Wayne S. Copes

12.8k citations

62 papers · 10.2k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Emergency Medicine top 0.01%
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine top 0.5%

Papers in ⓘ

Emergency Medicine 50
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies 45
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies 29
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation 7
Surgery 23
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries 9
- Abdominal Trauma and Injuries 7

Co-authors: Carl Boyd (2 shared papers)William J. Sacco (31 shared papers)Howard R. Champion (23 shared papers)Mary M. Lawnick (8 shared papers)Maureen E. Flanagan (4 shared papers)Thomas A. Gennarelli (6 shared papers)Donald S. Gann (3 shared papers)Charles F. Frey (3 shared papers)
Journals: Critical Care Medicine (8 papers)Journal of Pediatric Surgery (2 papers)Computers in Biology and Medicine (2 papers)CHEST Journal (2 papers)Journal of Behavioral Medicine (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Italy Egypt

In The Last Decade

Wayne S. Copes

61 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

The Major Trauma Outcome Study 1990 · 773 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1990 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1990 PubMed
1989 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1988 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1987 PubMed
1987 The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
1981 Critical Care Medicine

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1	Evaluating trauma care: the TRISS method. Trauma Score and the Injury Severity Score. PubMed ·Carl Boyd, M Tolson, Wayne S. Copes Hit paper breakdown →	1987	1655
2	A Revision of the Trauma Score The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, Wayne S. Copes, Donald S. Gann, Thomas A. Gennarelli, Maureen E. Flanagan Hit paper breakdown →	1989	1503
3	Evaluating Trauma Care The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Carl Boyd, Mary Ann Tolson, Wayne S. Copes Hit paper breakdown →	1987	1458
4	The Major Trauma Outcome Study: establishing national norms for trauma care. PubMed ·H R Champion, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco, Mary M. Lawnick, Susan L. Keast, Lawrence W. Bain, Maureen E. Flanagan, Connor Frey Hit paper breakdown →	1990	924
5	The Major Trauma Outcome Study The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Howard R. Champion, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco, Mary M. Lawnick, SUSAN L. KEAST, Charles F. Frey Hit paper breakdown →	1990	773
6	The Injury Severity Score Revisited The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Wayne S. Copes, Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, Mary M. Lawnick, Susan L. Keast, L Bain Hit paper breakdown →	1988	722
7	Trauma score Critical Care Medicine ·Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, Anthony J. Carnazzo, Wayne S. Copes, WILLIAM J. FOUTY Hit paper breakdown →	1981	569
8	A New Characterization of Injury Severity The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Howard R. Champion, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco, Mary M. Lawnick, LARRY W. BAIN, Donald S. Gann, Thomas A. Gennarelli, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Steven D. Schwaitzberg	1990	314
9	Assessing contemporary intensive care unit outcome: An updated Mortality Probability Admission Model (MPM0-III)* Critical Care Medicine ·Thomas L. Higgins, Daniel Teres, Wayne S. Copes, Brian H. Nathanson, Maureen Stark, Andrew A. Kramer	2007	243
10	Major trauma in geriatric patients. American Journal of Public Health ·H R Champion, Wayne S. Copes, Douglas M. Buyer, Maureen E. Flanagan, L Bain, William J. Sacco	1989	229
11	Mortality of Patients with Head Injury and Extracranial Injury Treated in Trauma Centers The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Thomas A. Gennarelli, (unknown), (unknown), Wayne S. Copes, Wayne M. Alves	1989	170
12	COMPARISON OF MORTALITY, MORBIDITY, AND SEVERITY OF 59,713 HEAD INJURED PATIENTS WITH 114,447 PATIENTS WITH EXTRACRANIAL INJURIES The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Thomas A. Gennarelli, Howard R. Champion, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco	1994	161
13	Improved Predictions from A Severity Characterization of Trauma (ASCOT) over Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) PubMed ·Howard R. Champion, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco, Charles F. Frey, James W. Holcroft, David B. Hoyt, John A. Weigelt	1996	160
14	Pre-resuscitation factors associated with mortality in 49,130 cases of in-hospital cardiac arrest: A report from the National Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Resuscitation ·Gregory Luke Larkin, Wayne S. Copes, Brian H. Nathanson, William Kaye	2010	141
15	Assessment of injury severity Critical Care Medicine ·Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, DENETTA SUE HANNAN, RICHARD L. LEPPER, ERWIN S. ATZINGER, Wayne S. Copes, LTC ROBERT H. PRALL	1980	128
16	An Anatomic Index of Injury Severity The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·Howard R. Champion, William J. Sacco, RICHARD L. LEPPER, Erwin M. Atzinger, Wayne S. Copes, LTC ROBERT H. PRALL	1980	101
17	Institution and per-surgeon volume versus survival outcome in Pennsylvania's trauma centers The American Journal of Surgery ·Carl W. Konvolinka, Wayne S. Copes, William J. Sacco	1995	98
18	EFFECT OF PREINJURY ILLNESS ON TRAUMA PATIENT SURVIVAL OUTCOME The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care ·William J. Sacco, Wayne S. Copes, Lawrence W. Bain, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Charles F. Frey, David B. Hoyt, John A. Weigelt, Howard R. Champion	1993	76
19	Differences in trauma care among pediatric and nonpediatric trauma centers Journal of Pediatric Surgery ·Don K. Nakayama, Wayne S. Copes, William Sacco	1992	66
20	American College of Surgeons Audit Filters PubMed ·Wayne S. Copes, Carol Forrester Staz, Carl W. Konvolinka, William J. Sacco	1995	63

About Wayne S. Copes

Wayne S. Copes is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, having authored 62 papers that have together received 10.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (45 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (29 papers), Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries (9 papers), Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (8 papers), Abdominal Trauma and Injuries (7 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (7 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (6 papers) and Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Emergency Medicine (8.4k citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (780 citations), Surgery (4.7k citations), Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (2.6k citations) and Emergency Medical Services (445 citations). Wayne S. Copes has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Egypt. Frequent co-authors include Carl Boyd, William J. Sacco, Howard R. Champion, Mary M. Lawnick, Maureen E. Flanagan, Thomas A. Gennarelli, Donald S. Gann, Charles F. Frey, H R Champion and Lawrence W. Bain. Their work appears in journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Computers in Biology and Medicine, CHEST Journal and Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

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