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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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442(top 1%)

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#	Author	Articles	Citations	R ARank	R CRank
1	Irving J Bigio	3	764	1	1
2	Shuji Matsuura	1	405	1	1
2	Masahiko Tani	1	405	1	1
4	Deric J Gray	1	392	1	1
5	Fabrizio Martelli	1	391	1	1
5	Daniele Contini	2	473	1	1
7	Eiji Okada	1	383	1	1
7	Michael J Firbank	1	383	1	1
7	Simon R Arridge	2	407	1	2
10	Kelly Chance	1	366	1	1
11	Gordon D Love	1	279	1	1
12	Jonathan Huntley	1	252	1	1
13	Steven L Jacques	1	240	1	1
13	Alexander A Oraevsky	1	240	1	1
15	Ove Axner	1	239	2	1
16	James R Fienup	1	214	1	1
17	William E Vargas	2	242	1	1
17	Gunnar A Niklasson	2	242	2	1
19	Michael J Taylor	1	185	2	2
20	Takunori Taira	1	163	1	1
21	Brian W Pogue	2	201	1	1
22	Michael G Nichols	1	150	1	1
23	Gérard gouesbet	2	195	1	1
24	Lihong V Wang	3	255	1	1
25	Eric W Van Stryland	1	121	1	1
25	David J Hagan	1	121	2	1
27	Giovanna Sansoni	1	120	1	1
28	Joseph A Shaw	1	119	1	1
28	James H Churnside	2	169	1	1
28	Stephen P Morgan	1	119	1	1
31	Marco Cervino	1	117	1	1
32	Michael Tg Canva	1	116	3	1
32	Patrick Georges	1	116	2	1
34	Elena Masciadri	1	112	1	1
34	Franco Marenco	1	112	1	1
34	Alcide Giorgio di Sarra	1	112	2	1
34	Remy Avila	1	112	1	1
34	Dimitrios Balis	1	112	1	1
34	Alkiviadis Bais	2	175	1	1
40	David Mas	2	140	1	1
40	David Mendlovic	10	299	1	1
42	Michael I Mishchenko	1	95	2	2
42	Barbara E Carlson	1	95	1	1
44	Hans Rabus	1	94	1	1
45	Chris Xu	1	89	1	1
45	Jeffrey B Guild	1	89	1	1
47	Alfred Vogel	1	84	2	2
47	Robert J Thomas	1	84	1	1
47	Benjamin A Rockwell	2	113	1	2
50	Regina Soufli	1	83	1	1
51	Adriana Taddeucci	1	82	1	1
52	José Luís Santos	1	81	1	1
52	Antonio B Lobo Ribeiro	1	81	1	1
54	Scott D Collins	1	79	1	1
55	Pascal Rannou	1	77	1	1
56	Trevor Platt	1	74	1	1
57	Kenneth Voss	4	165	1	2
58	Thomas A Germer	1	72	1	1
59	Marcelo Mulato	1	70	1	1
59	Jose Mario Martinez	1	70	1	1
61	Jongsuck Bae	1	67	1	1
61	Jochen Stutz	1	67	1	1
61	Pierre H Chavel	1	67	1	1
61	Tatsuo Nozokido	1	67	1	1
61	Ulrich Platt	1	67	1	1
66	Ju-Yi Lee	1	64	1	1
67	Stefan Sinzinger	1	63	1	1
67	Jürgen Jahns	1	63	1	1
69	Salvatore Siano	1	61	1	1
69	Reginald Birngruber	1	61	2	3
71	Michael K Trubetskov	2	89	1	1
71	Sylvain Magne	1	60	1	1
73	Volker Sick	1	59	1	1
73	Christof Schulz	1	59	1	1
73	Shin-ichi Todoroki	1	59	2	2
76	Somenath Sarkar	1	58	1	1
77	Mohammed A Gondal	1	56	1	1
77	James S Wilkinson	1	56	1	2
79	Shlomi Arnon	2	81	1	2
79	Natan S Kopeika	2	81	2	4
79	Eugenio R Mendez	1	55	2	1
82	Michael S Patterson	3	111	1	4
82	Keith D Paulsen	1	52	1	1
84	Kevin J Webb	1	51	1	1
84	Jan Burke	1	51	1	1
