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#	Author	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Joseph Rosen	4	257	1	1
2	Michael I Mishchenko	3	472	1	1
2	Juan I Larruquert	3	61	1	1
2	Jose Juan Esteve-Taboada	3	25	1	1
2	Osamu Matoba	3	307	1	1
2	Colin J R Sheppard	3	48	1	2
2	Juan Campos	3	44	1	2
2	Eusebio Bernabeu	3	41	1	3
2	Enrique Tajahuerce	3	531	1	1
2	Frank K Tittel	3	218	1	1
2	Duncan T Moore	3	104	1	1
2	Paul H Kaye	3	187	1	1
13	Stefan Andersson-Engels	2	133	1	1
13	Thomas G Brown	2	77	1	2
13	Mircea Dragoman	2	10	1	1
13	Valery Tuchin	2	28	2	2
13	Fredrik Laurell	2	201	1	1
13	Stefan Sinzinger	2	42	1	1
13	Angel Costela	2	32	1	3
13	Lihong V Wang	2	232	1	1
13	Gil Moretto	2	19	1	1
13	Kenneth A Goldberg	2	28	2	2
13	Anders Larsson	2	16	2	4
13	Luca Poletto	2	16	1	3
13	David G Lancaster	2	144	1	1
13	Rufino Diaz-Uribe	2	134	1	1
13	Glauco S Maciel	2	18	1	1
13	Gang Yao	2	232	1	1
13	Fernando Mendoza Santoyo	2	28	1	1
13	Stéphane Maritorena	2	515	1	1
13	Peter Torok	2	19	2	2
13	Marcelo Martinelli	2	45	1	1
13	María Josefa Yzuel Giménez	2	34	1	1
13	Pascuala García-Martínez	2	26	1	1
13	Aniceto Belmonte Molina	2	128	1	1
13	Santiago Royo	2	23	1	1
13	Hugo Thienpont	2	59	1	2
13	Salvador Bará	2	129	1	1
13	Kaoru Minoshima	2	448	1	1
13	Luis Miguel Sanchez-Brea	2	27	1	1
13	Thomas von Clarmann	2	233	1	1
13	Kenneth Grattan	2	48	2	3
13	Abraham Kribus	2	32	2	2
13	Gabriele P Stiller	2	233	1	1
13	Sergey S Ulyanov	2	28	1	1
13	Hamid Dehghani	2	81	1	4
13	Andres Marquez	2	34	1	2
13	Anu Dudhia	2	233	1	1
13	José A Ferrari	2	38	1	1
13	Georges Durry	2	78	1	1
52	Xin-Hua Hu	1	46	1	1
52	Andre Luiten	1	2	1	2
52	Michael Tg Canva	1	13	3	4
52	Qing Huo Liu	1	0	2	8
52	Sarah Ann Barman	1	2	1	3
52	Hua Zhao	1	47	1	1
52	Erich Gornik	1	33	6	4
52	Fu Qiang	1	36	1	3
52	Sunil Kumar	1	39	1	2
52	Elizabeth M C Hillman	1	41	3	3
52	Uwe Sterr	1	17	1	1
52	Mohamed Farhat O Hameed	1	24	1	1
52	W Paul Menzel	1	45	2	3
52	Nicholas Madamopoulos	1	30	1	1
52	Susana Briz	1	0	1	0
52	Thomas E Wall	1	81	1	1
52	Nicolas Guerineau	1	145	1	1
52	Chieu D Tran	1	4	1	5
52	Mitsuo Nakai	1	29	1	2
52	Masahiko Mori	1	2	2	3
52	Nickolay A Krotkov	1	5	1	3
52	Xiaoli Sun	1	91	1	1
52	Michael Caola	1	66	1	1
52	Eric W Van Stryland	1	104	1	2
52	David E Mcclelland	1	30	3	1
52	Sheng-Lung Huang	1	15	1	1
52	Johannes Lelieveld	1	2	4	6
52	Paul D Townsend	1	111	1	1
52	B M Azizur Rahman	1	24	2	4
52	Emmanouil E Kriezis	1	33	1	3
