Table 3.
Top 10 authors (N=15,600) by the number of COVID-19–related publications.
| Rank | Author name | Publications, n | Author affiliation |
| 1 | Lei Liu | 46 | Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| 2 | Kwok-Yung Yuen | 34 | The University of Hong Kong, China |
| 3 | Christian Drosten | 31 | Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany |
| 4 | Ralph S Baric | 31 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| 5 | Gerardo Chowell | 30 | Georgia State University, USA |
| 6 | Hongzhou Lu | 30 | Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| 7 | Giuseppe Lippi | 29 | University of Verona, Italy |
| 8 | Jasper Fuk-Wo Chan | 27 | The University of Hong Kong, China |
| 9 | Kelvin Kai-Wang To | 25 | The University of Hong Kong, China |
| 10 | Valerie A Canady | 23 | Mental Health Weekly, USA |