Plenary presentations and public citations from The American Association for Thoracic Surgery》.pdf

Kamel et al Acquired Cardiovascular Disease Plenary presentations and public citations from The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Mohamed Kamel, MD,a Yusuke Terasaki, MD,b Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS,c and Brendon M. Stiles, MDa ABSTRACT Objective: We examined the impact of work presented in the plenary sessions at Congenital the meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), by Thoracic determining how frequently the published papers corresponding to the session presentations during the past 20 years, were cited; those that were most cited Cardiac were identified. 0 2 4 6 8 10 Median citations per year since publication (1994-2014) Methods: We reviewed the AATS meeting programs from the 20-year period from Web of Science Google Scholar 1994 to 2014 and identified the corresponding publications in the Journal of Median number of citations per year since Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (JTCVS) from all abstracts presented at the publication. plenary sessions. Papers were categorized as cardiac, thoracic, or congenital. References were evaluated for subsequent citation in the Web of Science (WoS), C