52	Francisco Javier Martín-Torres	1	45	1	1
52	Joaquín Campos Acosta	1	0	2	2
52	Miles J Padgett	1	35	3	4
52	Marek Szablewski	1	16	1	1
52	Segolene Olivier	1	19	1	1
52	Ping Yang	1	128	2	2
52	Adolfo Comerón	1	13	1	2
52	Torsten Fritz	1	16	4	7
52	Menghua Wang	1	446	1	1
52	Ignasi Labastida	1	7	1	1
52	Leon Poladian	1	19	1	1
52	Hideaki Haneishi	1	179	2	1
52	Valentin Petrov	1	14	1	3
52	J Ascencion Guerrero-Viramontes	1	19	1	1
52	Andres Santos	1	26	1	1
52	Wilfried Nörtershäuser	1	26	2	4
52	Philipp Weihs	1	12	3	2
52	Irina Melnikova	1	12	1	1
52	Ralph P Mason	1	114	1	1
52	Chih-Kung Lee	1	39	1	1
52	P M Celliers	1	39	2	2
52	Enbang Li	1	9	1	1
52	Takeshi Yasui	1	29	1	1
52	Jon Arrue	1	19	1	1
52	Irina P Terenetskaya	1	23	1	2
52	Bertrand Poumellec	1	25	1	1
52	Hikmet Kocabas	1	15	1	1
52	Brett D Nener	1	10	1	2
52	Janne Pj Simonen	1	5	1	2
52	Konstantin V Yumashev	1	35	1	2
52	Francesco Marin	1	18	2	3
52	Peter C Y Chang	1	51	1	1
52	Sai T Chu	1	6	3	4
52	John Canning	1	24	3	3
52	Jennifer Haase	1	15	1	2
52	Harendra N J Fernando	1	24	1	1
52	Francisco Rocadenbosch	1	13	1	1
52	Robert S Schley	1	2	1	1
52	Vincent Laude	1	19	1	3
52	Makoto Naruse	1	6	1	2
52	Anthony J Durkin	1	12	1	1
52	Ignacio Juvells	1	7	2	1
52	Masahiro Kawakita	1	39	1	1
52	Robert O Green	1	242	1	1
52	Bernhard Sick	1	41	1	1
52	Andrey Lipovskii	1	35	2	4
52	Salwa El-Sabban	1	10	1	1
52	Stana Simic	1	12	1	1
52	Boon S Ooi	1	8	1	2
52	Minho Song	1	91	1	1
52	Franz Winter	1	33	2	3
52	Yasuhiro Awatsuji	1	5	1	1
52	Pietro Ferraro	1	8	2	4
52	Detlef Mueller	1	64	2	3
52	Philip Siegmann	1	20	1	1
52	Ralf Brinkmann	1	4	1	6
52	Gérard gouesbet	1	11	1	5
52	Marco Marangoni	1	4	1	4
52	Nobuo Sugimoto	1	50	1	1
52	Kiet A Tieu	1	9	1	4
52	Carmen Bao-Varela	1	1	2	5
52	Jan Burke	1	36	1	1
52	Ping Chen	1	104	1	1
52	Mira Naftaly	1	115	1	2
52	Ludger Koenders	1	3	1	1
52	Stanislav Baluschev	1	12	1	2
52	Yuri Barmenkov	1	18	2	1
52	Pedro Corredera Guillén	1	0	2	2
52	Alan J Kemp	1	37	1	1
52	Jorge Ares	1	45	1	1
52	Estela Martín-Badosa	1	7	1	1
52	Russell C Hardie	1	146	1	1
52	Bianca M Dinelli	1	188	1	1
52	Xavier Briottet	1	23	1	1
52	Catherine Schmechtig	1	126	1	1
52	Remy Tumbar	1	5	1	1
52	Vinay Gupta	1	4	1	3
52	Florence Goutail	1	29	1	1
52	Laurent Delage	1	23	1	1
52	Jose Alonso	1	14	1	2
52	Ignacio Moreno	1	21	1	2
52	Shui-Ming Hu	1	24	2	2
52	Augusto García-Valenzuela	1	9	1	1
52	Ursula Keller	1	1	4	11
52	Ekaterina I Galanzha	1	19	1	1
