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Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
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Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 2919 56 131 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 100
Documents by Best Scientists*: 176
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 60
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.449
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon?

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon focuses on Surgery, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Radiology and Anesthesia. The journal focuses on Surgery research which is adjacent to topics in Aortic valve replacement. The studies in Artery, Hemodynamics, Cardiopulmonary bypass and Aortic valve under the umbrella field of Internal medicine overlap with concepts in In patient.

The journal focuses on different Cardiology studies like Myocardial infarction, Stenosis, Heart failure, Atrial fibrillation and Ventricle.

  • Surgery (42.96%)
  • Internal medicine (34.74%)
  • Cardiology (31.59%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Extensive aortic replacement using "elephant trunk" prosthesis (535 citations)
  • Left ventricular aneurysm: a new surgical approach. (449 citations)
  • Mediastinitis and Cardiac Surgery - an Updated Risk Factor Analysis in 10,373 Consecutive Adult Patients (197 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon:

The journal articles focus largely on the fields of Surgery, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Cardiac surgery and Cardiopulmonary bypass. The most cited papers explore research in Surgery alongside concepts in Anesthesia and other areas of study in Blood transfusion. The journal articles cover research in Internal medicine, particularly Artery, Extracorporeal circulation and Survival rate and how it is related with concepts in In patient.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Surgery
  • Radiology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Surgery, Internal medicine, Cardiology, Perioperative and Cardiac surgery are tackled in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. Issues in Surgery were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Incidence (epidemiology) and Lung. Research on Internal medicine presented in it focuses, in particular, on Confidence interval, Adverse effect, Atrial fibrillation, Hazard ratio and Cohort.

It tackles issues in Cardiology, particularly in the topics of Ejection fraction, Artery and Hemodynamics. The work on Perioperative tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Retrospective cohort study, Propensity score matching and Aortic valve replacement. The studies on Cardiac surgery discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Odds ratio, Cardiopulmonary bypass and MEDLINE.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Combined Use of CytoSorb and ECMO in Patients with Severe Pneumogenic Sepsis (18 citations)
  • German Heart Surgery Report 2020: The Annual Updated Registry of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. (7 citations)
  • Management of Nonmalignant Tracheo- and Bronchoesophageal Fistula after Esophagectomy. (6 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (based on the number of publications) are:

  • H. Reichenspurner (454 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr (388 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • R. Hetzer (261 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • A Haverich (232 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ruediger Lange (222 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hannover Medical School (92 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (92 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Cologne (83 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Leipzig University (80 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Heidelberg University (66 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 33.99% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.15% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.91% of all publications and 52.24% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Opportunities Post Research

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Top Publications

  • Sutureless versus Stented Bioprostheses for Aortic Valve Replacement: The Randomized PERSIST-AVR Study Design

    Roberto Lorusso;Thierry Folliguet;Malakh Shrestha;Bart Meuris

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • German Heart Surgery Report 2023: The Annual Updated Registry of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

    (2024)
    11 Citations
  • Current Status of Cardiac Xenotransplantation: Report of a Workshop of the German Heart Transplant Centers, Martinsried, March 3, 2023

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Cause of Ascending Aortic Dilatation in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valves: The Final Link.

    Francis Robicsek;Jeko M. Madjarov;Robert F. Padera

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Impact of Intermittent Functional Internal Iliac Artery Occlusion on Spinal Cord Blood Supply during TEVAR.

    Sven Maier;Julia Morlock;Christoph Benk;Fabian Alexander Kari

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Behandlung der Thorakalen Aortendissektion Typ A

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Surgical Outcomes and Risk Analysis of Primary Pulmonary Sarcoma.

    Yoshito Yamada;Yoshito Yamada;Tevfik Kaplan;Alex Soltermann;Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Impact of Procedure Volume on the Outcomes of Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement.

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Microbiological Surveillance of Heater-Cooler Units Used in Cardiothoracic Surgery for Detection of Mycobacterium chimaera

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Pacemaker after Sutureless and Rapid-Deployment Prostheses: A Progress Report from the SURD-IR

    (2022)
    5 Citations

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