84	Antonio J Ricco	1	51	2	2
87	M Pinar Menguc	1	50	1	1
88	Klaus Georg Schäfer	2	90	1	1
89	Albert Polman	1	47	3	3
90	Greg Baxter	1	46	1	1
90	Scott Wade	1	46	1	1
92	Franck Thibault	1	45	1	1
92	William S Brocklesby	1	45	1	2
94	Lothar D Lilge	1	44	2	4
94	Brian C Wilson	1	44	3	4
94	Boris Khlevnoy	1	44	1	1
94	John C Lambropoulos	1	44	1	1
94	Tayyaba Hasan	1	44	1	4
94	Udo H Schühle	1	44	2	3
100	Petri Kärhä	2	68	1	1
100	M G Conde	1	43	1	1
102	Chang Hee Nam	2	46	1	1
102	David P Donovan	1	42	1	1
102	A O Langford	1	42	1	1
102	Flavio C Cruz	1	42	1	1
106	Takuma Doi	1	40	1	1
107	Shoji Maruo	1	39	1	2
107	Craig A Taatjes	1	39	2	3
107	Christian G Parigger	1	39	1	1
110	Toshiyuki Takatsuji	1	38	1	1
111	Valentin Petrov	1	37	1	2
112	Muyin Wang	1	35	1	1
112	Petr Chylek	1	35	1	2
112	Thomas J Mcgee	1	35	1	1
112	Xiao-Jun Wang	1	35	1	2
112	Fredrik Nikolajeff	1	35	1	1
117	Roman Pogreb	1	34	1	1
117	Alexander A Kokhanovsky	1	34	1	2
117	Thomas Seeger	2	54	1	1
117	Alfred Leipertz	3	78	1	1
121	Christian Spielmann	1	33	3	4
122	Douglas R. Schmitt	1	32	1	1
122	Duncan P. Hand	1	32	3	1
122	S H Melfi	2	58	1	1
125	Assaad Masri	1	31	2	2
125	Hugo Thienpont	2	45	1	1
125	Shiuh Chao	1	31	1	1
129	Nicholas Madamopoulos	1	29	1	1
129	Adolfo Comerón	1	29	1	1
129	Cynthia Ann Toth	1	29	1	4
129	Aniceto Belmonte Molina	1	29	1	1
129	Vladimir V Fedorov	1	29	1	1
129	Alphan Sennaroglu	1	29	2	1
135	Eva M Sevick-Muraca	1	28	1	3
135	Chuanmin Hu	1	28	1	1
137	Mercedes Fernández-Alonso	1	27	1	1
137	Vicent Climent	1	27	1	1
137	Jesús Lancis	1	27	1	1
137	Enrique Tajahuerce	1	27	1	1
137	Valeri P Maltsev	1	27	1	1
137	Agnes Chartier	1	27	1	2
137	Stephen Bialkowski	1	27	2	1
144	Valery Tuchin	2	48	1	2
145	Peter G R Smith	2	25	1	1
146	Li-bo Yuan	1	24	1	2
146	Timothy J Mcintyre	1	24	1	1
146	Tadahiro Hayasaka	1	24	1	1
146	Kazuya Yamamura	1	24	1	1
146	Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop	1	24	1	1
146	Fabio Ferri	2	35	1	2
146	Carl G Schmitt	1	24	1	1
146	Souichi Telada	1	24	1	1
146	Martin Schweiger	1	24	1	1
155	Miles J Padgett	1	23	3	5
155	Massimo Inguscio	2	42	1	2
155	Paolo De Natale	3	56	1	1
155	Andy Harvey	1	23	1	1
159	Staffan Schedin	1	22	1	1
159	Juan C. Miñano	1	22	1	2
161	Igor S Nefedov	1	21	1	1
161	Andrew T Young	1	21	1	1
161	Koji Matsubara	1	21	1	1
161	Genaro Saavedra	2	30	1	1
161	Uma Maheswari Rajagopalan	1	21	1	1
161	Ichiro Fujieda	1	21	1	1
161	Walter D Furlan	2	30	1	1
168	Kimberly Strong	2	26	1	1
168	Augusto García-Valenzuela	1	20	1	1
168	Rufino Diaz-Uribe	1	20	1	1
168	Josué Álvarez-Borrego	1	20	1	1
168	Fernando Mendoza Santoyo	1	20	1	1
168	Theo Rasing	1	20	6	5
174	Pavel Bulkin	1	19	3	3
174	Pierre Ambs	1	19	1	1
176	Joerg Enderlein	1	18	2	5
176	Petr Malon	1	18	1	2
