Oriol Roca

9.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
97 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Oriol Roca is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Oriol Roca has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 38 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and 25 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Recurrent topics in Oriol Roca's work include Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (68 papers), Airway Management and Intubation Techniques (25 papers) and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (24 papers). Oriol Roca is often cited by papers focused on Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (68 papers), Airway Management and Intubation Techniques (25 papers) and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (24 papers). Oriol Roca collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and France. Oriol Roca's co-authors include Joan Ramón Masclans, Marina García-de-Acilu, Berta Caralt, Gonzalo Hernández, Jean-Damien Ricard, Jonathan Messika, Benjamin Sztrymf, Jordi Riera, Jordi Rello and Ferràn Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Journal of Applied Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Oriol Roca

91 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

An Index Combining Respiratory Rate and Oxygenation to Predict Outcome of Nasal High-Flow Therapy

2018 406 citations Oriol Roca, Berta Caralt et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
High-flow Oxygen Therapy in Acute Respiratory Failure

2012 352 citations Joan Ramón Masclans, Oriol Roca profile →
Predicting success of high-flow nasal cannula in pneumonia patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure: The utility of the ROX index

2016 278 citations Oriol Roca, Jonathan Messika et al. profile →
Non-invasive ventilatory support and high-flow nasal oxygen as first-line treatment of acute hypoxemic respiratory failure and ARDS

2021 114 citations Oriol Roca, Jean-Pierre Frat et al. Intensive Care Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oriol Roca Spain	26	2.6k	989	986	622	438	97	3.2k
Giuseppe Foti Italy	32	2.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	633 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	281 0.6×	183	3.7k
Federico Longhini Italy	27	1.3k 0.5×	628 0.6×	415 0.4×	383 0.6×	206 0.5×	108	1.9k
Laveena Munshi Canada	30	1.5k 0.6×	858 0.9×	272 0.3×	1.0k 1.7×	388 0.9×	98	2.9k
António M. Esquinas Spain	19	2.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	492 0.5×	844 1.4×	389 0.9×	107	2.4k
Tommaso Tonetti Italy	22	1.4k 0.5×	527 0.5×	237 0.2×	652 1.0×	352 0.8×	62	2.3k
Daniel Deheinzelin Brazil	26	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	399 0.4×	1.4k 2.2×	657 1.5×	58	4.6k
Laurent Brochard France	21	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	344 0.3×	615 1.0×	585 1.3×	35	2.7k
Marcelo Gama de Abreu Germany	37	4.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	1.5k 2.4×	482 1.1×	201	5.5k
Gwénaël Prat France	20	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	528 0.5×	1.2k 2.0×	661 1.5×	43	3.5k
Martin C. J. Kneyber Netherlands	27	1.8k 0.7×	697 0.7×	248 0.3×	632 1.0×	1.1k 2.6×	131	3.1k

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Smit, Marry R., Aniruddha Ghose, Harm‐Jan de Grooth, et al.. (2025). Personalized Mechanical Ventilation in Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Guided by Lung Ultrasound: A Pilot Phase Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A1217–A1217.

García-de-Acilu, Marina, et al.. (2024). Optimal Postextubation Support in Critically Ill Patients: One Size Does Not Fit All. Respiratory Care. 69(12). 1564–1572.

Navarra‐Ventura, Guillem, Gemma Gomà, Mercé Jódar, et al.. (2024). Occurrence, co-occurrence and persistence of symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in survivors of COVID-19 critical illness. European journal of psychotraumatology. 15(1). 2363654–2363654. 1 indexed citations

Navarra‐Ventura, Guillem, Gemma Gomà, Candelaria de Haro, et al.. (2023). Objective and subjective cognition in survivors of COVID-19 one year after ICU discharge: the role of demographic, clinical, and emotional factors. Critical Care. 27(1). 188–188. 21 indexed citations

