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Author
Articles
Citations
R ARank
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1
Eugene H Blackstone
1
330
4
1
1
Umberto Benedetto
2
621
3
1
3
Miguel Sousa-Uva
6
582
1
2
3
Manuel Castella
2
293
1
1
3
Ulf Landmesser, Fesc
1
292
9
3
3
Matthias Thielmann
1
292
1
1
3
Giovanni Landoni
1
292
5
1
3
Milan Milojevic
6
606
1
1
3
Anders Jeppsson
7
918
1
2
3
Tomas Gudbjartsson
2
326
1
1
12
Alexander Wahba
2
297
1
2
12
Marco Ranucci
1
291
2
2
12
Christa Boer
1
291
4
3
12
Hanne B Ravn
1
291
1
1
12
Domenico Pagano
2
291
1
2
17
Robert A Byrne Mb Bch
1
261
7
3
17
Philippe Kolh
4
268
3
3
17
Christian W Hamm
3
350
3
3
17
Philippe Gabriel Steg
1
261
11
4
17
Michał Tendera
1
261
3
4
17
Felicita Andreotti
1
261
3
3
17
Pascal Vranckx
1
261
2
4
17
Mate Petricevic
2
268
1
2
17
Francesco Costa
1
261
2
2
17
Markus Schwerzmann
1
261
2
2
17
Marco Valgimigli
2
268
8
5
17
Borja Ibanez
1
261
3
3
17
Peter Jüni
1
261
7
6
17
Robert F Storey
1
261
7
2
17
Raffaele Bugiardini
1
261
3
2
17
Stefan Agewall
1
261
3
2
17
Bernard Iung
1
261
6
3
17
Lina Badimon
1
261
9
2
17
Victoria Delgado
1
261
12
5
17
Maddalena Lettino
1
261
2
2
17
Hector Bueno
1
261
7
4
17
Massimo Piepoli
1
261
6
4
17
Stephan Windecker
1
261
12
6
17
Juhani Knuuti
1
261
4
3
17
Adnan Kastrati
1
261
9
3
17
Michal Tendera
1
261
2
3
17
Donna Fitzsimons
1
261
2
2
17
Stefan James
1
261
2
2
46
Gary S Collins
1
123
2
3
46
Stuart W Grant
2
211
1
1
46
Samer A M Nashef
3
136
1
1
49
Brigitta Gahl
2
143
1
1
49
Theo M M H De By
1
121
2
2
49
Ivan Netuka
2
155
2
2
49
Kadir ÇaliŞkan
3
167
2
4
49
Francesco Musumeci
1
121
1
1
49
Paul Mohacsi
2
138
1
3
49
Jan Gummert
1
121
3
2
49
Bart Meyns
2
155
1
1
49
Finn Gustafsson
1
121
6
2
49
Andre Vincentelli
1
121
1
1
59
Tong J Gan
1
118
3
2
59
Wanjun Luo
1
118
1
1
59
E Wang
1
118
2
1
59
Qulian Guo
1
118
4
1
59
Zhi Ye
1
118
1
1
64
Demetrio Pittarello
2
153
1
1
64
Katarzyna Kurnicka
1
115
1
1
64
Stefano Salizzoni
1
115
1
1
64
Matteo Marro
1
115
1
1
64
Davide Pacini
2
132
3
1
64
Nicola Pradegan
2
153
1
1
64
Gino Gerosa
4
164
1
1
64
Mauro A Rinaldi
1
115
1
1
64
Eleonora Bizzotto
3
153
1
1
64
Andrea Colli
4
164
1
1
64
Carlo Savini
1
115
1
1
64
Laura Besola
4
164
1
1
76
Konrad Hoetzenecker
2
96
2
2
76
Bernhard Moser
1
95
1
1
76
Georg A Roth
1
95
2
2
76
Shahrokh Taghavi
1
95
1
2
76
Clemens Aigner
3
119
2
1
76
Irene M Lang
1
95
9
4
76
Walter Klepetko
2
96
4
3
76
Peter Jaksch
1
95
4
2
76
Helmut Hager
1
95
1
2
85
Christian Schlensak
1
89
1
1
85
Mario Lescan
3
185
1
1
85
Olivier Meyrignac
1
89
1
1
85
Joost A Van Herwaarden
2
132
3
2
85
Friedhelm Beyersdorf
9
355
1
1
85
Martin Czerny
7
312
1
1
85
Trijntje Bloemert
1
89
1
1
92
Joel Dunning
2
118
2
1
92
Graeme L Hickey
1
88
2
1
92
Matthias Siepe
9
321
1
1
95
Chung-Han Ho
1
80
5
2
95
Ching-Chieh Yang
1
80
1
1
97
Timm Bauer
1
71
2
2