176	Shanti Bhattacharya	1	18	1	1
176	Mariano Rivera	2	27	1	1
176	Timothy A Keiderling	1	18	1	5
181	Qian Sun	2	26	1	1
181	Zhe Chuan Feng	1	17	1	1
181	J Banerji	1	17	1	2
184	Kazuo Hasegawa	1	16	1	1
184	Janet L Machol	1	16	1	1
184	Derek Y C Chan	1	16	3	3
184	Sergio Calixto	1	16	1	1
184	Michel Grediac	1	16	1	1
184	Fabrice Devaux	1	16	1	1
184	Gleb Beliakov	1	16	1	1
184	Zhien Wang	1	16	1	1
192	Juan Campos	1	15	1	1
192	María Josefa Yzuel Giménez	2	24	1	1
192	Bangalore S Sathyaprakash	1	15	1	2
192	Esmail Ahouzi	1	15	1	1
196	Chieu D Tran	1	14	1	2
196	Mauricio da Silva Baptista	1	14	1	3
196	L I Goray	1	14	1	1
196	Livio Gianfrani	1	14	1	3
196	Dario Ambrosini	1	14	2	5
196	Giuseppe Schirripa Spagnolo	1	14	1	5
196	Luca Palchetti	1	14	1	1
196	Juergen Popp	1	14	1	3
196	Chiara Corsi	1	14	1	1
196	R Massudi	1	14	1	1
206	David D Sampson	1	13	2	5
206	Byung-Hyuk Jun	1	13	2	2
206	Byeong-Soo Bae	1	13	1	2
206	Masahiro Kawakita	1	13	1	2
206	Zhong-Tao Jiang	2	23	1	2
206	Aleksandar D Rakić	1	13	1	4
206	Pedro G Boj	1	13	1	1
206	Habib Hamam	2	16	1	1
206	Dominique Barchiesi	1	13	1	1
206	Theyencheri Narayanan	1	13	1	1
206	Takayuki Okamoto	1	13	3	4
206	Aleksandra B Djurisic	1	13	1	3
206	Joseph Braat	1	13	1	1
206	Seok Ho Song	1	13	3	1
220	M Pilar Arroyo	2	14	1	1
220	John Canning	1	12	1	3
220	Xianmin Zhang	1	12	2	2
220	David Blair	2	15	1	5
220	David Binks	1	12	1	1
220	Bernd Randolf Müller	2	20	1	1
220	J-P Wolf	1	12	1	2
220	Richard W Ziolkowski	2	22	1	5
220	N Andres	2	14	1	1
229	Stefan Will	1	11	1	2
229	Justus Notholt	1	11	2	3
229	Andreas P Fröba	1	11	1	1
229	Corey V Bennett	1	11	1	1
229	Anbo Wang	2	22	1	3
229	Jari Turunen	1	11	1	2
235	Yuh-Jen Cheng	1	10	1	1
235	Seungbum Hong	1	10	1	2
235	Jang-Joo Kim	1	10	2	3
235	Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay	1	10	1	1
235	Wai On Wong	1	10	1	2
235	W O Wong	1	10	1	1
235	Romeric Pobre	1	10	1	1
242	Luca Fiorani	1	9	1	1
242	Mike A Gruntman	1	9	1	2
242	Maria L Calvo	1	9	1	1
242	Ivan Glesk	1	9	2	4
242	Enrique Silvestre	1	9	1	2
242	Garry N Newsam	1	9	1	2
242	Steven C Hill	2	18	1	2
242	Nabil Nagib	1	9	1	1
242	Satish Vitta	1	9	1	1
251	Maria Rita Perrone	1	8	1	1
251	Richard L Collins	1	8	1	1
251	Giorgio De Nunzio	1	8	2	2
251	Albert A Friesem	1	8	2	4
251	Yuji Matsuura	1	8	1	3
251	Roberto Pizzoferrato	1	8	2	2
251	Christopher J Groves-Kirkby	1	8	1	1
251	Bram van Ginneken	1	8	1	1
251	Ulrike Schulz	1	8	1	1
260	Mikhail Shamonin	1	7	1	2
260	Dennis W Tokaryk	1	7	1	1
260	James J O'brien	1	7	1	1
260	Paul Charette	2	13	1	1
260	Ian W Hunter	1	7	1	2
265	Paul A Beaud	1	6	1	2
265	Pekka E Hanninen	1	6	1	1
265	Joanna D Haigh	1	6	1	2
265	Clodoaldo Roldán García	1	6	1	1
265	Peter E Land	1	6	1	1
