Thomas W. Wright

14.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
422 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

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Thomas W. Wright is a scholar working on Surgery, Epidemiology and Rehabilitation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas W. Wright has authored 422 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 348 papers in Surgery, 273 papers in Epidemiology and 44 papers in Rehabilitation. Recurrent topics in Thomas W. Wright's work include Shoulder Injury and Treatment (295 papers), Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries (255 papers) and Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation (97 papers). Thomas W. Wright is often cited by papers focused on Shoulder Injury and Treatment (295 papers), Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries (255 papers) and Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation (97 papers). Thomas W. Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Thomas W. Wright's co-authors include Joseph D. Zuckerman, Christopher Roche, Pierre-Henri Flurin, Joseph J. King, Ryan W. Simovitch, Aimee M. Struk, Bradley S. Schoch, Kevin W. Farmer, Frank Glowczewskie and Donna L. Wheeler and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas W. Wright

389 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

Quantifying success after total shoulder arthroplasty: the minimal clinically important difference

2017 367 citations Ryan W. Simovitch, Pierre-Henri Flurin et al. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas W. Wright	8.2k	5.7k	1.1k	958	716	422	10.1k
Peter Augat	7.6k 0.9×	4.9k 0.9×	556 0.5×	175 0.2×	164 0.2×	300	12.4k
Ken Yamaguchi	9.8k 1.2×	7.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	141 0.1×	743 1.0×	235	12.0k
Hollis G. Potter	12.1k 1.5×	2.0k 0.4×	851 0.8×	60 0.1×	449 0.6×	346	15.5k
John A. Sidles	5.2k 0.6×	4.4k 0.8×	117 0.1×	163 0.2×	309 0.4×	69	6.8k
Jukka S. Jurvelin	7.9k 1.0×	764 0.1×	173 0.2×	167 0.2×	149 0.2×	374	17.0k
Edward K. Rodriguez	1.9k 0.2×	867 0.2×	358 0.3×	109 0.1×	535 0.7×	114	4.2k
Mark E. Schweitzer	7.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	91 0.1×	312 0.4×	293	12.0k
Darryl D. DʼLima	9.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.2×	150 0.1×	59 0.1×	1.8k 2.5×	284	16.2k
Ronald S. Adler	4.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.3×	307 0.3×	78 0.1×	563 0.8×	217	7.3k
Shoei‐Shen Wang	4.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.2×	66 0.1×	364 0.4×	1.7k 2.4×	504	11.1k

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Wagner, Eric R., Joseph J. King, Zaamin B. Hussain, et al.. (2025). Do shoulder kinematics change after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty?. JSES International. 9(4). 1357–1364.

Hao, Kévin A., Josie Elwell, Thomas W. Wright, et al.. (2025). Exactech Equinoxe anatomic vs. reverse total shoulder arthroplasty for primary osteoarthritis with an intact rotator cuff in patients with no glenoid deformity. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 34(10). 2385–2393.

Hao, Kévin A., Terrie Vasilopoulos, Erick M. Marigi, et al.. (2024). Influence of preoperative rotational shoulder stiffness on rate of motion restoration after anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty for glenohumeral osteoarthritis with an intact rotator cuff. Orthopaedics & Traumatology Surgery & Research. 111(3). 104036–104036. 1 indexed citations

Hao, Kévin A., Josie Elwell, Ryan W. Simovitch, et al.. (2024). Pain relief survivorship: a comparison of Exactech Equinoxe anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty for primary osteoarthritis. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 34(6). 1514–1524. 1 indexed citations

Root, Kevin T., Keegan M. Hones, Kévin A. Hao, et al.. (2024). A Systematic Review of Patient Selection Criteria for Outpatient Total Shoulder Arthroplasty. Orthopedic Clinics of North America. 55(3). 363–381.

