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Table 5 Top 20 most productive authors during 1900–2012

From: Scientometric trends and knowledge maps of global health systems research

No.

Author

Institute

Recs

%

TLCS

TLCS/t

TGCS

TGCS/t

AGCS

1

McKee M

Univ London London Sch Hyg & Trop Med

48

0.17

162

23.40

690

116.13

14.38

2

Valenstein M

Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs

38

0.13

94

20.11

554

111.20

14.58

3

McCarthy JF

Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs

36

0.13

97

20.76

619

118.99

17.19

4

Christensen RD

Department of Women and Newborns, Intermountain Healthcare; Ogden McKay-Dee Hospital Center

33

0.11

79

19.94

429

98.46

13.00

5

Henry E

Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare

31

0.11

78

19.19

431

100.71

13.90

6

Tanner M

Univ BaselSwiss, Tropical and Public Health Institute

31

0.11

32

4.12

564

99.33

18.19

7

Piette JD

Univ Michigan; Vet Affairs Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res & D, Ctr Excellence

29

0.10

158

18.23

1,353

157.71

46.66

8

Rosenheck RA

Yale Univ; VA New England Mental Illness Res Educ & Clin Ctr

29

0.10

81

8.52

615

66.21

21.21

9

Blow FC

Univ Michigan; SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs

28

0.10

76

16.91

557

99.20

19.89

10

Frenk J

Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth

27

0.09

245

25.97

710

92.37

26.30

11

Braithwaite J

Univ New S Wales, Fac Med, Australian Inst Hlth Innovat, Ctr Clin Governance Res

26

0.09

23

5.62

174

45.03

6.69

12

Davis K

Commonwealth Fund, Res & Evaluat

26

0.09

135

16.72

833

95.37

32.04

13

Murray CJL

Univ Washington, Inst Hlth Metr & Evaluat, Dept Global Hlth

26

0.09

248

39.51

1,407

306.76

54.12

14

Miller DR

Boston Univ, Sch Publ Hlth; Edith Nourse Rogers Mem Vet Adm Hosp, Ctr Hlth Qual Outcomes & Econ Res

24

0.08

129

12.58

1,058

120.73

44.08

15

Alexander JA

Univ Michigan, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Management & Policy

23

0.08

34

3.48

191

25.61

8.30

16

Shortell SM

Univ Calif Berkeley, Sch Publ Hlth

23

0.08

104

7.65

596

51.72

25.91

17

Klazinga NS

Univ Amsterdam, Acad Med Ctr, Dept Publ Hlth; Org Econ Co operat & Dev

22

0.08

29

3.67

237

32.63

10.77

18

McIntyre D

Univ Cape Town, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Publ Hlth & Family Med, Hlth Econ Unit

22

0.08

78

21.08

263

62.61

11.95

19

Starfield B

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Policy & Management

22

0.08

147

15.10

720

75.52

32.73

20

Armstrong K

Univ Penn, Abramson Canc Ctr

21

0.07

76

10.84

448

59.01

21.33

20

Chopra M

Univ Western Cape; MRC, Hlth Syst Res Unit

21

0.07

134

26.40

656

124.79

31.24

20

Lee A

Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Sch Publ Hlth & Primary Care, Sch Publ Hlth, Prince Wales Hosp

21

0.07

81

6.42

602

51.14

28.67

20

Zivin K

SMITREC, Ann Arbor Ctr Clin Management Res, Dept Vet Affairs

21

0.07

53

12.45

211

52.32

10.05

21

Total

 

628

2.18

2,373

358.67

13,918

2,163.55

22.16

  1. Recs, Number of articles; %, Percentage of articles; TLCS, Total local citation score, which is the number of times cited by other papers in the local collection; TLCS/t, Average value of TLCS in a year; TGCS, Total global citation score, which is the citation frequency based on the full WoS count at the time the data was downloaded; TGCS/t, Average value of TGCS in a year.