Table 5. Top 5 authors ranked by their number of publications, specific h-Index, betweenness centrality per disease network, including network parameters per disease network.
| Disease | Nodes | Edges | Graph Density | Components | Giant component authors | Average Degree | Authors by | Authors by | Authors by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Authors) | (% of all authors) | (Maximum) | (No of publications) | (specific h-index) | (betweenness centrality *) | ||||
| Leishmaniasis | 1 904 | 16 200 | 0.09 | 71 | 1535 (80.6) | 17.02 (224) | Schoenian, G (60) | Schoenian, G (22) | Schoenian, G (21 594) |
| Kuhls, K (26) | Kuhls, K (13) | Anders, G (11 862) | |||||||
| Bogdan, C (23) | Bogdan, C (13) | Yardley, V (10 067) | |||||||
| von Stebut, E (23) | von Stebut, E (11) | Brun, R (9 004) | |||||||
| Moll, H (127) | Sindermann, H (11) | Bogdan, C (8 838) | |||||||
| Schistosomiasis | 858 | 5 632 | 0.02 | 50 | 495 (57.7) | 13.12 (69) | Ruppel, A (17) | Grevelding, CG (9) | Doenhoff, MJ (1 679) |
| Grevelding, CG (13) | Ruppel, A (8) | Grevelding, CG (1 211) | |||||||
| Kremsner, PG (11) | Doenhoff, MJ (7) | Ruppel, A (961) | |||||||
| Doenhoff, MJ (9) | Kremsner, PG (6) | Grobusch, MP (729) | |||||||
| Richter, J (9) | Geyer, R (5) | Richter, J (709) | |||||||
| Chagas Disease | 764 | 3 464 | 0.01 | 67 | 189 (24.7) | 9.07 (67) | Brun, R (15) | Brun, R (8) | Brun, R (894) |
| Krauth-Siegel, RL (11) | Krauth-Siegel, RL (8) | Krauth-Siegel, RL (613) | |||||||
| Kaiser, M (8) | Fleischer, B (7) | Hernandez, P (384) | |||||||
| Fleischer, B (8) | Kaiser, M (6) | Luquetti, AO (343) | |||||||
| Heringer-Walther, S (8)s | Jacobs, T (6) | Lopes, NP (159) | |||||||
| Sleeping Sickness | 596 | 2 911 | 0.02 | 38 | 315 (52.9) | 9.77 (72) | Brun, R (16) | Krauth-Siegel, RL (12) | Brun, R (2 250) |
| Krauth-Siegel, RL (14) | Brun, R (9) | Stich, A (1 132) | |||||||
| Stich, A (11)a | Stich, A (9) | Clayton, CE (918) | |||||||
| Kaiser, M (10) | Steverding, D (7) | Engstler, M (767) | |||||||
| Khalid, SA (7) | Kaiser, M (6) | Kaiser, M (635) | |||||||
| Onchocerciasis | 446 | 4 440 | 0.05 | 18 | 352 (78.9) | 19.91 (103) | Buettner, DW (34) | Buettner, DW (15) | Buettner, DW (2 582) |
| Hoerauf, A (32) | Hoerauf, A (15) | Brattig, NW (853) | |||||||
| Brattig, NW (22) | Brattig, NW (11) | Hoerauf, A (812) | |||||||
| Krueger, A (12) | Adjei, O (10) | Pfarr, KM (801) | |||||||
| Mand, S (12) | Mand, S (9) | Koenig, R (648) |
* (for authors with >2 publications because of the different sizes of the network, absolute numbers of betweenness centralities are not comparable between networks but only within the disease network itself)