COVID-19's impact on heart and lung transplantation: Citation-based analysis of research output
Nisreen Yaghmour, Dina Alramini, Mohammad Alsarayrah, Mohammad Abuassi, Awn Al-Rameni, Mohammad Aladaileh, Haneen Al-Abdallat, Badi Rawashdeh
Nisreen Yaghmour, Department of Cardiology, MercyOne Iowa Heart Center, Des Moines, IO 52302, United States
Dina Alramini, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85702, United States
Mohammad Alsarayrah, Department of Vascular Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
Mohammad Abuassi, Department of Internal Medicine, Jordan Hospital, Amman 00962, Al jamaimah, Jordan
Awn Al-Rameni, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman 11698, Al jamaimah, Jordan
Mohammad Aladaileh, Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32605, United States
Haneen Al-Abdallat, Department of Medicine, Jordan University Hospital, Amman 11263, Al jamaimah, Jordan
Badi Rawashdeh, Department of Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States
Author contributions: Yaghmour N contributed to the data collection and initial analysis; Alramini D assisted in data interpretation and manuscript editing; Alsarayrah M, Al-Rameni A and Aladaileh M contributed to literature review; Abuassi M led the methodological design and data analysis; Al-abdallat H assisted in the visualization of data and contributed to manuscript preparation; Rawashdeh B Oversaw the entire project, from conception to execution, and was involved in manuscript writing; all of the authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript to be published.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare no conflict of interest in publishing the manuscript.
PRISMA 2009 Checklist statement: The authors have read the PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the PRISMA 2009 Checklist.
Open Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Badi Rawashdeh, Doctor, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, No. 9200 W Wisconsin Ave Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53202, United States.
brawashdeh@mcw.edu
Received: August 4, 2024
Revised: December 26, 2024
Accepted: January 11, 2025
Published online: June 18, 2025
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