52	John G. Watson	1	5	3	6
52	Xuegong Deng	1	8	1	3
52	Roberta Ramponi	1	4	1	4
52	Sergio De Nicola	1	8	2	3
52	Tetstiya Tetsuya Mizumoto	1	112	1	1
52	Judith C Chow	1	5	3	5
52	Daniel D Stancil	1	26	1	1
52	Grégoire Tremblay	1	18	1	1
52	Diaa Khalil	1	10	1	1
52	Andrei Avrelʹevich Tokovinin	1	86	2	1
52	William S Brocklesby	1	45	1	1
52	Akhlesh Lakhtakia	1	135	5	2
52	Yasuhiro Takaki	1	35	1	1
52	Marc P Y Desmulliez	1	59	1	1
52	Paolo F Ambrico	1	75	1	1
52	Bram J J Slagmolen	1	30	1	1
52	Mats G Löfdahl	1	20	1	1
52	Valdas Pasiskevicius	1	64	1	1
52	Francisco Javier Muñoz Lopez	1	19	1	1
52	Takanori Nomura	1	65	2	3
52	Ugo Cortesi	1	11	1	1
52	Jean Philippe Avouac	1	120	2	2
52	Jun Tanida	1	15	1	1
52	Mariano Rivera	1	4	1	2
52	Stephan Havemann	1	10	1	2
52	Elias Glytsis	1	60	1	1
52	Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta	1	105	1	1
52	Yasuo Kokubun	1	6	1	2
52	Marco Ridolfi	1	188	1	1
52	Hai Lin	1	24	2	2
52	Gerald T Fraser	1	44	2	2
52	Bahram Javidi	1	323	2	2
52	David A B Miller	1	180	1	3
52	Yiping Zhao	1	9	2	5
52	Dan Sadot	1	46	1	1
52	Timothy A Cook	1	8	1	1
52	Michael Höpfner	1	188	1	1
52	Gorden Videen	1	49	1	1
52	Jacques Albert	1	27	1	1
52	Ewan M Wright	1	17	2	4
52	Roberto Osellame	1	4	1	4
52	Jason M Smith	1	111	1	2
52	Claude Amra	1	23	1	1
52	Manfred Wendisch	1	64	1	1
52	Amin Bassrei	1	3	1	1
52	Stephen F Collins	1	24	1	1
52	Marcos J Montes	1	187	1	1
52	Natan S Kopeika	1	1	2	2
52	Petri Kärhä	1	19	3	2
52	Mitsunori Saito	1	8	1	1
52	Artur Carnicer	1	7	1	1
52	Norimichi Tsumura	1	179	2	1
52	Shu-Ming Tseng	1	4	1	2
52	Tzvetan S Velinov	1	69	1	1
52	Walter Caseri	1	25	1	3
52	Josep Ferré-Borrull	1	20	1	2
52	Stephen Holler	1	40	1	2
52	Laszlo Jakab	1	30	1	1
52	Giovanni Bianchini	1	11	1	2
52	Piera Raspollini	1	188	1	1
52	Xiaoyi Bao	1	4	1	6
52	Maurizio De Rosa	1	18	1	1
52	Boris Mizaikoff	1	33	1	1
52	Yadira I Vega-Cantu	1	44	1	1
52	Hans Schuessler	1	43	1	1
52	Dimitri Pappas	1	12	1	3
52	Eric Wm Van Der Ham	1	5	1	2
52	Ranu Nayak	1	4	1	1
52	Jan Van Campenhout	1	59	1	1
52	Carmine Serio	1	18	1	2
52	Manuel Collados	1	105	2	2
52	Josef Lazar	1	14	1	2
52	Michael S Patterson	1	51	1	2
52	Krishnan Venkatakrishnan	1	9	1	1
52	Ernesto Gramsch	1	13	1	1
52	Stefano Marchesini	1	6	1	3
52	Hartwig D Harder	1	46	2	2
52	Richard J Blaikie	1	36	1	1
52	Razvigor Ossikovski	1	31	1	1
52	Michael Försth	1	32	1	1
52	Sasa Bajt	1	32	1	2
52	Scott Wade	1	24	1	1
52	Xi-Cheng Zhang	1	126	4	3