Simovitch, Ryan W., Josie Elwell, Christopher A. Colasanti, et al.. (2024). Stratification of the minimal clinically important difference, substantial clinical benefit, and patient acceptable symptomatic state after total shoulder arthroplasty by implant type, preoperative diagnosis, and sex. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 33(9). e492–e506. 10 indexed citations

Panther, Eric, Kévin A. Hao, Joseph J. King, et al.. (2024). A reproducible method for evaluating the degree and direction of overstuffing of the humeral head component in anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty. Shoulder & Elbow. 17(3). 282–287.

DeCamp, Malcolm M., John C. Flíckinger, Damian Silbermins, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Anti-Angiogenic Therapy Combined with Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy as a Strategy to Treat Locally Advanced and Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Cancers. 16(24). 4207–4207. 2 indexed citations

Wright, Thomas W., et al.. (2024). Disease severity versus pain severity: Range of motion differences during single‐ and multiplanar tasks in women with carpometacarpal osteoarthritis. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 42(8). 1710–1718.

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Hones, Keegan M., Trevor Simcox, Kévin A. Hao, et al.. (2023). Graft choice and techniques used in elbow ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction over the last 20 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 33(5). 1185–1199. 5 indexed citations

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Youderian, Ari R., Moby Parsons, Rick F. Papandrea, et al.. (2023). Two-year clinical outcomes and complication rates in anatomic and reverse shoulder arthroplasty implanted with Exactech GPS intraoperative navigation. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 32(12). 2519–2532. 12 indexed citations

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Wright, Thomas W., Joseph J. King, Steven J. Hattrup, et al.. (2022). Routine immediate postoperative radiographs rarely identify unknown complications after shoulder arthroplasty. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 32(5). e235–e240.

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Marigi, Erick M., Kévin A. Hao, Richard J. Friedman, et al.. (2022). Exactech Equinoxe anatomic versus reverse total shoulder arthroplasty for primary osteoarthritis: case controlled comparisons using the machine learning–derived Shoulder Arthroplasty Smart score. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 32(4). 793–802. 10 indexed citations

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Friedman, Richard J., Bradley S. Schoch, Josef K. Eichinger, et al.. (2022). Comparison of Reverse and Anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in Patients With an Intact Rotator Cuff and No Previous Surgery. Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. 30(19). 941–948. 19 indexed citations

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Eichinger, Josef K., Christopher Roche, Pierre-Henri Flurin, et al.. (2022). Prospective observational study of anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty using a single implant system with long-term follow-up. Seminars in Arthroplasty JSES. 33(1). 8–14. 3 indexed citations

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Schoch, Bradley S., Robert P. Frantz, Thomas W. Wright, et al.. (2021). Revision reverse total shoulder arthroplasty in patients 65 years old and younger: outcome comparison with older patients. JSES International. 6(2). 229–235. 13 indexed citations

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Werthel, Jean David, Thomas W. Wright, Matthew M. Crowe, et al.. (2021). Reverse shoulder arthroplasty yields similar results to anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty for the treatment of humeral head avascular necrosis. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 31(6). S94–S102. 6 indexed citations

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Parsons, Moby, Ian R. Byram, Emilie V. Cheung, et al.. (2020). Intersurgeon and intrasurgeon variability in preoperative planning of anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty: a quantitative comparison of 49 cases planned by 9 surgeons. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 29(12). 2610–2618. 9 indexed citations

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Roche, Christopher, Joseph D. Zuckerman, Pierre-Henri Flurin, et al.. (2019). Anatomical and reverse shoulder arthroplasty utilizing a single implant system with a platform stem: A prospective observational study with midterm follow-up. Shoulder & Elbow. 12(5). 330–337. 7 indexed citations

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Ilfeld, Brian M., Krista Vandenborne, Pamela W. Duncan, et al.. (2006). Ambulatory Continuous Interscalene Nerve Blocks Decrease the Time to Discharge Readiness after Total Shoulder Arthroplasty. Anesthesiology. 105(5). 999–1007. 143 indexed citations

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