Kok Wai Giang

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Kok Wai Giang is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kok Wai Giang has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 35 papers in Epidemiology and 18 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kok Wai Giang's work include Congenital Heart Disease Studies (27 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (11 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (11 papers). Kok Wai Giang is often cited by papers focused on Congenital Heart Disease Studies (27 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (11 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (11 papers). Kok Wai Giang collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Kok Wai Giang's co-authors include Annika Rosengren, Lena Björck, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Peter Eriksson, Maria Fedchenko, Georgios Lappas, Kjell Torén, Mikael Dellborg, Christina Jern and Hans Lidén and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kok Wai Giang

50 papers receiving 941 citations

Hit Papers

Survival in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Have ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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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. Survival in Children With Congenital Heart Disease: Have We Reached a Peak at 97%?
    2020 201 citations Zacharias Mandalenakis, Kok Wai Giang et al. Journal of the American Heart Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kok Wai Giang Sweden 18 524 481 253 205 70 51 973
Jonathan Birns United Kingdom 15 283 0.5× 282 0.6× 184 0.7× 99 0.5× 90 1.3× 84 990
Judith Z. Goldfinger United States 14 184 0.4× 401 0.8× 276 1.1× 151 0.7× 158 2.3× 18 992
Hoang Phan Australia 17 321 0.6× 229 0.5× 117 0.5× 157 0.8× 108 1.5× 53 956
Isabelle Vonder Muhll Canada 17 721 1.4× 656 1.4× 293 1.2× 272 1.3× 19 0.3× 34 1.1k
Zacharias Mandalenakis Sweden 20 744 1.4× 658 1.4× 408 1.6× 280 1.4× 20 0.3× 85 1.3k
Karolijn Dulfer Netherlands 19 535 1.0× 495 1.0× 344 1.4× 139 0.7× 50 0.7× 65 1.1k
Joanne B. Krasnoff United States 21 256 0.5× 301 0.6× 79 0.3× 296 1.4× 56 0.8× 30 1.7k
Charlotte Björk Ingul Norway 22 102 0.2× 1.2k 2.4× 168 0.7× 126 0.6× 50 0.7× 56 1.8k
Norma D. McNair United States 14 483 0.9× 202 0.4× 123 0.5× 98 0.5× 75 1.1× 24 937
J.M. Ramírez-Moreno Spain 15 323 0.6× 158 0.3× 127 0.5× 95 0.5× 65 0.9× 77 769

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kok Wai Giang

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nielsen, Susanne J., Kok Wai Giang, Henrik Bjursten, et al.. (2025). Mortality and morbidity after transcatheter aortic valve implantation compared to an age- and sex-matched control population: a population-based study from the SWEDEHEART registry. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. 11(5). 614–621. 1 indexed citations
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Fedchenko, Maria, Kok Wai Giang, Ulrika Snygg‐Martin, Mikael Dellborg, & Zacharias Mandalenakis. (2025). Risk and predictors of first-time infective endocarditis in adult patients with congenital heart disease—A nationwide, register-based study. International Journal of Cardiology. 426. 133081–133081. 1 indexed citations
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Lidén, Hans, Vibeke E. Hjortdal, Kok Wai Giang, et al.. (2025). Survival trends of adults with congenital heart disease after heart surgery in Sweden. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 170(3). 827–836.e7.
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Dellborg, Mikael, et al.. (2024). Long-term survival in patients with univentricular heart: A nationwide, register-based cohort study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 15. 100503–100503. 2 indexed citations
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Giang, Kok Wai, Pétur Pétursson, Oskar Angerås, et al.. (2024). Marital status, educational level, and mid-term mortality risk in 5924 patients after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. European Heart Journal Open. 4(5). oeae077–oeae077. 2 indexed citations
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Dellborg, Mikael, Karin Mellgren, Kok Wai Giang, et al.. (2024). Outcomes after cancer diagnosis in children and adult patients with congenital heart disease in Sweden: a registry-based cohort study. BMJ Open. 14(4). e083237–e083237. 1 indexed citations
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Giang, Kok Wai, et al.. (2024). Ischemic Stroke in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease and Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of the American Heart Association. 13(17). e032813–e032813. 4 indexed citations
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Persson, Johanna, Albert Castellheim, Mikael Dellborg, et al.. (2023). Survival Trends in Children With Tetralogy of Fallot in Sweden From 1970 to 2017. JAMA Network Open. 6(5). e2314504–e2314504. 5 indexed citations
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Giang, Kok Wai, Martin Lindgren, Kristofer Skoglund, et al.. (2023). Socioeconomic factors and long-term mortality risk after surgical aortic valve replacement. International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention. 19. 200223–200223. 4 indexed citations
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Svensson, Carl Johan, Kok Wai Giang, John Wallert, Christian Rück, & C. Lundberg. (2023). Psychiatric co-morbidity and substance abuse after gastric bypass surgery. British journal of surgery. 110(12). 1618–1622. 3 indexed citations
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Dellborg, Mikael, Kok Wai Giang, Peter Eriksson, et al.. (2022). Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Trends in Event-Free Survival Past Middle Age. Circulation. 147(12). 930–938. 47 indexed citations
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Fedchenko, Maria, Kok Wai Giang, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, et al.. (2022). Chronic kidney disease in patients with congenital heart disease: a nationwide, register-based cohort study. European Heart Journal Open. 2(5). oeac055–oeac055. 9 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Susanne J., Mikael Dellborg, Margda Wærn, Zacharias Mandalenakis, & Kok Wai Giang. (2022). Risk for first onset depression in adults with congenital heart disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 100410–100410. 2 indexed citations
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Dellborg, Mikael, Karin Mellgren, Kok Wai Giang, et al.. (2022). Risk of cancer in young and older patients with congenital heart disease and the excess risk of cancer by syndromes, organ transplantation and cardiac surgery: Swedish health registry study (1930–2017). The Lancet Regional Health - Europe. 18. 100407–100407. 19 indexed citations
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Hornestam, Björn, Martin Adiels, Kok Wai Giang, et al.. (2021). Atrial fibrillation and risk of venous thromboembolism: a Swedish Nationwide Registry Study. EP Europace. 23(12). 1913–1921. 12 indexed citations
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Giang, Kok Wai, Per‐Olof Hansson, Carina U. Persson, et al.. (2020). Long-term risk of stroke and myocardial infarction in middle-aged men with a hypertensive response to exercise: a 44-year follow-up study. Journal of Hypertension. 39(3). 503–510. 5 indexed citations
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Björck, Lena, et al.. (2017). Risk of Heart Failure in Obese Patients With and Without Bariatric Surgery in Sweden—A Registry-Based Study. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 23(7). 530–537. 50 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Susanne J., Lena Björck, Kok Wai Giang, et al.. (2014). Sex-specific trends in 4-year survival in 37 276 men and women with acute myocardial infarction before the age of 55 years in Sweden, 1987–2006: a register-based cohort study. BMJ Open. 4(5). e004598–e004598. 25 indexed citations
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Giang, Kok Wai, Lena Björck, Masuma Novak, et al.. (2013). Stroke and coronary heart disease: predictive power of standard risk factors into old age—long-term cumulative risk study among men in Gothenburg, Sweden. European Heart Journal. 34(14). 1068–1074. 17 indexed citations
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Novak, Masuma, et al.. (2012). Perceived stress and incidence of Type 2 diabetes: a 35‐year follow‐up study of middle‐aged Swedish men. Diabetic Medicine. 30(1). e8–16. 78 indexed citations

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