OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Heart & Lung is 24. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Table of Contents	181
A Fresh Look and New Horizons: Key Developments in Heart & Lung for 2025	119
Impact of lung resections on lung transplant grafts due to size discrepancy	57
Table of Contents	55
A single-center retrospective study on the incidence and clinical significance of the electrocardiographic “Triangular QRS-ST-T Waveform” pattern**	40
Commentary: Critical care nurse burnout, moral distress, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A United States Survey	40
Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of the COPD-related Stigma Scale	39
Comment on: Severe sleep apnea as a predictor of failure to respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy	37
Impact of rhBNP and ivabradine on outcomes, cardiac markers, and microcirculation in ischemic heart failure	35
The effect of single-limb exercises on functional exercise capacity, pulmonary function and dyspnea in patients with COPD	34
The impact of social frailty on mortality in older patients with chronic heart failure: A prospective cohort study	33
Self-care management of bothersome symptoms as recommended by clinicians for patients with a chronic condition: A Delphi study	33
Sleep duration and cardiovascular disease causal association: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study	32
Non-rheumatic calcific aortic valve disease as a global driver of heart failure: Burden and three-decade trends	32
Comorbidity patterns of respiratory symptoms and diseases and their impact on all-cause and respiratory mortality: Prospective cohort study	32
Prediction of weaning in mechanically ventilated sepsis patients using interpretable machine learning methods	30
Multi–task deep survival analysis links acute exacerbation frequency to hip fracture risk in advanced COPD	30
Nurse-led Inpatient Heart Failure Program in a Community Hospital Improves Initiation of Heart Failure Guideline Directed Medication Therapy and Reduces Readmission Rates	28
Patient and caregiver experiences with a telemedicine intensive care unit recovery clinic	28
Table of Contents	28
A survey of resource allocation among canadian cardiac surgery programs during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Transforming Heart Failure Care: Leveraging Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) Discharge Order Sets to Drive Better Outcomes	26
Response to “Evaluation of pulmonary function and exercise capacity after COVID-19 pneumonia.”	25
Intersection of social determinants of health with ventricular assist device therapy: An integrative review	24