John Gorcsan

21.1k citations

271 papers · 14.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine top 0.05%
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.2%
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics

Papers in ⓘ

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 235
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies 123
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors 102
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments 99
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias 32
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments 26
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 52
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics 49

Co-authors: Samir Saba (40 shared papers)Jeroen J. Bax (21 shared papers)Hidekazu Tanaka (20 shared papers)Kaoru Dohi (13 shared papers)William A. Mandarino (30 shared papers)Matthew S. Suffoletto (18 shared papers)David Schwartzman (35 shared papers)William E. Katz (22 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of the American College of Cardiology (44 papers)The American Journal of Cardiology (28 papers)Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography (27 papers)Circulation (19 papers)American Heart Journal (13 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

John Gorcsan

266 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Clinical Outcomes for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in North America 2015 · 308 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2013 New England Journal of Medicine
2008 Circulation
2006 Circulation

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1	Results of the Predictors of Response to CRT (PROSPECT) Trial Circulation ·Eugene Chung, Angel R. León, Luigi Tavazzi, Jing-Ping Sun, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, John Merlino, William T. Abraham, Stefano Ghio, Christophe Leclercq, Jeroen J. Bax, Cheuk‐Man Yu, John Gorcsan, Martin St. John Sutton, Johan De Sutter, Jaime Murillo Hit paper breakdown →	2008	1431
2	Novel Speckle-Tracking Radial Strain From Routine Black-and-White Echocardiographic Images to Quantify Dyssynchrony and Predict Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Circulation ·Matthew S. Suffoletto, Kaoru Dohi, Maxime Cannesson, Samir Saba, John Gorcsan Hit paper breakdown →	2006	614
3	Cardiac-Resynchronization Therapy in Heart Failure with a Narrow QRS Complex New England Journal of Medicine ·Frank Ruschitzka, William T. Abraham, G. André Ng, Jeroen J. Bax, Jeffrey Borer, Josép Brugada, Kenneth Dickstein, Ian Ford, John Gorcsan, Daniel Gras, Henry Krum, Peter Søgaard, Johannes Holzmeister Hit paper breakdown →	2013	520
4	Echocardiography for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Recommendations for Performance and Reporting–A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography Dyssynchrony Writing Group Endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography ·John Gorcsan, Theodore P. Abraham, Deborah A. Agler, Jeroen J. Bax, Geneviève Dérumeaux, Richard A. Grimm, Randy Martin, Jonathan S. Steinberg, Martin St. John Sutton, Cheuk‐Man Yu	2008	383
5	Improvement in Pulmonary Function and Elastic Recoil after Lung-Reduction Surgery for Diffuse Emphysema New England Journal of Medicine ·Frank C. Sciurba, Robert M. Rogers, Robert J. Keenan, William A. Slivka, John Gorcsan, Peter F. Ferson, J. Michael Holbert, Manuel L. Brown, Rodney J. Landreneau	1996	359
6	Echocardiographic Assessment of Myocardial Strain Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·John Gorcsan, Hidekazu Tanaka	2011	357
7	Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Jeroen J. Bax, Theodore P. Abraham, S. Serge Barold, Ole A. Breithardt, Jeffrey Wing‐Hong Fung, Stéphane Garrigue, John Gorcsan, David L. Hayes, David A. Kass, Juhani Knuuti, Christophe Leclercq, Cecilia Linde, Daniel B. Mark, Mark Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Martin J. Schalij, C. Stellbrink, Cheuk‐Man Yu	2005	335
8	Mitral annular descent velocity by tissue Doppler echocardiography as an index of global left ventricular function The American Journal of Cardiology ·Vijay K. Gulati, William E. Katz, William P. Follansbee, John Gorcsan	1996	331
9	Clinical Outcomes for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in North America Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Dennis M. McNamara, Uri Elkayam, Rami Alharethi, Julie B. Damp, Eileen Hsich, Gregory A. Ewald, Kalgi Modi, Jeffrey D. Alexis, Gautam Ramani, Marc J. Semigran, Jennifer Haythe, David W. Markham, Josef Marek, John Gorcsan, Wen‐Chi Wu, Yan Lin, Indrani Halder, Jessica Pisarcik, Leslie T. Cooper, James D. Fett Hit paper breakdown →	2015	308
10	Quantitative Assessment of Alterations in Regional Left Ventricular Contractility With Color-Coded Tissue Doppler Echocardiography Circulation ·John Gorcsan, David P. Strum, William A. Mandarino, Vijay K. Gulati, Michael R. Pinsky	1997	270
11	Echocardiography-Guided Left Ventricular Lead Placement for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Circulation Heart Failure ·Samir Saba, Josef Marek, David Schwartzman, Sandeep Jain, Evan Adelstein, Pamela White, Olusegun Oyenuga, Tetsuari Onishi, Prem Soman, John Gorcsan	2013	255
12	A mechanism for immediate reduction in mitral regurgitation after cardiac resynchronization therapy Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Hideaki Kanzaki, Raveen Bazaz, David Schwartzman, Kaoru Dohi, Leyla Elif Sade, John Gorcsan	2004	253
