OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial commentary: The enigma of the left atrial septal pouch	452
Editorial Board	180
Editorial commentary: CardioVerse: Buying the stairway to heaven	149
Physiologic guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention: State of the evidence	142
Editorial commentary: Air pollution: The most important environmental threat to the cardiovascular system	136
Editorial commentary: Is it the atrial arrhythmia or the atrial myopathy? Yes! (It's both)	79
Percutaneous suture-based patent foramen ovale closure: A state-of-the-art review	75
Editorial commentary: Ventricular arrhythmias and older women	69
Gender and race-related disparities in the management of ventricular arrhythmias	68
Editorial commentary: Polygenic risk and coronary artery calcium score: Joining forces in preventive cardiology	66
Editorial commentary: The evolution of prosthetic heart valves and related preventative antithrombotic therapy: Different paths with divergent progression	65
Premature ventricular complexes and non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in older women	56
Editorial commentary: Psychological and emotional drivers of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: Screening the brain to protect the heart	52
Editorial commentary: Artificial intelligence in cardio-obstetrics — A technological leap toward safer pregnancies	50
Cardiac implantable electronic device infection	50
Head-to-head comparison between left atrial appendage occlusion and non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis study	47
Mechanistic insights and clinical horizons of SGLT2 inhibitors in heart failure management	46
Editorial commentary: “Three steps to ACM diagnosis – is it that easy?”	43
Radial artery or saphenous vein?	41
Editorial commentary: Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heart Failure.	38
Invasive management of unroofed coronary sinus: A systematic review	37
Advances in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: New insights and future directions	34
Unmet clinical needs in the prevention and treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism	32
Editorial commentary: Finerenone as an additional therapeutic strategy in heart failure	31
Editorial commentary: Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: Know your strengths well, and know your weaknesses better	29

Non-invasive ablation of arrhythmias with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy	29
Editorial commentary: Heart failure incidence and etiologies at young adult age	28
Editorial Commentary: Spotlight on ATTR cardiomyopathy: the unexpected journey of a once considered “orphan disease”	28
Editorial commentary: Respect or resect? Patient tailored approach	28