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Author
Articles
Citations
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R CRank
1
Gonzalo Varela
1
260
1
1
1
Nuria M Novoa
2
327
1
1
1
Marcelo F Jiménez
1
260
1
1
4
Gaetano Rocco
4
405
1
1
5
Marco C Deruiter
1
213
2
2
6
Jeroen Bax
2
242
4
4
6
Jerry Braun
1
211
3
1
8
Ad J J C Bogers
2
313
1
1
8
Arie Pieter Kappetein
1
207
2
4
10
Han Wen
1
203
1
1
10
Albert Flotats
1
203
2
1
10
Mladen J Kocica
3
224
1
1
13
Martin Utley
1
154
1
1
15
Thomas Schachner
4
219
2
1
15
Anders Jeppsson
2
192
1
1
17
Pascal Alexandre Thomas
5
201
1
3
18
Dietmar Boethig
1
131
1
1
19
Robert H Anderson
1
126
2
2
19
Damián Sánchez-Quintana
1
126
2
3
21
Constantine E Anagnostopoulos
1
124
2
2
22
Matthias Thielmann
3
176
2
1
22
Horea Feier
1
120
1
1
24
Mario Lachat
1
117
2
2
24
Miralem Pasic
2
146
1
1
26
Marc A Ruel
1
114
4
2
26
Fraser D Rubens
1
114
2
1
28
Clemens Aigner
1
112
2
3
28
György Lang
1
112
1
1
30
Helmut Mair
3
113
1
1
31
Robert Lischke
1
106
1
1
31
Alan Stolz
1
106
1
1
31
Dinis Reis Miranda
1
106
1
1
31
Jan Šimonek
1
106
1
1
31
Ard Struijs
1
106
2
1
31
Jan Schützner
1
106
1
1
31
Pavel Pafko
1
106
1
1
31
Richard A Feelders
1
106
3
4
39
Nelson Alphonso
3
163
1
1
39
Stefan Guth
1
95
1
1
39
Eckhard Mayer
1
95
1
2
42
Stephen H Pennefather
1
88
1
1
43
Thorsten Wahlers
2
85
2
1
43
Theo Kofidis
2
85
3
3
45
Valentin Rousson
1
81
2
2
46
Michel R Labrosse
2
117
1
1
47
Michael P Craven
1
77
1
1
47
Giancarlo Scognamiglio
1
77
1
1
47
Caridad Pontes
1
77
2
2
47
Alessandro Della Corte
2
96
2
2
47
Oliver Stumper
1
77
1
2
52
Bahaaldin Alsoufi
1
75
1
1
52
John E Deanfield
1
75
4
4
52
Giulio Rossi
1
75
2
2
52
Uliano Morandi
1
75
1
2
52
Louise Coats
1
75
1
2
52
Alessandro Stefani
1
75
1
1
58
Bernd W Böttiger
1
72
1
3
59
Arnošt Komárek
1
70
1
1
59
Ramadan Jashari
1
70
1
1
59
Marc Gewillig
1
70
2
4
62
Eugenio Neri
1
69
2
1
62
Lucio Barabesi
1
69
1
1
64
Denan Jin
1
68
1
1
64
Jean-Francois Légaré
1
68
1
1
64
Jacek Kołcz
2
112
1
1
64
Heyman Luckraz Frcs
2
78
2
2
68
David L Hare
1
67
1
1
68
Annalisa Angelini
1
67
1
3
68
Gino Gerosa
2
71
3
1
68
Roberto Bianco
1
67
1
1
72
John G Edwards
1
66
1
1
73
Patrizio Castelli
2
82
2
1
73
Matteo Tozzi
2
82
2
1
73
Gabriele Piffaretti
2
82
2
1
76
Robert M Tulloh
