Hugh Calkins

119.3k total citations · 23 hit papers
741 papers, 54.8k citations indexed

About

Hugh Calkins is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugh Calkins has authored 741 papers receiving a total of 54.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 703 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 129 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and 89 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Hugh Calkins's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (416 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (331 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (259 papers). Hugh Calkins is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (416 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (331 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (259 papers). Hugh Calkins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Hugh Calkins's co-authors include Ronald D. Berger, Michael E. Field, Cynthia M. Tracy, L. Samüel Wann, Clyde W. Yancy, Joaquin E. Cigarroa, Joseph C. Cleveland, Patrick T. Ellinor, Michael D. Ezekowitz and Craig T. January and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Hugh Calkins

717 papers receiving 53.1k citations

Hit Papers

2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline f... 1991 2026 2002 2014 2014 2014 2009 2019 2014 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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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. 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
    2014 5.5k citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. Circulation profile →
  2. 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
    2014 2.3k citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. profile →
  3. Updated Worldwide Survey on the Methods, Efficacy, and Safety of Catheter Ablation for Human Atrial Fibrillation
    2009 1.9k citations Hugh Calkins, Andrea Natale et al. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology profile →
  4. 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society in Collaboration With the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
    2019 1.8k citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. Circulation profile →
  5. 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary
    2014 1.6k citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. Circulation profile →
  6. 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS Focused Update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
    2019 1.5k citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. profile →
  7. Prophylactic Defibrillator Implantation in Patients with Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
    2004 1.3k citations Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  8. Worldwide Survey on the Methods, Efficacy, and Safety of Catheter Ablation for Human Atrial Fibrillation
    2005 972 citations Hugh Calkins et al. Circulation profile →
  9. Comparison of Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy and Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation in Patients With Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation
    2010 809 citations David J. Wilber, Petr Neužil et al. profile →
  10. 2015 Heart Rhythm Society Expert Consensus Statement on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome, Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia, and Vasovagal Syncope
    2015 621 citations Brian Olshansky, Win-Kuang Shen et al. Heart Rhythm profile →
  11. Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation With Antiarrhythmic Drugs or Radiofrequency Ablation
    2009 586 citations Hugh Calkins et al. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology profile →
  12. Diagnosis and Cure of the Wolff–Parkinson–White Syndrome or Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardias during a Single Electrophysiologic Test
    1991 541 citations Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  13. Beat-to-Beat QT Interval Variability
    1997 502 citations Ronald D. Berger, Hugh Calkins et al. Circulation profile →
  14. Cardiac Resynchronization and Death From Progressive Heart Failure
    2003 500 citations Ronald D. Berger, Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  15. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
    2017 444 citations Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  16. Exercise Increases Age-Related Penetrance and Arrhythmic Risk in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy–Associated Desmosomal Mutation Carriers
    2013 438 citations Cynthia A. James, Crystal Tichnell et al. profile →
  17. 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary
    2014 438 citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. profile →
  18. Studying arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia with patient-specific iPSCs
    2013 396 citations Joseph E. Marine, Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  19. 2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia
    2015 375 citations Richard L. Page, José A. Joglar et al. Circulation profile →
  20. 2019 AHA/ACC/HRS focused update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation
    2019 291 citations Craig T. January, L. Samüel Wann et al. Heart Rhythm profile →
  21. Pulsed Field Ablation for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: PULSED AF Pivotal Trial
    2023 277 citations Atul Verma, Andrea Natale et al. Circulation profile →
  22. Uninterrupted Dabigatran versus Warfarin for Ablation in Atrial Fibrillation
    2017 267 citations Hugh Calkins et al. profile →
  23. Pulsed Field Ablation to Treat Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Safety and Effectiveness in the AdmIRE Pivotal Trial
    2024 44 citations Vivek Y. Reddy, Hugh Calkins et al. Circulation profile →

Peers

Hugh Calkins
Bernard Chaitman United States
Pamela S. Douglas United States
David A. Cox United States
Michael H. Picard United States
Jens‐Uwe Voigt Belgium
J. Jeffrey Carr United States
Patrick T. Ellinor United States
Günter Breithardt Germany
Jonathan Afilalo Canada
William G. Stevenson United States
Bernard Chaitman United States
Hugh Calkins
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All Works

