Table 3.
The characteristics of the top 20 authors based on publications.
| No. | Author | Country | Institutions | Publications | Citations | Average citations | Total link strength |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khoruts, Alexander | United States | Univ Minnesota | 51 | 4,994 | 98 | 161 |
| 2 | Gasbarrini, Antonio | Italy | Univ Cattolica Sacro Cuore | 41 | 1,389 | 34 | 148 |
| 3 | Khanna, Sahil | United States | Mayo Clin | 40 | 925 | 23 | 72 |
| 4 | Kassam, Zain | United States | MIT | 39 | 2,668 | 68 | 150 |
| 5 | Zhang, Faming | China | Nanjing Med Univ | 39 | 1,062 | 27 | 224 |
| 6 | Allegretti, Jessica R. | United States | Harvard Med Sch | 37 | 1,171 | 32 | 157 |
| 7 | Ianiro, Gianluca | Italy | Univ Cattolica Sacro Cuore | 36 | 1,298 | 36 | 149 |
| 8 | Nieuwdorp, Max | Netherlands | Univ Amsterdam | 35 | 4,064 | 116 | 76 |
| 9 | Cammarota, Giovanni | Italy | Univ Cattolica Sacro Cuore | 34 | 1,114 | 33 | 145 |
| 10 | Cui, Bota | China | Nanjing Med Univ | 31 | 826 | 27 | 186 |
| 11 | Fischer, Monika | United States | Indiana Univ | 31 | 812 | 26 | 123 |
| 12 | Sadowsky, Michael J. | United States | Univ Minnesota | 31 | 3,605 | 116 | 107 |
| 13 | Kelly, Colleen R. | United States | Brown Univ | 30 | 1967 | 66 | 97 |
| 14 | De Vos, Willem M. | Netherlands | Wageningen Univ | 29 | 4,625 | 159 | 68 |
| 15 | Li, Ning | China | Nanjing Univ | 28 | 727 | 26 | 99 |
| 16 | Wei, Hong | China | Third Mil Med Univ | 28 | 999 | 36 | 70 |
| 17 | Levitt, Marc A. | United States | Cincinnati Childrens Hosp Med Ctr | 27 | 835 | 31 | 49 |
| 18 | Mullish, Benjamin H. | United Kingdom | Imperial Coll London | 26 | 819 | 32 | 126 |
| 19 | Zhang, Ting | China | Nanjing Med Univ | 26 | 595 | 23 | 136 |
| 20 | Kao, Dina | Canada | Univ Alberta | 25 | 1,160 | 46 | 113 |
Total link strength, it indicates the strength or closeness of the author’s cooperation with other authors in the field of FMT.