Babak Azarbal

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Babak Azarbal is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Babak Azarbal has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Surgery, 44 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Babak Azarbal's work include Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (39 papers), Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (22 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (16 papers). Babak Azarbal is often cited by papers focused on Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (39 papers), Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (22 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (16 papers). Babak Azarbal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Babak Azarbal's co-authors include J. Patel, M. Kittleson, Richard Cheng, F. Esmailian, Rory Hachamovitch, Jonathan M. Tobis, J. Moriguchi, Francisco A. Arabía, Leo Slavin and Jon Kobashigawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Babak Azarbal

76 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Complications of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock and Cardiac Arrest: A Meta-Analysis of 1,866 Adult Patients

2013 595 citations Richard Cheng, M. Kittleson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Babak Azarbal United States	20	1.2k	897	859	534	391	85	2.2k
Kevin Landolfo United States	28	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	350 0.4×	364 0.7×	299 0.8×	105	2.7k
Kazutomo Minami Germany	31	1.7k 1.4×	2.0k 2.2×	921 1.1×	397 0.7×	171 0.4×	179	3.6k
Feng‐Chun Tsai Taiwan	34	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	865 1.6×	78 0.2×	154	3.0k
Sara J. Shumway United States	25	1.8k 1.5×	625 0.7×	853 1.0×	314 0.6×	36 0.1×	96	2.4k
David M. Follette United States	28	1.0k 0.8×	501 0.6×	419 0.5×	586 1.1×	318 0.8×	56	2.4k
D. Marshall Brinkley United States	14	679 0.5×	324 0.4×	413 0.5×	194 0.4×	101 0.3×	40	1.2k
Xavier M. Mueller Switzerland	24	1.1k 0.9×	802 0.9×	403 0.5×	238 0.4×	74 0.2×	104	1.8k
Stig Steen Sweden	29	2.4k 1.9×	395 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	830 1.6×	52 0.1×	102	3.3k
W. Steves Ring United States	31	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	456 0.5×	85 0.2×	249 0.6×	108	2.9k
Steven Tsui United Kingdom	35	2.2k 1.8×	1.6k 1.8×	1.6k 1.8×	693 1.3×	59 0.2×	157	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Babak Azarbal

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Babak Azarbal's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Babak Azarbal with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Babak Azarbal more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Babak Azarbal

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Babak Azarbal. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Babak Azarbal. The network helps show where Babak Azarbal may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Babak Azarbal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Babak Azarbal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Babak Azarbal based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Babak Azarbal. Babak Azarbal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Kim, In‐Cheol, Randall C. Starling, Kiran K. Khush, et al.. (2024). Ten-year follow-up cohort of the everolimus versus azathioprine multinational prospective study focusing on intravascular ultrasound findings. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 43(11). 1788–1794.

Kwan, Alan C., Heidi Gransar, Evangelos Tzolos, et al.. (2021). The accuracy of coronary CT angiography in patients with coronary calcium score above 1000 Agatston Units: Comparison with quantitative coronary angiography. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 15(5). 412–418. 21 indexed citations

Kransdorf, E., et al.. (2021). The Effects of Donor-Specific Antibody Characteristics on Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 40(4). S41–S41. 2 indexed citations

AlBadri, Ahmed, Janet Wei, Odayme Quesada, et al.. (2020). Coronary Vascular Function and Cardiomyocyte Injury. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 40(12). 3015–3021. 13 indexed citations

Quesada, Odayme, B. Delia Johnson, Puja K. Mehta, et al.. (2020). Angina Hospitalization Rates in Women With Signs and Symptoms of Ischemia But no Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: A Report from the WISE (Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation) Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(4). e013168–e013168. 12 indexed citations

Patel, J., Guillaume Coutance, Alexandre Loupy, et al.. (2020). Complement inhibition for prevention of antibody-mediated rejection in immunologically high-risk heart allograft recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. 21(7). 2479–2488. 44 indexed citations

Sato, Takuma, Babak Azarbal, Richard Cheng, et al.. (2019). Does ex vivo perfusion lead to more or less intimal thickening in the first‐year post–heart transplantation?. Clinical Transplantation. 33(8). e13648–e13648. 12 indexed citations

Kransdorf, E., M. Kittleson, J. Patel, et al.. (2019). Mixed Rejection: More Important Than Thought after Heart Transplantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 38(4). S388–S388. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Janet, Galen Cook‐Wiens, Quanlin Li, et al.. (2018). Maladaptive left ventricular remodeling in women: An analysis from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation–Coronary Vascular Dysfunction study. International Journal of Cardiology. 268. 230–235. 3 indexed citations

10.

Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2018). TCT-401 A Strategy of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Drug-Eluting Stents for the Treatment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy May Normalize Survival. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72(13). B162–B162.

11.

Sato, Takuma, Richard Cheng, Babak Azarbal, et al.. (2018). COMBINED HEART AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: IS THERE A PROTECTIVE EFFECT AGAINST CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY USING INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND?. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71(11). A977–A977. 1 indexed citations

12.

Azarbal, Babak, Richard Cheng, J. Patel, et al.. (2016). Induction Therapy With Antithymocyte Globulin in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Transplantation Is Associated With Decreased Coronary Plaque Progression as Assessed by Intravascular Ultrasound. Circulation Heart Failure. 9(1). e002252–e002252. 27 indexed citations

13.

Azarbal, Babak, Sean W. Hayes, Heidi Gransar, et al.. (2015). Prognostic Contribution of Exercise Capacity, Heart Rate Recovery, Chronotropic Incompetence, and Myocardial Perfusion Single-Photon Emission Computerized Tomography in the Prediction of Cardiac Death and All-Cause Mortality. The American Journal of Cardiology. 116(11). 1678–1684. 29 indexed citations

14.

Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2014). Prevalence of coronary artery fistulae after cardiac surgery. Herz. 40(S1). 51–55. 4 indexed citations

15.

Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2014). Abstract 14944: Elevated Peak Immune Monitoring Early After Transplantation is Associated with Angiographic Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy. Circulation. 130(suppl_2). 1 indexed citations

16.

Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2014). Elevated immune monitoring early after cardiac transplantation is associated with increased plaque progression by intravascular ultrasound. Clinical Transplantation. 29(2). 103–109. 4 indexed citations

17.

Azarbal, Babak, et al.. (2013). RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIABETES MELLITUS AND CHRONOTROPIC INCOMPETENCE IN PREDICTION OF ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 61(10). E1115–E1115. 1 indexed citations

18.

Mehta, Puja K., Megha Agarwal, B. Delia Johnson, et al.. (2013). SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY OF CMRI FOR DIAGNOSIS OF MICROVASCULAR CORONARY DYSFUNCTION IN WOMEN WITH SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF ISCHEMIA AND NO OBSTRUCTIVE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: RESULTS FROM THE NHLBI-SPONSORED WOMEN'S ISCHEMIA SYNDROME EVALUATION (WISE). Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 61(10). E825–E825. 2 indexed citations

19.

Azarbal, Babak, Paul Poommipanit, A. Hage, et al.. (2011). Feasibility and Safety of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease Referred for Liver Transplantation. Liver Transplantation. 17(7). 809–813. 49 indexed citations

20.

Tobis, Jonathan M. & Babak Azarbal. (2005). Does patent foramen ovale promote cryptogenic stroke and migraine headache?. PubMed. 32(3). 362–5. 62 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact