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. 2017 Oct 3;113(1):503–532. doi: 10.1007/s11192-017-2522-8

Table 2.

Left: authors with the largest number of works (WAD indeg), Right: authors with the largest contribution to the field (weighted indegree in normalized WAD)

n Works Author Value Author
1 61 BORNMANN_L 29.1167 BORNMANN_L
2 59 ALTMAN_D 21.7833 DANIEL_H
3 55 SMITH_R 18.2453 SMITH_R
4 55 LEE_J 18.0105 ALTMAN_D
5 50 MOHER_D 17.7255 MARSHALL_E
6 48 DANIEL_H 17.0000 GARFIELD_E
7 46 SMITH_J 15.3788 SMITH_J
8 38 CURTIS_K 15.1737 RENNIE_D
9 36 BROWN_D 14.6538 SQUIRES_B
10 36 RENNIE_D 14.5636 CHENG_J
11 35 LEE_S 13.8833 THOENNES_M
12 32 WANG_J 13.7957 COHEN_J
13 32 WILLIAMS_J 13.2898 JOHNSON_C
14 31 THOENNES_M 13.2857 REYES_H
15 29 JOHNSON_C 12.9779 LEE_J
16 29 JOHNSON_J 12.6667 WELLER_A
17 29 REYES_H 11.9167 BJORK_B
18 28 ZHANG_Y 11.1648 BROWN_D
19 28 WANG_Y 10.9091 BROWN_C
20 27 ZHANG_L 10.5000 MERVIS_J
21 27 SMITH_M 10.3762 CALLAHAM_M
22 27 WILLIAMS_A 10.2952 JONES_R
23 27 CASTAGNA_C 10.2198 MOHER_D
24 25 COHEN_J 10.0000 HARNAD_S
25 25 HELSEN_W 10.0000 BEREZIN_A