52	Thomas Peter	1	45	3	4
52	Manuel Melgosa	1	9	2	2
52	Hong Hua	1	94	1	1
52	Paolo Di Girolamo	1	75	1	1
52	Wolfgang Petrich	1	54	1	1
52	Lionel Canioni	1	17	1	1
52	James H Werner	1	11	1	1
52	Mark Linne	1	39	1	1
52	Duncan P. Hand	1	23	2	2
52	Klaus Pfeilsticker	1	46	2	2
52	Kenneth Voss	1	47	2	3
52	Hua Zhao	1	47	1	1
52	Nabil Nagib	1	18	1	1
52	Paolo Villoresi	1	7	3	4
52	María T Flores-Arias	1	1	1	1
52	Peter Mascher	1	8	2	2
52	Augusto Marcelli	1	24	1	2
52	Jean-Pierre Pommereau	1	29	1	1
52	Rudolf Richter	1	11	1	1
52	Dariusz Stramski	1	145	1	1
52	Nathalie Picqué	1	29	1	1
52	Peter Mueller	1	26	2	3
52	Josef Lazar	1	14	1	2
52	Kenji Kintaka	1	41	1	1
52	K W Bowman	1	19	1	1
52	John J Mcferran	1	2	1	1
52	Inmaculada Garcia-Moreno	1	16	1	1
52	Jaroslav Hamrle	1	60	1	1
52	Yaochun Shen	1	34	3	3
52	Richard E Sherwood	1	14	1	1
52	Staffan Schedin	1	38	1	1
52	Klaus Wendt	1	26	2	4
52	Thomas Seeger	1	23	1	1
52	Hanli Liu	1	114	1	1
52	Giovanni Breglio	1	8	1	4
52	Sergio B Mendes	1	24	1	1
52	Andrew Stephan	1	8	1	2
52	Luiz C Meira-Belo	1	7	1	1
52	Michael E Schaepman	1	48	1	1
52	Michael W Berns	1	165	1	1
52	Claudio Iemmi	1	13	1	2
52	Erik Walter Thompson	1	18	1	2
52	Stefan Schlamp	1	16	1	2
52	S Scott Saavedra	1	24	1	2
52	Gottfried Strasser	1	33	5	6
52	Namkyoo Park	1	57	2	3
52	Wei Ji	1	104	4	3
52	Siu F Yu	1	0	1	0
52	Boris Denker	1	64	1	1
52	Bernd Funke	1	45	1	1
52	Zhixiong Guo	1	39	1	3
52	Alexander M Malyarevich	1	35	1	2
52	Jacob B Khurgin	1	5	2	3
52	José Carlos López-Vázquez	1	5	1	1
52	Michele Giordano	1	8	1	4
52	Joseph N Mait	1	33	1	2
52	Pavel Matousek	1	138	2	1
52	Josip A Vukusic	1	7	1	2
52	Genaro Saavedra	1	9	1	1
52	Hongwei Guo	1	57	1	1
52	Rudolf Oldenbourg	1	15	1	1
52	Martin Kraft	1	33	1	1
52	Juan Carlos Martínez-Antón	1	19	1	1
52	Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo	1	16	2	3
52	Georg Beyerle	1	3	1	2
52	Graham Cross	1	16	1	1
52	Simon R Arridge	1	41	3	5
52	Günter Steinmeyer	1	1	2	3
52	Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault	1	24	1	3
52	Ping Shum	1	0	1	2
52	Ted A Laurence	1	18	1	2
52	Philip Wilksch	1	18	1	1
52	Raúl García-Llamas	1	1	1	1
52	Daniel Crespo	1	14	1	3
52	Paul Mirkarimi	1	32	1	2
52	Karl Unterrainer	1	33	4	4
52	Nikolay Maslov	1	11	1	1
52	Manuel Campos-Garcia	1	92	1	1
52	Pyotr Larionov	1	11	1	1
52	Arnaud Dubois	1	60	1	1
52	Salah Obayya	1	24	2	4
52	Klaus Georg Schäfer	1	66	1	1
52	David J Hagan	1	104	1	2
