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258
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Author
Articles
Citations
R ARank
R CRank
1
John A Elefteriades
5
1,635
1
1
1
Ryan R Davies
1
891
1
1
3
Mark F Pittenger
1
826
1
2
4
Milo C Engoren
1
626
1
1
4
Thomas A Schwann
1
626
1
1
4
Robert H Habib
2
683
1
1
7
Marc de Perrot
5
612
1
1
7
Shaf Baloch Keshavjee
5
562
1
1
10
Constantine Mavroudis
2
350
2
1
11
Irving L Kron
2
552
1
1
12
Kazuhiro Suzuki
1
290
1
1
14
Giacomo Frati
2
309
2
1
14
Massimo Bonacchi
2
309
2
1
14
Giacomo Frati
2
309
2
1
17
Robert J Chen
1
241
1
1
17
Shoei-Shen Wang
1
241
1
1
17
Yih-Sharng Chen
2
243
1
1
20
David R Jones
3
291
1
1
20
Aditya K Kaza
2
286
1
1
22
Joachim Pfannschmidt
1
228
1
1
23
Tatu Juvonen
2
232
2
2
24
Scott A Lemaire
6
764
1
1
24
Joseph S Coselli
3
588
1
2
24
Cuneyt Koksoy
3
424
1
2
27
Eugene A Grossi
1
202
1
1
28
Virginia R Litle
1
197
1
1
28
Hiran C Fernando
2
244
1
1
30
Paul J Nietert
1
196
2
2
30
Michael B Wallace
1
196
2
2
30
Craig C Earle
1
196
2
1
33
Giuseppe Bruschi
2
197
1
1
33
Andrea Garatti
1
185
1
1
35
Joseph E Bavaria
1
182
1
1
35
Alberto Pochettino
1
182
1
1
35
Robert C Gorman
4
320
1
2
38
Joseph F Sabik Iii
1
180
1
2
38
Antonino Gm Marullo
2
186
1
1
40
Timothy M Hoffman
1
178
1
1
40
Mitchell I Cohen
1
178
2
3
42
Piergiorgio Tozzi
1
172
1
1
43
Antonio M Calafiore
1
169
1
1
43
Michele Di Mauro
1
169
1
1
43
Marco Contini
1
169
1
1
46
Thoralf M Sundt Iii
1
162
1
2
46
Kevin M Harris
1
162
1
1
48
Stephen E Fremes
2
279
1
1
49
Zoltán Szabó
1
159
1
1
50
Daniel Zimpfer
2
202
1
1
51
Alistair G Royse
1
154
2
2
52
Valerie W Rusch
3
303
2
1
53
Mithat Gönen
1
150
2
4
53
Tim Akhurst
1
150
1
1
55
A Marc Gillinov
4
333
1
1
56
Marc Hamoir
1
139
1
1
57
Tirone E David
5
335
1
2
58
Miralem Pasic
3
265
1
1
59
Jane W Newburger
2
153
1
3
60
Abeel A Mangi
4
221
1
2
61
Yusuf Menda
1
124
1
1
61
David L Bushnell
1
124
1
1
61
Michael M Graham
1
124
2
1
64
Sary F Aranki
1
123
1
1
65
Claudia Maria Rodrigues Alves
3
206
1
1
66
Alexander Kadner
1
118
1
1
67
Mahmut Murat Demirtaş
2
115
2
1
67
Mehmet Kaplan
2
115
1
1
69
Richard A Jonas
1
114
1
1
70
Nicholas T Kouchoukos
2
124
1
1
70
Michael Borger
3
183
1
1
70
Michael A Borger
3
183
1
1
70
John C Kucharczuk
1
113
1
2
74
Colin Clelland
1
111
1
1
74
Yu-Chung Wu
1
111
1
1
76
Francis D Pagani
1
109
1
2
76
Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar
2
177
1
1
78
Paul T Maruff
1
107
2
5
78
Alexander Collie
1
107
1
1
80
Tao-Sheng Li
1
106
2
2
80
Kirsten C Odegard
1
106
1
2
82
Brian B Graham
1
104
1
1
83
Sotiris C Stamou
1
102
1
1
84
Rocco Trisolini
1
101
1
1
84
Venerino Poletti
1
101
1
2
84
Michael K Pasque
3
130
