Table 2 Ranking of most prolific authors (five or more papers) and their collaborative patterns
Author | Primary affiliation at the time of publication | Year of first eligible paper | Total papers, n | Signatures, n | Collaborations, n | Main collaborators (number of papers) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lau, Joseph | Brown University, USAa | 1992 | 15 | 90 | 54 | Chalmers TC and Ioannidis JPA (5) |
Guyatt, Gordon H | McMaster University, Canada | 1996 | 14 | 104 | 76 | Cook DJ (5) |
Peto, Richard | University of Oxford, UK | 1991 | 13 | 124 | 75 | Collins R (8) |
Yusuf, Salim | McMaster University, Canada | 1989 | 12 | 83 | 54 | Collins R, Eikelboom JW, Mehta SR and Pogue J (3) |
Cook, Deborah J | McMaster University, Canada | 1995 | 11 | 71 | 49 | Guyatt GH (5) |
Jüni, Peter | University of Bern, Switzerland | 1996 | 11 | 124 | 59 | Reichenbach S (8) |
Collins, Rory | University of Oxford, UK | 1991 | 9 | 78 | 45 | Peto R (8) |
Trelle, Sven | University of Bern, Switzerland | 2007 | 9 | 103 | 67 | Jüni P and Reichenbach S (7) |
Bucher, Heiner C | University Hospital Basel, Switzerland | 1996 | 8 | 60 | 41 | Guyatt GH (4) |
Egger, Mathias | University of Bern, Switzerland | 2001 | 8 | 65 | 49 | Jüni P, Reichenbach S and Trelle S (3) |
Gluud, Christian | Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark | 2001 | 8 | 40 | 21 | Wetterslev J (3) |
Gøtzsche, Peter C | The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark | 1995 | 8 | 27 | 17 | Johansen HK (3) |
Jackson, Jeffrey L | Zablocki VA Medical Center, USA | 1997 | 8 | 33 | 23 | Browning R and O’Malley Patrick G (2) |
Law, Malcolm R | Queen Mary University of London, UK | 1991 | 8 | 24 | 7 | Wald NJ (8) |
Reichenbach, Stephan | University of Bern, Switzerland | 2004 | 8 | 81 | 44 | Jüni P (8) |
Sutton, Alex J | University of Leicester, UK | 2003 | 8 | 40 | 28 | Cooper NJ (3) |
Suttorp, Maarten J | St Antonius Hospital, the Netherlands | 2003 | 8 | 120 | 61 | Maglione M, Mojica WA, Morton SC and Shekelle PG (5) |
Wald, Nicholas J | Queen Mary University of London, UK | 1991 | 8 | 24 | 7 | Law MR (8) |
Clarke, Michael | University of Oxford, UK | 1994 | 7 | 83 | 67 | Peto R (4) |
Furberg, Curt D | Wake Forest University School of Medicine, USA | 1989 | 7 | 36 | 20 | Loke YK, Psaty BM and Singh S (3) |
Baigent, Colin | University of Oxford, UK | 1996 | 6 | 50 | 26 | Collins R and Peto R (5) |
Boersma, Eric | Erasmus Medical Center, the Netherlands | 2001 | 6 | 74 | 63 | Califf RM, Serruys P, Simes J, Simoons ML and Topol EJ (2) |
Boissel, Jean-Pierre | Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France | 1992 | 6 | 42 | 26 | Fagard RH and Gueyffier F (3) |
Chalmers, Thomas C | Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University, USA | 1990 | 6 | 31 | 16 | Lau J (5) |
Douketis, James D | McMaster University, Canada | 2000 | 6 | 32 | 25 | Crowther MA (2) |
Ebrahim, Shah | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK | 1997 | 6 | 70 | 60 | Smith GD (4) |
Ioannidis, John PA | Stanford University, USA | 1995 | 6 | 32 | 17 | Lau J (5) |
Khan, Khalid S | Queen Mary University of London, UK | 1996 | 6 | 39 | 27 | Bhattacharya S, Champaneria R, Cooper K, Jolly K and Middleton LJ (2) |
Klassen, Terry P | University of Manitoba, Canada | 1996 | 6 | 48 | 36 | Moher D (3) |
Loke, Yoon K | University of East Anglia, UK | 2000 | 6 | 18 | 7 | Singh S (4) |
McAlister, Finlay A | University of Alberta, Canada | 2001 | 6 | 30 | 23 | Armstrong PW (2) |
Moher, David | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada | 1996 | 6 | 52 | 42 | Klassen TP (3) |
