Table 2.
The top 7 most productive first authors during the period 1997-2016.
| Author name (full name) | ORCIDa | Recs-firstb (Recs-allc) | Percentaged | Main affiliation | Country |
| Piette JD (John D Piette) | N/Ae | 11 (20) | 0.41 | Ann Arbor Department of VA, Center for Clinical Management Research, Michigan | United States |
| Ben-Zeev D (Dror Ben-Zeev) | 0000-0001-6597-2407 | 8 (10) | 0.30 | Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover | United States |
| Luxton DD (David D Luxton) | N/A | 6 (6) | 0.22 | The National Center for Telehealth and Technology, Tacoma, Washington | United States |
| Chib A (Arul Chib) | N/A | 5 (5) | 0.18 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| Turner-McGrievy, GM (Gabrielle M Turner-McGrievy) | 0000-0002-1683-5729 | 5 (7) | 0.18 | University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina | United States |
| Aschbrenner KA (Kelly A Aschbrenner) | N/A | 5 (9) | 0.18 | Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH | United States |
| Akter S (Shahriar Akter) | 0000-0002-2050-9985 | 5 (5) | 0.18 | University of Wollongong | Australia |
aORCID: Open Researcher and Contributor ID.
bRecs-first: number of papers published as first author.
cRecs-all: total number of papers published by the author.
dPercentage: Percentage of papers published as first author.
eN/A: not applicable.