OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	226
miRNAs: new biomarkers of cardiac rehabilitation response?	185
Prime Time for (im) Precision Medicine: From Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Evidence	176
Preventing atherosclerosis: rethinking the starting line	147
Effect of semaglutide on mortality and cardiovascular events in patients at high cardiovascular risk: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	144
Effect of acetaminophen on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	137
Integrating lipoprotein(a) into preventive cardiology: probably important to get the measurement right	101
Impact of neighbourhood socio-economic status on cardiovascular risk factors in a French urban population	99
Early adulthood exercise capacity, but not muscle strength, associates with subclinical atherosclerosis 40 years later in Swedish men	97
Anabolic steroids in athletes: the interplay of hormones and inflammation leading to the heart’s vulnerability	93
Global magnitude and temporal trend of infective endocarditis, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study	92
Habitual fish oil supplementation and the risk of incident atrial fibrillation: findings from a large prospective longitudinal cohort study	88
Body weight and physical fitness in women with ischaemic heart disease: does physical fitness contribute to our understanding of the obesity paradox in women?	75
Does early initiation of non-statin therapy, evolocumab with LDL-C <50mg/dL contribute to the reduction of hospital readmissions in patients with ACS?: a single center real world evidence from	75
Cardiorespiratory fitness in relation to systolic and diastolic function in patients with heart failure and chronic coronary syndromes	74
Sex specific association of body composition with sphingosine-1-phosphate levels-results from the study of health in pomerania (SHIP) analysis	64
Prevalence of ventricular arrhythmias in apparently healthy workers: results from Ferrari Formula Benessere	63
Type D personality, cardiovascular risk factors and risk of recurrent major adverse cardiac events in outpatients with coronary heart disease	62
Characteristics and risk of coronary-related events following hospitalisation for chronic coronary disease	62
Exercise doppler Echocardiography of the right heart and pulmonary circulation in patients with cardiovascular risk factors: observations from the RIGHT Heart International NETwork (RIGHT-NET)	61
Evaluation of the age-related prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors to guide systematic long-term follow-up after preeclampsia	61
Modulation of sympathetic nervous system activity through various therapeutic approaches in patients with resistant hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	60
Temporal trends and outcomes of cardiac rehabilitation after acute coronary syndrome in an asian population	56
Sports-related sudden cardiac arrest: a video analysis of characteristics and outcomes	54
Statin therapy eligibility in a large primary prevention cohort according to European Society of Cardiology Guidelines	54

Temporal trends in myocardial infarction case fatality: methodological challenges and prevention targets	53
Minimal extra-cardiac atherosclerosis present in young people with sudden cardiac death due to coronary artery disease	52
The role of the arrhythmologist in a sports cardiology centre: the devil is in the detail	51
Secondary prevention of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in the Moroccan population. Survey of Risk Factor (SURF) CHD II Morocco	49
Enhancement of left ventricular compliance in twin pregnancy	47
Improvements in walking speed reduce mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease during exercise-based secondary prevention: findings from the ITER registry	47
Treatment of iron deficiency anemia after cardiac surgery	46
Variations in blood pressure after a 75 g oral glucose load and their implications for detecting hypertension and postprandial hypotension in Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study	45
Effects of a behavioral psychological intervention in addition to an exercise rehabilitation program in chronic heart failure patients	44
Carotid intima-media thickness progression and plaque formation in recreational male endurance athletes - a 10-year follow-up study	44
Genetic variants associated with cardiorespiratory symptoms of long COVID. The GINA-COVID study	44
Baroreflex: ready for prime-time?	43
Effect of preventive training in cardiac transcriptoma in rats with pulmonary hypertension	43
Association of cardiorespiratory fitness measured by cardiopulmonary exercise testing with covid-19 positivity: a prospective register-based cohort study	43
Social networks as a predictor of cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality: 10-year observation of the Polish HAPIEE cohort	42
Effect of hybrid cardiac rehabilitation using a smart device: a randomized controlled trial	42