1
1
87
Noriyoshi Sawabata
3
212
1
1
88
Carlo Pappone
1
99
1
2
88
Bedrettin Yıldızeli
1
99
2
2
88
Ruggero De Paulis
3
187
1
1
88
Paolo Nardi
3
187
1
1
88
Sacha Mussot
1
99
1
1
88
Elie Fadel
1
99
1
1
88
Carlo Bassano
1
99
1
1
88
Raffaele Scaffa
1
99
1
1
96
Mihael Sok
1
95
1
1
97
Annie Laurie Shroyer
1
94
1
2
98
D Craig Miller
2
106
3
3
99
Konstantinos Papagiannopoulos
1
90
1
1
100
Friedrich D Knollmann
1
85
1
1
101
Hitoshi Hirose
2
147
1
1
102
Petr Widimsky
1
82
1
1
102
Tomas Vanek
1
82
1
1
104
Hazim J Safi
3
128
1
1
105
Aldo Domenico Milano
1
79
1
2
105
Marco De Carlo
1
79
1
2
105
Uberto Bortolotti
1
79
1
2
108
Ki-Bong Kim
2
135
1
1
108
Hikatu Matsuda
2
82
1
1
110
Federico Venuta
3
152
1
1
110
Christos Alexiou
3
167
1
1
110
Tiziano De Giacomo
3
152
1
1
110
Edoardo Mercadante
2
111
1
1
114
Pascal Alexandre Thomas
2
130
2
2
114
Pierre Wauthy
1
76
1
1
116
Anthony L Panos
1
75
1
1
116
Donald D Glower
3
103
1
1
116
Steven M Schwartz
2
125
1
1
119
Ansar Hassan
1
73
1
1
120
Raimondo Ascione
2
71
1
2
120
Hans-Joachim Schäfers
1
71
1
1
120
Barnaby C Reeves
3
175
1
2
120
Ulrich A Stock
1
71
1
1
124
Tahir Yagdi
2
83
1
1
124
Mustafa Özbaran
1
70
1
1
124
Gerardo Tusman
1
70
1
1
127
Akira Iyoda
1
69
1
1
128
Tohru Asai
1
68
1
1
128
Mohamed –Adel Fetouh Elgamal
1
68
1
1
128
John A Spertus
1
68
2
3
131
Ulrike Hüffmeier
1
66
1
1
131
Andrew C Chang
1
66
1
1
131
Wim Jan van Boven
1
66
1
1
131
Vera Bril
1
66
2
2
131
Hartzell V Schaff
5
123
1
4
136
Pradeep Narayan
3
149
1
1
136
Csaba Szabo
2
114
2
10
136
Cesario Bianchi
2
114
1
1
136
Massimo Caputo
4
176
1
1
141
Enio Buffolo
1
63
1
1
141
Lars G Svensson
2
100
1
2
141
Steven D Culler
1
63
1
2
144
Elena Tremoli
1
61
3
3
144
Alessandro Parolari
3
74
1
1
144
Francesco Alamanni
2
66
1
1
144
Alberto Di Leo
1
61
2
4
144
Corrado Pedrazzani
1
61
1
1
149
Gianni Cuda
1
60
2
2
149
Françoise Le Pimpec-Barthes
5
144
1
1
149
Massimo Chello
1
60
1
1
149
Marek Cisowski
1
60
1
1
149
Alessandro Barbone
2
89
1
1
149
Elvio Covino
1
60
1
1
149
Francesco Perticone
1
60
1
2
156
Axel Franke
1
59
1
1
157
C Michael White
1
58
3
3
158
Hans Gerd Fieguth
1
57
1
1
158
Ilhan Inci
1
57
1
1
158
Rephael Mohr
2
61
1
1
158
Mehmet Ali Ozatik
1
57
1
1
158
Oguz Tasdemir
1
57
1
1
163
Makoto Hashizume
1
56
4
5
163
Mehmet Ali Bedirhan
2
99
1
1
163
Hiroshi Morimatsu
1
56
1
2
163
Akif Turna
3
124
1
1
163
Gökhan Hacıibrahimoğlu
1
56
1
1
163
Ichiro Yoshino
2
69
1
2
169
Alain Bernard
1
55
1
1
170
John Doukas
1
54
1
2
170
Keith A Horvath
2
57
1
1
172
C S Pramesh
1
53
1
1
173
Yiu-fai Cheung
1
52
1
1
174
Minoru Ono
2
74
1
1
174
Kenji Minatoya
1
51
1
1
174
David M Holzhey
1
51
1
1
174
Song Wan, Frcs
1
51
1
2
174
William R Wagner
