Table 3.

The top 10 most productive authors contributed to publications in quorum sensing (2004–2023).

Rank	Author	Article counts	H-index	Total number of citations	Average number of citations
1	Bassler, Bonnie L.	91	50	14,955	164.34
2	Williams, Paul	75	42	6,580	87.73
3	Blackwell, Helen E.	73	34	3,232	44.27
4	Givskov, Michael	60	41	7,654	127.57
5	Greenberg, E. Peter	60	39	7,618	126.97
6	Chan, Kok-Gan	46	20	1,473	32.02
7	Venturi, Vittorio	39	24	1,826	46.82
8	Eberl, Leo	36	29	3,699	102.75
9	Zhang, Lian-Hui	34	21	2,456	72.24
10	Yin, Wai-Fong	30	17	1,121	37.37