William C. Head

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

William C. Head is a scholar working on Surgery, Mechanical Engineering and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, William C. Head has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Surgery, 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in William C. Head's work include Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (35 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (34 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (23 papers). William C. Head is often cited by papers focused on Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (35 papers), Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes (34 papers) and Orthopedic Infections and Treatments (23 papers). William C. Head collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Spain. William C. Head's co-authors include Roger H. Emerson, Theodore I. Malinin, Linda L. Higgins, Thomas H. Mallory, Richard S. Laskin, Stephen J. Lipson, Michael Kelly, Kathleen M. Fairfield, Benjamin Bierbaum and Joseph D. Zuckerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research and Medical Care.

In The Last Decade

William C. Head

41 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Impact of Relational Coordination on Quality of Care, Postoperative Pain and Functioning, and Length of Stay

2000 529 citations Jody Hoffer Gittell, Kathleen M. Fairfield et al. Medical Care profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William C. Head United States	26	1.6k	316	221	128	125	43	2.2k
Richard S. Laskin United States	34	3.1k 1.9×	319 1.0×	408 1.8×	196 1.5×	127 1.0×	104	3.8k
John M. Siliski United States	17	1.1k 0.6×	313 1.0×	47 0.2×	240 1.9×	125 1.0×	26	1.6k
Prakash Jayakumar United States	21	1.0k 0.6×	262 0.8×	135 0.6×	256 2.0×	23 0.2×	110	1.9k
Sergio M. Navarro United States	25	977 0.6×	158 0.5×	280 1.3×	197 1.5×	32 0.3×	87	1.8k
Geoffrey F. Dervin Canada	25	1.3k 0.8×	211 0.7×	153 0.7×	123 1.0×	18 0.1×	57	1.7k
Paul Gallo United States	6	786 0.5×	194 0.6×	112 0.5×	235 1.8×	25 0.2×	10	1.3k
Chukwuweike U. Gwam United States	22	1.9k 1.2×	199 0.6×	105 0.5×	134 1.0×	24 0.2×	103	2.4k
Karen D. Horvath United States	36	3.1k 1.9×	264 0.8×	152 0.7×	144 1.1×	65 0.5×	74	4.4k
Fernando De Maio Italy	21	402 0.2×	176 0.6×	97 0.4×	283 2.2×	44 0.4×	92	1.3k
Sanjeev Sabharwal United States	30	1.8k 1.1×	841 2.7×	229 1.0×	1.0k 8.1×	42 0.3×	127	3.3k

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Emerson, Roger H., William C. Head, & Linda L. Higgins. (2003). CLINICAL AND RADIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE MALLORY-HEAD FEMORAL COMPONENT IN REVISION TOTAL HIP ARTHROPLASTY. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 85(10). 1921–1926. 17 indexed citations

Reitman, Richard D., Roger H. Emerson, Linda L. Higgins, & William C. Head. (2003). Thirteen year results of total hip arthroplasty using a tapered titanium femoral component inserted without cement in patients with type C bone. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 18(7 Suppl 1). 116–121. 52 indexed citations

Emerson, Roger H., et al.. (2002). A comparison of cemented and cementless titanium femoral components used for primary total hip arthroplasty: A radiographic and survivorship study. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 17(5). 584–591. 36 indexed citations

Emerson, Roger H., William C. Head, & Linda L. Higgins. (2001). A new method of trochanteric fixation after osteotomy in revision total hip arthroplasty with a calcar replacement femoral component. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 16(8). 76–80. 8 indexed citations

Head, William C., Roger H. Emerson, & Linda L. Higgins. (2001). A titanium cementless calcar replacement prosthesis in revision surgery of the femur: 13-year experience. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 16(8). 183–187. 11 indexed citations

Gittell, Jody Hoffer, Kathleen M. Fairfield, Benjamin Bierbaum, et al.. (2000). Impact of Relational Coordination on Quality of Care, Postoperative Pain and Functioning, and Length of Stay. Medical Care. 38(8). 807–819. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

Head, William C. & Theodore I. Malinin. (2000). Results of Onlay Allografts. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 371(371). 108–112. 39 indexed citations

Emerson, Roger H., Linda L. Higgins, & William C. Head. (2000). The AGC total knee prosthesis at average 11 years. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 15(4). 418–423. 44 indexed citations

Head, William C., Theodore I. Malinin, Emerson Rh, & Thomas H. Mallory. (2000). Restoration of bone stock in revision surgery of the femur. International Orthopaedics. 24(1). 9–14. 26 indexed citations

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Head, William C., Roger H. Emerson, & Theodore I. Malinin. (1999). Structural Bone Grafting for Femoral Reconstruction. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 369(369). 223–229. 29 indexed citations

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Emerson, Roger H., et al.. (1999). Effect of Circumferential Plasma-Spray Porous Coating on the Rate of Femoral Osteolysis After Total Hip Arthroplasty*. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 81(9). 1291–8. 67 indexed citations

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Head, William C., Thomas H. Mallory, & Emerson Rh. (1999). The Proximal Porous Coating Alternative for Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty. Orthopedics. 22(9). 813–815. 14 indexed citations

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Head, William C., Theodore I. Malinin, Thomas H. Mallory, & Roger H. Emerson. (1998). ONLAY CORTICAL ALLOGRAFTING FOR THE FEMUR. Orthopedic Clinics of North America. 29(2). 307–312. 66 indexed citations

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Mallory, Thomas H., William C. Head, & Adolph V. Lombardi. (1997). Tapered Design for the Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty Femoral Component. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 344(344). 172–172. 54 indexed citations

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Emerson, Roger H., et al.. (1996). Surgical Closing in Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 331(331). 74–80. 38 indexed citations

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Mallory, Thomas H., et al.. (1996). Clinical and radiographic outcome of a cementless, titanium, plasma spray-coated total hip arthroplasty femoral component. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 11(6). 653–660. 57 indexed citations

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Head, William C., et al.. (1995). MANAGEMENT OF THE STRUCTURALLY DEFICIENT FEMUR IN REVISION TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT. Orthopedics. 18(9). 865–868. 3 indexed citations

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Whiteside, Leo A., Stephen White, Charles A. Engh, & William C. Head. (1993). Mechanical evaluation of cadaver retrieval specimens of cementless bone-ingrown total hip arthroplasty femoral components. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 8(2). 147–155. 22 indexed citations

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Emerson, Roger H., et al.. (1991). Prophylactic and early therapeutic use of the greenfield filter in hip and knee joint arthroplasty. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 6(2). 129–135. 28 indexed citations

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Head, William C., et al.. (1987). Proximal Femoral Allografts in Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 225(225). 22–36. 62 indexed citations

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