1
51
1
3
179
Mustafa Kocakulak
1
50
1
1
179
Donald E Low
1
50
1
1
179
Marc R Moon
3
88
1
1
179
Marc Kastrup
1
50
1
1
179
Vipin Zamvar
1
50
1
3
179
Serdar Gunaydin
1
50
1
1
185
M Saadeh Suleiman
2
77
1
2
186
Giovanni Marchetto
1
48
1
1
186
Vance G Nielsen
1
48
2
2
186
Evgenij V Potapov
2
72
1
3
186
Leonard N Girardi
1
48
1
1
190
Mandeep Mehra
1
47
4
5
190
Jon A Kobashigawa
1
47
3
3
192
Dennis R Trumble
1
46
2
1
192
Marco Alifano
2
46
1
2
192
Giovanni Battista Luciani
1
46
1
1
196
Babu V Naidu
1
45
1
1
197
Guo-Wei He
4
97
1
2
197
Calvin Sh Ng
2
58
1
2
199
Halide Nur Urer
1
43
1
1
199
Sean D Chambers
1
43
1
1
201
Mohsen Ibrahim
1
41
1
1
201
Richard J Novick
1
41
1
1
203
Janet M Shipley
1
39
2
6
203
Pierre Pagé
2
65
1
1
205
Marco A Zenati
1
38
2
1
206
Michael S O'mara
1
37
1
1
206
Giuseppe Gatti
1
37
1
1
206
Akif Ündar
1
37
2
3
206
Eckhard Mayer
1
37
1
1
210
J William Gaynor
1
36
4
5
210
Martin J Elliott
1
36
1
3
210
Jeffrey P Jacobs
1
36
4
4
210
Bohdan J Maruszewski
1
36
1
1
214
Henrik Bjursten
1
35
1
1
214
Douglas B Cowan
2
55
2
3
214
Martin Bäckström
1
35
1
1
214
James D Mccully
1
35
1
2
218
Andrew M Atz
1
34
1
3
219
Robert H Anderson
1
33
2
4
219
Syed Suhail Ahmed Qadri
1
33
1
1
219
Laure Lecerf
1
33
1
1
219
Victor T Tsang
1
33
1
1
219
Pramod N Bonde
1
33
2
2
219
Mehmet Kaan Kirali
1
33
1
1
225
Andrea Mangini
1
32
1
1
225
Carlo Antona
2
44
1
1
225
Roberto Scrofani
1
32
1
1
228
Michaela Wilhelmi
1
31
1
1
228
David S Cooper
1
31
1
1
228
Dominique Gossot
1
31
1
1
228
Pablo Maria Pomerantzeff
1
31
1
3
232
William L Holman
1
30
1
1
232
Johanna M Chluba
1
30
1
3
232
Raymond L Benza
1
30
2
3
232
Thierry Le Tourneau
1
30
1
1
232
Jonathan R Skinner
1
30
1
1
232
A Ruchan Akar
1
30
1
3
232
Marcello Migliore
1
30
1
2
232
Marek J Jasínski
1
30
1
1
240
Maurice Beghetti
1
29
1
2
240
Afksendiyos Kalangos
1
29
1
1
242
Lars Rasmussen
2
42
1
3
242
Colin J Mcmahon Mbbch
1
28
2
2
244
Paulo Manoel Pego-Fernandes
1
27
1
1
244
Massimo Caputo Frcs
1
27
1
1
244
Olivier Chavanon
1
27
1
2
244
Carlos M Luna
1
27
1
1
244
Raveglia Federico
1
27
1
1
244
Thomas Modine
1
27
1
1
250
Katsuhiko Shimizu
1
26
1
1
251
Ellis J Neufeld
1
25
1
5
251
Jeroen M H Hendriks
1
25
1
1
251
Paul E. Van Schil
1
25
2
4
251
T Ryan
1
25
1
1
251
Darren Freed
1
25
1
1
251
Sanjiv K Gandhi
1
25
1
1
257
Hsuan-Ying Huang
1
24
2
3
257
Rajesh Sharma
1
24
2
1
259
John W Entwistle
1
23
1
1
259
Sally F Barrington
1
23
1
2
259
Paul Simon
1
23
1
3
259
Richard Chinnock
1
23
1
2
263
Hung-Chi Chen
1
22
1
2
263
Hung-Chi Chen,, Facs
3
49
1
1
263
Ming-Huei Cheng
1
22
2
2
263
Constantine E Anagnostopoulos
1
22
2
2
267
Damian J Mole
1
21
1
1
267
Gregorio Rabago
1
21
