Table 4. First authors with multiple publications on early thoracotomy and decortication in pleural empyema.

# : serial number, USA: United States of America, UK: United Kingdom, UCLA: University of California Los Angeles

#	Author	Affiliation	Number of Articles	H-Index	Country
1	Light	Vanderbilt University	2 [8,12]	68	USA
2	Sahn	Medical University of South Carolina	2 [15,19]	74	USA
3	Chen	National Taiwan University Hospital	2 [27,60]	-	Taiwan
4	Hoff	Vanderbilt University	2 [51,104]	-	USA
5	Gates	Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University	2 [55,66]	13	USA
6	Mandal	UCLA School of Medicine	2 [65,73]	-	USA