1
61
2
3
76
Louis-Mathieu Stevens
1
61
1
1
78
Ara Darzi
2
72
3
5
78
Antonio F Corno
1
60
1
1
80
Anders Albåge
1
58
1
1
80
Ulrik Sartipy
1
58
1
2
80
Oguz Tasdemir
1
58
3
1
83
Bodil Ivarsson
2
57
1
1
84
Stefano Elia
1
56
1
1
84
Gianluca Vanni
1
56
1
1
86
Atshushi Watanabe
1
54
1
2
87
Anne M Halpin
1
53
1
1
87
Jonathan R T Lakey
1
53
4
9
87
Jon A Kobashigawa
1
53
2
4
90
Alfredo Chetta
1
52
2
2
90
Eveline Internullo
2
56
1
1
90
Antonio Bobbio
1
52
1
1
93
Stefan G De Hert
1
50
2
2
93
Frans J Van Overveld
1
50
1
2
93
Hartzell V Schaff
1
50
4
6
96
Jayan Nagendran
1
49
1
1
96
June Dong Park
1
49
1
1
96
Young Tae Kim
3
68
1
5
96
Chang Hyun Kang
2
57
2
2
96
Jeevan Nagendran
1
49
1
2
96
Mark G Hazekamp
1
49
1
2
96
Colleen M Norris
1
49
2
3
103
Xavier Benoit D'journo
2
48
1
3
103
Kerstin Brismar
1
48
2
4
103
Hitendu Dave
1
48
2
4
103
Ali Dodge-Khatami
1
48
2
3
107
Tomas Vanek
1
47
1
1
108
David Paul Taggart
1
45
2
4
108
Marco Lucchi
1
45
1
3
108
Daniel De Wolf
1
45
2
2
108
Gabriele Materazzi
1
45
1
1
108
Yasir Abu-Omar
1
45
1
2
113
Katarzyna Januszewska
1
44
1
1
114
Massimo Chello
2
48
1
2
114
Stefano Mastrobuoni
1
42
1
1
114
Pedro Antunes
1
42
1
1
114
Elvio Covino
1
42
1
1
114
Germano Di Sciascio
1
42
2
2
114
Kazumasa Orihashi
2
71
2
1
120
Marco Alifano
1
41
2
2
121
Andrzej Kansy
1
40
1
1
121
Bohdan J Maruszewski
1
40
2
3
123
Gabor Szabo
2
62
1
2
123
Jari O Laurikka
2
53
1
1
123
Patrick Taffé
1
38
1
2
123
David Sedmera
1
38
2
3
123
Zhong-Kai Wu
1
38
1
1
123
Munetaka Masuda
1
38
1
1
129
Kazuhito Imanaka
1
37
1
1
129
Stanislav Ovrutskiy
1
37
1
1
131
Valeriy Arakelyan
1
36
1
1
131
Ehrenfried Schindler
1
36
1
2
131
Joachim Photiadis
2
49
1
2
131
Leo Bokeriya
2
66
1
1
131
Clement Shek Kei Cheung
1
36
1
1
131
Alan D L Sihoe
1
36
1
2
137
Matthias Aazami
3
36
1
1
138
Timothy L Frankel
1
34
1
1
138
Christof Specker
1
34
1
1
138
Ramon Rami-Porta
1
34
2
2
141
Wei Li
1
33
1
1
142
Randi Bertelsen
1
32
1
1
142
Trond-Eirik Strand
1
32
1
1
142
Mark M Ruzmetov
1
32
2
2
145
Johan H C Reiber
1
31
3
5
145
Alexandar Tzankov
1
31
2
9
145
Alexander Oberhuber
1
31
1
1
145
Claudia Heilmann
1
31
1
1
145
Nikolaos Bonaros
1
31
2
2
145
Rob J Van Der Geest
1
31
2
5
145
Jos J M Westenberg
1
31
1
2
145
Friedhelm Beyersdorf
2
31
2
7
145
Matthias Siepe
