Recently Hanson Clinical Research has published the Big Data Analysis of SCI Articles in Cardiovascular Surgery Published in 2021. This indicates that the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) is top ranking among the hospitals all over the country in terms of the number and quality of academic articles published along with the number of articles cited, among others. In the list of the number of articles published among the most active research institutes in the cardiovascular surgery, our Department of Cardiovascular Surgery ranks 11^th in China and 20^th in the world; beyond that, in the list of the most active scholars in the cardiovascular surgery area, Prof. Yan Yang ranks 5^th in China.

According to Hanson Clinical Research, it was founded in March 2016 and initiated by 5 senior clinical researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Johns Hopkins Hospital and George Washington University, with the mission to find out the hot research subjects in each area, the submission trend of SCI journals and active academic institutes and physician scientist groupsthroughbig data analysis. According to the statistics, a total of 17,771 articles that are collected by Medlinehave been published in the global cardiovascular surgery in 2021, in which China has published 2,993 articles and ranks second in terms of the number. In the list of the number of SCI articles published in the cardiovascular surgery area, top 5 hospitals are Mayo Clinic, Clevel and Clinic, Fuwai Hospital, Beijing Anzhen Hospital and Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University. Top 5 Chinese hospitals in the number of articles published are Fuwai Hospital (102), Beijing Anzhen Hospital (87), West China Hospital (72), Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College HUST (69) and Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (67). Our hospital ranks 11^th in China and 20^th in the world in terms of the number of articles published in the cardiovascular surgery. The analysis of the most active Chinese scholars in the cardiovascular surgery research and their connection network indicates that Prof. Yan Yang from the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery has published 11 SCI articles with the total IF of 72.5 in 2021, and ranks 5^th in China, rated as one of the leaders in the global vision and the core driver of disciplinary development.

Over the past two years, under the leadership of Director Yan Yang, the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery has focused on both clinical work and scientific research, made innovation breakthroughs in the medical technologies, and gone ahead in a secure manner in the scientific research. The top world medical journals see an increasingly high number of articles published by Our Department of Cardiovascular Surgery that also has an improved international influence.

As Flashlight, one article on diagnosis and treatment of coronary aneurysm has been published in European Heart Journal with the highest IF of 29.98, additionally 2 achievement articleson clinical cardiac electrophysiology in JAMA Internal Medicine with the highest IF of 21.87. An article titled The Experience from Surgical Treatment in Rare Cardiac Hemangioma was received by a journal subordinated to the European Heart Journal in 2021 and recommended by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) official website. In the future, this team will keep up and continue to improve the scientific research strength, produce more original and leading medical scientific achievements, and make a new success.