OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery is 27. 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.)

Article	Citations
2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	292
Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease	115
Prediction of mortality rate in acute type A dissection: the German Registry for Acute Type A Aortic Dissection score	84
Current options and recommendations for the use of thoracic endovascular aortic repair in acute and chronic thoracic aortic disease: an expert consensus document of the European Society for Cardiology	72
The COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on hospitals in Italy: the model of cardiac surgery	60
International consensus statement on nomenclature and classification of the congenital bicuspid aortic valve and its aortopathy, for clinical, surgical, interventional and research purposes	59
Guidelines for the management of neonates and infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the Association for European Paediatric and	47
Five-year outcome in 18 010 patients from the German Aortic Valve Registry	44
Results of endovascular aortic arch repair using the Relay Branch system	44
2020 EACTS/ELSO/STS/AATS expert consensus on post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support in adult patients	43
ERS/ESTS/EACTS/ESTRO guidelines for the management of malignant pleural mesothelioma	42
Mortality in trials on transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement: a pooled meta-analysis of Kaplan–Meier-derived individual patient data	40
Textbook outcome as a composite outcome measure in non-small-cell lung cancer surgery	38
Current challenges in three-dimensional bioprinting heart tissues for cardiac surgery	37
Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19 patients: a case series of a rare complication	37
Final 5-year outcomes following aortic valve replacement with a RESILIA™ tissue bioprosthesis	36
The frozen elephant trunk technique for aortic dissection is safe after previous aortic repair	34
Outcomes of surgical resection after neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in locally advanced stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer	34
Impact of paravalvular regurgitation on the mid-term outcome after transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement	32
Long-term outcome after the arterial switch operation: 43 years of experience	31
Transplantation of donor hearts after circulatory death using normothermic regional perfusion and cold storage preservation	31
Loop neochord versus leaflet resection techniques for minimally invasive mitral valve repair: long-term results	30
Safety and performance of a novel transventricular beating heart mitral valve repair system: 1-year outcomes	29
Long-term and short-term outcomes of robot- versus video-assisted anatomic lung resection in lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Evaluation of the GERAADA score for prediction of 30-day mortality in patients with acute type A aortic dissection	29

Short- and long-term mortality after deep sternal wound infection following cardiac surgery: experiences from SWEDEHEART	28
The European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support (EUROMACS): second EUROMACS Paediatric (Paedi-EUROMACS) report	28
Propensity score-based analysis of long-term follow-up in patients supported with durable centrifugal left ventricular assist devices: the EUROMACS analysis	27
Watch-and-wait strategy for type A intramural haematoma and acute aortic dissection with thrombosed false lumen of the ascending aorta: a Japanese single-centre experience	27