Ibarra‐Estrada, Miguel, Marina García-de-Acilu, Oriol Roca, et al.. (2022). Lung ultrasound response to awake prone positioning predicts the need for intubation in patients with COVID-19 induced acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: an observational study. Critical Care. 26(1). 15 indexed citations

Ferrer, Ricard, M. Báguena, Joan Balcells, et al.. (2021). Planning for the assistance of critically ill patients in a Pandemic Situation: The experience of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital. Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed ). 40(2). 71–77. 3 indexed citations

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovitch, Hangyong He, Bairbre McNicholas, et al.. (2021). Awake Prone Positioning in Non-Intubated Patients With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Due to COVID-19. Respiratory Care. 67(1). 102–114. 27 indexed citations

Myatra, Sheila Nainan, John C. Sakles, & Oriol Roca. (2021). Maximizing first pass success when intubating the critically ill patient: use a stylet!. Intensive Care Medicine. 47(6). 695–697. 1 indexed citations

Roca, Oriol, et al.. (2021). To prone or not to prone ARDS patients on ECMO. Critical Care. 25(1). 315–315. 3 indexed citations

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Sedes, Pedro Rascado, M.Á. Ballesteros, Álvaro Castellanos-Ortega, et al.. (2020). Plan de contingencia para los servicios de medicina intensiva frente a la pandemia COVID-19. Medicina Intensiva. 44(6). 363–370. 42 indexed citations

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Martínez, Gonzalo Hernández, Joan-Ramon Masclans, Oriol Roca, et al.. (2020). High-Flow Oxygen with Capping or Suctioning for Tracheostomy Decannulation. New England Journal of Medicine. 383(11). 1009–1017. 33 indexed citations

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Baena, Jacinto, Patricia Guilabert, Judith Marín‐Corral, et al.. (2018). Soluble Suppression Of Tumorigenicity-2 Predicts Hospital Mortality in Burn Patients: An Observational Prospective Cohort Pilot Study. Shock. 51(2). 194–199. 4 indexed citations

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Roca, Oriol, Berta Caralt, Jonathan Messika, et al.. (2018). An Index Combining Respiratory Rate and Oxygenation to Predict Outcome of Nasal High-Flow Therapy. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 199(11). 1368–1376. 406 indexed citations breakdown →

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García-de-Acilu, Marina, Judith Marín‐Corral, Antònia Vázquez, et al.. (2017). Hypoxemic Patients With Bilateral Infiltrates Treated With High-Flow Nasal Cannula Present a Similar Pattern of Biomarkers of Inflammation and Injury to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients*. Critical Care Medicine. 45(11). 1845–1853. 21 indexed citations

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Hernández, Gonzalo, Oriol Roca, & Laura Colinas. (2017). High-flow nasal cannula support therapy: new insights and improving performance. Critical Care. 21(1). 62–62. 58 indexed citations

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Pérez, Purificación, et al.. (2014). Pneumonia and Lung Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit. CHEST Journal. 145(3). 171A–171A. 3 indexed citations

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Roca, Oriol, et al.. (2014). Humidified High Flow Nasal Cannula Supportive Therapy Improves Outcomes in Lung Transplant Recipients Readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit Because of Acute Respiratory Failure. Transplantation. 99(5). 1092–1098. 66 indexed citations

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Martínez-González, Itziar, Oriol Roca, Joan Ramón Masclans, et al.. (2013). Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Overexpressing the IL-33 Antagonist Soluble IL-1 Receptor–Like–1 Attenuate Endotoxin-Induced Acute Lung Injury. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 49(4). 552–562. 74 indexed citations

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Masclans, Joan Ramón, et al.. (2012). Objetivos docentes en la formación de médicos residentes en trasplante de órganos sólidos. Medicina Intensiva. 36(8). 584–588. 4 indexed citations

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Roca, Oriol, et al.. (1997). Trastornos depresivos en patologías médicas.. 1(3). 2 indexed citations

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