OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine is 29. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial commentary: The enigma of the left atrial septal pouch	494
Editorial Board	197
Editorial commentary: CardioVerse: Buying the stairway to heaven	162
Physiologic guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention: State of the evidence	147
Editorial commentary: Air pollution: The most important environmental threat to the cardiovascular system	145
Editorial commentary: Is it the atrial arrhythmia or the atrial myopathy? Yes! (It's both)	91
Editorial commentary: Polygenic risk and coronary artery calcium score: Joining forces in preventive cardiology	71
Editorial commentary: Ventricular arrhythmias and older women	71
Percutaneous suture-based patent foramen ovale closure: A state-of-the-art review	71
Editorial commentary: The evolution of prosthetic heart valves and related preventative antithrombotic therapy: Different paths with divergent progression	66
Premature ventricular complexes and non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in older women	57
Editorial commentary: Psychological and emotional drivers of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: Screening the brain to protect the heart	51
Editorial commentary: Artificial intelligence in cardio-obstetrics — A technological leap toward safer pregnancies	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	50
Gender and race-related disparities in the management of ventricular arrhythmias	48
Mechanistic insights and clinical horizons of SGLT2 inhibitors in heart failure management	45
Cardiac implantable electronic device infection	42
Editorial commentary: “Three steps to ACM diagnosis – is it that easy?”	41
Editorial commentary: Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heart Failure.	40
Invasive management of unroofed coronary sinus: A systematic review	35
Advances in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: New insights and future directions	33
Editorial commentary: Finerenone as an additional therapeutic strategy in heart failure	32
Editorial commentary: Respect or resect? Patient tailored approach	31
Editorial commentary: Heart failure incidence and etiologies at young adult age	31
Regression and stabilization of atherogenic plaques	30

Editorial Commentary: Spotlight on ATTR cardiomyopathy: the unexpected journey of a once considered “orphan disease”	30
Radial artery or saphenous vein?	29
Coronary artery embolism and acute coronary syndrome: A critical appraisal of existing data	29
Unmet clinical needs in the prevention and treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism	29