97
Hugo A Katus
1
71
9
3
97
Buntaro Fujita
1
71
3
3
97
Stephan Ensminger
1
71
3
3
101
Marco Di Eusanio
2
103
1
1
101
Marco Di Eusanio
2
103
1
2
101
Stoyan Kondov
2
117
1
1
101
Giuseppe Santarpino
2
124
4
1
101
Tristan D Yan
2
76
2
2
101
Maximilian Kreibich
2
117
2
1
101
Paolo Berretta
2
103
1
1
101
Martin Andreas
3
75
1
1
101
Fabian A Kari
4
137
1
1
101
Thierry Folliguet
3
93
1
1
125
Giovanni Mariscalco
2
84
1
1
145
Florian S Schoenhoff
2
70
1
1
156
Bart Maesen
2
83
1
1
156
Jos G Maessen
2
75
1
1
161
Jin-Shing Chen
2
54
2
3
161
Giulia Veronesi
2
80
2
4
161
Ya-Jung Cheng
2
54
1
1
161
Hsao-Hsun Hsu
2
54
1
1
161
Ming-Hui Hung
2
54
1
1
161
Man-Ling Wang
2
54
1
1
177
Young Tae Kim
2
54
5
6
177
Samina Park
2
54
1
1
177
Chang Hyun Kang
2
54
1
2
177
In Kyu Park
2
54
1
1
182
Mohamed K Kamel
2
57
2
2
182
Brendon Stiles
2
57
1
1
182
Mohamed Rahouma
3
76
1
3
182
Benjamin C Lee
3
76
1
1
182
Nasser K Altorki
3
76
1
3
187
Joseph A Dearani
3
83
3
3
187
Hartzell V Schaff
2
72
3
2
192
Richard C Daly
2
71
2
2
192
Mackram F Eleid
2
55
2
5
192
Sameh M Said
2
71
4
3
221
Edward Buratto
2
42
1
2
236
Robert H Anderson
4
51
1
3
236
Felix Berger
4
104
1
2
236
Yin-Kai Chao
3
59
3
4
236
Joachim Photiadis
2
53
1
1
236
Robert Stanley Stephenson
4
71
1
1
236
David Hunter MacIver
2
61
1
1
236
Peter Agger
3
62
1
1
236
Oliver Miera
3
88
1
1
236
Ming-Ju Hsieh
2
50
1
3
256
Parla Astarci
2
53
1
1
264
Francesco Guerrera
3
65
2
1
264
Francesco Guerrera
3
65
2
1
278
Martin Schweiger
2
51
1
1
278
Javier Miguelena Hycka
3
36
1
1
278
Emil Loldrup Fosbøl
2
34
1
6
278
Antonio Loforte
2
51
2
1
278
Laura Varela Barca
3
36
1
1
278
Jose López Menéndez
4
36
2
3
278
Jarmo M Gunn
2
50
1
1
278
Arnar Geirsson
3
47
1
3
278
Mustafa Özbaran
2
51
1
1
278
Lauge Østergaard
2
34
1
2
308
Jawad Salman
2
41
1
1
308
Fabio Ius
3
41
1
2
308
Dietmar Boethig
2
41
1
1
308
Wiebke Sommer
2
41
1
2
308
Ruslan Natanov
2
46
1
1
308
Axel Haverich
6
79
2
4
308
Dmitry Bobylev
2
41
1
1
308
Gregor Warnecke
3
55
1
2
308
Christian Kuehn
2
41
1
1
331
Myoung-jin Jang
2
51
1
2
331
Jae Woong Choi
3
56
1
1
331
Kyung Hwan Kim
2
51
2
1
331
Ho Young Hwang
3
56
2
2
341
Olaf Mercier
2
30
1
3
341
Chang Gu
2
37
1
2
341
Ralph A Schmid
2
44
1
1
341
Yves D'udekem D'acoz
5
85
2
3
341
Jianxin Shi
2
37
1
1
370
Yoshikatsu Saiki
2
30
2
1
410
Johanna J M Takkenberg
3
35
2
5
410
René Horsleben Petersen
2
45
2
2
427
Jelena Kasnar-Samprec
3
45
1
1
427
Federico Venuta
2
41
2
3
427
Michael Salna
2
41
1
1
427
David M Holzhey
3
46
1
4
427
Won-Keun Kim
3
51
1
5
427
Julie Cleuziou
4
53
1
1
427
Markus Krane
2
33
1
4
427
Giulio Maurizi
2
41
1
2
427
Cecilia Menna
2
41
1
2
427
Mohsen Ibrahim
3
52
2
2
427
Peter Ewert
2
44
3
3
427
Claudio Andreetti
2
41
2
3
455
David Paul Taggart
2
35
5
11
455
Lieven Depypere
2
43
2
1
455
Alessia Stanzi
2
43
1
1
455
Herbert Decaluwe
3
53
1
2
455
Paul De Leyn
