William Anderst

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
143 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

William Anderst is a scholar working on Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, William Anderst has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Surgery, 52 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 47 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in William Anderst's work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (47 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (43 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (40 papers). William Anderst is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (47 papers), Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques (43 papers) and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (40 papers). William Anderst collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. William Anderst's co-authors include Scott Tashman, Patricia A. Kolowich, Kyle Anderson, William F. Donaldson, James D. Kang, Joon Y. Lee, Freddie H. Fu, Jennifer L. Bishop, Tom Gale and Andrew K. Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

William Anderst

129 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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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.

Abnormal Rotational Knee Motion during Running after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Anderst United States	29	3.2k	1.3k	1.1k	767	362	143	4.1k
Scott Tashman United States	42	4.8k 1.5×	2.1k 1.6×	1.9k 1.7×	431 0.6×	846 2.3×	131	6.6k
Robert DʼAmbrosia United States	35	2.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.5×	2.5k 2.2×	324 0.4×	444 1.2×	130	4.8k
Tung‐Wu Lu Taiwan	33	1.6k 0.5×	957 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	214 0.3×	236 0.7×	206	4.3k
Roger Soames United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.5×	815 0.6×	842 0.7×	488 0.6×	292 0.8×	121	3.0k
Fulvia Taddei Italy	34	3.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	187 0.2×	848 2.3×	120	4.8k
Allan F. Tencer United States	38	2.9k 0.9×	904 0.7×	850 0.7×	671 0.9×	694 1.9×	78	4.1k
Tony S. Keller United States	33	2.2k 0.7×	928 0.7×	847 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	725 2.0×	72	3.6k
Keith L. Markolf United States	45	6.8k 2.2×	3.2k 2.5×	1.8k 1.6×	366 0.5×	397 1.1×	115	7.3k
F. Graichen Germany	44	6.8k 2.1×	627 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.8×	890 2.5×	107	8.1k
E. Stüssi Switzerland	33	1.4k 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	413 0.5×	355 1.0×	104	3.4k

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Anderst, William, James Kim, Kevin M. Bell, et al.. (2025). Intervertebral Lumbar Spine Kinematics in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Measured Using Biplane Radiography. JOR Spine. 8(2). e70069–e70069. 1 indexed citations

Anderst, William, Kevin M. Bell, Anthony Delitto, et al.. (2025). Plasma Pro‐ and Anti‐Inflammatory Cytokines in an Observational Chronic Low Back Pain Cohort. JOR Spine. 8(3). e70095–e70095.

Greco, Carol M., Nathan E. Dodds, William Anderst, et al.. (2025). Patient‐Reported Outcomes Among an Observational Cohort of Individuals With Chronic Low Back Pain. JOR Spine. 8(3). e70097–e70097.

Piva, Sara R., Clair Smith, William Anderst, et al.. (2025). Demographic and Biomedical Characteristics of an Observational Cohort With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Descriptive Analysis. JOR Spine. 8(3). e70094–e70094. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Yan, et al.. (2024). The Association Between Foot Morphology and Foot Loading During Gait. Journal of Biomechanics. 177. 112396–112396.

McClincy, Michael P., et al.. (2024). Sex-Based Differences and Asymmetry in Hip Kinematics During Unilateral Extension From Deep Hip Flexion. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 146(12). 2 indexed citations

Gale, Tom, et al.. (2024). Tibial spine volume is smaller in ACL‐injured athletes compared to healthy athletes. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy. 32(6). 1370–1375. 1 indexed citations

Setliff, Joshua C., et al.. (2024). Ankle and hindfoot motion of healthy adults during running revealed by dynamic biplane radiography: Side-to-side symmetry, sex-specific differences, and comparison with walking. Medical Engineering & Physics. 126(1). 104151–104151.

Mahboobin, Arash, Adam Popchak, William Anderst, et al.. (2023). Individuals with rotator cuff tears unsuccessfully treated with exercise therapy have less inferiorly oriented net muscle forces during scapular plane abduction. Journal of Biomechanics. 162. 111859–111859.

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Vo, Nam V., Sara R. Piva, Charity G. Patterson, et al.. (2023). Toward the Identification of Distinct Phenotypes: Research Protocol for the Low Back Pain Biological, Biomechanical, and Behavioral (LB3P) Cohort Study and the BACPAC Mechanistic Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Pain Medicine. 24(Supplement_1). S36–S47. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Caiqi, et al.. (2023). Symmetry in knee arthrokinematics in healthy collegiate athletes during fast running and drop jump revealed through dynamic biplane radiography. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 31(11). 1501–1514. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Stephen, et al.. (2023). The Effects of Cervical Orthoses on Head and Intervertebral Range of Motion. Spine. 48(22). 1561–1567. 2 indexed citations

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McClincy, Michael P., et al.. (2022). Hip kinematics in healthy adults during gait and squatting: Sex differences and asymmetry revealed through dynamic biplane radiography. Journal of Biomechanics. 143. 111280–111280. 6 indexed citations

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Popchak, Adam, et al.. (2022). Associations between range of motion, strength, tear size, patient-reported outcomes, and glenohumeral kinematics in individuals with symptomatic isolated supraspinatus tears. Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 31(6). 1261–1271. 7 indexed citations

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Gale, Tom, et al.. (2022). How well does intra-operative contact path predict post-operative contact path during activities of daily living after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty?. Medical Engineering & Physics. 111(1). 103948–103948.

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Gale, Tom, et al.. (2021). Residual limb shear strain during gait is correlated with patient reported outcomes for persons with transfemoral amputation. Journal of Biomechanics. 129. 110826–110826. 2 indexed citations

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Ahamed, Nizam Uddin, et al.. (2021). Loaded forced-marching shifts mechanical contributions proximally and disrupts stride-to-stride joint work modulation in recruit aged women. Gait & Posture. 88. 22–27. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Clair, Jeremy D. Shaw, William F. Donaldson, et al.. (2020). Assessing the biofidelity of in vitro biomechanical testing of the human cervical spine. Journal of Orthopaedic Research®. 39(6). 1217–1226. 6 indexed citations

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Shaw, Jeremy D., et al.. (2020). Residual Motion and Graft Type Do Not Influence Patient-reported Outcomes Following One- or Two-level Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion. Spine. 46(15). E817–E825. 5 indexed citations

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Anderst, William, et al.. (2018). Intervertebral kinematics of the cervical spine before, during, and after high-velocity low-amplitude manipulation. The Spine Journal. 18(12). 2333–2342. 17 indexed citations

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