölfl, Matthias Münzberg, et al.. (2013). Is the ATLS classification of hypovolaemic shock appreciated in daily trauma care? An online-survey among 383 ATLS course directors and instructors. Emergency Medicine Journal. 32(2). 134–137. 14 indexed citations
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Burkhardt, Markus, Ulrike Nienaber, Joerg H. Holstein, et al.. (2013). Trauma registry record linkage: methodological approach to benefit from complementary data using the example of the German Pelvic Injury Register and the TraumaRegister DGU®. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 13(1). 30–30. 13 indexed citations
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Lefering, Rolf & Thomas Paffrath. (2012). Versorgungsrealität auf der Basis der Daten des TraumaRegister DGU®. Der Unfallchirurg. 115(1). 30–32. 14 indexed citations
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Maegele, Marc, Rolf Lefering, Arasch Wafaisade, et al.. (2010). Revalidation and update of the TASH‐Score: a scoring system to predict the probability for massive transfusion as a surrogate for life‐threatening haemorrhage after severe injury. Vox Sanguinis. 100(2). 231–238. 114 indexed citations
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Maegele, Marc, Rolf Lefering, Thomas Paffrath, et al.. (2009). Changes in transfusion practice in multiple injury between 1993 and 2006: a retrospective analysis on 5389 patients from the German Trauma Registry. Transfusion Medicine. 19(3). 117–124. 17 indexed citations
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Bäthis, H., Sven Shafizadeh, Thomas Paffrath, et al.. (2006). Sind navigierte Knieendoprothesen tatsächlich präziser implantiert?: Eine Metaanalyse vergleichender Studien. Der Orthopäde. 35(10). 1056–1065. 3 indexed citations
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Bäthis, H., Sven Shafizadeh, Thomas Paffrath, et al.. (2006). Sind navigierte Knieendoprothesen tatsächlich präziser implantiert?. Der Orthopäde. 35(10). 1056–1065. 43 indexed citations

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