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44.2K(top 1%)

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1.1M(top 1%)

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275(top 1%)

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44.8K

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442(top 1%)

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Top Authors (by article citations)

#	Author	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Aleksandar D Rakić	1	534	1	1
2	J M Chen	1	383	1	1
5	Daniel Fried	1	299	1	2
6	Katherine Creath	1	288	1	1
7	Simon R Arridge	3	618	1	1
8	Steven L Jacques	1	238	1	2
9	Lihong V Wang	1	161	1	3
10	Stuart A Young	1	160	1	1
11	Rhodri Cusack	1	159	1	1
12	John Ballato	1	158	1	1
13	Christoph Wehrli	1	153	1	2
14	Gérard gouesbet	2	247	1	1
14	Fabrice Ra Onofri	1	146	1	1
16	Otto Müller	1	140	1	1
17	David Mendlovic	7	249	1	2
18	Michael Tg Canva	1	128	1	1
18	Patrick Georges	1	128	2	1
20	Reginald Birngruber	1	127	1	1
21	Brian C Wilson	2	151	1	1
21	Stefan Andersson-Engels	2	184	1	1
21	Michael S Patterson	1	121	1	2
24	Michael I Mishchenko	1	120	2	3
25	Bernard Dussardier	1	117	1	1
26	Pawan K Bhartia	1	115	1	1
26	Joanna Joiner	1	115	1	1
28	Karen L Carleton	1	103	1	1
28	James A Lock	2	204	1	1
30	Philip Russell	1	101	4	3
30	Gérard	1	101	1	1
32	Matti Kaivola	1	98	1	1
33	François Ouellette	1	97	3	2
33	Yuji Matsuura	2	102	1	1
33	Peter A Krug	1	97	3	2
36	Colin J R Sheppard	1	89	3	1
37	W A Coles	1	85	1	1
38	Fabio Ferri	1	82	1	1
39	Michael J Firbank	1	78	2	2
40	Juan C. Miñano	2	124	1	1
40	Pablo Benítez	2	124	1	1
40	Juan C Miñano	2	124	1	1
43	Martin Schweiger	1	74	1	1
44	R Coisson	1	73	1	1
45	Stefan Egelhaaf	1	72	1	1
45	Peter Schurtenberger	1	72	1	2
47	Albert A Friesem	1	59	1	1
48	Yunlong Sheng	1	58	1	1
49	Steven C Hill	1	57	1	2
50	Anthony Vodacek	1	56	1	2
51	Tadanori Hashimoto	1	53	1	1
52	Volotovskiy Sergey	1	52	1	1
52	David F Buscher	2	78	1	2
52	Victor A Soifer	1	52	2	1
55	Lloyd M Davis	1	46	1	1
55	Ken Hagimoto	1	46	1	1
57	Christian Brand	1	45	1	1
57	Bernardo A Mello	1	45	1	1
57	Oleg Dubovik	1	45	1	1
57	Bozoki zoltan	1	45	1	1
61	Theo Brauers	1	44	1	2
62	Lynn A Boatner	1	42	3	2
62	G T Gillies	1	42	2	2
64	David J Mccomas	1	41	4	5
64	Luigi Zeni	1	41	1	1
64	Valeri P Maltsev	1	41	1	1
67	Petr Chylek	1	39	3	4
67	James E Harvey	1	39	1	1
69	Sergei I Bozhevolnyi	1	35	3	3
69	Volkan H Özgüz	2	39	1	1
69	Paolo Bonasoni	1	35	1	1
69	Igor I Smolyaninov	1	35	2	4
69	D Felipe Gaitan	1	35	1	1
74	Daniel T Cassidy	2	36	1	1
75	Thomas Seeger	2	45	1	1
76	I Alex Vitkin	1	30	1	1
76	Alexander A Kokhanovsky	1	30	1	1