52	Andreas Behrendt	1	164	1	1
52	Livia Conti	1	18	2	2
52	Walter D Furlan	1	9	1	1
52	Dietrich Althausen	1	64	2	3
52	Fabrice Pierron	1	15	2	4
52	Dimitrios C Kyritsis	1	8	2	2
52	Hao Zhang	1	47	1	1
52	Hubert Loisel	1	145	1	1
52	Manuel López-Puertas	1	45	3	3
52	Jennifer D T Kruschwitz	1	1	1	1
52	Sultan B Dabagov	1	24	1	1
52	Animesh Jha	1	115	1	2
52	Gwenael Berthet	1	29	1	1
52	Benjamin Knight	1	135	1	1
52	Murat Canpolat	1	32	1	3
52	Jacek Piskozub	1	24	1	1
52	Malek Maaza	1	81	1	1
52	Juan Hernández-Cordero	1	8	1	1
52	Valeri P Maltsev	1	32	1	2
52	Kevin K Lehmann	1	44	3	3
52	Melina P Ioannidou	1	7	1	1
52	Gary J Hawkins	1	14	1	1
52	Kiminori Itoh	1	8	1	2
52	Shuliang Jiao	1	142	1	1
52	Aldo Badano	1	28	1	1
52	J-P Wolf	1	1	2	3
52	Vincent P Wallace	1	165	2	1
52	Janis Alnis	1	24	1	3
52	haluk Beyenal	1	15	1	3
52	Chuanmin Hu	1	19	1	2
52	Laurent Hespel	1	12	1	1
52	Ali H Bilgin	1	80	1	1
52	Li Li	1	88	1	1
52	Lubos Polerecky	1	60	1	1
52	Juan Carlos Escalera	1	13	1	2
52	Francois Ladouceur	1	10	1	1
52	Demetri Psaltis	1	106	1	1
52	Fernando Lopez	1	0	1	3
52	Vasan Venugopalan	1	12	1	2
52	Carmen Vazquez	1	18	1	1
52	Hanif M Ladak	1	12	1	2
52	Thomas G Bifano	1	42	1	1
52	Ulrich K Krieger	1	45	1	1
52	Zhaoyan Liu	1	50	1	1
52	Aleksandra B Djurisic	1	16	1	3
52	Udo H Schühle	1	17	1	2
52	Ondrej Cip	1	14	1	3
52	Jose L Fernandez	1	5	1	2
52	Paulina Kuo	1	25	1	2
52	Hans A Schuessler	1	43	1	1
52	Fouad El-Diasty	1	21	1	1
52	Jay B Jeffries	1	11	1	3
52	Rémi Michel	1	120	1	1
52	Paul B Mirkarimi	1	32	1	1
52	Alfred Leipertz	1	23	1	2
52	Randall L Barbour	1	96	1	1
52	Ian T Young	1	26	1	1
52	David Mendlovic	1	13	3	4
52	Jerome Primot	1	145	1	1
52	David R Burton	1	15	1	1
52	David A Ligon	1	16	1	1
52	Kelvin Wagner	1	10	1	1
52	O Eknoyan	1	12	1	1
52	Philippe J Marchand	1	21	1	1
52	Bruno Carli	1	188	1	1
52	Karsten Heia	1	25	1	1
52	Zbigniew Lewandowski	1	15	1	3
52	Yunlong Sheng	1	18	1	1
52	Etienne Cuche	1	814	1	1
52	Pierre Marquet	1	814	1	1
52	Mykola Kulishov	1	12	1	1
52	John G Watson	1	5	2	4
52	Frederic Bevilacqua	1	239	1	1
52	Sergey Ulyanov	1	19	1	1
52	Weiyao Zou	1	40	1	1
52	Thomas A Reichardt	1	21	1	2
52	Keiya Nishida	1	60	2	1
52	Peng Yin Choo	1	2	1	1
52	Michel Kasser	1	15	1	1
52	Mitsuhiro Tateda	1	12	1	1
52	Martin Schweiger	1	41	2	4
52	Andrew G Kirk	1	17	1	2
52	Thomas A Germer	1	12	1	2
52	James B Abshire	1	91	1	1
52	Jean-Claude Auger	1	40	1	1

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