OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is 41. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
2021 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery expert consensus document: Surgical treatment of acute type A aortic dissection	141
A single-arm study of sublobar resection for ground-glass opacity dominant peripheral lung cancer	132
Neurologic complications after the frozen elephant trunk procedure: A meta-analysis of more than 3000 patients	129
Bilateral lung transplantation on intraoperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenator: An observational study	93
2020 ACC/AHA guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease	88
Factors associated with acute stroke after type A aortic dissection repair: An analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Adult Cardiac Surgery Database	82
Peripheral versus central extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for postcardiotomy shock: Multicenter registry, systematic review, and meta-analysis	80
Results from an enhanced recovery program for cardiac surgery	77
Prognostic impact of a ground-glass opacity component in clinical stage IA non–small cell lung cancer	76
Results of low-dose computed tomography as a regular health examination among Chinese hospital employees	72
Total aortic arch replacement with frozen elephant trunk technique: Results from two European institutes	70
Using urinary biomarkers to reduce acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery	66
Safety and feasibility of esophagectomy following combined immunotherapy and chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer	63
The utility of aortic valve leaflet reconstruction techniques in children and young adults	63
Outcomes after anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery repair: A Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society Study	62
Autologous mitochondrial transplantation for cardiogenic shock in pediatric patients following ischemia-reperfusion injury	61
Distressed communities are associated with worse outcomes after coronary artery bypass surgery	61
A progress report on reimplantation of the aortic valve	59
The impact of acute kidney injury by serum creatinine or urine output criteria on major adverse kidney events in cardiac surgery patients	59
Surgical explantation of transcatheter aortic bioprostheses: Results and clinical implications	58
Clinical course of coronavirus disease 2019 in 11 patients after thoracic surgery and challenges in diagnosis	55
Surgery for type A aortic dissection in patients with cerebral malperfusion: Results from the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection	54
Gender-related differences in patients with acute aortic dissection type A	54
Multicenter study on postcardiotomy venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation	53
Increasing the United States heart transplant donor pool with donation after circulatory death	53

Sutureless versus conventional bioprostheses for aortic valve replacement in severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis	53
Preischemic autologous mitochondrial transplantation by intracoronary injection for myocardial protection	52
Congenital aortic and truncal valve reconstruction using the Ozaki technique: Short-term clinical results	52
Gefitinib as neoadjuvant therapy for resectable stage II-IIIA non–small cell lung cancer: A phase II study	52
The del Nido versus cold blood cardioplegia in aortic valve replacement: A randomized trial	50
Perioperative outcomes of pulmonary resection after neoadjuvant pembrolizumab in patients with non–small cell lung cancer	50
Impact of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) on training and well-being in subspecialty surgery: A national survey of cardiothoracic trainees in the United Kingdom	48
Long-term outcomes of chordal replacement with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sutures to repair mitral leaflet prolapse	48
Machine learning improves mortality risk prediction after cardiac surgery: Systematic review and meta-analysis	45
International consensus statement on nomenclature and classification of the congenital bicuspid aortic valve and its aortopathy, for clinical, surgical, interventional and research purposes	43
Early experience with donation after circulatory death heart transplantation using normothermic regional perfusion in the United States	43
Effect of total arterial grafting in the Arterial Revascularization Trial	43
Early outcomes of robotic versus thoracoscopic segmentectomy for early-stage lung cancer: A multi-institutional propensity score-matched analysis	43
Significant reduction of postoperative pain and opioid analgesics requirement with an Enhanced Recovery After Thoracic Surgery protocol	42
Management of acute type B aortic dissection with malperfusion via endovascular fenestration/stenting	42
Natural history of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms	41
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American Association for Thoracic Surgery clinical practice guidelines on the management of type B aortic dissection	41