John A. Kastor

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

John A. Kastor is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Kastor has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 16 papers in Surgery and 16 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in John A. Kastor's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (48 papers), Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies (33 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (33 papers). John A. Kastor is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (48 papers), Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies (33 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (33 papers). John A. Kastor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. John A. Kastor's co-authors include Mark E. Josephson, Leonard N. Horowitz, Roman W. DeSanctis, Ardeshir Farshidi, Charles A. Sanders, David L. Page, James Caulfield, Alden H. Harken, Joel Morganroth and Robert C. Leinbach and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

John A. Kastor

110 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Myocardial Changes Associated with Cardiogenic Shock

1971 504 citations John A. Kastor, Charles A. Sanders et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
Recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia. 1. Mechanisms.

1978 469 citations Mark E. Josephson, Leonard N. Horowitz et al. profile →

Peers

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K.I. Lie Netherlands

Agustín Castellanos United States

Nora Goldschlager United States

Marvin L. Murphy United States

Joshua Wynne United States

Lawrence S. Cohen United States

Mervyn S. Gotsman Israel

Alan G. Wasserman United States

Henry Greenberg United States

Klaus Rasmussen Denmark

K.I. Lie Netherlands

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3.6k ×0.9

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933 ×1.1

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1.1k ×2.0

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294 ×0.9

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179 ×0.6

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by John A. Kastor

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John A. Kastor

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kastor, John A.. (2013). Chair of a Department of Medicine. Academic Medicine. 88(7). 912–913. 22 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2012). Point–Counterpoint. Academic Medicine. 87(5). 558–558. 7 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A. & Eli Y. Adashi. (2011). Maryland's Hospital Cost Review Commission at 40. JAMA. 306(10). 1137–1137. 22 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2011). Accountable Care Organizations at Academic Medical Centers. New England Journal of Medicine. 364(7). e11–e11. 23 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2010). Failure of the Merger of the Mount Sinai and New York University Hospitals and Medical Schools: Part 1. Academic Medicine. 85(12). 1823–1827. 9 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2010). Failure of the Merger of the Mount Sinai and New York University Hospitals and Medical Schools: Part 2. Academic Medicine. 85(12). 1828–1832. 5 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2005). Specialty Care in the Era of Managed Care: Cleveland Clinic versus University Hospitals of Cleveland. Medical Entomology and Zoology.

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Kastor, John A.. (2003). Governance of Teaching Hospitals: Turmoil at Penn and Hopkins. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 13 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (2003). Governance of teaching hospitals: turmoil at the university of pennsylvania and the johns hopkins university. The American Journal of Medicine. 114(9). 774–776. 8 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A., et al.. (1994). Financial management of academic clinical departments. Academic Medicine. 69(12). 943–6. 2 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (1989). Ventricular Tachycardia. Clinical Cardiology. 12(10). 586–599. 2 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A.. (1989). Michel Mirowski and the automatic implantable defibrillator. The American Journal of Cardiology. 63(15). 1121–1126. 16 indexed citations

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Spielman, Scott R., William J. Untereker, Leonard N. Horowitz, John A. Kastor, & Mark E. Josephson. (1982). Endocardial activation and refractoriness in the normal human left ventricle. The American Journal of Cardiology. 49(4). 982–982. 4 indexed citations

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Buxton, Alfred E., Sheldon Goldberg, John W. Hirshfeld, et al.. (1980). Refractory ergonovine induced coronary vasospasm: importance of intracoronary nitroglycerin. The American Journal of Cardiology. 45(2). 390–390. 11 indexed citations

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Stephenson, Larry W., Horace MacVaugh, & John A. Kastor. (1979). Tricuspid valvular incompetence and rupture of the ventricular septum caused by nonpenetrating trauma. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 77(5). 768–772. 21 indexed citations

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Josephson, Mark E. & John A. Kastor. (1977). Supraventricular tachycardia in lown-ganong-levine syndrome: Atrionodal versus intranodal reentry. The American Journal of Cardiology. 40(4). 521–527. 13 indexed citations

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Cayten, C. Gene, et al.. (1973). Unusual presentation of intrathoracic malignant schwannoma. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 66(4). 601–606. 3 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A., Charles A. Sanders, Robert C. Leinbach, & J. Warren Harthorne. (1969). Factors influencing retrograde conduction. Study of 30 patients during cardiac catheterization.. Heart. 31(5). 580–587. 5 indexed citations

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Kastor, John A., Mohammed Akbarian, Mortimer J. Buckley, et al.. (1968). Paravalvular leaks and hemolytic anemia following insertion of Starr-Edwards aortic and mitral valves. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 56(2). 279–288. 78 indexed citations

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Austen, William G., John A. Kastor, & Charles A. Sanders. (1967). Resolution of functional mitral regurgitation following surgical correction of aortic valvular disease. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 53(2). 255–259. 4 indexed citations

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