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Annals of Thoracic Surgery
1.8
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41.9K
(top 1%)
papers
1.1M
(top 1%)
citations
258
(top 1%)
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1.1M
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Author
Articles
Citations
R ARank
R CRank
1
Raimondo Ascione
2
544
1
1
1
Walter Jose Gomes
1
366
1
1
3
Daniel F Heitjan
1
336
2
2
3
Alan J Moskowitz
1
336
1
1
3
Milton Packer
1
336
2
2
3
Annetine C Gelijns
1
336
1
1
7
Guglielmo Mario Actis Dato
2
341
1
1
8
Toshiharu Shinoka
1
287
1
1
9
Todd L Demmy
1
282
1
1
10
Mohammad Bashar Izzat
6
341
1
1
10
Nelson Leung-Sang Tang
1
254
1
1
10
Song Wan, Frcs
5
324
1
1
13
Valerie W Rusch
2
382
1
1
14
Kiyotaka Fukamachi
1
238
1
1
15
John A Elefteriades
2
440
2
2
16
Michael Borger
5
545
1
1
16
Michael A Borger
5
545
1
1
16
Stephen E Fremes
1
227
1
1
19
George Tellides
1
204
1
1
20
George M Hoffman
1
203
2
2
21
Scott A Lemaire
2
320
1
1
21
Joseph S Coselli
1
194
1
2
23
Catherine Ab Saunders
1
190
1
1
24
Antonio M Calafiore
2
198
1
1
25
Juan A Sanchez
1
182
1
1
25
Prakash Narayan
1
182
1
1
27
Gianni D Angelini
1
178
1
1
28
Simon J Mitchell
2
301
1
1
29
Tirone E David
4
329
1
3
29
Richard J Novick
1
172
2
2
31
Bettina Borisch
1
156
1
1
32
Felix Berger
1
152
2
3
33
Alice K Jacobs
1
151
3
2
34
A Marc Gillinov
4
242
1
1
35
Hazim J Safi
1
148
1
1
36
Guo-Wei He
2
277
1
1
37
Donald D Glower
3
200
1
1
38
Henrik Bjursten
1
140
1
1
38
Martin Bäckström
1
140
1
1
40
Paolo Pietro Bianchi
1
135
1
1
40
Marco Montorsi
1
135
1
1
42
James A Angus
1
132
2
1
43
Marco Zimarino
1
128
1
1
44
Ira M Cheifetz
1
127
2
1
45
Ziya Gokaslan
1
126
3
2
45
Reginald F Munden
1
126
1
1
45
Cuneyt Koksoy
1
126
1
1
48
Federico Venuta
2
163
2
1
48
Tiziano De Giacomo
2
163
2
1
50
Annie Laurie Shroyer
2
242
1
2
51
Ravin Davidoff
1
120
1
3
52
Martin J Elliott
1
119
1
1
52
Richard J H Smith
1
119
3
4
54
David L Bushnell
1
118
1
1
54
Brian F Mullan
1
118
1
1
56
Doris A Taylor
1
114
1
2
56
William E. Kraus
1
114
1
2
56
William E Kraus
1
114
1
1
59
Shoji Kido
1
112
2
2
60
Vernat Exil
1
111
1
1
60
Anthony L Panos
1
111
1
1
60
Nader D Nader
1
111
4
2
63
Ajit P Yoganathan
1
107
1
1
63
Yutaka Okita
3
256
1
1
63
Paul Dagum
1
107
2
1
66
Françoise Le Pimpec-Barthes
1
103
1
1
67
Alistair G Royse
4
332
1
1
68
Ren-Ke Li
1
97
2
4
68
Tetsuro Sakai
1
97
2
2
70
Jakob Vinten-Johansen
1
94
1
1
71
Kunio Matsumoto
1
91
3
6
71
Oguz Tasdemir
1
91
1
1
71
Birol Yamak
1
91
1
1
74
Steven A. Conrad
1
90
1
1
74
Steven A Conrad
1
90
1
1
76
Akif Ündar
1
87
2
2
77
Georgios Sarris
1
86
1
1
77
Keith A Horvath
2
127
1
2
79
Samuel S Gidding
2
123
