OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annals of Thoracic Surgery is 38. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving Beyond Just Panning for Esophagectomy Gold	198
Resilience. Hope. Unity. STS Presidential Address 2021	156
Pulmonary Valve Designs and Innovation	131
Society Board	117
Editor’s Choice: A Place for All Thoracic Surgeons	115
Impact of Antegrade Pulmonary Blood Flow as Patients Progress Through Single-Ventricle Palliations	112
No Shame in Sole Ascending Aortic Replacement for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection	108
Early Antireflux Surgery After Lung Transplant: Can We Justify the Risk?	105
Calcification of Gore-Tex Neochord After Mitral Repair: Electron Microscopy	88
Contents	88
Additional Discussion From Anesthesiologists: Preventive Strategy for Reexpansion Pulmonary Edema After Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery	78
Hands On/Hands Off	71
Editorial Board	68
Does the Type of Annuloplasty Ring or Band Affect the Outcome of Mitral Valve Repair?	68
The Right WAYS to Repair the Mitral Valve	67
Monobloc or Separate Aortic and Mitral Homografts for Endocarditis of the Intervalvular Fibrosa?	61
Editor's Choice	55
Truncal Root Dilatation: A More Measured Approach	55
Aortic Annular Enlargement During Aortic Valve Replacement: Shedding Light on the Conundrum	51
Can Salvage Surgery Cause a Paradigm Shift in Lung Cancer Treatment?	51
Immunosuppression in HIV-Positive Heart Transplant Recipients During the Post–COVID-19 Era	49
Restrictive Mitral Annuloplasty: Patient Selection Is the Key	48
Editor’s Choice: Papers That May Change Your Practice	48
Corrigendum	47
Apical Myectomy in HCM: Time to Let the Rubber of the Operation Meet the Road of a Randomized Trial	47

Biodegradable Stent Placement for Airway Kinking After Bronchoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Treatment	47
Erratum	46
Editor's Choice	46
Increased Assist Device Use Requires Reduced Excessive Bleeding and Associated Cost-to-Benefit Analysis	45
Selecting the Modern Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainee	44
The Ross Procedure: A Rekindled Relationship	44
A Novel Surgical Technique to Address Post-Septal Myectomy Ventricular Septal Defect	42
Hematocrit and Renal Failure in Aortic Arch Surgery: A Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database Study	41
Patient-Specific Biomechanics in Marfan Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms	41
Transcervical Transtracheal Resection of Cervical Esophageal Smooth Muscle Tumor	40
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Transplantation: Does Univentricle Physiology Impact Early Mortality?	40
Corrigendum	39
Is There a Prognostic Difference Between Stage IIIA Subgroups in Lung Cancer?	39
Sublobar Resection in Early Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutant	38