OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine is 29. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial commentary: Air pollution: The most important environmental threat to the cardiovascular system	281
Editorial commentary: Unraveling intricacies of cardiovascular disease at the single-cell resolution	148
Editorial Board	124
Editorial commentary: The enigma of the left atrial septal pouch	112
Cardiac implantable electronic device infection	109
Gender and race-related disparities in the management of ventricular arrhythmias	105
Editorial commentary: CardioVerse: Buying the stairway to heaven	102
Editorial commentary: Polygenic risk and coronary artery calcium score: Joining forces in preventive cardiology	66
Editorial commentary: Factors underlying improved mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation	60
Editorial commentary: Role of inflammatory cytokines in genesis and treatment of atherosclerosis. Looking at foam cells through a different lens	60
Editorial commentary: Simplifying diagnostics in wide complex tachycardia: Not so simple	49
Physiologic guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention: State of the evidence	49
Editorial commentary: The evolution of prosthetic heart valves and related preventative antithrombotic therapy: Different paths with divergent progression	48
Editorial commentary: Is it the atrial arrhythmia or the atrial myopathy? Yes! (It's both)	45
Head-to-head comparison between left atrial appendage occlusion and non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis study	44
Percutaneous suture-based patent foramen ovale closure: A state-of-the-art review	43
Editorial commentary: Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heart Failure.	39
Editorial Board	39
Non-invasive ablation of arrhythmias with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy	38
Coronary artery embolism and acute coronary syndrome: A critical appraisal of existing data	37
Invasive management of unroofed coronary sinus: A systematic review	37
Editorial commentary: Heart failure incidence and etiologies at young adult age	35
Editorial commentary: Respect or resect? Patient tailored approach	34
Advances in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: New insights and future directions	34
Access routes, devices and guidance methods for intrapericardial delivery in cardiac conditions	33

Editorial commentary: “Three steps to ACM diagnosis – is it that easy?”	33
Thromboembolic risk and oral anticoagulation in subclinical atrial fibrillation	32
Spotlight on ATTR cardiomyopathy: the unexpected journey of a once considered “orphan disease”	31
Radial artery or saphenous vein?	30
Editorial commentary: Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: Know your strengths well, and know your weaknesses better	29