Robert Poston

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Robert Poston is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Poston has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Surgery, 51 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 22 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert Poston's work include Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques (36 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (20 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (18 papers). Robert Poston is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques (36 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (20 papers) and Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics (18 papers). Robert Poston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Japan. Robert Poston's co-authors include Bartley P. Griffith, John J. McKetta, Richard N. Pierson, James S. Gammie, Marvin J. Slepian, Behrooz Dehdashti, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Canan Dağdeviren, Yonggang Huang and Eric K. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Robert Poston

88 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Conformal piezoelectric energy harvesting and storage from motions of the heart, lung, and diaphragm

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Poston United States	24	1.2k	999	978	316	289	91	2.5k
Robert C. Eberhart United States	31	1.0k 0.9×	504 0.5×	924 0.9×	105 0.3×	165 0.6×	135	3.1k
Hiroyoshi Nakajima Japan	19	582 0.5×	595 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	221 0.7×	888 3.1×	46	2.8k
Mitsuo Umezu Japan	23	1.8k 1.5×	510 0.5×	1.9k 2.0×	100 0.3×	160 0.6×	139	3.6k
Cory M. Tschabrunn United States	29	221 0.2×	2.2k 2.2×	862 0.9×	103 0.3×	285 1.0×	86	3.4k
Arjang Ruhparwar Germany	31	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	71 0.2×	93 0.3×	284	3.3k
Udo Losert Austria	28	1.0k 0.8×	606 0.6×	658 0.7×	40 0.1×	130 0.4×	146	2.6k
Marina V. Kameneva United States	34	967 0.8×	570 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	110 0.3×	244 0.8×	146	3.3k
Ivan Veselý United States	37	1.7k 1.4×	2.3k 2.3×	909 0.9×	248 0.8×	32 0.1×	121	3.9k
Robin Shandas United States	41	923 0.8×	2.1k 2.1×	1.8k 1.8×	576 1.8×	131 0.5×	195	5.9k
Warren Grundfest United States	23	791 0.7×	583 0.6×	683 0.7×	57 0.2×	121 0.4×	96	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Poston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Poston

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Gharagozloo, Farid, et al.. (2023). Consequences for Whistleblowing: Retaliation, Sham Peer Review and Hospital Immunity. Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences. 4(2). 235–238. 1 indexed citations

Elgebaly, Salwa A., Charles Van Buren, Robert B. Todd, et al.. (2023). Cyclocreatine Phosphate: A Novel Bioenergetic/Anti-Inflammatory Drug That Resuscitates Poorly Functioning Hearts and Protects against Development of Heart Failure. Pharmaceuticals. 16(3). 453–453. 4 indexed citations

Gharagozloo, Farid, et al.. (2023). Constitutional Violations by the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and the Reporting by the National Practitioner Databank (NPDB): Focusing on the Preservation of the Civil Rights of Physicians. 1–3.

Poston, Robert, Farid Gharagozloo, & Rainer W.G. Gruessner. (2023). Disadvantaged Physicians: The Ill-fated Connection between Hospital Immunity and Sham Peer Review. Journal of Biomedical Research & Environmental Sciences. 4(2). 184–187. 1 indexed citations

Elgebaly, Salwa A., Robert H. Christenson, Michael Azrin, et al.. (2022). Abstract 9773: Nourin Mirnas: Novel Blood Biomarkers for Early Identification or Exclusion of Myocardial Ischemia in Women Suspected of Having Coronary Artery Disease (CAD). Circulation. 146(Suppl_1). 1 indexed citations

Poston, Robert, et al.. (2021). OR and ICU Teams “Running in Parallel” at the End of Surgery to Improve Handoffs. 2(3). 1 indexed citations

Gross, Daniel, Bardiya Zangbar, Abbasali Badami, et al.. (2019). Saving the split: the benefits of VATS thymectomy. Journal of Thoracic Disease. 11(4). 1428–1432. 8 indexed citations

Khalpey, Zain, et al.. (2014). Robot-assisted septal myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 147(5). 1708–1709. 22 indexed citations

Goodnough, Lawrence T., Peter K. Smith, Jerrold H. Levy, et al.. (2012). Transfusion outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting treated with prasugrel or clopidogrel: TRITON-TIMI 38 retrospective data analysis. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 145(4). 1077–1082.e4. 16 indexed citations

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Joshi, Amit, Dietrich C. Smith, Mohit Arora, & Robert Poston. (2008). Anticoagulant monitoring in ventricular assist device patients: a feasibility study. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 7(6). 1035–1038. 6 indexed citations

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Collins, Michael J., Sina L. Moainie, Bartley P. Griffith, & Robert Poston. (2008). Preserving and evaluating hearts with ex vivo machine perfusion: an avenue to improve early graft performance and expand the donor pool☆. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 34(2). 318–325. 63 indexed citations

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Brown, Emile N., Zachary N. Kon, Richard Tran, et al.. (2007). Strategies to reduce intraluminal clot formation in endoscopically harvested saphenous veins. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 134(5). 1259–1265. 43 indexed citations

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Kon, Zachary N., Charles S. White, Michael H. Kwon, et al.. (2007). The Role of Preexisting Pathology in the Development of Neointimal Hyperplasia in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts. Journal of Surgical Research. 142(2). 351–356. 7 indexed citations

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Zimrin, David, et al.. (2006). A hybrid alternative for high risk left main disease. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 69(1). 123–127. 12 indexed citations

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Burris, Nicholas S., Cha‐Min Tang, M. Samir Jafri, et al.. (2006). Catheter-based infrared light scanner as a tool to assess conduit quality in coronary artery bypass surgery. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 133(2). 419–427. 21 indexed citations

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Poston, Robert, Junyan Gu, James Brown, et al.. (2005). Endothelial injury and acquired aspirin resistance as promoters of regional thrombin formation and early vein graft failure after coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 131(1). 122–130. 96 indexed citations

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Poston, Robert, Junyan Gu, James Brown, et al.. (2005). Hypercoagulability affecting early vein graft patency does not exist after off-pump coronary artery bypass. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 19(1). 11–18. 12 indexed citations

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Poston, Robert, Junyan Gu, Fred Gage, et al.. (2004). Optimizing Donor Heart Outcome After Prolonged Storage With Endothelial Function Analysis and Continuous Perfusion. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 78(4). 1362–1370. 37 indexed citations

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Teranishi, Katsunori, Robert Poston, Beverly A. Reitz, & R.C. Robbins. (1998). Effect of Low Molecular Weight Heparin on Suppression of Chronic Graft Vascular Disease in a Rat Cardiac Allograft Model. Transplantation Proceedings. 30(4). 1009–1011. 11 indexed citations

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Poston, Robert, et al.. (1998). Ex vivo gene therapy prevents chronic graft vascular disease in cardiac allografts. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 116(3). 386–396. 33 indexed citations

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