George Makdisi

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

George Makdisi is a scholar working on Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, George Makdisi has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Surgery, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in George Makdisi's work include Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (11 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (7 papers) and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (6 papers). George Makdisi is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (11 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (7 papers) and Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (6 papers). George Makdisi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. George Makdisi's co-authors include I‐Wen Wang, James Rucinski, Jennifer Rodriguez, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Lauren A. Wise, Thomas Wozniak, Zubair A. Hashmi, David Roe, K. Robert Shen and Tambi Jarmi and has published in prestigious journals such as The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, The Oncologist and Annals of Translational Medicine.

In The Last Decade

George Makdisi

26 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

  1. Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) review of a lifesaving technology
    2015 333 citations George Makdisi, I‐Wen Wang PMC profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Makdisi United States 13 591 477 317 203 192 28 1.0k
Michael Salna United States 18 359 0.6× 541 1.1× 170 0.5× 181 0.9× 259 1.3× 40 863
Nikkole Haines United States 12 229 0.4× 256 0.5× 158 0.5× 71 0.3× 87 0.5× 18 536
Jordan A. Gruskay United States 21 130 0.2× 1.1k 2.4× 144 0.5× 160 0.8× 37 0.2× 48 1.4k
Catherine K. Allan United States 18 377 0.6× 521 1.1× 259 0.8× 360 1.8× 240 1.3× 42 1.1k
Adrian E. Park United States 18 271 0.5× 1.1k 2.4× 96 0.3× 194 1.0× 218 1.1× 53 1.4k
Mauricio A. Villavicencio United States 17 333 0.6× 627 1.3× 154 0.5× 233 1.1× 191 1.0× 86 852
Timothy K. Liem United States 23 118 0.2× 763 1.6× 103 0.3× 319 1.6× 590 3.1× 79 1.3k
Nadia Aïssaoui France 21 925 1.6× 826 1.7× 684 2.2× 490 2.4× 104 0.5× 65 1.3k
Eric Etchill United States 16 227 0.4× 323 0.7× 292 0.9× 126 0.6× 118 0.6× 78 773
Gabriela Ghitulescu Canada 13 603 1.0× 1.6k 3.3× 50 0.2× 532 2.6× 182 0.9× 39 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Makdisi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Makdisi

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

All Works

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Peng, Guilin, Chao Yang, Mengyang Liu, et al.. (2021). Pulmonary fibrosis combined with lung cancer following lung transplantation: should we do more?. Translational Lung Cancer Research. 10(3). 1588–1593.
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Ferraris, Victor A., et al.. (2020). Is Internal Mammary to the Anterior Descending Always the Best Option?. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 111(6). e425–e427. 1 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George & Thomas Wozniak. (2017). How to establish a successful ex vivo lung perfusion program. PMC. 1 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2017). Use of distal perfusion in peripheral extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Annals of Translational Medicine. 5(5). 103–103. 36 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2017). Surgical Thoracic Transplant Training: Super Fellowship—Is It Super?. Journal of surgical education. 75(4). 1034–1038. 4 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2017). Successful Delivery in a Patient With Left Ventricular Assist Device and Unplanned Pregnancy. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 104(1). e31–e33. 22 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2016). A successful percutaneous mechanical vegetation debulking used as a bridge to surgery in acute tricuspid valve endocarditis. IUScholarWorks (Indiana University). 20 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2016). Use of extracorporeal membranous oxygenator in transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Annals of Translational Medicine. 4(16). 306–306. 15 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, et al.. (2016). New horizons of non-emergent use of extracorporeal membranous oxygenator support.. PubMed. 4(4). 76–76. 10 indexed citations
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Copeland, Hannah, et al.. (2016). Primary extraskeletal pleural osteosarcoma: a rare pleural identity. Annals of Translational Medicine. 4(11). 220–220. 2 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George & I‐Wen Wang. (2015). Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) review of a lifesaving technology. PMC. 333 indexed citations breakdown →
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Makdisi, George, Eric S. Edell, Joseph J. Maleszewski, Julian R. Molina, & Claude Deschamps. (2015). Pulmonary Artery Agenesis Associated With Emphysema and Multiple Invasive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 99(6). 2192–2195. 6 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, Zubair A. Hashmi, Thomas Wozniak, & I‐Wen Wang. (2015). Left ventricular thrombus associated with arteriovenous extra corporeal membrane oxygenation.. PubMed. 7(11). E552–4. 13 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, Sameh M. Said, & Hartzell V. Schaff. (2015). Acute Aortic Dissection Extending Into the Lung. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 100(1). 315–318. 4 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, Anja C. Roden, & K. Robert Shen. (2015). Successful Resection of Giant Mediastinal Lipofibroadenoma of the Thymus by Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 100(2). 698–700. 14 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George & I‐Wen Wang. (2015). Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) review of a lifesaving technology.. PubMed. 7(7). E166–76. 252 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George & I‐Wen Wang. (2015). Severe epistaxis in patients on extracorporeal membranous oxygenator support occurrence and management.. PubMed. 7(11). E566–7. 3 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, Francis C. Nichols, Stephen D. Cassivi, et al.. (2014). Laparoscopic Repair for Failed Antireflux Procedures. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 98(4). 1261–1266. 15 indexed citations
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Makdisi, George, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Jennifer Rodriguez, James Rucinski, & Lauren A. Wise. (2011). How We Select Our Residents—A Survey of Selection Criteria in General Surgery Residents. Journal of surgical education. 68(1). 67–72. 117 indexed citations

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