Roberts, Ian | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK | 1996 | 6 | 18 | 12 | All co-authorship (1) |
Sattar, Naveed | University of Glasgow, UK | 2009 | 6 | 91 | 58 | Ray KK and Seshasai SRK (5) |
Shekelle, Paul G | Rand Corporation, USA | 2003 | 6 | 57 | 29 | Maglione M, Mojica WA, Morton SC and Suttorp MJ (5) |
Stone, Gregg W | Columbia University Medical Center, USA | 2005 | 6 | 120 | 77 | Leon MB (4) |
Tognoni, Gianni | Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Italy | 1993 | 6 | 78 | 69 | Marchioli R, Marfisi RM and Roncaglioni MC (2) |
Topol, Eric J | Scripps Translational Science Institute, USA | 1991 | 6 | 44 | 33 | Boersma E, Califf RM, Simoons ML, Tcheng JE and Van de Werf F (2) |
Bischoff Ferrari, Heike A | University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland | 2004 | 5 | 48 | 26 | Dawson Hughes B, Staehelin HB, Willett WC and Wong JB (4) |
Briel, Matthias | University Hospital Basel, Switzerland | 2006 | 5 | 51 | 43 | Bucher HC (3) |
Eikelboom, John W | McMaster University, Canada | 2000 | 5 | 19 | 10 | Yusuf S (3) |
Ernst, Edzard | University of Exeter, UK | 1995 | 5 | 18 | 11 | White AR (3) |
Fagard, Robert H | University of Leuven, Belgium | 1997 | 5 | 51 | 36 | Boissel JP and Gueyffier F (3) |
Fergusson, Dean | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada | 1998 | 5 | 33 | 22 | Hutton B (3) |
Glasziou, Paul | Bond University, Australia | 1993 | 5 | 26 | 21 | All co-authorship (1) |
Godwin, Jon | Glasgow Caledonian University, UK | 1995 | 5 | 52 | 38 | Peto R (4) |
Gray, Richard | University of Oxford, UK | 2001 | 5 | 48 | 36 | Clarke M and Peto R (3) |
Hennekens, Charles H | Florida Atlantic University, USA | 1995 | 5 | 28 | 19 | Hebert, PR (4) |
Leibovici, Leonard | Rabin Medical Center, Israel | 2003 | 5 | 22 | 12 | Paul M (5) |
Maglione, Margaret | Rand Corporation, USA | 2003 | 5 | 49 | 22 | Mojica WA, Morton SC, Shekelle PG and Suttorp MJ (5) |
Mojica, Walter A | Rand Corporation, USA | 2003 | 5 | 49 | 22 | Maglione M, Morton SC, Shekelle PG, and Suttorp MJ (5) |
Morton, Sally C | University of Pittsburgh, USA | 2003 | 5 | 49 | 22 | Maglione M, Mojica WA, Shekelle PG and Suttorp MJ (5) |
Nüesch, Eveline | University of Bern, Switzerland | 2009 | 5 | 35 | 16 | Jüni P (5) |
Paul, Mical | Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Hospital, Israel | 2003 | 5 | 22 | 12 | Leibovici L (5) |
Pignon, Jean-Pierre | Institut Gustave-Roussy, France | 1999 | 5 | 53 | 46 | Bourhis J and Michiels S (2) |
Pocock, Stuart J | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK | 1995 | 5 | 67 | 54 | Boissel JP, Boutitie F, Fagard RH, Gueyffier F, Hamm CW, Hueb WA, King SB and Rodríguez A (2) |
Ray, Kausik K | St George’s University of London, UK | 2009 | 5 | 73 | 49 | Saltar N and Seshasai SRK (5) |
Rothwell, Peter M | University of Oxford, UK | 2003 | 5 | 36 | 19 | Belch JFF and Meade TW (3) |
Seshasai, Sreenivasa RK | University of Cambridge, UK | 2009 | 5 | 73 | 49 | Ray KK and SN (5) |
Simes, John | National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Centre, Australia | 2002 | 5 | 53 | 36 | Baigent C, Blackwell L, Collins R, Keech A and Peto R (3) |
Smith, George Davey | University of Bristol, UK | 1993 | 5 | 63 | 54 | Ebrahim S (4) |
Torgerson, David J | University of York, UK | 1999 | 5 | 46 | 39 | Adamson SJ and Bell Syer SEM (2) |
Wetterslev, Jorn | Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark | 2007 | 5 | 28 | 15 | Gluud C (3) |
Wilt, Timothy J | Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, USA | 1998 | 5 | 40 | 32 | MacDonald R (4) |