Dipen Shah

32.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
207 papers, 18.8k citations indexed

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Dipen Shah is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dipen Shah has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 18.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 16 papers in Surgery and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dipen Shah's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (167 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (145 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (89 papers). Dipen Shah is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (167 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (145 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (89 papers). Dipen Shah collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United States. Dipen Shah's co-authors include Pierre Jaı̈s, Jacques Clémenty, Mélèze Hocini, Michel Haı̈ssaguerre, Stéphane Garrigue, Philippe Le Métayer, Atsushi Takahashi, G. Quiniou, Atsushi Takahashi and Salah Chouairi and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Dipen Shah

193 papers receiving 18.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spontaneous Initiation of Atrial Fibrillation by Ectopic Beats Originating in the Pulmonary Veins

1998 5.5k citations Michel Haı̈ssaguerre, Pierre Jaı̈s et al. profile →
A Focal Source of Atrial Fibrillation Treated by Discrete Radiofrequency Ablation

1997 769 citations Dipen Shah et al. profile →
Electrophysiological Breakthroughs From the Left Atrium to the Pulmonary Veins

2000 684 citations Michel Haı̈ssaguerre, Dipen Shah et al. profile →
Electrophysiological End Point for Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Initiated From Multiple Pulmonary Venous Foci

2000 640 citations Michel Haı̈ssaguerre, Pierre Jaı̈s et al. profile →
Technique and Results of Linear Ablation at the Mitral Isthmus

2004 523 citations Pierre Jaı̈s, Mélèze Hocini et al. profile →
Novel Contact Force Sensor Incorporated in Irrigated Radiofrequency Ablation Catheter Predicts Lesion Size and Incidence of Steam Pop and Thrombus

2008 473 citations Hiroshi Nakagawa, Dipen Shah et al. profile →
The relationship between contact force and clinical outcome during radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in the TOCCATA study

2012 360 citations Vivek Y. Reddy, Dipen Shah et al. Heart Rhythm profile →
Electrical Reconnection After Pulmonary Vein Isolation Is Contingent on Contact Force During Initial Treatment

2013 347 citations Petr Neužil, Vivek Y. Reddy et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dipen Shah Switzerland	54	17.7k	939	728	684	474	207	18.8k
Stéphane Garrigue France	43	16.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	606 0.8×	692 1.0×	282 0.6×	112	17.3k
Allan C. Skanes Canada	50	11.5k 0.6×	1.8k 1.9×	955 1.3×	783 1.1×	564 1.2×	270	12.4k
Jacques Clémenty France	78	24.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.9×	713 1.0×	984 1.4×	418 0.9×	317	25.1k
Hiroshi Tada Japan	45	6.9k 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	523 0.7×	452 0.7×	182 0.4×	359	8.4k
Lluı́s Mont Spain	64	14.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.9×	785 1.1×	1.8k 2.7×	181 0.4×	445	16.2k
David J. Callans United States	72	19.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	633 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	248 0.5×	413	20.8k
Pierre Jaı̈s France	91	33.1k 1.9×	1.8k 1.9×	1.1k 1.5×	2.1k 3.1×	590 1.2×	582	35.0k
Michael R. Gold United States	63	16.3k 0.9×	2.0k 2.2×	553 0.8×	901 1.3×	234 0.5×	423	17.6k
Mélèze Hocini France	79	26.3k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	1.2k 1.8×	504 1.1×	419	27.1k
Berndt Lüderitz Germany	44	5.0k 0.3×	698 0.7×	485 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	225 0.5×	351	6.6k

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Adamopoulos, Dionysios, Hajo Müller, Jean‐François Deux, et al.. (2025). Left atrial wall shear stress correlates with fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 4(6). 677–688. 1 indexed citations

Namdar, Mehdi, et al.. (2025). Typical Atrial Flutter: A Practical Review. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 36(10). 2677–2691. 2 indexed citations

Natale, Andrea, et al.. (2024). EN-482891-003 SUSTAINED REDUCTION IN LEFT HEART FILLING PRESSURES IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION USING A RHYTHM CONTROL STRATEGY INCORPORATING CATHETER ABLATION. Heart Rhythm. 21(5). S27–S28. 1 indexed citations