1
2
267
Friedhelm Beyersdorf
1
21
4
5
267
Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology
1
21
1
2
271
Jochen K Schubert
1
20
1
2
272
Paulo Jf Tucci
1
19
1
1
272
Kenneth D Boffard
1
19
1
3
272
Oliver J Liakopoulos
1
19
1
1
272
Runar Lundblad
1
19
1
1
276
Thomas M Egan
2
25
1
2
276
Luiz Augusto Lisboa
1
18
1
1
276
Matthew S Edwards
1
18
2
2
276
Luís Alberto O Dallan
1
18
1
1
276
Mario F L Gaudino
1
18
1
4
276
Giuseppe Nasso
2
18
1
2
282
Michele Senni
1
17
1
3
282
Mattia Glauber
1
17
1
3
282
Yangsoo Jang
1
17
3
12
282
Jane Blazeby
1
17
1
1
282
Kyungsoo Park
1
17
1
1
282
Kayvan Shokrollahi
1
17
1
1
282
Heyman Luckraz Frcs
1
17
1
1
282
Louise M Jennings
1
17
1
1
282
Alfredo Giuseppe Cerillo
1
17
1
2
282
T Clark Gamblin
1
17
1
1
292
Dirk L Stippel
1
16
1
1
292
Simon N Fletcher
1
16
1
2
292
Jens C Pruessner
1
16
1
3
292
Harold L Lazar
1
16
1
1
296
Craig R Malloy
1
15
1
3
296
Dai Shida
1
15
1
1
298
Jeong Ryul Lee
1
14
1
1
298
Jean Gaudart
1
14
1
2
298
Timothy O'Brien
1
14
3
5
298
Cheul Lee
1
14
1
1
298
Max B Mitchell
1
14
1
1
298
Damien Bonnet
1
14
2
3
298
Pranya Sakiyalak
1
14
1
1
306
Fausto Biancari
1
13
4
9
306
Roberto Dore
1
13
1
1
306
Raymond Cartier
1
13
1
3
306
Massimo Boffini
1
13
1
1
306
Mauro A Rinaldi
1
13
1
2
306
Sandro Gelsomino,, Fects
1
13
1
2
306
Jack Ludmir
1
13
1
1
306
Qin Yang
1
13
3
2
315
Christopher R Triggle
1
12
2
5
315
Edda M Tschernko
1
12
1
3
315
Peter Zahradka
1
12
1
3
315
Aaron S Dumont
1
12
3
6
315
Paul W Fedak
1
12
3
3
315
David J Cook
2
18
1
1
321
Angelo Graffigna
1
11
1
1
321
Pierre Abraham
1
11
2
5
321
Dimitrios Angouras
1
11
1
3
321
Jean François Viel
1
11
1
1
321
Thorsten Wahlers
1
11
2
3
321
Sonia Albanese
1
11
1
1
321
Alessandra Toscano
1
11
1
3
321
Ralph A Schmid
2
11
1
4
321
Bartosz Kubisa
1
11
1
1
321
Serpil Sak Dizbay
1
11
1
4
331
José Javier Gómez-Román
1
10
1
1
331
Wan Ki Baek
1
10
1
1
331
Fausto Miranda Junior
1
10
1
2
331
Hong-Yu Li
1
10
1
1
336
Marc Janier
1
9
1
2
336
Henry J Kaminski
1
9
4
5
336
Hajime Sato
1
9
2
5
336
Yousheng Mao
1
9
1
1
340
Andrea Fumero
1
8
1
1
340
Fabio Barili
1
8
1
1
340
Gianluca Polvani
1
8
1
3
340
Giulio Pompilio
1
8
1
4
344
Carlo Pace Napoleone
1
7
1
1
344
Giulia Veronesi
2
11
1
4
344
Ugo Pastorino
2
11
1
7
344
Lorenzo Spaggiari
2
11
1
3
344
Suzanne L Palmer
1
7
1
1
344
Piergiorgio Solli
2
11
1
4
344
Roberto Formigari
1
7
1
1
344
Gaetano Gargiulo
1
7
1
1
344
Igor D Gregoric
1
7
1
3
344
Wael I Awad
1
7
1
1
344
Doreen Rosenstrauch
1
7
1
1
355
Stanley Salmons
1
6
1
4
355
Öztekin Oto
1
6
1
1
355
Mingyao Liu
1
6
4
11
355
Rebecca A Gladdy
1
6
1
1
359
Edward P Chen
1
5
1
2
359
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