1
2
80
Ian H Law
1
84
1
1
80
Hartzell V Schaff
5
235
2
2
80
Wilfried Ernst Erich Eberhardt
1
84
1
1
83
Raymond L Benza
1
83
1
1
83
Colin Royse
3
230
1
1
83
Constantine Mavroudis
7
420
1
1
86
Vincent Thomas de Montpréville
1
81
1
2
87
Si M Pham
1
80
3
1
87
Daniela Maria Cardinale
1
80
1
1
87
Daniele Maselli
1
80
1
1
90
Jarle Vaage
3
153
1
1
91
Patrizio Pasqualetti
1
77
4
6
91
Junji Yoshida
2
89
1
3
91
Roberto Lorusso
1
77
1
1
91
Ruggero De Paulis
3
133
1
1
91
Marco Ranucci
1
77
2
2
91
David L S Morales
1
77
1
2
98
Ugo Pastorino
3
105
1
2
99
Milo C Engoren
1
73
1
1
99
Robert H Habib
1
73
1
1
101
Sary F Aranki
2
113
2
3
102
Marek A Deja
1
71
1
1
103
Heinrich Taegtmeyer
1
68
1
3
103
Torsten Doenst
2
73
1
1
105
Sven Dittrich
1
67
1
1
105
Michele Di Mauro
2
80
1
1
105
Marco Contini
2
80
1
1
108
Nai-Kuan Chou
1
62
1
1
108
Yin-Yi Han
1
62
1
1
108
Shu-Hsun Chu
1
62
1
1
108
Christophe Baufreton
2
67
1
1
108
Ing-Sh Chiu
1
62
1
1
108
Yih-Sharng Chen
1
62
1
2
114
Marcelo Cardarelli
1
61
1
1
115
Marko I Turina
1
60
2
3
116
Eugenio Pompeo
1
59
1
1
116
Vincenzo Ambrogi
2
114
1
1
118
Ralph A Schmid
2
75
1
1
119
Giuseppe Faggian
1
56
1
1
119
Christine Finck
1
56
1
2
119
Mario F L Gaudino
1
56
2
1
119
Bruce Searles
1
56
1
2
123
Jack Rychik
1
55
2
5
123
Alessandro Parolari
2
88
1
1
123
Giulio Pompilio
1
55
1
1
123
Marco Agrifoglio
1
55
1
1
127
Rakesh C Arora
1
53
1
1
128
Gabor Szabo
1
51
1
1
129
Raymond Cartier
3
108
1
1
129
Chuen Neng Lee
1
48
1
1
129
Yoshihisa Tanoue
1
48
1
1
129
David J Chambers
1
48
1
1
133
Rephael Mohr
1
47
1
2
134
Stephen Mckellar
1
45
1
1
135
Korkut Bostanci
1
42
1
1
136
Marco A Zenati
1
41
1
1
136
Mauro A Rinaldi
1
41
1
1
136
Alexander Kadner
1
41
1
1
139
Timothy O'Brien
1
40
3
3
139
Eugenio Neri
4
64
2
2
139
Gaetano Rocco
1
40
1
1
142
Jean-Louis Vincent
1
39
3
5
142
Christopher K Breuer
1
39
2
3
144
Fraser D Rubens
1
38
1
2
144
Julian A Smith
1
38
1
1
146
Jin-Shing Chen
1
37
1
1
146
Yih-Leong Chang
1
37
1
3
146
Mario Lachat
1
37
3
3
146
Jang-Ming Lee
1
37
1
1
146
Markus Hauser
1
37
2
2
146
Mohamed –Adel Fetouh Elgamal
1
37
1
1
146
Rolf Jenni
4
80
1
2
153
Johanna J M Takkenberg
1
36
1
1
153
Tetsuya Mitsudomi
1
36
1
1
153
İbrahim Ozkan Alatas
1
36
1
1
153
Bradley S Allen
1
36
1
1
153
Patrick E Parrino
1
36
1
1
153
Arlene S Ash
1
36
2
3
153
Lex A Van Herwerden
1
36
1
1
160
Mark S Whiteley
1
35
1
1
160
Christian Olsson
1
35
1
1
160
Justin Roake
1
35
1
1
163
Yoshio Misawa
1
34
1
1
163
Anirban Banerjee
1
34
2
5
165
Hung-Chi Chen,, Facs
2
48
1
2
165
Francesco Alamanni
1
33
2
2
167
Frank Reichenberger
1
32
1
3
167
Vivekanand Allada
2
42
1
1
167
Aurelio Chaux
1
32
1
1
170
Olivier Chavanon
2
46
1
2
170
