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Annals of Thoracic Surgery
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Annals of Thoracic Surgery
1.8
(top 50%)
impact factor
41.9K
(top 1%)
papers
1.1M
(top 1%)
citations
258
(top 1%)
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1.8
(top 50%)
extended IF
47.1K
all documents
1.1M
doc citations
365
(top 1%)
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Top Authors (by citations)
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Author
Articles
Citations
R ARank
R CRank
1
D Craig Miller
2
1,202
3
1
2
Lars G Svensson
2
1,058
1
1
3
Hazim J Safi
2
841
1
1
4
Grayson H Wheatley, Iii
5
840
1
1
5
John A Elefteriades
1
796
1
1
6
Bryan Whitson
3
794
1
1
7
Marco Ranucci
6
793
1
1
8
Mauro Cotza
1
639
1
1
9
Ayesha S Bryant
6
507
1
1
10
Johanna J M Takkenberg
3
498
1
2
11
Hartzell V Schaff
6
447
2
4
12
Tirone E David
1
406
2
2
13
Timothy M Hoffman
1
358
1
1
13
Clifford L. Cua
1
358
1
1
13
Mark Galantowicz
1
358
1
1
16
Andrew C Chang
2
331
1
3
17
Sary F Aranki
1
327
2
1
18
Virginia R Litle
4
317
1
2
19
Michael Borger
6
307
2
2
19
Michael A Borger
6
307
2
2
21
Jeroen Bax
1
296
11
8
21
Eduard R Holman
1
296
1
1
21
Jerry Braun
1
296
1
1
21
Robert J M Klautz
1
296
1
1
25
Daniel Zimpfer
6
293
1
1
26
Ashish S Shah
4
289
1
1
27
Valerie W Rusch
3
288
2
5
28
Forum Kamdar
1
266
1
1
29
Samir Kapadia
1
262
1
2
30
Jose C Nicolau Or Jose Nicolau Or Jose Carlos Nicolau Or Nicolau Jc Or Nicolau J
1
260
2
1
31
John D Birkmeyer
1
253
1
2
32
Sébastien Gilbert
3
251
1
1
33
Olivier Schussler
2
233
1
1
34
Ara Darzi
2
220
4
4
34
Christopher Rao
2
220
1
1
36
Matthias Thielmann
2
214
1
1
36
Nicholas G Smedira
1
214
1
1
38
John V Conte
2
207
1
2
39
Alfred Hager
2
199
1
1
40
Eugene A Grossi
1
196
1
1
41
Todd A Mackenzie
2
190
1
1
41
David J Cook
1
190
1
1
43
Henning A Gaissert
1
184
1
2
44
Carlo Pace Napoleone
1
180
1
1
45
Mark K Ferguson
1
173
2
1
46
Madhav Swaminathan
2
170
3
2
47
Amit N Patel
1
167
1
2
48
David C Chang
3
166
1
5
49
David R Jones
4
161
1
2
49
Francesco Maisano
2
161
1
3
51
Robert A Meguid
2
155
1
3
52
Steven D Culler
1
154
1
1
54
Michele De Bonis
1
151
2
1
55
Felix Berger
2
149
2
2
56
Giovanni Stellin
2
148
2
2
57
Lorenzo D'Antiga
1
147
1
1
57
Ornella Milanesi
1
147
1
1
59
Ramdas G Pai
1
146
1
1
59
Padmini Varadarajan
1
146
1
1
61
Michael K Pasque
2
145
1
1
62
Thalachallour Mohanakumar
1
142
1
2
62
Ankit Bharat
1
142
1
1
64
Kenji Minatoya
2
139
1
1
64
Arman Kilic
2
139
1
1
64
David L S Morales
2
139
1
1
64
Julie K Johnson
1
139
1
1
64
Paul Barach
1
139
2
1
69
Young Tae Kim
3
134
1
3
69
Chang Hyun Kang
3
134
1
1
69
Alessandro Della Corte
3
134
1
2
72
Christian D Etz
1
132
3
3
73
Richard D White
1
130
1
1
73
Alain Vuylsteke
1
130
1
1
73
P Henry Schoenhagen
1
130
5
2
73
Milind Y Desai
1
130
2
2
73
Eiran Z Gorodeski
1
130
1
1
73
Marius Berman
1
130
1
1
73
David P Jenkins
1
130
2
3
73
Joseph E Arrowsmith
1
130
1
1
81
Luca Salvatore De Santo
2
129
1
2
81
Brian S Diggs
2
129
1
2
83
Hans-Joachim Schäfers
2
128
