Ralf Westenfeld

263 papers and 6.4k indexed citations
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About

Ralf Westenfeld is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Westenfeld has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 145 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 110 papers in Surgery and 73 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ralf Westenfeld’s work include Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (71 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (70 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (66 papers). Ralf Westenfeld is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (71 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (70 papers) and Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (66 papers). Ralf Westenfeld collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Ralf Westenfeld's co-authors include Markus Ketteler, Willi Jahnen‐Dechent, Jürgen Floege, Vincent Brandenburg, Malte Kelm, Leon J. Schurgers, Georg Schlieper, Christoph Wanner, Thorsten Schinke and Werner Müller‐Esterl and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Circulation and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Westenfeld

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ralf Westenfeld. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ralf Westenfeld based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ralf Westenfeld. Ralf Westenfeld is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf Westenfeld

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Countries citing papers authored by Ralf Westenfeld

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