76	Mike A Gruntman	1	30	1	1
79	Christian G Parigger	2	52	1	1
79	Takunori Taira	1	29	1	1
79	Michael R Wasielewski	1	29	2	3
79	Christian Parigger	2	52	1	1
83	Stefan Bernet	2	39	1	1
84	Hideaki Nakajima	1	27	1	1
84	Mark A Neil	1	27	1	1
86	Gordon D Love	1	26	1	2
86	Siddharth Ramachandran	1	26	1	3
86	Keith A Nugent	1	26	2	3
86	Philip Birch	1	26	1	1
86	Ray M Sharples	1	26	2	2
86	S Ramachandran	1	26	1	1
92	Li Li	1	24	1	1
93	Sergio B Mendes	1	23	1	1
93	S Scott Saavedra	1	23	1	3
95	Maria Francesca Carfora	1	22	1	1
95	Carmine Serio	1	22	1	1
95	Pascuala García-Martínez	1	22	1	1
95	David W Coutts	1	22	2	3
95	Umberto Amato	1	22	1	1
95	Douglas J Durian	1	22	2	3
101	Hervé Rigneault	1	21	1	1
101	John Canning	1	21	2	3
101	Serge Monneret	1	21	1	1
101	Joseph Rosen	1	21	3	4
101	Francois R Flory	1	21	1	1
106	Stefan Sinzinger	2	24	1	1
106	Uwe Schnell	1	20	1	1
106	Sebastián Jarabo	1	20	1	1
106	Stanislaw Bartkiewicz	1	20	1	1
106	Andrzej Miniewicz	1	20	1	1
106	Hartmut Spliethoff	1	20	1	1
112	Fabien Bretenaker	2	20	3	4
112	Ernesto Gramsch	1	19	1	1
112	Charles W Bruce	1	19	1	1
115	Steven D Prawer	1	18	4	8
115	Neil Bruce	2	34	1	1
117	Joerg Enderlein	1	17	1	1
117	Ignacio Juvells	2	27	1	1
117	José Luís Santos	2	21	1	1
117	Juan Campos	2	21	1	2
117	Mehdi Barikani	1	17	1	1
117	Mark Auslender	1	17	2	2
117	Masaki Taniguchi	1	17	1	1
117	Shlomo Fastig	1	17	1	1
117	Mario Montes-Usategui	1	17	1	1
126	Miguel Angel Porras Borrego	1	16	1	2
126	Vincent Laude	1	16	1	2
126	Rafael Medina Ferro	1	16	1	1
126	Larry A Rahn	1	16	1	1
126	Gregory Schuster	1	16	1	1
131	P M Celliers	1	15	3	4
131	Merritt Deeter	1	15	1	1
131	Elizabeth Behrman	1	15	1	1
131	Wolfgang Jacob	1	15	1	3
131	Stephen R Wilson	1	15	1	2
131	Gerald Wetzel	1	15	1	2
137	Stefano Leporatti	1	14	1	1
137	Govindan Pandithurai	1	14	1	2
137	Ranieri Rolandi	1	14	1	2
137	Joby Joseph	1	14	1	1
137	Robert Splinter	1	14	1	1
137	Joseph N Mait	2	26	1	2
143	William Larry Wilson	1	13	1	2
144	B M Azizur Rahman	2	18	1	2
144	Arturo Gabriel Quirantes Sierra	1	12	1	1
144	Joan Lasenby	1	12	1	1
144	Thierry Lepine	1	12	1	2
144	Vincenzo Greco	1	12	1	1
144	Laurent M Mugnier	1	12	1	1
144	C Themistos	1	12	1	1
144	Jacek Borysow	1	12	1	1
152	Takanori Nomura	1	11	1	1
152	Nabil Nagib	1	11	1	1
152	Ramon Francisco Soto Costas	1	11	1	1
152	José Carlos López-Vázquez	1	11	1	1
152	Jose L Fernandez	1	11	1	1
152	Jay B Jeffries	1	11	1	1
158	Yen-Kuang Kuo	1	10	1	2
158	Kimberly Strong	1	10	1	2
158	Ernst Polnau	1	10	1	1
158	Estela Martín-Badosa	1	10	1	1
158	David McKenzie	1	10	2	7
158	Artur Carnicer	1	10	1	1
158	Thomas J Mcgee	1	10	1	2
165	Prieto Pedro M	1	9	3	1
165	Luis L Sanchez-Soto	1	9	2	3