2
31
1
1
154
Elena Z Golukhova
1
30
1
1
154
Amiran Sh Revishvili
1
30
1
1
156
Paolo Scanagatta
1
28
1
1
156
Jérôme Mouroux
2
30
2
3
156
Pierre Pagé
1
28
1
2
159
Dominik Lenz
1
27
1
4
159
Enrico Ferrari
2
27
1
3
159
Hans-dieter Volk
1
27
5
14
159
Hanefi Ozbek
1
27
2
3
159
Ahmet Feridun Işık
1
27
1
1
159
Jens Garbade
1
27
1
1
159
Evgenij V Potapov
1
27
2
2
159
İrfan Bayram
1
27
1
1
167
Alessandro Calisti
1
26
1
1
167
Jo Wray
1
26
2
3
167
Lucia Oriolo
1
26
1
1
167
Vito Briganti
1
26
1
1
171
Hunaid A Vohra
1
25
1
1
172
Ulrike Heger
1
24
1
1
172
Pál Soós
1
24
1
1
172
Csaba Szabo
1
24
5
17
172
Pascal Berna
1
24
1
2
176
Cengiz Gebitekin
1
23
1
1
176
Marek A Deja
1
23
1
1
176
Marcin Malinowski
1
23
1
1
176
Maciej K Kolowca
1
23
1
1
176
Hyun Joo Ahn
1
23
1
1
181
Bart N Lambrecht
1
22
2
8
182
Olaf Heidenreich
1
21
2
2
182
Hyo Chae Paik
1
21
1
3
182
David J Chambers
1
21
1
1
185
Giuseppe Andò
1
20
1
2
185
Manuel Castella
1
20
1
3
185
Ruggero De Paulis
1
20
2
2
185
Enrico Cetrano
1
20
1
1
185
Marco Moscarelli
1
20
1
1
185
Murat İkizler
1
20
1
1
191
D Craig Miller
1
19
4
4
191
Domenico Laganà
1
19
2
2
191
John C Criscione
1
19
1
2
191
Cristiano Amarelli
1
19
2
2
191
Luca Salvatore De Santo
1
19
3
2
191
Ciro Maiello
1
19
1
1
191
Gianpaolo Romano
1
19
2
2
198
Alexander M Karaskov
1
17
1
1
198
Johanna J M Takkenberg
2
31
2
3
198
Aleksandr Chernyavksy
1
17
1
1
198
Narendra Kuber Bodhey
1
17
1
1
198
Gregor Warnecke
1
17
1
1
204
Se-Hoon Kim
1
16
1
3
204
Hsu-Ting Yen
1
16
1
1
204
Kunihiro Yoshioka
1
16
1
1
204
Jochen D Schipke
1
16
1
1
204
Dae Joon Kim
1
16
1
2
209
Ari Mennander
1
15
1
2
209
Nobuyoshi Kawaharada
1
15
1
2
209
Roland Henaine
1
15
1
1
209
Amiq Gazdhar
1
15
1
2
209
Mark A Hanson
2
18
2
13
209
Mensure Kaya
1
15
1
1
209
Ralph A Schmid
1
15
1
2
209
Lucilla Poston
1
15
3
8
209
Metin Avkiran
1
15
1
3
209
Christopher Torrens
1
15
1
1
219
Hsi-Yu Yu
1
14
1
4
219
Olivier Chavanon
1
14
2
3
219
Monique Bernard
1
14
1
6
219
Frank Kober
1
14
1
6
219
Yih-Sharng Chen
1
14
2
6
224
Mustafa Yuksel
1
13
1
1
224
Hyun-Sung Lee
1
13
2
2
224
Bedrettin Yıldızeli
1
13
1
2
224
Serdar Evman
1
13
1
1
224
Michael Scharfschwerdt
1
13
1
2
224
Luiz Felipe Pinho Moreira
1
13
2
3
224
Massimo Bonacchi
3
15
1
3
224
Dorota Bukowska
1
13
1
1
224
