Which is the best heart hospital? This is, of course, a difficult question. Still, cardiology is a complex medical specialty, and new treatments are being continually discovered. It makes sense to use a hospital whose cardiology research has had a strong impact on the area of heart medicine (cardiology). Such hospital will have outstanding experts, who are familiar with the latest discoveries.
Here, we rank hospitals by the impact their research had in the area of cardiology and cardiovascular disease. Hospitals with higher impact research are listed at the top. We rank 100 hospitals.
Methodology:
Cardiology is at the forefront of medicine and it depends on leading research. Here, medical centers are ranked by the number of influential publications in cardiology. The ranking is by the number of papers in cardiology and cardiovascular disease published during the last 20 years that had received 10 or more citations.
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Rank
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Hospital
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Number of Papers
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1
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New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell |
922
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2
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. |
669
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|
3
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Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. |
661
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4
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Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore |
592
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5
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Cleveland Clinic |
537
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|
6
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. |
429
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7
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston |
361
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8
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University of California, San Francisco Medical Center |
337
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|
9
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles |
336
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10
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University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor |
310
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11
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis |
297
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12
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Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. |
294
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13
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
236
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14
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Emory University Hospital, Atlanta |
235
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15
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston |
223
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