Tom Wiggins

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Tom Wiggins is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Wiggins has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Surgery, 19 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Tom Wiggins's work include Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (15 papers), Esophageal and GI Pathology (13 papers) and Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (11 papers). Tom Wiggins is often cited by papers focused on Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes (15 papers), Esophageal and GI Pathology (13 papers) and Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment (11 papers). Tom Wiggins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Tom Wiggins's co-authors include Sheraz R. Markar, George B. Hanna, Stefan Antonowicz, Richard Welbourn, Ahmed R. Ahmed, Nadia Guidozzi, Sacheen Kumar, Omar Faiz, Hugh Mackenzie and Alan Askari and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Annals of Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Tom Wiggins

48 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Association of bariatric surgery with all-cause mortality... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150
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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. Association of bariatric surgery with all-cause mortality and incidence of obesity-related disease at a population level: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2020 166 citations Tom Wiggins, Richard Welbourn et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tom Wiggins United Kingdom 21 737 384 235 217 158 50 1.3k
Andrea Schneider Germany 24 869 1.2× 513 1.3× 104 0.4× 69 0.3× 89 0.6× 52 1.6k
Miroslav Vujasinović Sweden 21 737 1.0× 102 0.3× 251 1.1× 60 0.3× 70 0.4× 107 1.2k
S. Cox Australia 15 312 0.4× 369 1.0× 55 0.2× 120 0.6× 34 0.2× 39 1.0k
Rita García‐Martínez Spain 18 504 0.7× 120 0.3× 186 0.8× 35 0.2× 25 0.2× 40 1.9k
F. Colombo Italy 19 401 0.5× 133 0.3× 153 0.7× 59 0.3× 11 0.1× 93 1.3k
W Wurst Germany 23 478 0.6× 758 2.0× 237 1.0× 47 0.2× 12 0.1× 56 1.5k
K Richter Germany 15 236 0.3× 230 0.6× 105 0.4× 77 0.4× 16 0.1× 46 1.2k
David L. Nahrwold United States 22 609 0.8× 462 1.2× 119 0.5× 53 0.2× 8 0.1× 88 1.4k
Şakir Arslan Türkiye 16 187 0.3× 188 0.5× 54 0.2× 38 0.2× 77 0.5× 132 994
Stéphanie Badiou France 23 227 0.3× 113 0.3× 236 1.0× 66 0.3× 33 0.2× 112 1.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Wiggins

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All Works

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Singhal, Rishi, et al.. (2024). Pre-Operative Group and Save in Elective and Emergency Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Necessity, Cost-Effectiveness, and Own Experience. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 13(10). 2749–2749. 5 indexed citations
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Mirtorabi, Neginsadat, et al.. (2023). Tackling a Post-COVID-19 Cholecystectomy Waiting List: Are We Meeting the Challenge?. Medicina. 59(10). 1872–1872.
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Sinha, Yashashwi, et al.. (2023). Bariatric metabolic surgery. Surgery (Oxford). 41(11). 752–758. 1 indexed citations
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Powell‐Brett, Sarah, James Halle‐Smith, Elizabeth C. Ward, et al.. (2023). Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency after non-pancreatic upper gastrointestinal surgery: meta-analysis. British journal of surgery. 111(1). 1 indexed citations
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Halle‐Smith, James, Richard Evans, Giles J. Toogood, et al.. (2023). Ursodeoxycholic acid in the management of symptomatic gallstone disease: systematic review and clinician survey. BJS Open. 7(2). 6 indexed citations
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Robertson, Andrew, et al.. (2022). How safe bariatric surgery is—An update on perioperative mortality for clinicians and patients. Clinical Obesity. 12(3). e12515–e12515. 6 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Dimitri J. Pournaras, Alan Osborne, et al.. (2021). Effect of Preoperative Weight Loss and Baseline Comorbidity on Short-Term Complications and Reoperations After Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in 2,067 Patients. Obesity Surgery. 31(6). 2444–2452. 5 indexed citations
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Antonowicz, Stefan, Zsolt Bodai, Tom Wiggins, et al.. (2021). Endogenous aldehyde accumulation generates genotoxicity and exhaled biomarkers in esophageal adenocarcinoma. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1454–1454. 31 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Sheraz R. Markar, Hugh Mackenzie, et al.. (2019). Optimum timing of emergency cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis in England: population-based cohort study. Surgical Endoscopy. 33(8). 2495–2502. 40 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Stefan Antonowicz, & Sheraz R. Markar. (2018). Cancer Risk Following Bariatric Surgery—Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of National Population-Based Cohort Studies. Obesity Surgery. 29(3). 1031–1039. 71 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Sheraz R. Markar, Hugh Mackenzie, et al.. (2018). Evolution in the management of acute cholecystitis in the elderly: population-based cohort study. Surgical Endoscopy. 32(10). 4078–4086. 35 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Sheraz R. Markar, & Adrian Harris. (2015). Laparoscopic adhesiolysis for acute small bowel obstruction: systematic review and pooled analysis. Surgical Endoscopy. 29(12). 3432–3442. 34 indexed citations
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Markar, Sheraz R., Tom Wiggins, Stefan Antonowicz, Emmanouil Zacharakis, & George B. Hanna. (2015). Minimally invasive esophagectomy: Lateral decubitus vs. prone positioning; systematic review and pooled analysis. Surgical Oncology. 24(3). 212–219. 47 indexed citations
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Wiggins, Tom, Sacheen Kumar, Sheraz R. Markar, Stefan Antonowicz, & George B. Hanna. (2014). Tyrosine, Phenylalanine, and Tryptophan in Gastroesophageal Malignancy: A Systematic Review. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 24(1). 32–38. 99 indexed citations
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Markar, Sheraz R., Tom Wiggins, Marta Penna, & Paraskevas Paraskeva. (2014). Single-Incision versus Conventional Multiport Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery—Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 18(12). 2214–2227. 15 indexed citations
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Markar, Sheraz R., Tom Wiggins, Melody Ni, et al.. (2014). Assessment of the quality of surgery within randomised controlled trials for the treatment of gastro-oesophageal cancer: a systematic review. The Lancet Oncology. 16(1). e23–e31. 47 indexed citations
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Markar, Sheraz R., Tom Wiggins, Sacheen Kumar, & George B. Hanna. (2014). Exhaled Breath Analysis for the Diagnosis and Assessment of Endoluminal Gastrointestinal Diseases. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 49(1). 1–8. 23 indexed citations
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Wright, Naomi, et al.. (2011). Benign pneumatosis intestinalis with pneumoperitoneum and typhlitis: side-effects of drug or disease induced immunosuppression: Figure 1. BMJ Case Reports. 2011. bcr0720114518–bcr0720114518. 6 indexed citations

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