Saksena, Sanjeev, April Slee, Andrea Natale, et al.. (2023). Atrial Fibrillation can adversely impact Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction by its association with Heart Failure Progression and Mortality: A Post-Hoc Propensity Score–Matched Analysis of the TOPCAT Americas Trial. EP Europace. 25(5). 15 indexed citations

Shah, Dipen. (2017). Ventricular arrhythmias in congenital heart disease: how can the electrophysiologist help?. Cardiovascular Medicine. 20(2). 27–35. 1 indexed citations

Namdar, Mehdi, et al.. (2016). Evaluation de l’intervalle QT en présence d’un élargissement du QRS. Revue Médicale Suisse. 12(520). 1049–1053. 1 indexed citations

Namdar, Mehdi, et al.. (2015). The athlete's ECG: where to stand between physiology and disease?. Cardiovascular Medicine. 18(9). 263–264. 1 indexed citations

Kück, Karl‐Heinz, Vivek Y. Reddy, Boris Schmidt, et al.. (2011). A novel radiofrequency ablation catheter using contact force sensing: Toccata study. Heart Rhythm. 9(1). 18–23. 233 indexed citations

Shah, Dipen, Henri Sunthorn, Haran Burri, & Pascale Gentil-Baron. (2005). How to ablate left atrial flutter. Heart Rhythm. 2(10). 1153–1157. 3 indexed citations

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Clary, Greg L., Charles W. Davenport, Maragatha Kuchibhatla, et al.. (2002). Effects of antidepressant medication on mortality in patients with congestive heart failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 39. 168–168.

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Shah, Dipen, Pierre Jaı̈s, & Michel Haı̈ssaguerre. (2002). Electrophysiological Evaluation and Ablation of Atypical Right Atrial Flutter. Cardiac Electrophysiology Review. 6(4). 365–370. 8 indexed citations

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Choi, Kee‐Joon, Dipen Shah, Pierre Jaı̈s, et al.. (2002). QRST subtraction combined with a pacemap catalogue for the prediction of ectopy source by surface electrocardiogram in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 40(11). 2013–2021. 8 indexed citations

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Jaı̈s, Pierre, Mélèze Hocini, Dipen Shah, et al.. (2001). Effectiveness of irrigated tip catheter ablation of common atrial flutter. The American Journal of Cardiology. 88(4). 433–435. 21 indexed citations

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Yamane, Teiichi, Dipen Shah, Jingtian Peng, et al.. (2001). Morphological characteristics of P waves during selective pulmonary vein pacing. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 38(5). 1505–1510. 50 indexed citations

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Garrigue, Stéphane, Jean-Noël Labèque, Mélèze Hocini, et al.. (2001). Comparison of chronic biventricular pacing between epicardial and endocardial left ventricular stimulation using Doppler tissue imaging in patients with heart failure. The American Journal of Cardiology. 88(8). 858–862. 117 indexed citations

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Shah, Dipen, Atsushi Takahashi, Pierre Jaı̈s, et al.. (2000). Tracking dynamic conduction recovery across the cavotricuspid isthmus. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 35(6). 1478–1484. 30 indexed citations

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Haı̈ssaguerre, Michel, Dipen Shah, Pierre Jaı̈s, et al.. (2000). Mapping-guided ablation of pulmonary veins to cure atrial fibrillation. The American Journal of Cardiology. 86(9). K9–K19. 114 indexed citations

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Lauribe, P, Dipen Shah, Pierre Jaı̈s, et al.. (1999). Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Drug Refractory Symptomatic Ventricular Ectopy: Short‐ and Long‐Term Results. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 22(5). 783–789. 14 indexed citations

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Douard, H, et al.. (1998). Endocardial Biventricular Pacing. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 21(11). 2128–2131. 83 indexed citations

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Shah, Dipen, et al.. (1993). Pseudocoarctation of the aorta: A magnetic resonance imaging correlation. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis. 30(1). 48–50. 1 indexed citations

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