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Nantes Thoracic Transplantation Unit (CHU de Nantes and institut du thorax)

Evidence level: bibliometric count (OpenAlex affiliation); official programme page

The thoracic transplantation unit of the CHU de Nantes at Hôpital Nord Laennec, linked to the institut du thorax.

As of . Primary source: Unité de transplantation thoracique, La greffe pulmonaire, CHU de Nantes (official page, French).

Summary

The CHU de Nantes page on lung transplantation states, in French, that the first lung transplants in Nantes were performed in 1989, that the institut du thorax is one of the main French lung and heart-lung transplantation centres, and that the pneumology service coordinates the national clinical research programme COLT (Cohort in Lung Transplantation), which brings together the French lung transplant centres and aims to find solutions to chronic rejection of lung grafts (the centre's own statements, not independently verified here). The unit page gives the address as Hôpital Nord Laennec, Saint-Herblain. The ranking figures refer to papers with an author affiliated with the CHU de Nantes or Nantes Université as recorded in OpenAlex.

Citation ranking (10 years)

Rank 16 of 25 on this site; rank 16 among 30 institutions tested.

Papers (whole count)
37
Papers (fractional)
10.2
Citations
840
Citations per paper
22.7
Median citations per paper
5
Mean field-weighted citation impact
3.55
Papers with a first or last author here
15
Top-decile share
0.3

Order and numbers: a bibliometric ordering of CLAD publications, not a judgement of clinical quality or patient outcomes. Centres are ordered by the total citations of CLAD-related papers published 2016-10-11 to 2026-10-10, counted in OpenAlex on 2026-10-10 (2,461 works; one fixed title and abstract query; a paper counts for every centre with an author at that centre). Institution identifiers have not been fully audited, citation counts lag for recent papers, and consensus statements can inflate totals. Rank is shown among the 25 centres on this site and among 30 institutions tested. Methodology.

Details

city
Nantes (Saint-Herblain)
country
France
parent
CHU de Nantes; Nantes Université; institut du thorax
selection basis
Citation ranking over 10 years (OpenAlex), added to the site by rank; not an official ranking
selection rank
16 of 30 institutions tested (10-year citations)
selection date
2026-10-10

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  • clinical outcomes and transplant volumes (official statements are not verified here)
  • institution identifiers in the citation ranking have not been fully audited

Information resource only. Not medical advice. Not a substitute for the care of the patient's transplant team.