1
1
83
Anil Wali
1
128
1
1
85
Ralph J Damiano Jr
1
123
3
2
86
Anirban Banerjee
2
121
1
1
87
Todd L Demmy
2
120
1
1
88
Fraser D Rubens
2
118
2
3
88
Jeffrey P Jacobs
2
118
2
2
90
Hitoshi Matsuda
1
117
2
2
90
C Michael Gibson
2
117
4
6
92
Lorenzo A Menicanti
2
112
1
1
93
Parwis B Rahmanian
2
111
2
1
93
Marjan Jahangiri
1
111
1
1
95
David M Holzhey
1
110
1
1
95
Donald D Glower
1
110
1
1
97
Baolin Wu
1
109
2
4
97
Jeffrey S Miller
1
109
3
3
97
Thomas Walther
1
109
1
2
100
Jun D Parker
1
108
1
1
101
Rony Atoui
3
106
1
1
101
Heinz Jakob,, Fetcs
1
106
1
1
101
Bedrettin Yıldızeli
1
106
1
1
101
Sacha Mussot
1
106
1
2
101
Elie Fadel
1
106
1
1
106
Job van der Palen
1
105
1
1
107
Emiliano Angeloni
1
104
1
1
107
Umberto Benedetto
1
104
1
1
107
Sebastiano Sciarretta
1
104
1
3
107
Riccardo Sinatra
1
104
1
1
111
Ivo Wolf
1
102
2
1
111
Titus Kuehne
1
102
2
1
111
Rupak Mukherjee
1
102
1
1
114
Jin Gu Lee
1
101
1
1
114
Robert C Gorman
2
101
1
1
116
Marc A Ruel
1
99
2
2
117
Stefan Weber
1
98
1
1
117
Ferdinand Vogt
1
98
1
1
125
Michael Chu
2
92
1
3
127
Scott A Lemaire
2
90
2
1
128
Marco Alifano
2
88
1
1
129
Igor D Gregoric
3
87
3
3
137
Sandro Gelsomino,, Fects
3
84
1
2
137
Alessandro Frigiola
2
84
1
2
141
Hong Kwan Kim
2
80
1
1
145
Evaldas Girdauskas
2
78
1
2
145
Friedhelm Beyersdorf
2
78
2
3
145
Matthias Siepe
2
78
1
1
153
Peter B Licht
2
75
1
2
156
Roland Henaine
2
74
1
2
161
Torsten Doenst
3
71
1
2
171
Evgenij V Potapov
2
67
1
4
179
Pirooz A Eghtesady
2
66
1
1
182
Roberto Lorusso
3
64
1
3
182
Hiran C Fernando
2
64
1
1
182
Hiroyuki Tao
2
64
1
1
189
Song Wan, Frcs
3
62
1
1
199
Himanshu J Patel
2
59
1
4
208
Afksendiyos Kalangos
2
56
1
2
208
Arie Pieter Kappetein
2
56
2
4
211
Paul E. Van Schil
3
55
2
3
216
Paulo Manoel Pego-Fernandes
3
54
1
2
228
Paul Herijgers
2
50
1
6
231
Ricardo Mingarini Terra
3
49
1
1
231
Saina Attaran
2
49
1
1
244
Giuseppe Pelosi
2
45
1
5
261
Eugenio Pompeo
2
41
1
2
261
Gaetano Rocco
2
41
2
3
272
Victor Bautista-Hernandez
2
40
1
1
282
Atul C Mehta
2
39
1
5
285
Tetsuya Mitsudomi
2
38
1
6
295
Sak Lee
2
36
1
1
295
Anthony L Panos
2
36
1
1
295
Suk-Won Song
2
36
1
1
304
Hunaid A Vohra
2
35
2
2
312
Michael Grant
2
32
1
3
312
Nicholas S Burris
2
32
1
2
312
Steven R Demeester
2
32
1
2
315
Frederic W Grannis
2
31
1
1
340
Chih-Hao Chen
2
26
1
1
340
Sachin Talwar MCh
2
26
2
1
342
Yuki Nakamura
2
25
1
1
345
Luca Paolo Weltert
2
24
1
1
345
Antonio M Calafiore
2
24
1
1
345
Daniele Maselli
2
24
1
1
345
Raffaele Scaffa
2
24
1
1
345
Andrea Salica
2
24
1
1
378
Munir Boodhwani
2
20
1
2
387
Giuseppe Faggian
2
19
1
2
453
Alistair G Royse
2
13
1
3
465
Yoshikatsu Saiki
2
12
1
2
476
Marco A Zenati
2
11
1
3
504
Tomaso Bottio
2
8
1
2
504
Gino Gerosa
2
8
4
8
504
Vincenzo Tarzia
2
8
1
2
504
Issam El-Rassi
2
8
1
2
504
Oguz Tasdemir
2
8
1
1
521
Zoran B Popovic
2
6
1
9
521
Jon C George
2
6
1
2
537
Francesco Monaco
2
4
2
1
550
Phillippe Pibarot
2
3
1
11
550
Stuart P Thomas
2
3
1
1
602
Amedeo Anselmi
2
0
1
5
602
Carlo N De Cecco
2
0
1
4
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