13	ACC/AHA clinical competence statement on echocardiography11When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine would appreciate the following citation format: Quiñones MA, Douglas PS, Foster E, Gorcsan J, Lewis JF, Pearlman AS, Rychik J, Salcedo EE, Seward J, Stevenson JG, Thys DM, Weitz HH, and Zoghbi WA. ACC/AHA clinical competence statement on echocardiography: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association/American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine Task Force on Clinical Competence (Committee on Echocardiography). J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41:687–708.22This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees in December 2002 and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in November 2002.*Address for Reprints: This document is available on the Web sites of the American College of Cardiology (www.acc.org), the American Heart Association (www.americanheart.org), the American Society of Echocardiography (http://asecho.org), and the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography (www.sopeonline.com). Reprints of this document may be purchased for $5.00 each by calling 1-800-253-4636 or by writing to the American College of Cardiology, Resource Center, 9111 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-1699. Journal of the American College of Cardiology* ·Miguel A. Quiñones, Pamela S. Douglas, Elyse Foster, John Gorcsan, Jannet F. Lewis, Alan S. Pearlman, Jack Rychik, Ernesto E. Salcedo, James B. Seward, James G. Stevenson, Daniel M. Thys, Howard H. Weitz, William A. Zoghbi, Mark A. Creager, William L. Winters, Michael Elnicki, John W. Hirshfeld, Beverly H. Lorell, George P. Rodgers, Cynthia M. Tracy	2003	209
14	Usefulness of echocardiographic tissue synchronization imaging to predict acute response to cardiac resynchronization therapy The American Journal of Cardiology ·John Gorcsan, Hideaki Kanzaki, Raveen Bazaz, Kaoru Dohi, David Schwartzman	2004	209
15	Combined Longitudinal and Radial Dyssynchrony Predicts Ventricular Response After Resynchronization Therapy Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·John Gorcsan, Masaki Tanabe, Gabe B. Bleeker, Matthew S. Suffoletto, Nini C. Thomas, Samir Saba, Laurens F. Tops, Martin J. Schalij, Jeroen J. Bax	2007	193
16	Dyssynchrony by speckle-tracking echocardiography and response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: results of the Speckle Tracking and Resynchronization (STAR) study European Heart Journal ·Hiroki Tanaka, Hans Joachim Nesser, T. Buck, Olusequn Oyenuga, Rolf Alexander Jánosi, Siegmund Winter, Samir Saba, John Gorcsan	2010	186
17	Color-coded measures of myocardial velocity throughout the cardiac cycle by tissue Doppler imaging to quantify regional left ventricular function American Heart Journal ·John Gorcsan, Vijay K. Gulati, William A. Mandarino, William E. Katz	1996	184
18	Investigation of a novel algorithm for synchronized left-ventricular pacing and ambulatory optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy: Results of the adaptive CRT trial Heart Rhythm ·David O. Martin, Bernd Lemke, David H. Birnie, Henry Krum, Kathy Lai-Fun Lee, Kazutaka Aonuma, Maurizio Gasparini, Randall C. Starling, Goran Milašinović, Tyson Rogers, Alex Sambelashvili, John Gorcsan, Mahmoud Houmsse	2012	173
19	Clinical and Demographic Predictors of Outcomes in Recent Onset Dilated Cardiomyopathy Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Dennis M. McNamara, Randall C. Starling, Leslie T. Cooper, John Boehmer, Paul Mather, Karen Janosko, John Gorcsan, Kevin E. Kip, G. William Dec	2011	162
20	Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Journal of the American College of Cardiology ·Jeroen J. Bax, Theodore P. Abraham, S. Serge Barold, Ole A. Breithardt, Jeffrey Wing‐Hong Fung, Stéphane Garrigue, John Gorcsan, David L. Hayes, David A. Kass, Juhani Knuuti, Christophe Leclercq, Cecilia Linde, Daniel B. Mark, Mark Monaghan, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Martin J. Schalij, C. Stellbrink, Cheuk‐Man Yu	2005	156

About John Gorcsan

John Gorcsan is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Neurology and Surgery, having authored 271 papers that have together received 14.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies (123 papers), Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (102 papers), Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (99 papers), Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (49 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (37 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (32 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (26 papers) and Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (12.5k citations), Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (2.8k citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (442 citations), Surgery (3.3k citations) and Neurology (1.0k citations). John Gorcsan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Samir Saba, Jeroen J. Bax, Hidekazu Tanaka, Kaoru Dohi, William A. Mandarino, Matthew S. Suffoletto, David Schwartzman, William E. Katz, Cheuk‐Man Yu and Vijay K. Gulati. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, Circulation and American Heart Journal.

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