Seven years ago this publication surveyed highly cited researchers in clinical medicine, based on papers published and cited between 1981 and 1998 (Science Watch, 10[3]: 1-2, May/June 1999). For a more-recent snapshot of medical research, we now turn to Thomson Scientific Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and a listing of high-impact authors in the field of clinical medicine over the last decade. In the first table below, are 20 researchers whose papers, published since 1995 in clinical-medicine journals tracked by ESI, have collectively garnered the highest numbers of citations.
Additionally, Science Watch ran down the master list of authors and, based on their highly cited papers and principal areas of concentration, manually assigned the top-cited names to Top Ten rankings in four broad specialty areas: epidemiology, oncology, cardiology, and general biomedical research. Find them in the tables below.
These lists, it should be emphasized, solely reflect papers published in Thomson-indexed journals of clinical medicine (including pertinent clinical-medicine papers published in Science, Nature, and other multidisciplinary journals). Some of the names on the main list—e.g., Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth W. Kinzler, John C. Reed—have also compiled substantial citation records based on papers published in journals of molecular biology & genetics, biochemistry, etc. The present survey, however, strictly demonstrates the extent to which these authors and the others have influenced the literature of clinical medicine.
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