2
43
1
1
455
Dirk E Van Raemdonck
3
54
1
4
455
Johnny Moons
3
53
1
1
477
Makoto Mori
3
36
1
1
488
Günther Laufer
4
45
1
2
488
Jonas Marschall
2
22
2
4
488
Yin Li
2
38
1
4
488
Dominik Wiedemann
2
22
2
2
488
Daniel Zimpfer
2
37
1
5
488
Philipp Angleitner
3
37
1
1
488
Julia Riebandt
2
37
1
1
488
Kamen Dimitrov
2
37
1
1
521
Jan Dieter Schmitto
2
25
3
12
521
Amal Bessissow
2
25
1
2
521
Sadeesh Srinathan
2
25
1
2
521
John Agzarian
2
25
1
1
521
Philip J Devereaux
2
25
2
12
541
Michel P B O Sá
2
20
1
2
541
Hyoung Woo Chang
2
32
1
1
541
Enrico Ferrari
2
38
3
5
541
Thorsten Wahlers
2
33
5
6
541
Steen Hvitfeldt Poulsen
2
20
1
3
541
Jacob E Møller Dscmed
2
20
1
7
541
Farhad Waziri
2
28
1
1
541
Aron-Frederik Popov
2
29
1
3
567
Cecilia Pompili
2
29
1
2
567
Yasunori Iida
2
23
2
3
567
Alfred Hager
2
20
2
5
567
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
2
30
1
1
567
Gilbert Massard
3
47
2
2
567
Kostas Papagiannopoulos
2
30
1
1
590
Isabelle Opitz
2
35
3
6
590
Claudio Caviezel
2
35
2
1
590
Ilhan Inci
2
35
2
2
616
Nicholas Freemantle
2
19
1
3
616
Mario F L Gaudino
4
35
2
7
645
Arthur R Garan
2
22
3
9
645
Koji Takeda
2
22
4
11
645
Jiho Han
2
22
2
2
645
Sungsoo Lee
2
22
1
2
645
Sanghoon Jheon
2
23
1
2
645
Melana Yuzefpolskaya
2
22
2
4
645
Jerry Braun
2
20
1
3
645
Robert J M Klautz
3
17
2
4
645
Maria Teresa Tome Esteban
2
24
1
4
645
Sukki Cho
2
23
1
3
645
Yoshifumi Naka
2
22
5
11
645
Paul Kurlansky
3
22
1
4
645
Martin J Schalij
2
20
4
10
696
Yiping Joseph Woo
3
17
2
5
696
Milo C Engoren
2
25
2
4
696
Yasuhiro Shudo
2
17
2
2
696
Andreas O Zuckermann
2
18
2
6
696
Thomas A Schwann
3
32
2
3
696
Robert H Habib
2
25
2
3
742
Ourania Preventza
2
15
3
5
742
Ulrich Goebel
2
20
1
5
742
Babak Saravi
2
20
1
1
742
Sven Maier
2
20
1
2
742
Kim I De La Cruz
2
15
2
2
773
Alexander V Afanasyev
2
24
1
2
773
Alexander M Karaskov
3
34
2
2
773
Ravil M Sharifulin
2
24
1
2
773
Alexander Bogachev-Prokophiev
3
34
2
2
783
Shihua Zhao
2
23
1
5
783
Luca Ampollini
2
23
2
4
829
Chunsheng Wang
2
12
1
12
829
Marc A Ruel
2
18
4
10
829
Alessandro Brunelli
2
21
3
6
829
Luca Bertolaccini
3
18
4
5
829
Gonzalo Varela
2
14
1
1
829
Piergiorgio Solli
2
15
4
6
829
Hideo Yasunaga
2
14
4
23
829
Mario Nosotti
2
15
3
4
829
david Glineur
2
14
1
4
829
Yasir Abu-Omar
2
13
1
4
829
Alessandro Bertani
2
15
2
3
829
Gaetano Rocco
3
14
2
9
898
Yaron Shargall
2
14
1
5
911
Si Chan Sung
2
9
1
2
911
Hyungtae Kim
2
9
1
2
942
Melchior Burri
2
9
1
2
973
Adelino F Leite-Moreira
2
7
2
14
973
André P. Lourenço
2
7
1
6
1061
Fraser D Rubens
2
3
2
6
1061
Hitoshi Yaku
2
4
2
6
1094
Azumi Hamasaki
2
4
1
3
1094
Mitsuaki Sadahiro
2
4
2
4
1094
Tetsuro Uchida
3
5
1
4
1124
Raymond Pfister
2
1
1
1
1124
Meindert Palmen
2
1
2
6
1124
Anton Tomšič
2
1
2
6
1124
Pedro J Del Nido
2
1
2
8
1162
Jorge Rodriguez-Roda
2
0
1
4
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