165	Changxi Yang	1	9	2	5
165	Shi Xue Dou	1	9	3	5
169	Yue-Min Zhu	1	8	1	2
169	Masataka Kinjo	1	8	1	1
169	Valerie Kaftandjian	1	8	1	1
169	Habib Hamam	1	8	2	2
169	Ove Axner	1	8	1	3
169	Mark Cronin-Golomb	2	12	2	3
169	George Asimellis	1	8	2	2
169	Goro Nishimura	1	8	1	2
169	Peter Ljungberg	1	8	1	1
178	Menghua Wang	1	7	1	1
178	Paramasivam Senthilkumaran	1	7	1	1
178	A O Langford	1	7	1	2
178	Jongwhoa Na	2	9	1	1
178	Jorge Ojeda-Castaneda	1	7	1	2
183	Lee Ming Cheng	1	6	1	1
183	Paul Francisco	1	6	1	1
183	Leopoldo Milano	1	6	1	1
183	Aniello Grado	1	6	2	3
183	Norihiro Sei	1	6	3	2
183	Hui-Tian Wang	1	6	1	2
183	Fabrizio Barone	1	6	2	3
183	Brian M Sadler	1	6	1	2
183	Xinlin Qing	1	6	1	1
183	Yuh-Dauh Lyuu	1	6	1	1
183	Kenneth Grattan	1	6	3	5
183	Enrico Calloni	1	6	2	3
195	Rhonda M Stroud	1	5	2	6
195	Peter K Willett	1	5	1	1
195	Yasuo Kokubun	1	5	2	2
195	Tzong-Lin Wu	1	5	3	3
195	Piotr Witoński	1	5	1	1
195	Paolo Bassi	1	5	1	1
195	Theo Rasing	1	5	4	12
195	Marc De Micheli	1	5	3	5
195	Anisa T Bajkova	1	5	1	1
195	Douglas A Lyon	1	5	1	1
195	Paweł Szczepański	1	5	1	3
195	Ashok V Krishnamoorthy	1	5	1	1
208	James A Piper	1	4	1	2
208	Andrzej KoŁodziejczyk	1	4	1	3
208	Antonio B Lobo Ribeiro	1	4	1	3
208	Ramon Fernandez de Caleya Dalmau	1	4	1	1
208	María Josefa Yzuel Giménez	1	4	2	5
208	Stuart D Jackson	1	4	1	1
208	Peter Blattner	1	4	1	1
208	Genaro Saavedra	1	4	1	3
208	Enrique Tajahuerce	2	7	1	1
208	Walter D Furlan	1	4	1	1
208	Jesús Ayuso	1	4	1	1
208	Juan Carlos Escalera	1	4	1	3
220	Ruikang K Wang	1	3	2	3
220	Peter von der Gathen	1	3	1	3
220	Elias Glytsis	1	3	1	3
220	Sergio Calixto	1	3	1	1
220	Jesús Lancis	1	3	1	2
220	James H Churnside	1	3	1	2
220	Jos? Olivares	1	3	1	1
220	Marian Sedlak	1	3	1	2
220	Inmaculada Pascual	1	3	2	3
220	Luis Carretero	1	3	1	3
220	Carmen Vazquez	1	3	1	4
220	A Fimia	1	3	1	3
232	Valentin Petrov	1	2	1	3
232	Joewono Widjaja	1	2	1	2
232	Amberyn Thomas	1	2	1	2
232	Wojciech Gadomski	1	2	1	2
232	A V Belov	1	2	1	4
232	Aleksandr V Belinsky	1	2	1	2
232	Sergei L Semjonov	1	2	1	1
232	Ondřej Haderka	1	2	1	3
232	Bożena Ratajska-Gadomska	1	2	1	1
232	Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop	1	2	1	4
232	Do-Kyeong Ko	1	2	1	2
232	Hon Ki Tsang	1	2	1	2
244	Manuel Vazquez	1	1	7	9
244	Victor V Dyomin	1	1	1	1
244	Jiri Zavadil	1	1	1	1
244	Manuel Fernandez-Guasti	1	1	1	3
244	Jiri Ctyroky	1	1	1	2
244	Paulo T. Fiadeiro	1	1	1	2
244	Edison Puig Maldonado	1	1	1	3
244	Chester Shu	1	1	2	3
244	Nicola Lisi	1	1	1	1
253	J-F Henninot	1	0	1	0
253	Fernando Mendoza Santoyo	1	0	1	3
253	Alfred Schirmacher	1	0	1	0

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