Basmah Safdar

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Basmah Safdar is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Basmah Safdar has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 18 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 17 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Basmah Safdar's work include Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (29 papers), Cardiac Health and Mental Health (20 papers) and Diversity and Career in Medicine (17 papers). Basmah Safdar is often cited by papers focused on Acute Myocardial Infarction Research (29 papers), Cardiac Health and Mental Health (20 papers) and Diversity and Career in Medicine (17 papers). Basmah Safdar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Australia. Basmah Safdar's co-authors include Gail D’Onofrio, Harlan M. Krumholz, John A. Spertus, Judith H. Lichtman, Rachel P. Dreyer, Mary Geda, James Dziura, John F. Beltrame, Héctor Bueno and Erica S. Spatz and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Annals of Internal Medicine and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Basmah Safdar

85 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Presentation, Clinical Profile, and Prognosis of Young Pa... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Presentation, Clinical Profile, and Prognosis of Young Patients With Myocardial Infarction With Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries (MINOCA): Results From the VIRGO Study
    2018 291 citations Basmah Safdar, Erica S. Spatz et al. Journal of the American Heart Association profile →
  2. Cardiovascular Considerations in Caring for Pregnant Patients: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
    2020 221 citations Basmah Safdar et al. Circulation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Basmah Safdar United States 23 1.5k 569 545 391 332 90 2.4k
Kevin L. Thomas United States 28 1.8k 1.2× 119 0.2× 320 0.6× 153 0.4× 325 1.0× 111 2.5k
Mary Geda United States 21 1.5k 1.0× 362 0.6× 393 0.7× 291 0.7× 112 0.3× 49 2.1k
Zainab Samad United States 31 1.9k 1.3× 556 1.0× 548 1.0× 195 0.5× 66 0.2× 156 2.7k
Mary M. Hand United States 16 1.4k 1.0× 348 0.6× 420 0.8× 237 0.6× 349 1.1× 31 2.2k
Samuel M. Keim United States 24 146 0.1× 193 0.3× 325 0.6× 351 0.9× 725 2.2× 102 1.7k
Peggy Hamm United States 9 809 0.5× 251 0.4× 335 0.6× 270 0.7× 70 0.2× 12 1.6k
Lawrence C. Tsen United States 28 882 0.6× 51 0.1× 1.6k 2.8× 515 1.3× 246 0.7× 146 3.0k
M. Andrew Levitt United States 28 290 0.2× 280 0.5× 480 0.9× 235 0.6× 661 2.0× 67 2.0k
Filippo Sanfilippo Italy 28 907 0.6× 116 0.2× 1.1k 1.9× 118 0.3× 486 1.5× 133 2.5k
Matthew D. McEvoy United States 26 719 0.5× 48 0.1× 875 1.6× 386 1.0× 249 0.8× 110 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Basmah Safdar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Safdar, Basmah, Angela F. Jarman, Tracy E. Madsen, et al.. (2025). Sex Differences in Response to a 12-Week Resistance Training Exercise Intervention After Cardiac Surgery: A Proof-of-Concept Intervention Trial. Clinical Therapeutics. 47(4). 299–306. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ian, Joel A. Smith, Gordon Sze, et al.. (2025). Predicting White Matter Hyperintensity: Leveraging Portable MRI for Accessible Brain Health Screening. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 46(9). 1786–1792.
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Rafique, Zubaid, et al.. (2023). 55 Patiromer Utility as an Adjunct Treatment in Patients Needing Urgent Hyperkalemia Management (PLATINUM). Annals of Emergency Medicine. 82(4). S22–S23.
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Havenon, Adam de, Anna Crawford, Mercy H. Mazurek, et al.. (2023). Identification of White Matter Hyperintensities in Routine Emergency Department Visits Using Portable Bedside Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(11). e029242–e029242. 11 indexed citations
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Murugiah, Karthik, Rachel P. Dreyer, Basmah Safdar, et al.. (2022). Depression and Perceived Stress After Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection and Comparison With Other Acute Myocardial Infarction (the VIRGO Experience). The American Journal of Cardiology. 173. 33–38. 5 indexed citations
