Richard Cheng

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Richard Cheng is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Cheng has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Surgery, 24 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Richard Cheng's work include Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (22 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (19 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (15 papers). Richard Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (22 papers), Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes (19 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (15 papers). Richard Cheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Switzerland. Richard Cheng's co-authors include Babak Azarbal, F. Esmailian, J. Moriguchi, Francisco A. Arabía, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, Rory Hachamovitch, Jon Kobashigawa, Danny Ramzy and L. Czer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Cheng

51 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Complications of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock and Cardiac Arrest: A Meta-Analysis of 1,866 Adult Patients

2013 595 citations Richard Cheng, Rory Hachamovitch et al. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard Cheng United States	16	828	779	491	367	138	57	1.3k
Vincenzo Tarzia Italy	18	773 0.9×	530 0.7×	250 0.5×	530 1.4×	184 1.3×	129	1.2k
Lucian A. Durham United States	16	634 0.8×	470 0.6×	365 0.7×	224 0.6×	251 1.8×	45	1.0k
Pedro Catarino United Kingdom	16	639 0.8×	409 0.5×	147 0.3×	229 0.6×	57 0.4×	43	880
Aly El‐Banayosy Germany	29	2.0k 2.4×	1.9k 2.5×	842 1.7×	874 2.4×	146 1.1×	111	2.5k
Ryan J. Butts United States	17	544 0.7×	361 0.5×	98 0.2×	437 1.2×	347 2.5×	88	1.0k
Latif Arusoglu Germany	22	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	396 0.8×	497 1.4×	73 0.5×	71	1.4k
M Jurmann Germany	23	1.1k 1.3×	671 0.9×	310 0.6×	501 1.4×	97 0.7×	74	1.5k
D. Robson Australia	19	754 0.9×	743 1.0×	340 0.7×	384 1.0×	54 0.4×	69	1.1k
Jeffrey Javidfar United States	15	724 0.9×	785 1.0×	430 0.9×	108 0.3×	91 0.7×	35	1.2k
Dereck Wheeldon United Kingdom	16	703 0.8×	407 0.5×	184 0.4×	171 0.5×	29 0.2×	34	866

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Cheng

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Cheng, Richard, Miguel Alvarez Villela, Amirali Masoumi, et al.. (2025). Charting the Course for Careers in Interventional Heart Failure: Training, Challenges, and Future Directions. Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions. 4(3). 102569–102569. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ming, Richard Cheng, Yuhai Gao, et al.. (2025). Correlation of computed fractional flow and in-stent restenosis in patients with intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. 18(3). 868–875.

Kim, In‐Cheol, Randall C. Starling, Kiran K. Khush, et al.. (2024). Ten-year follow-up cohort of the everolimus versus azathioprine multinational prospective study focusing on intravascular ultrasound findings. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 43(11). 1788–1794.

Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2023). Machine Learning for Predicting Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery: A Scoping Review of Current Literature. The American Journal of Cardiology. 209. 66–75. 8 indexed citations

Brusca, Samuel B., Hope Caughron, Joyce Njoroge, et al.. (2022). The shock team: a multidisciplinary approach to early patient phenotyping and appropriate care escalation in cardiogenic shock. Current Opinion in Cardiology. 37(3). 241–249. 8 indexed citations

Miyasaka, Masaki, Nir Flint, Osamu Manabe, et al.. (2020). Right-to-Left Shunt Through Iatrogenic Atrial Septal Defect After MitraClip Procedure. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 13(13). 1544–1553. 11 indexed citations

Sato, Takuma, Babak Azarbal, Richard Cheng, et al.. (2019). Does ex vivo perfusion lead to more or less intimal thickening in the first‐year post–heart transplantation?. Clinical Transplantation. 33(8). e13648–e13648. 12 indexed citations

Dawkins, Sam, Richard Cheng, Moody Makar, et al.. (2019). 600.55 Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair for Patients in Severe Cardiogenic Shock Is Safe and Is Associated with Improved Renal Function. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 12(4). S57–S57. 1 indexed citations

Dawkins, Sam, Richard Cheng, Jason Tso, et al.. (2019). 600.52 What Is the Impact of Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair on Inotrope Use in Cardiogenic Shock?. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 12(4). S55–S56. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2018). TCT-401 A Strategy of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Drug-Eluting Stents for the Treatment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy May Normalize Survival. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 72(13). B162–B162.

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Sato, Takuma, Richard Cheng, Babak Azarbal, et al.. (2018). COMBINED HEART AND KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION: IS THERE A PROTECTIVE EFFECT AGAINST CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY USING INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND?. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71(11). A977–A977. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, Danny Ramzy, Babak Azarbal, et al.. (2016). Device Strategies for Patients in INTERMACS Profiles 1 and 2 Cardiogenic Shock: Double Bridge With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Initial Implant of More Durable Devices. Artificial Organs. 41(3). 224–232. 19 indexed citations

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Farage, Miranda A., et al.. (2015). Urogenital Biomolecular and Physical Measures in Pre- and Post-Menopausal Women. Journal of Clinical Gynecology and Obstetrics. 4(3). 237–250. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2015). Not Your Typical Hole-in-the-Wall. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 8(14). 1905–1906. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2015). Heeding the Sign: Macroscopic T-Wave Alternans. The American Journal of Medicine. 128(5). 480–483. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, et al.. (2014). Prevalence of coronary artery fistulae after cardiac surgery. Herz. 40(S1). 51–55. 4 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, Babak Azarbal, J. Patel, D. Chang, & Jon Kobashigawa. (2014). ELEVATED IMMUNE MONITORING AFTER CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED PLAQUE PROGRESSION BY INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 63(12). A724–A724. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, M. Kittleson, J. Moriguchi, F. Esmailian, & Babak Azarbal. (2013). COMPLICATIONS OF EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION FOR TREATMENT OF CARDIOGENIC SHOCK AND CARDIAC ARREST: A WEIGHTED META-ANALYSIS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 61(10). E638–E638. 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Richard, Rory Hachamovitch, M. Kittleson, et al.. (2013). Complications of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Treatment of Cardiogenic Shock and Cardiac Arrest: A Meta-Analysis of 1,866 Adult Patients. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 97(2). 610–616. 595 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ellis, Scott J., et al.. (2007). Treatment of Proximal Interphalangeal Dorsal Fracture-Dislocation Injuries With Dynamic External Fixation: A Pins and Rubber Band System. The Journal Of Hand Surgery. 32(8). 1242–1250. 71 indexed citations

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