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Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair is a research topic within Surgery. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on surgical ventricular reconstruction and repair in the context of myocardial infarction, including topics such as postinfarction ventricular septal defect, ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy, cardiac support devices, and coronary artery bypass. The papers discuss risk factors, outcomes, and various surgical techniques for addressing ventricular complications following myocardial infarction.

  • Ventricular Reconstruction
  • Myocardial Infarction
  • Surgical Repair
  • Left Ventricular
  • Cardiac Support Device
  • Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defect
  • Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiac Rupture
  • Coronary Artery Bypass
Research works
46k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (3.2k and 859 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 3.2k works
  2. 2 China 859 works
  3. 3 Japan 646 works
  4. 4 Italy 486 works
  5. 5 Germany 449 works
  6. 6 India 380 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 317 works
  8. 8 Spain 297 works
  9. 9 France 197 works
  10. 10 Canada 185 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 45.8%China: 12.2%Japan: 9.2%Italy: 6.9%6 others listed: 25.9%46%largest
United States3,224 · 45.8%China859 · 12.2%Japan646 · 9.2%Italy486 · 6.9%6 others listed1,826 · 25.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mayo Clinic publishes the most Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research, followed by Harvard University and Cleveland Clinic.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mayo ClinicUnited States 129 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 103 works
  3. 3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 94 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 60 works
  5. 5 Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States 52 works
  6. 6 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 47 works
  7. 7 Columbia UniversityUnited States 45 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 44 works
  9. 9 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States 44 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair include John J.V. McMurray, Emelia J. Benjamin and Stephan Windecker.

  1. 1 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  2. 2 Emelia J. Benjamin United States 341k citations
  3. 3 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  4. 4 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  5. 5 Gregory Y.H. Lip United Kingdom 311k citations
  6. 6 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  7. 7 Naohiro Yonemoto Japan 297k citations
  8. 8 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  9. 9 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  10. 10 Victoria Delgado Netherlands 269k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair?

The most cited paper in Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair is "ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease" (Robert O. Bonow, Blase Anthony Carabello, Kanu Chatterjee et al., 2006), with 8,516 citations. Next come "Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure" (3,992) and "Recommendations for Noninvasive Evaluation of Native Valvular Regurgitation" (3,570).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease Robert O. Bonow, Blase Anthony Carabello, Kanu Chatterjee et al. · Circulation Open access Aug 2006 8,516
2 Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure Eric A. Rose et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 15 Nov 2001 3,992
3 Recommendations for Noninvasive Evaluation of Native Valvular Regurgitation William A. Zoghbi, David H Adams, Robert O. Bonow et al. · Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 14 Mar 2017 3,570
4 Rapid Measurement of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in the Emergency Diagnosis of Heart Failure Alan S. Maisel, Padma Krishnaswamy, Richard M. Nowak et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 18 Jul 2002 3,385
5 The Use of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Identify Reversible Myocardial Dysfunction Raymond J. Kim, Edwin Wu, Allen Rafael et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 16 Nov 2000 3,311
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Where is Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research done?

The largest centres of Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Cleveland (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 175 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 158 works
  3. 3 TokyoJapan 131 works
  4. 4 ClevelandUnited States 121 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 120 works
  6. 6 PhiladelphiaUnited States 112 works
  7. 7 BostonUnited States 109 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 101 works
  9. 9 HoustonUnited States 99 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 81 works
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Where is the best place to study Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and Southern Medical University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Southern Medical Uni…Harvard UniversityChinese Academy of M…University of Padua
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.516.9%3.9×103 -12.6%
2Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 60.016.4%7.0×60 +75.7%
3Southern Medical UniversityChina 58.240.1%2.0×10 +100.1%
4University of PaduaItaly 54.114.8%5.1×34 +18.2%
5University of TorontoCanada 53.914.7%2.6×44 -10.5%
6Heidelberg UniversityGermany 53.918.8%3.8×24 +12.9%
7Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States 53.513.7%13.2×37 +10.3%
8Xiamen UniversityChina 53.029.9%1.3×9 +58.0%
9Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 52.623.9%3.8×12 -1.4%
10Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 49.915.9%2.4×14 +30.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair, country by country

Is Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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