Vanessa Sciacca

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 706 citations indexed

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Vanessa Sciacca is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Sciacca has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 706 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 7 papers in Internal Medicine and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Sciacca's work include Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (60 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (52 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (28 papers). Vanessa Sciacca is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments (60 papers), Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes (52 papers) and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (28 papers). Vanessa Sciacca collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Vanessa Sciacca's co-authors include Thomas Fink, Philipp Sommer, Christian Sohns, Mustapha El Hamriti, Roland Richard Tilz, Leonard Bergau, Christian‐Hendrik Heeger, Guram Imnadze, Martin Braun and Denise Guckel and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and European Heart Journal.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Sciacca

69 papers receiving 701 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.

Catheter Ablation in End-Stage Heart Failure with Atrial Fibrillation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vanessa Sciacca Germany	13	632	63	36	35	32	74	706
Bart A. Mulder Netherlands	16	806 1.3×	37 0.6×	34 0.9×	43 1.2×	26 0.8×	56	873
Tomofumi Nakamura Japan	16	579 0.9×	68 1.1×	16 0.4×	57 1.6×	66 2.1×	46	653
Xianzhang Zhan China	17	863 1.4×	56 0.9×	24 0.7×	48 1.4×	37 1.2×	62	926
Patrick Badertscher Switzerland	16	703 1.1×	188 3.0×	53 1.5×	95 2.7×	31 1.0×	117	840
Satoru Miyanaga Japan	16	611 1.0×	32 0.5×	16 0.4×	78 2.2×	42 1.3×	46	687
Keiichi Inada Japan	23	1.5k 2.4×	55 0.9×	14 0.4×	77 2.2×	48 1.5×	72	1.6k
Róbert Pap Hungary	13	353 0.6×	33 0.5×	27 0.8×	20 0.6×	17 0.5×	52	401
Stefan G. Spitzer Germany	11	342 0.5×	34 0.5×	13 0.4×	50 1.4×	37 1.2×	33	463
Miguel Nobre Menezes Portugal	9	125 0.2×	56 0.9×	41 1.1×	67 1.9×	17 0.5×	57	229
Kennosuke Yamashita Japan	13	419 0.7×	114 1.8×	27 0.8×	152 4.3×	15 0.5×	55	520

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Guckel, Denise, Mustapha El Hamriti, Martin Braun, et al.. (2025). A Novel Predictive Score to Identify the Necessity for Epicardial Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation: EPI‐VT‐Score. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 36(11). 2870–2877.

Hamriti, Mustapha El, Martin Braun, Guram Imnadze, et al.. (2025). PO-FP-015 A NOVEL ECG ALGORITHM FOR ACCURATE LOCALIZATION OF MANIFEST ACCESSORY PATHWAYS IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS: WPW-ALGORITHM. Heart Rhythm. 22(4). S84–S84. 1 indexed citations

Sciacca, Vanessa, et al.. (2025). Patient-reported outcomes of deep sedation during pulsed field ablation for atrial fibrillation with a novel variable-loop catheter. Heart Rhythm. 23(1). e96–e98. 1 indexed citations

Fink, Thomas, Vanessa Sciacca, Maximilian Moersdorf, et al.. (2025). First Experience Using a Novel Variable Loop Catheter for Mapping and Pulsed Field Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation. PubMed. 48(5). 471–479. 3 indexed citations

Sciacca, Vanessa, Thomas Fink, Stephan Winnik, et al.. (2024). Pressure waveform analysis for occlusion assessment significantly reduces contrast medium use in cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. 67(7). 1563–1570. 1 indexed citations

Tilz, Roland Richard, Julia Vogler, Kerstin Bode, et al.. (2024). Venous vascular closure system vs. figure-of-eight suture following atrial fibrillation ablation: the STYLE-AF Study. EP Europace. 26(5). 12 indexed citations

Sciacca, Vanessa, Christian Sohns, Harry J. Crijns, et al.. (2024). Effects of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation on Arrhythmia Burden and Ventricular Function in End-Stage Heart Failure: Lessons from CASTLE-HTx. European Journal of Heart Failure. 27(2). 255–263. 3 indexed citations

Imnadze, Guram, Thomas Fink, Vanessa Sciacca, et al.. (2024). Dual-chamber CRT-D using ICD lead implantation in the LBBAP position. European Heart Journal. 45(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Imnadze, Guram, Philipp Sommer, Thomas Fink, et al.. (2023). First clinical experience using a novel automated mapping algorithm for mapping of ventricular arrhythmias. Heart and Vessels. 38(7). 984–991. 3 indexed citations

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Körperich, Hermann, et al.. (2023). Machine-Learning-Based Diagnostics of Cardiac Sarcoidosis Using Multi-Chamber Wall Motion Analyses. Diagnostics. 13(14). 2426–2426. 8 indexed citations

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Sohns, Christian, Thomas Fink, Martin Braun, et al.. (2023). First clinical experience using the DiamondTemp catheter and a novel omnipolar high-resolution mapping system for atrial fibrillation ablation. Cardiology Journal. 30(1). 36–43. 4 indexed citations

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Sommer, Philipp, Vanessa Sciacca, Matteo Anselmino, et al.. (2023). Practical guidance to reduce radiation exposure in electrophysiology applying ultra low-dose protocols: a European Heart Rhythm Association review. EP Europace. 25(7). 13 indexed citations

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Sciacca, Vanessa, Hermann Körperich, Thomas Fink, et al.. (2022). Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging-Based Left Atrial Strain and Left Atrial Strain Rate as Diagnostic Parameters in Cardiac Amyloidosis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(11). 3150–3150. 12 indexed citations

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Gerçek, Muhammed, Vanessa Sciacca, Christian Sohns, et al.. (2022). Impact of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Treatment on Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Heart Failure. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 11(15). 4567–4567. 5 indexed citations

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Sciacca, Vanessa, Kerstin Rubarth, Frank Konietschke, et al.. (2022). A frozen decade: Ten years outcome of atrial fibrillation ablation using a single shot device for pulmonary vein isolation. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 33(7). 1383–1390. 5 indexed citations

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Hamriti, Mustapha El, Martin Braun, Guram Imnadze, et al.. (2022). EASY-WPW: a novel ECG-algorithm for easy and reliable localization of manifest accessory pathways in children and adults. EP Europace. 25(2). 600–609. 10 indexed citations

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Fink, Thomas, Guram Imnadze, Vanessa Sciacca, et al.. (2022). Feasibility of wideband dielectric imaging to guide temperature-controlled atrial fibrillation ablation. Heart Rhythm. 19(9). 1473–1474. 4 indexed citations

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Tilz, Roland Richard, Makoto Sano, Julia Vogler, et al.. (2021). Very high-power short-duration temperature-controlled ablation versus conventional power-controlled ablation for pulmonary vein isolation: The fast and furious - AF study. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 35. 100847–100847. 41 indexed citations

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Heeger, Christian‐Hendrik, Roza Meyer‐Saraei, Thomas Fink, et al.. (2020). Rapid pulmonary vein isolation utilizing the third-generation laserballoon – The PhoeniX registry. IJC Heart & Vasculature. 29. 100576–100576. 24 indexed citations

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Sano, Makoto, Christian‐Hendrik Heeger, Vanessa Sciacca, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of predictive scores for late and very late recurrence after cryoballoon-based ablation of atrial fibrillation. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. 61(2). 321–332. 9 indexed citations

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