The members of the International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine are Tahmeed Ahmed (Scientist, Clinical Sciences Division, ICDDRB, Dhaka, Bangladesh), Shally Awasthi (Professor, Department of Paediatrics, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India), A Mark Clarfield (Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Soroka Hospital, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel), Lalit Dandona (Director, Centre for Public Health Research, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, India), Amanda Howe (Professor of Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of East Anglia, Norfolk, UK), John P A Ioannidis (Chairman, Department of Hygiene & Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece), Edwin C Jesudason (Academy of Medical Sciences National Clinician Scientist, Health Foundation Leadership Fellow and Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery, School of Reproductive and Developmental Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK), Youping Li (Director, Chinese Cochrane Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China), Juan Manuel Lozano (Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Javeriana University School of Medicine, Bogota, Colombia), Ana Marusic (Professor, Department of Anatomyal, Zagreb University School of Medicine, and Editor, Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb, Croatia), Idris Mohammed (Outgoing Provost, College of Medical Sciences, Department of Medicine and Clinical Immunology, University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria), Gretchen P Purcell (Paediatric Surgery Fellow, Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, USA), Karen Sliwa-Hähnle (Professor, Department of Cardiology, CH Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Sharon E Straus (Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada), Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer (Scientist, Department of Health Systems Financing, Expenditure and Resource Allocation, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland), Timothy J Underwood (Medical Research Council / Royal College of Surgeons Clinical Research Training Fellow, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK), Robyn Ward (Associate Professor, Department of Medical Oncology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, and School of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia), Michael S Wilkes (Vice Dean and Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, USA), David Wilkinson (Deputy Head and Professor of Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), and Sachi Sivananthan (Medical Student, Guy’s, King’s & St Thomas’ Medical School, King’s College London, UK).

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Table A Authors of the 100 most cited papers in life sciences who have industry affiliations

*First affiliation listed in the ISI record. Data from ISI Essential Science Indicators up to 30 April 2004.

Table B The eight most cited randomised controlled trials in clinical medicine, 1994-2004

Citations from ISI Essential Science Indicators up to 30 April 2004; funding from trial reports.

*None of these trials was funded by any organization other than industry.