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Dong, Siyuan, Yukun Lu, Rebecca A. Betensky, et al.. (2022). Sex and Race Differences in the Evaluation and Treatment of Young Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(10). e024199–e024199. 35 indexed citations
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Murugiah, Karthik, Rachel P. Dreyer, Basmah Safdar, et al.. (2022). Health status outcomes after spontaneous coronary artery dissection and comparison with other acute myocardial infarction: The VIRGO experience. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265624–e0265624. 5 indexed citations
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Pendyal, Akshay, Craig Rothenberg, Harlan M. Krumholz, et al.. (2020). National Trends in Emergency Department Care Processes for Acute Myocardial Infarction in the United States, 2005 to 2015. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(20). e017208–e017208. 17 indexed citations
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Beauchamp, Gillian A., Alyson J. McGregor, Esther K. Choo, Basmah Safdar, & Marna Rayl Greenberg. (2019). Incorporating Sex and Gender into Culturally Competent Simulation in Medical Education. Journal of Women s Health. 28(12). 1762–1767. 11 indexed citations
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Wolfe, Jeannette, Basmah Safdar, Kinjal Sethuraman, et al.. (2019). Engaging Emergency Medicine Influencers in Sex‐ and Gender‐based Medicine: Lessons Learned from the Sex and Gender Interest Group in Emergency Medicine and the SAEM Jeopardy Game. AEM Education and Training. 4(2). 161–165. 4 indexed citations
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Fodeh, Samah, et al.. (2019). Classification of Patients with Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 17(2). 704–711. 3 indexed citations
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Lichtman, Judith H., Erica C Leifheit, Basmah Safdar, et al.. (2018). Sex Differences in the Presentation and Perception of Symptoms Among Young Patients With Myocardial Infarction. Circulation. 137(8). 781–790. 223 indexed citations
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Kim, Yeunjung, Morgan Soffler, Summer Paradise, et al.. (2017). Depression is associated with recurrent chest pain with or without coronary artery disease: A prospective cohort study in the emergency department. American Heart Journal. 191. 47–54. 25 indexed citations
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Safdar, Basmah & Gail D’Onofrio. (2016). Women and Chest Pain: Recognizing the Different Faces of Angina in the Emergency Department.. PubMed. 89(2). 227–38. 12 indexed citations
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Safdar, Basmah, Asad Ali, Gail D’Onofrio, & Stuart D. Katz. (2016). Microvascular Dysfunction as Opposed to Conduit Artery Disease Explains Sex-specific Chest Pain in Emergency Department Patients With Low to Moderate Cardiac Risk. Clinical Therapeutics. 38(2). 240–255.e1. 6 indexed citations
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Safdar, Basmah, James Dziura, Harini Bathulapalli, et al.. (2015). Chest pain syndromes are associated with high rates of recidivism and costs in young United States Veterans. BMC Family Practice. 16(1). 88–88. 17 indexed citations
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Wigginton, Jane G., Sarah M. Perman, Gavin C. Barr, et al.. (2014). Sex- and Gender-specific Research Priorities in Cardiovascular Resuscitation: Proceedings from the 2014Academic Emergency MedicineConsensus Conference Cardiovascular Resuscitation Research Workgroup. Academic Emergency Medicine. 21(12). 1343–1349. 22 indexed citations
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Safdar, Basmah, Alyson J. McGregor, Sherry A. McKee, et al.. (2011). Inclusion of Gender in Emergency Medicine Research. Academic Emergency Medicine. 18(2). no–no. 18 indexed citations
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Shah, Bukhtiar H., et al.. (1997). The antiplatelet aggregatory activity of Acacia nilotica is due to blockade of calcium influx through membrane calcium channels. General Pharmacology The Vascular System. 29(2). 251–255. 46 indexed citations

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