OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Thoracic Disease is 24. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pain control after thoracic surgery begins in the operating room	57
Rapid deployment versus its conventional counterpart in aortic valve replacement: comparison of early hemodynamic outcomes	50
Mitral valve repair using a semi-rigid posterior band: a 10-year Japanese single-center experience of 244 patients	44
Mediastinal staging by thoracic surgeons: are we close to a paradigm shift?	44
Cough Focused Series: progress in understanding and management of chronic cough	37
CT-based decision tree model for predicting EGFR mutation status in synchronous multiple primary lung cancers	37
Identification of potential biomarkers associated with CD4+ T cell infiltration in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury using bioinformation analysis	34
Complement activation is associated with right ventricular dysfunction and the severity of pulmonary embolism: links with prothrombotic state	33
Persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation—is ethanol the solution or just another means to an end?	33
Association between cine CMR-based radiomics signature and microvascular obstruction in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction	32
Initial Asian experience of the branched E-vita open NEO in complex aortic pathologies	31
The influence of novel coronavirus pneumonia on chronic disease management of asthma—a narrative review	31
Psoas muscle index as a novel measure of frailty and predictor of post-operative outcome in octogenarians with non-small cell lung cancer	29
T4-non-small cell lung cancer invading the thoracic aorta: the role of the hybrid operating room	28
Development and validation of a diagnostic model based on left atrial diameter to predict postoperative atrial fibrillation after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting	28
Prediction of ipsilateral and contralateral pneumothorax using a simple chest X-ray	28
Reintervention after percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy in patients with rheumatic heart disease: feasibility of surgical mitral valve repair	27
Effects of preoperative Staphylococcus aureus screening and targeted decolonization bundle protocols in cardiac surgery: a nine-year review of a regional cardiovascular center in China	26
Erratum to individualised monitoring programme for pulmonary rehabilitation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease—study protocol for a randomised controlled trial	26
Asbestos burden in lungs of non-occupationally exposed women from Broni (Pavia, Italy): a postmortem SEM-EDS study	25
Imbalance of intestinal flora activates inflammatory response contributing to acute lung injury	25
Differential expression and significance of peripheral blood genes in coronary artery heart disease	25
Derivation and external validation of a nomogram predicting the occurrence of severe illness among hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients: a 2020 Chinese multicenter retrospective study	25
Risk factors associated with sternal complication after lung transplantation with transverse sternotomy	24
The role of the stapled interlobar fissure position for intraoperative detection and postoperative diagnosis of middle lobe torsion after right upper lobectomy	24

Circulating tumor DNA in lung cancer: a bibliometric analysis of studies published from 2001 to 2024