Rudolf Poruban
1
13
1
1
224
Robert H Habib
3
22
1
6
224
Klaus Kayser
1
13
1
4
235
Vladimir M Durleshter
1
12
1
1
235
Vladimir Durleshter
1
12
1
1
235
Praveen Kerala Varma
1
12
3
3
238
Andre Dekker
1
10
1
3
239
Joost Jj Weyler
1
9
1
6
239
Jeroen M H Hendriks
1
9
1
3
239
Francesco Onorati
2
15
2
2
239
Paul E. Van Schil
3
11
3
6
239
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
1
9
1
1
244
Lorenzo A Menicanti
1
8
2
5
244
Hyun Joo Lee
1
8
1
1
244
Hajime Sato
1
8
1
6
244
Khalil Zarrabi
1
8
1
1
248
Davide Pacini
2
11
1
3
248
Luigi de Luca Tupputi Schinosa
1
7
1
2
248
Tao-Sheng Li
1
7
1
5
248
Paul Steendijk
1
7
5
15
248
Nicola Marraudino
1
7
1
1
248
Emmanuel Villa
2
11
2
3
248
Daniele Maselli
2
10
1
2
248
Andrea Montalto
1
7
1
2
248
Thomas Modine
1
7
2
4
248
Sofia Martin-Suarez
1
7
1
3
258
Ayten Kayı Cangır
1
6
2
2
258
Cabir YÜksel
1
6
1
1
258
Giovanni Marchetto
1
6
1
1
258
Mauro A Rinaldi
1
6
1
3
262
Daniel Pereda
1
5
1
1
262
Mecit Kantarci
1
5
2
4
262
Bernhard Egger
1
5
1
1
262
David Shitrit
1
5
5
12
262
Bhaskar K Somani
1
5
1
3
262
Fatİh Alper
1
5
2
3
268
Kadir Babaoğlu
1
4
1
2
268
Giovanni Vicidomini
1
4
2
2
268
Antonio Loforte
1
4
2
2
268
Marcello Migliore
1
4
1
1
268
Mario Santini
1
4
2
2
268
GÜrkan Çetİn
1
4
1
2
274
Andrey Akopov
1
3
1
1
274
Martin J Elliott
1
3
4
7
274
Seock Yeol Lee
1
3
1
1
274
Jarle Vaage
1
3
2
6
274
Mehmet Kaan Kirali
1
3
3
4
274
Mohammed Fouad Ismaeil
2
4
1
3
281
Carlo Pace Napoleone
1
2
2
3
281
Jian Hu
1
2
1
1
281
Pasquale Totaro
1
2
1
3
281
Joseph Jacob
1
2
1
1
281
Gaetano Gargiulo
1
2
1
2
281
Georgios Sarris
1
2
1
3
281
Angel Luis Fernandez
1
2
1
2
281
Salah Dine Qanadli
2
3
1
3
289
Monica Casiraghi
1
1
1
3
289
Yutaka Okita
1
1
1
4
289
Philippe Michel
1
1
1
3
289
Wim Jan van Boven
1
1
1
4
289
A Ruchan Akar
1
1
1
2
289
Reza Motallebzadeh
2
2
1
3
289
Antonio Amodeo
1
1
1
3
289
Peter B Licht
1
1
1
2
289
Motoshi Takao
1
1
1
3
289
Shahzad Gull Raja
1
1
2
7
289
Karsten Knobloch, Facs
1
1
2
3
289
Ryoichi Nakanishi
1
1
1
4
301
Vilem Rohn
1
0
1
0
301
Amedeo Anselmi
1
0
2
5
301
Parwis B Rahmanian
1
0
1
0
301
Alessio Piraino
1
0
1
0
301
Özden Özen Altundaǧ
1
0
8
21
301
Akif Turna
1
0
1
4
301
Kadri Altundag
1
0
4
18
301
Alfredo Cesario
2
0
1
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