Marco Picichè
2
39
1
1
170
Miralem Pasic
2
39
1
1
170
Paul M Vanhoutte
1
29
3
5
174
Josep M Borras
1
28
1
3
174
Victor Moreno
1
28
1
1
174
Kâmuran A Kadipaşaoǧlu
1
28
1
2
174
Jeffrey A Norton
1
28
1
3
178
Charles Julian Lowenstein
1
26
2
5
178
Michael G Katz
1
26
1
1
180
Samuel Siu
2
38
1
5
180
William M Novick
1
25
1
1
180
Jong-Won Ha
1
25
2
2
180
Carlos Porras
1
25
1
1
180
Robert M Lust
1
25
1
1
186
Atul C Mehta
1
24
3
3
186
Maurice Beghetti
1
24
1
2
186
Marco Alifano
1
24
1
1
186
Afksendiyos Kalangos
2
28
1
2
186
Cor J Kalkman
1
24
3
7
186
Jérôme Mouroux
1
24
1
1
192
Usha Krishnan
1
23
1
1
192
Anique Ducharme
1
23
1
4
194
Gregory S Matte
1
22
1
1
194
Thomas M Egan
1
22
1
2
194
Stanley Salmons
1
22
1
1
194
David R Jones
1
22
1
1
194
Ralph J Damiano Jr
3
61
1
2
199
Andrew B Adams
1
21
1
1
199
Sinan Arsan
1
21
1
1
199
Marc Licker
2
23
1
5
199
Nurgül Keser
1
21
1
1
199
William R Law
1
21
1
1
204
Aldo Domenico Milano
2
33
1
1
204
Rana Sayeed
1
20
1
1
204
Marco De Carlo
1
20
1
1
204
Jean-Louis Vanoverschelde
1
20
2
4
208
Carlo Pace Napoleone
1
19
1
2
208
Massimo Chello
1
19
2
3
208
Andre Dekker
1
19
1
1
208
Daphne T Hsu
1
19
2
2
208
Joseph P Hart
1
19
1
1
208
Peter Whittaker
1
19
2
1
208
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
1
19
1
1
208
Andreas O Zuckermann
1
19
1
2
208
Gaetano Gargiulo
1
19
1
1
208
Joanne P Starr
1
19
1
1
218
Lorenzo Martinelli
1
18
1
2
218
Frank Bracke
1
18
1
2
218
Cemal Levent Birincioğlu
1
18
1
1
218
Jun Feng
1
18
1
2
222
George Coukos
1
17
1
2
222
Jean-Luc Cracowski
1
17
2
3
224
James D Mccully
1
16
1
1
224
Andrew Pipe, Cm
1
16
1
1
224
Eric Vallieres
1
16
1
1
227
Giuseppe Pacileo
1
15
1
3
227
Carlo Vosa
1
15
1
1
227
Linda R Peterson
1
15
1
2
227
Raffaele Calabrò
1
15
1
4
227
Richard M Allman
1
15
1
1
227
Ming-Huei Cheng
1
15
1
2
227
Taichi Sakaguchi
1
15
1
1
227
Maria Giovanna Russo
1
15
1
3
235
Lygia da Veiga Pereira
1
14
1
4
235
Lauren E Griffith
1
14
1
6
235
Friedhelm Beyersdorf
2
19
1
4
238
Kazuhiro Suzuki
1
12
2
2
238
Edward B Savage
1
12
1
2
240
Kim Khaw
1
11
1
2
241
Ivan Aleksic
2
17
1
1
242
Thomas P Misko
1
9
1
3
242
Frank J Kelly
1
9
4
10
244
Gregory L Stahl
1
8
2
5
244
Michael P Simons
1
8
4
13
244
Oliver Reuthebuch
1
8
2
3
244
Yves D'udekem D'acoz
1
8
1
1
248
Mandeep Mehra
1
7
2
3
249
Giuseppe Santoro
1
5
1
2
249
Sonia Albanese
1
5
1
1
249
Alain Astier
1
5
1
2
252
Georg Widhalm
1
3
1
1
252
Pirapat Mokarapong
1
3
1
1
252
Harold L Lazar
1
3
1
1
255
Ara Keshishian
1
2
1
1
255
Marco Cavaglià
1
2
1
1
257
Lorenzo Spaggiari
1
1
1
2
257
Theo Kofidis
1
1
1
2
259
Nermin Halkic
1
0
1
2
259
Reida M El Oakley
1
0
1
0
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