Rui Providência

17.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
262 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Rui Providência is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui Providência has authored 262 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 34 papers in Surgery and 30 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Rui Providência's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (130 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (117 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (79 papers). Rui Providência is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (130 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (117 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (79 papers). Rui Providência collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and France. Rui Providência's co-authors include Sérgio Barra, Luís Paiva, Lino Gonçalves, Paulo Dinis, Ana Catarina Faustino, Serge Bovéda, Pier D. Lambiase, Éloi Marijon, Stéphane Combes and Nicolas Combes and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Rui Providência

233 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction: Clinical Insights

2015 2.0k citations Rui Providência, Sérgio Barra et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui Providência United Kingdom	33	4.7k	937	835	462	337	262	5.5k
José Luis López Sendón Spain	10	3.2k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	183 0.4×	337 1.0×	27	4.1k
Omar Dabbous United States	33	3.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	277 0.6×	503 1.5×	119	6.0k
Marcello Galvani Italy	27	2.6k 0.6×	843 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	230 0.5×	289 0.9×	100	3.6k
Nikolaos Dagres Germany	36	4.3k 0.9×	792 0.8×	494 0.6×	268 0.6×	251 0.7×	239	5.0k
Sérgio Barra Portugal	21	2.7k 0.6×	789 0.8×	717 0.9×	318 0.7×	236 0.7×	118	3.2k
Matteo Di Biase Italy	34	2.8k 0.6×	878 0.9×	938 1.1×	166 0.4×	466 1.4×	255	3.9k
Shlomi Matetzky Israel	29	3.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	813 1.0×	516 1.1×	252 0.7×	158	3.8k
Dragoş Vinereanu Romania	35	4.0k 0.9×	477 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	457 1.0×	476 1.4×	212	4.7k
Natale Daniele Brunetti Italy	34	2.8k 0.6×	855 0.9×	1.0k 1.2×	142 0.3×	356 1.1×	307	3.9k
Erik Lerkevang Grove Denmark	38	3.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	572 0.7×	1.1k 2.3×	634 1.9×	251	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Rui Providência

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rui Providência

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Ahmed, Mushood, Hritvik Jain, Mohammed Y Khanji, et al.. (2025). Efficacy and safety of colchicine in patients with coronary artery disease: An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. American Heart Journal Plus Cardiology Research and Practice. 59. 100610–100610.

Gallina, Sabina, C. Anwar A. Chahal, Barbara Bauce, et al.. (2025). Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy diagnosis and management: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and recommendations with insights for future research. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. 11(7). 1033–1069. 2 indexed citations

Providência, Rui, Fang Zhu, Thomas Katairo, et al.. (2025). Diagnostic test accuracy of simplified algorithms for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever: a systematic review. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 348–348.

Lambiase, Pier D., et al.. (2025). Multiparametric models for predicting major arrhythmic events in Brugada syndrome: a systematic review and critical appraisal. EP Europace. 27(5).

Conti, Sergio, Ante Anić, Giulio Conte, et al.. (2025). Contemporary strategies for repeat ablation of atrial fibrillation: a European Heart Rhythm Association survey. EP Europace. 27(11).

Providência, Rui, et al.. (2025). Predictors of Improvement in Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing Catheter Ablation: Systematic Review. Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review. 14. e02–e02.

Mead, Gillian, Alex Todhunter‐Brown, Ukachukwu Okoroafor Abaraogu, et al.. (2025). Multiple Long‐Term Conditions, Co‐Long‐Term Conditions and Polyvascular Disease: Considerations for Evidence Synthesis and Meta‐Analyses. PubMed. 3(3). e70027–e70027. 1 indexed citations

Yun, Taedong, Jacqueline Baras Shreibati, Dongbing Lai, et al.. (2025). Applying multimodal AI to physiological waveforms improves genetic prediction of cardiovascular traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(7). 1562–1579.

Vugt, Marion van, Chris Finan, Sandesh Chopade, et al.. (2024). Integrating metabolomics and proteomics to identify novel drug targets for heart failure and atrial fibrillation. Genome Medicine. 16(1). 120–120. 5 indexed citations

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Harvie, Heidi S., Richard J. Schilling, Anthony Chow, et al.. (2024). A nonphysician, outpatient implantable loop recorder explant service is safe and cost-effective: The OLÉ Audit. Heart Rhythm. 21(11). 2344–2345. 1 indexed citations

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Providência, Rui, Hussam Ali, António Creta, et al.. (2024). Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation and impact on clinical outcomes. European Heart Journal Open. 4(4). oeae058–oeae058. 5 indexed citations

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Penela, Diego, Antonio Berruezo, Laurent Roten, et al.. (2024). Cardioneuroablation for vasovagal syncope: insights on patients’ selection, centre settings, procedural workflow and endpoints—results from an European Heart Rhythm Association survey. EP Europace. 26(5). 6 indexed citations

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Providência, Rui, et al.. (2023). Amiodarone for atrial fibrillation: a dead man walking?. European Heart Journal. 45(5). 389–392. 2 indexed citations

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Fields, Kara G., Jie Ma, Tatjana Petrinic, et al.. (2023). Multivariable prediction models for atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open. 13(3). e067260–e067260. 1 indexed citations

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Zuhair, Mohamed, et al.. (2023). Cardiac imaging in rheumatic heart disease and future developments. European Heart Journal Open. 3(2). oeac060–oeac060. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Tian, Rui Providência, Wenhua Jiang, et al.. (2022). Association of Metformin with the Mortality and Incidence of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Pre-existing Cardiovascular Diseases. Drugs. 82(3). 311–322. 30 indexed citations

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Creta, António, Rui Providência, Pedro Adragão, et al.. (2019). Impact of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus on the Outcomes of Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation (European Observational Multicentre Study). The American Journal of Cardiology. 125(6). 901–906. 41 indexed citations

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Barra, Sérgio, Rui Providência, Kumar Narayanan, et al.. (2019). Time trends in sudden cardiac death risk in heart failure patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy: a systematic review. European Heart Journal. 41(21). 1976–1986. 32 indexed citations

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Srinivasan, Neil T., Rui Providência, Richard Ang, et al.. (2018). 74Early experience using the adivsor HD grid to map atrial fibrilation. EP Europace. 20. 2 indexed citations

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Providência, Rui, Stéphane Combes, Ziad Khoueiry, et al.. (2017). P1430The HATCH score does not predict FREEDOM from Atrial Fibrillation relapse following catheter ablation: Development of a novel stratifying tool. EP Europace. 19(suppl_3). iii285–iii285. 1 indexed citations

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