World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Papers
(The H4-Index of World Journal of Emergency Surgery is 28. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines474
Surgery in COVID-19 patients: operational directives274
2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis176
2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting160
Liver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines133
Global impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road traffic collisions82
2020 WSES guidelines for the detection and management of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy78
Emergency general surgery in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak: first survey from the real life59
Acute mesenteric ischemia: updated guidelines of the World Society of Emergency Surgery57
Iron metabolism and lymphocyte characterisation during Covid-19 infection in ICU patients: an observational cohort study56
WSES/GAIS/SIS-E/WSIS/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with intra-abdominal infections53
COVID-19 the showdown for mass casualty preparedness and management: the Cassandra Syndrome52
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in trauma patients: a systematic review49
Global changes in mortality rates in polytrauma patients admitted to the ICU—a systematic review48
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on emergency surgery services—a multi-national survey among WSES members46
Histopathological findings in a COVID-19 patient affected by ischemic gangrenous cholecystitis45
The SIFIPAC/WSES/SICG/SIMEU guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis in the elderly (2019 edition)44
Serum ferritin levels in inflammation: a retrospective comparative analysis between COVID-19 and emergency surgical non-COVID-19 patients44
The incidence of geriatric trauma is increasing and comparison of different scoring tools for the prediction of in-hospital mortality in geriatric trauma patients44
Acute cholecystitis during COVID-19 pandemic: a multisocietary position statement43
Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in patients with major trauma and uncontrolled haemorrhagic shock: a systematic review with meta-analysis42
The management of surgical patients in the emergency setting during COVID-19 pandemic: the WSES position paper41
WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment38
Robotic surgery in emergency setting: 2021 WSES position paper36
Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on severe trauma trends and healthcare system reassessment in Lombardia, Italy: an analysis from the regional trauma registry35
Analysis of risk factors in thoracic trauma patients with a comparison of a modern trauma centre: a mono-centre study32
WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections32
Salvage use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the setting of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19 in the USA: a Markov decision analysis29
Anorectal emergencies: WSES-AAST guidelines28
Open necrosectomy in acute pancreatitis–obsolete or still useful?28
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