James Kirklin is a Cardiology physician affiliated with Kirklin Clinic. OpenAlex indexes 1,078 publications with 44,031 citations (h-index 99); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 2 registered studies matched to this name. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 1% of Vascular Surgery profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingClinical trials
- Medical Arm of the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
- Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (Intermacs)
Sponsor: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov where the overall official or a site investigator name-matches this physician, confirmed against known institution/geography. Latest few shown; the full list is part of the full profile.
Industry payments
2 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
2 companies with payments on record in CMS Open Payments (2021 onward), matched to this physician's NPI. The itemized breakdown by company, amount and year is part of the full profile. Why? →
NIH funding
1 NIH research award on record, funded 2006–2006 per NIH RePORTER. The latest:
- REGISTRY OF MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT DEVICE FOR END-STAGE HEART -268058198
University of Alabama at Birmingham
FY2006N01HV058198
Awards in the NIH RePORTER records where a principal investigator name matches this physician at an organization in their practice state. Latest award years shown; each row links to the project record on RePORTER.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2023 Annual Report: Focus on Magnetically Levitated Devices
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
2023 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2022 Annual Report: Focus on the 2018 Heart Transplant Allocation System
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
2022 - Twelfth Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support Report: Readmissions After Left Ventricular Assist Device
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
2022 - The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Intermacs 2019 Annual Report: The Changing Landscape of Devices and Indications
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
2020
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A basic profile from our physician directory: identity and practice contact from the federal NPPES registry, research from OpenAlex, trials from ClinicalTrials.gov, payments from CMS Open Payments, shown itemized where we have matched records, as a count where we only have a total. This person hasn't been through our full identity-adjudication pipeline yet, so funding, congress activity and public presence aren't shown. Absence of a section means “not yet looked,” never “none found.”