Table 3.

Authors with more than 10 publications related to acupuncture treatment on headache.

Rank	Author	Counts	Proportion (%)	Total citations	Average citations	H-index	Magnum opus (publication year)
1	Liu, Lu	21	2.6	166	7.90	9	Effect of electroacupuncture pretreatment at GB20 on behavior and the descending pain modulatory system in a rat model of migraine (2016)
2	Zhao, Ling	19	2.4	492	25.89	8	The Long-term Effect of Acupuncture for Migraine Prophylaxis A Randomized Clinical Trial (2017)
3	Liang, Fanrong	17	2.1	1,233	72.53	16
4	Linde, K	17	2.1	4,020	236.47	24	The impact of patient expectations on outcomes in four randomized controlled trials of acupuncture in patients with chronic pain (2007)
5	Witt, C. M.	14	1.7	3,003	214.50	17	Acupuncture for Chronic Pain Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis (2012)
6	Allais, G	13	1.6	882	67.85	12	Acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis (2009)
7	Macpherson, H	11	1.4	2,420	220	15	Revised Standards for Reporting Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture (STRICTA): Extending the CONSORT Statement (2010)