Wouter Oosterlinck

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Wouter Oosterlinck is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Oosterlinck has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 26 papers in Surgery and 10 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wouter Oosterlinck's work include Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques (16 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (12 papers) and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (11 papers). Wouter Oosterlinck is often cited by papers focused on Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques (16 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (12 papers) and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (11 papers). Wouter Oosterlinck collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Italy. Wouter Oosterlinck's co-authors include Jef Van den Eynde, Uwe Himmelreich, Paul Herijgers, Stefan Janssens, Willy Gsell, Michiel Algoet, Matic Pusovnik, Patrick Callaerts, Jeroen Van Houdt and Álvaro Cortés-Calabuig and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Circulation Research.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Oosterlinck

51 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

ACE-inhibition induces a cardioprotective transcriptional response in the metabolic syndrome heart

2018 356 citations Wouter Oosterlinck, Paul Herijgers et al. profile →
Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and the influence of inflammation

2022 278 citations Michiel Algoet, Stefan Janssens et al. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Oosterlinck Belgium	14	296	290	208	152	111	57	1.1k
Yoshifumi Takahashi Japan	23	274 0.9×	141 0.5×	334 1.6×	225 1.5×	49 0.4×	110	1.6k
Michael A. Rowland Australia	22	404 1.4×	352 1.2×	515 2.5×	93 0.6×	269 2.4×	44	1.3k
Z. Papp Hungary	23	318 1.1×	272 0.9×	123 0.6×	63 0.4×	46 0.4×	105	1.6k
Hiroko Mori Japan	21	476 1.6×	155 0.5×	220 1.1×	68 0.4×	38 0.3×	121	1.9k
Xia Chen China	25	434 1.5×	172 0.6×	289 1.4×	97 0.6×	72 0.6×	131	2.0k
Kwang-Soo Lee South Korea	29	336 1.1×	222 0.8×	300 1.4×	129 0.8×	28 0.3×	139	2.3k
Jifang Wang China	18	198 0.7×	173 0.6×	99 0.5×	36 0.2×	77 0.7×	85	1.2k
Toshihiko Ueda Japan	18	209 0.7×	251 0.9×	275 1.3×	103 0.7×	212 1.9×	119	1.3k
Guoyong Li China	16	1.1k 3.8×	211 0.7×	117 0.6×	135 0.9×	53 0.5×	41	1.6k
Lei Xiao China	23	524 1.8×	136 0.5×	120 0.6×	42 0.3×	116 1.0×	109	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Wouter Oosterlinck

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Oosterlinck

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Janssens, Stefan, et al.. (2025). Myocardial Infarction in Murine Models of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders: The Role of Inflammation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(23). 11663–11663.

Bennett, Johan, Keir McCutcheon, Wouter Oosterlinck, et al.. (2024). Optimization of Absolute Coronary Blood Flow Measurements to Assess Microvascular Function: In Vivo Validation of Hyperemia and Higher Infusion Speeds. Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions. 17(7). e013860–e013860. 1 indexed citations

McCutcheon, Keir, Johan Bennett, Michiel Algoet, et al.. (2024). An interventional sheep model of severe aortic valve stenosis hemodynamics for the evaluation of alterations in coronary physiology and microvascular function. Journal of Applied Physiology. 136(3). 606–617. 4 indexed citations

Oosterlinck, Wouter, et al.. (2024). Small incisions still require great anesthesia: anesthesiology techniques to enhance recovery in robotic coronary bypass grafting. Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 13(5). 409–416. 1 indexed citations

Eynde, Jef Van den, Xander Jacquemyn, Hilde Gillijns, et al.. (2022). Arteriovenous Fistulae in Chronic Kidney Disease and the Heart: Physiological, Histological, and Transcriptomic Characterization of a Novel Rat Model. Journal of the American Heart Association. 11(20). e027593–e027593. 3 indexed citations

Algoet, Michiel, Stefan Janssens, Uwe Himmelreich, et al.. (2022). Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and the influence of inflammation. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 33(6). 357–366. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

Eynde, Jef Van den, Xander Jacquemyn, Keir McCutcheon, et al.. (2021). Revascularization strategies in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: a Bayesian network meta-analysis. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 34(6). 947–957. 7 indexed citations

Eynde, Jef Van den, et al.. (2021). The role of antiaggregant agents and anticoagulants in the prevention of aortic valve endocarditis: A double-cohort retrospective study. JTCVS Open. 8. 301–312.

Torregrossa, Gianluca, Andrea Amabile, Wouter Oosterlinck, et al.. (2021). The epicenter of change: Robotic cardiac surgery as a career choice. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. 36(10). 3497–3500. 5 indexed citations

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McCutcheon, Keir, Andreas S. Triantafyllis, Jef Van den Eynde, et al.. (2021). Coronary revascularization in patients with HIV. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 32(3). 163–169. 5 indexed citations

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Yasuda, Shota, Jef Van den Eynde, Katrien Vandendriessche, et al.. (2021). Implementation of a beating heart system for training in off-pump and minimally invasive coronary artery bypass. BMC Surgery. 21(1). 26–26. 8 indexed citations

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Eynde, Jef Van den, Johan Bennett, Keir McCutcheon, et al.. (2020). Heart team 2.0: A decision tree for minimally invasive and hybrid myocardial revascularization. Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 31(6). 382–391. 12 indexed citations

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Eynde, Jef Van den, et al.. (2020). Women and COVID-19: A One-Man Show?. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 7. 596583–596583. 6 indexed citations

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Bennett, Johan, Keir McCutcheon, Tom Adriaenssens, et al.. (2019). Hybrid Myocardial Revascularization or Multivessel Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass: Two Case Reports. 8(4). 1–3. 2 indexed citations

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Rolle, Virginie Le, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Accelerometers for the Study of Left Ventricular Contractility. Computing in cardiology. 45. 4 indexed citations

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Oosterlinck, Wouter, Esther Wolfs, H Vanbilloen, et al.. (2018). The human somatostatin receptor type 2 as an imaging and suicide reporter gene for pluripotent stem cell-derived therapy of myocardial infarction. Theranostics. 8(10). 2799–2813. 13 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Griet, Wouter Oosterlinck, Tom Dresselaers, et al.. (2015). Enhanced β-adrenergic cardiac reserve in Trpm4−/− mice with ischaemic heart failure. Cardiovascular Research. 105(3). 330–339. 31 indexed citations

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Oosterlinck, Wouter, et al.. (2014). Routine thymectomy in congenital cardiac surgery changes adaptive immunity without clinical relevance. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. 20(1). 101–106. 24 indexed citations

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Oosterlinck, Wouter, Tom Dresselaers, Vincent Geldhof, et al.. (2012). Improved Left Ventricular Regional Contractility Pattern after Ischemic Postconditioning. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1 indexed citations

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Mieren, Gerry Van der, Ines Nevelsteen, Annelies Vanderper, et al.. (2012). Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition and food restriction in diabetic mice do not correct the increased sensitivity for ischemia-reperfusion injury. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 11(1). 89–89. 14 indexed citations

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