Boulos Asfour

2.0k total citations
95 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Boulos Asfour is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Boulos Asfour has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Epidemiology, 52 papers in Surgery and 40 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Boulos Asfour's work include Congenital Heart Disease Studies (63 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (20 papers) and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (20 papers). Boulos Asfour is often cited by papers focused on Congenital Heart Disease Studies (63 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (20 papers) and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (20 papers). Boulos Asfour collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Boulos Asfour's co-authors include Nicodème Sinzobahamvya, Joachim Photiadis, Viktor Hraška, Ehrenfried Schindler, Claudia Arenz, Hans H. Scheld, Andreas Urban, Katja Schneider, Tonny D.T. Tjan and Dieter Hammel and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Scientific Reports and The American Journal of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Boulos Asfour

89 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Boulos Asfour Germany 21 829 578 542 531 191 95 1.2k
Bruno Murzi Italy 24 839 1.0× 520 0.9× 736 1.4× 574 1.1× 170 0.9× 91 1.4k
Jean‐Pierre Pfammatter Switzerland 20 638 0.8× 461 0.8× 581 1.1× 473 0.9× 123 0.6× 69 1.2k
Zdeněk Slavík United Kingdom 18 841 1.0× 670 1.2× 397 0.7× 594 1.1× 87 0.5× 57 1.2k
Palaniswamy Vijay United States 24 1.1k 1.4× 955 1.7× 616 1.1× 822 1.5× 188 1.0× 44 1.6k
P. E. Lange Germany 18 553 0.7× 533 0.9× 551 1.0× 451 0.8× 202 1.1× 39 1.1k
Andréea Dragulescu Canada 24 972 1.2× 472 0.8× 1.0k 1.9× 674 1.3× 174 0.9× 86 1.5k
Irene D. Lytrivi United States 17 330 0.4× 295 0.5× 382 0.7× 297 0.6× 156 0.8× 59 777
Gideon Sahar Israel 18 316 0.4× 430 0.7× 690 1.3× 229 0.4× 87 0.5× 68 1.1k
Gianluca Brancaccio Italy 19 548 0.7× 741 1.3× 765 1.4× 383 0.7× 222 1.2× 68 1.3k
Nobuhiko Hayashida Japan 22 350 0.4× 481 0.8× 646 1.2× 181 0.3× 161 0.8× 74 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Boulos Asfour

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Boulos Asfour'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 Boulos Asfour with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Boulos Asfour more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Boulos Asfour

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Boulos Asfour. 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 Boulos Asfour. The network helps show where Boulos Asfour may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boulos Asfour

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Boulos Asfour. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Boulos Asfour 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 Boulos Asfour. Boulos Asfour is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Herberg, Ulrike, et al.. (2023). A porcine model of postoperative hemi-diaphragmatic paresis to evaluate a unilateral diaphragmatic pacemaker. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12628–12628. 3 indexed citations
2.
Bauer, Ulrike, P. Helm, Gerhard‐Paul Diller, et al.. (2017). Are adults with congenital heart disease informed about their risk for infective endocarditis and treated in accordance to current guidelines?. International Journal of Cardiology. 245. 105–108. 9 indexed citations
3.
Duebener, Lennart F., Benjamin Bierbach, Peter Zartner, et al.. (2017). Novel Perfusion Technique for Norwood Operations: Additional Percutaneous Cannulation of the Femoral Artery for Lower Body Perfusion. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. 65(S 01). S1–S110. 2 indexed citations
4.
Helm, P., Gerhard‐Paul Diller, H. Kaemmerer, et al.. (2017). Are Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Informed about Their Risk for Infective Endocarditis and Treated in Accordance to Current Guidelines?. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. 65(S 02). S111–S142.
5.
Helm, P., Marc-André Körten, Hashim Abdul‐Khaliq, et al.. (2016). Three parties, one direction: Research priorities in adults with congenital heart disease. What do professionals, patients and relatives want to know?. International Journal of Cardiology. 207. 220–229. 5 indexed citations
6.
Arenz, Claudia, et al.. (2013). Is there any need for a shunt in the treatment of tetralogy of Fallot with one source of pulmonary blood flow?†. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 44(4). 648–654. 16 indexed citations
7.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, Joachim Photiadis, Claudia Arenz, et al.. (2011). Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease: Contribution of the Aristotle Complexity Score to Planning and Budgeting in the German Diagnosis-Related Groups System. Pediatric Cardiology. 33(1). 36–41. 2 indexed citations
8.
Schindler, Ehrenfried, et al.. (2010). Tranexamic acid: an alternative to aprotinin as antifibrinolytic therapy in pediatric congenital heart surgery. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 39(4). 495–499. 18 indexed citations
9.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, et al.. (2010). Congenital Heart Surgery: Applicability of Hospital Reimbursement According to German Diagnosis-Related Groups System in Conformity with the Aristotle Complexity Score. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. 58(6). 328–332. 4 indexed citations
10.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, Joachim Photiadis, Claudia Arenz, et al.. (2010). Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease: Correlation between Hospital Costs and the Aristotle Complexity Score. The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon. 58(6). 322–327. 8 indexed citations
11.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, Claudia Arenz, Joachim Photiadis, et al.. (2009). Poor outcome for patients with totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection and functionally single ventricle. Cardiology in the Young. 19(6). 594–600. 23 indexed citations
12.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, et al.. (2007). Compared fate of small-diameter Contegras® and homografts in the pulmonary position. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 32(2). 209–214. 20 indexed citations
13.
Sinzobahamvya, Nicodème, et al.. (2006). Comprehensive Aristotle Score: Implications for the Norwood Procedure. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 81(5). 1794–1800. 21 indexed citations
14.
Miyamoto, Tsutomu, et al.. (2006). Twenty years experience of surgical aortic valvotomy for critical aortic stenosis in early infancy☆. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 30(1). 35–40. 40 indexed citations
15.
Photiadis, Joachim, Nicodème Sinzobahamvya, Christoph Fink, et al.. (2006). Optimal pulmonary to systemic blood flow ratio for best hemodynamic status and outcome early after Norwood operation. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 29(4). 551–556. 17 indexed citations
16.
Krasemann, Thomas, Hans-Gerd Kehl, J. Vogt, & Boulos Asfour. (2003). Unusual Systemic Venous Return with Complete Absence of the Superior Caval Veins. Pediatric Cardiology. 24(4). 397–399. 14 indexed citations
17.
Hammel, Dieter, Christopher H. Schmid, J. Stypmann, et al.. (2001). Clinical experience with nine patients supported by the continuous flow Debakey VAD. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 20(2). 201–201. 15 indexed citations
18.
Tjan, T. D. T., et al.. (2000). Cardiac type VIII collagen mRNA is downregulated in advanced heart failure. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 19(1). 95–96. 4 indexed citations
19.
Tjan, Tonny D.T., Boulos Asfour, Rainer Gradaus, et al.. (1999). Combining nonpharmacologic therapies for advanced heart failure: the münster experience with the assist device–defibrillator combination. The American Journal of Cardiology. 83(5). 158–160. 6 indexed citations
20.
Hammel, Dieter, M. Block, Wolfgang Konertz, et al.. (1993). Surgical experience with defibrillator implantation using nonthoracotomy leads. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 55(3). 685–693. 17 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

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Bruno Murzi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jean‐Pierre Pfammatter Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Zdeněk Slavík Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Palaniswamy Vijay Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by P. E. Lange Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Andréea Dragulescu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Irene D. Lytrivi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gideon Sahar Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gianluca Brancaccio Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nobuhiko Hayashida
Rankless by CCL
2026