265	Peter Hunter	1	6	1	1
265	Rosario Salvador Palmer	1	6	1	1
265	Kenneth A Strain	1	6	1	1
265	Pei-kuen Wei	1	6	1	2
265	Edilson L Falcão-Filho	1	6	1	1
265	Cid Bartolomeu de Araújo	1	6	3	8
265	Rosa Cibrian	1	6	1	1
265	Piotr Kurzynowski	1	6	1	2
265	Thomas Blumenstock	1	6	1	2
265	Oldrich Renner	1	6	3	4
265	Wojtek J Bock	1	6	1	2
265	Jui-Hung Hsu	1	6	1	2
282	Hirohisa Hara	1	5	1	2
282	Małgorzata Kujawińska	1	5	1	1
282	Carsten Dam-Hansen	1	5	1	1
282	Hans Sigg	1	5	1	2
282	Boris E Paton	1	5	1	3
282	B B Jørgensen	1	5	1	1
282	Marco Romoli	1	5	1	1
282	Don C Lamb	1	5	1	2
282	Richard Mildren	1	5	1	3
282	Michael Kühl	1	5	4	6
282	Ibrahim Syuaib	1	5	1	1
282	Marc P Christensen	1	5	1	1
282	Silvano Fineschi	1	5	1	1
282	Claudio Pernechele	1	5	3	4
282	Giuseppe Piccioni	1	5	1	2
282	Anna Kozłowska	1	5	1	1
282	Fortunato Neri	1	5	1	1
282	Stefan Enoch	1	5	1	1
282	Giampiero Naletto	2	8	1	4
282	Kenneth Grattan	2	5	2	3
282	German Da Costa	1	5	1	1
282	Lars Lading	1	5	1	1
282	Kazi Monowar Abedin	1	5	1	1
307	Kenji Ito	1	4	1	1
307	Khan M Iftekharuddin	1	4	1	1
307	George Nagy	1	4	1	1
307	Wojciech Gadomski	1	4	1	2
307	John Haig H Marsh	1	4	4	9
307	Miguel A Muriel	1	4	3	4
307	Bożena Ratajska-Gadomska	1	4	1	1
307	Jose Miguel Lopez-Higuera	1	4	1	5
307	Toni K Laurila	1	4	1	1
307	Jesús Armengol Cebrian	1	4	1	1
307	Tomas R Sterkenburgh	1	4	1	1
307	Anca L Sala	1	4	1	1
307	Patrick Naulleau	1	4	1	1
307	K Hane	1	4	1	1
322	Andrey A Lomov	1	3	1	1
322	Zoran Ristovski	1	3	1	1
322	Igor V Shvets	1	3	1	3
322	Colm Durkan	1	3	1	2
322	Ignacio Juvells	1	3	1	2
322	Zbigniew Jaroszewicz	1	3	1	1
322	Hiroshi Kumagai	1	3	3	4
322	Derryck T Reid	1	3	2	4
322	Colin J R Sheppard	1	3	3	4
322	Hans Moosmüller	1	3	1	1
322	Ursula Keller	1	3	3	4
322	David A B Miller	1	3	2	3
322	Artur Carnicer	1	3	1	2
322	Jesús Liñares	1	3	1	1
322	Thomas M Fischer	1	3	2	5
322	Giampiero de Cesare	1	3	2	3
322	Jan Petersen	1	3	1	2
339	Chau-Hwang Lee	1	2	1	2
339	Jyhpyng Wang	1	2	1	2
339	Egberto Munin	1	2	1	2
339	Naohiko Kato	1	2	1	1
339	Akira Suda	1	2	2	3
339	Yueping Fang	1	2	1	1
339	Fabien Bretenaker	1	2	3	6
339	Masaki Taniguchi	1	2	1	1
339	Daniel Feuermann	1	2	1	1
339	Željko Andreić	1	2	1	1
339	José Carlos López-Vázquez	1	2	1	1
339	Nitin Samarth	1	2	2	6
339	Jose L Fernandez	1	2	1	1
339	Suprapedi	1	2	1	1
353	Luigi Rovati	1	1	1	2
353	Stuart Green	1	1	1	2
353	Sima Dimitrijev	1	1	1	5
353	Frank Fell	1	1	1	2
353	Kuo-Nan Liou	1	1	1	2
353	Tamás Nagy	1	1	1	1
353	Roberto Daniel Torroba	1	1	1	1
353	Sándor Szatmári	1	1	1	2
353	Yair Dankner	1	1	1	1
363	Giuseppe Cocorullo	1	0	1	2
363	Manuel Fernandez-Guasti	1	0	1	3
363	Pradeep Kumar Gupta	2	0	1	0
363	Ivo Rendina	1	0	1	3

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