Evaluating the current research landscape in gender-affirming surgery
Research on GAS has increased significantly since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Given that plastic surgeons published the most and had the greatest increase in publications amongst all specialties may reflect the fact that plastic surgeons comprise 79.5 % of gender-affirming surgeons in the United States. GAS is a rapidly expanding surgical field given its significant increase in publications over the past decade.
Authors
- Esther A. Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2825-9463)
- Alexis K. Gursky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2479-9828)
- Jasmin Wilson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9571-9186)
- Nina Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7745-9993)
- Siyou Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-9509)
- Kiet T. Phong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-4276)
- Matthew F. McLaughlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8004-6321)
- Daniel Soroudi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4022-7555)
- Zuivanna Rivas
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- SUNY Upstate Medical University (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JPRAS Open
- Published
- 2025-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpra.2025.10.002
- Primary Topic
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00