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Luc Mertens publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luc Mertens sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 538 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Luc Mertens D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Luc Mertens sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Luc Mertens is a researcher affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada specializing in medicine, with a particular focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields including epidemiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The main topics of their work cover a range of areas related to heart and vascular conditions, notably:

  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Luc Mertens include:

  • Blood Speckle-Tracking Based on High-Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging in Pediatric Cardiology (2020) published in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
  • The Cardiac Genome Clinic: implementing genome sequencing in pediatric heart disease (2020) published in Genetics in Medicine
  • Outcomes after anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery repair: A Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Study (2020) published in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Remote ischemic conditioning counteracts the intestinal damage of necrotizing enterocolitis by improving intestinal microcirculation (2020) published in Nature Communications
  • Relationship Between Left Ventricular Geometry and Invasive Hemodynamics in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension (2020) published in Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Luc Mertens include:

  • Olivier Villemain
  • Mark K. Friedberg
  • Jérôme Baranger
  • Minh B. Nguyen
  • Cameron Slorach

Their work is regularly published in several specialized cardiovascular and cardiology journals, prominently including:

  • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
  • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • Circulation
  • CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Best Publications

  • Standardization of left atrial, right ventricular, and right atrial deformation imaging using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography: a consensus document of the EACVI/ASE/Industry Task Force to standardize deformation imaging.

    Luigi P. Badano;Theodore J. Kolias;Denisa Muraru;Theodore P. Abraham

  • The Clinical Use of Stress Echocardiography in Non-Ischaemic Heart Disease: Recommendations from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography.

    Patrizio Lancellotti;Patricia A. Pellikka;Werner Budts;Farooq A. Chaudhry

  • Protein-losing enteropathy after the Fontan operation: An international multicenter study

    Luc Mertens;Donald J. Hagler;Ursula Sauer;Jane Somerville

  • Pediatric Outcome After Maternal Cancer Diagnosed During Pregnancy

    Frederic Amant;Tineke Vandenbroucke;Magali Verheecke;Monica Fumagalli

  • Long-term cognitive and cardiac outcomes after prenatal exposure to chemotherapy in children aged 18 months or older: an observational study

    Frédéric Amant;Kristel Van Calsteren;Michael J Halaska;Mina Mhallem Gziri

  • Quantification of regional left and right ventricular radial and longitudinal function in healthy children using ultrasound-based strain rate and strain imaging.

    Frank Weidemann;Benedicte Eyskens;Fadi Jamal;Luc Mertens

  • Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for Training Writing group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC)

    Luc Mertens;Istvan Seri;Jan Marek;Romaine Arlettaz

  • Imaging the right ventricle—current state of the art

    Luc L. Mertens;Mark K. Friedberg

  • The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the management of pediatric heart failure: Executive summary

    Richard Kirk;Anne I. Dipchand;David N. Rosenthal;Linda Addonizio

  • Regional longitudinal strain distribution in the left and right ventricle in children after correction of tetralogy of fallot using ultrasound based strain rate imaging

    Frank Weidemann;B Eyskens;L Simmons;Miroslaw Kowalski

  • Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training:.

    Luc Mertens;Istvan Seri;Jan Marek;Romaine Arlettaz

  • Submicroscopic chromosomal imbalances detected by array-CGH are a frequent cause of congenital heart defects in selected patients.

    Bernard Thienpont;Luc Mertens;Thomy de Ravel;Benedicte Eyskens

  • Myocardial dysfunction late after low-dose anthracycline treatment in asymptomatic pediatric patients.

    Javier Ganame;Piet Claus;Anne Uyttebroeck;Marleen Renard

  • Determination of relative amounts of inositol trisphosphate receptor mRNA isoforms by ratio polymerase chain reaction

    H De Smedt;L Missiaen;J B Parys;M D Bootman

  • Echocardiography in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: From Fetus to Adult

    Patricia Noonan-Walsh;Patricia Walsh;Tamar Heller;Wyman Lai

  • Imaging the right heart: the use of integrated multimodality imaging.

    Emanuela R. Valsangiacomo Buechel;Luc L. Mertens

  • Helical CT for the preoperative localization of islet cell tumors of the pancreas: value of arterial and parenchymal phase images.

    L Van Hoe;S Gryspeerdt;G Marchal;A L Baert

  • Physical performance and physical activity in grown-up congenital heart disease

    Tony Reybrouck;Luc Mertens

  • Idebenone treatment in Friedreich's ataxia: neurological, cardiac, and biochemical monitoring.

    Gunnar Buyse;Luc Mertens;G Di Salvo;I Matthijs

  • Effect of percutaneous fenestration of the atrial septum on protein-losing enteropathy after the Fontan operation.

    Luc Mertens;M Dumoulin;Marc Gewillig

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Gewillig
Marc Gewillig KU Leuven
Brian W. McCrindle
Brian W. McCrindle University of Toronto
Bart Bijnens
Bart Bijnens University of Barcelona
Patrick J. McNamara
Patrick J. McNamara University of Iowa
Andrew N. Redington
Andrew N. Redington Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
George R. Sutherland
George R. Sutherland St George's, University of London
Lieven Lagae
Lieven Lagae KU Leuven
Lee N. Benson
Lee N. Benson University of Toronto
Patrick Segers
Patrick Segers Ghent University

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