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Sundaram, Sri, Prashanthan Sanders, David B. DeLurgio, et al.. (2025). Safety and effectiveness of a novel balloon-in-basket pulsed-field ablation catheter for the treatment of paroxysmal and persistent AF: Volt-AF IDE trial acute results. Heart Rhythm. 22(10). 2524–2533. 4 indexed citations
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Catanzaro, John N., Fabrizio Assis, Atul Verma, et al.. (2024). Recognition, Management, and Prevention of Atrioesophageal Fistula. JACC. Clinical electrophysiology. 10(6). 1232–1241. 1 indexed citations
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Kroll, Mark W., Richard M. Luceri, Igor R. Efimov, & Hugh Calkins. (2023). The electrophysiology of electrocution. Heart Rhythm O2. 4(7). 457–462. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Eunice, Susan R. Heckbert, Jie Ding, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of Subclinical Atrial Fibrillation in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. JACC Heart Failure. 12(3). 492–504. 8 indexed citations
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Proost, Virginnio, Kristina Dimitrova, Robert F. Ernst, et al.. (2023). Lack of Evidence for the Role of the p.(Ser96Ala) Polymorphism in Histidine-Rich Calcium Binding Protein as a Secondary Hit in Cardiomyopathies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(21). 15931–15931. 2 indexed citations
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Akhtar, Tauseef, et al.. (2023). Relationship between amiodarone response prior to ablation and 1‐year outcomes of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 34(4). 860–868. 1 indexed citations
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Gasperetti, Alessio, Cynthia A. James, Richard Carrick, et al.. (2023). Arrhythmic risk stratification in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. EP Europace. 25(11). 12 indexed citations
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Marrouche, Nassir F., Tom Greene, J. Michael Dean, et al.. (2021). Efficacy of LGE‐MRI‐guided fibrosis ablation versus conventional catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: The DECAAF II trial: Study design. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 32(4). 916–924. 56 indexed citations
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Natale, Andrea, Hugh Calkins, José Osorio, et al.. (2020). Positive Clinical Benefit on Patient Care, Quality of Life, and Symptoms After Contact Force–Guided Radiofrequency Ablation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation. Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. 14(1). e008867–e008867. 11 indexed citations
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Carlson, Daniel W., Joseph E. Marine, Charles J. Love, et al.. (2019). Electrocardiographic predictors of pacemaker battery depletion: Diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and clinical risk. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 43(1). 2–9. 3 indexed citations
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Sinha, Sunil, Jonathan Chrispin, Andreas S. Barth, et al.. (2017). Clinical recognition of pacemaker battery depletion and automatic reprogramming. Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 40(8). 969–974. 9 indexed citations
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Page, Richard L., José A. Joglar, Mary A. Caldwell, et al.. (2015). 2015 ACC/AHA/HRS Guideline for the Management of Adult Patients With Supraventricular Tachycardia: Executive Summary. Circulation. 133(14). 1575–1623. 100 indexed citations
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January, Craig T., L. Samüel Wann, Joseph S. Alpert, et al.. (2014). 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: Executive Summary. Circulation. 130(23). 2071–2104. 1558 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ashikaga, Hiroshi, Hermenegild Arevalo, Fijoy Vadakkumpadan, et al.. (2011). Abstract 14174: MRI-Based Patient-Specific Virtual Electrophysiology Laboratory for Scar-Related Ventricular Tachycardia. Circulation. 124(suppl_21). 4 indexed citations
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Nazarian, Saman, Aravindan Kolandaivelu, Menekhem M. Zviman, et al.. (2008). Feasibility of Real-Time Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Catheter Guidance in Electrophysiology Studies. Circulation. 118(3). 223–229. 127 indexed citations
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Dong, Jun, Hugh Calkins, Stephen B. Solomon, et al.. (2006). Integrated Electroanatomic Mapping With Three-Dimensional Computed Tomographic Images for Real-Time Guided Ablations. Circulation. 113(2). 186–194. 174 indexed citations
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Dalal, Darshan, Khurram Nasir, Chandra Bomma, et al.. (2005). Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Circulation. 112(25). 3823–3832. 330 indexed citations
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Nazarian, Saman, David A. Bluemke, Albert C. Lardo, et al.. (2005). Magnetic Resonance Assessment of the Substrate for Inducible Ventricular Tachycardia in Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 112(18). 2821–2825. 311 indexed citations

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