Marco Metra

Full Professor in Cardiology at the Department of Medical and Surgical specialties, Radiological sciences and Public Health of the University of Brescia since December 2015 Director of the Institute of Cardiology of the Civil Hospital and University of Brescia since November 2012 Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Heart Failure, official journal of the Heart failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, impact factor, 6.526 (2017) à 18.134 (2021) Senior consulting Editor of the European Heart Journal, official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, impact factor 29.983 Executive Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, official journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology, impact fator 2.56 Author of more than 1.000 scientific articles in peer reviewed scientific journals listed in PubMed, in addition to 272 book chapters, invited articles and congress abstracts H index, calculated by google scholar, 133, calculated by SCOPUS, 125. Total number of citations, based on google scholar, 178 273. Ranked n. 34, in the Top Italian Scientists score for biomedical sciences https://topitalianscientists.org/TIS_HTML/Top_Italian_Scientists_Biomedical_Sciences.htm Winner of the Web Of Science highly cited researcher awards for clinical medicine in the years 2018 and 2021 for top percentile citations in the date range October 2017 - October 2022 Professor of cardiovascular disease for the School of Medicine, the School of detetics of the University of Brescia President- elect of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC since September 2022 Director of the postgraduate school of cardiology of the University of Brescia since 2012