This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Research Letter (75) Publication Behavior, Journalogy, Scientometrics and Research Issues in Dermatology (27) Scientometrics, Infometrics, and Altmetrics (81)

Published on in Vol 5, No 3 (2022): Jul-Sep

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/39948, first published .
The Leading Authors in Three High Impact Dermatology Journals

The Leading Authors in Three High Impact Dermatology Journals

The Leading Authors in Three High Impact Dermatology Journals

Authors of this article:

Waseem Hassan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Mehreen Zafar1 Author Orcid Image ;   Joao Batista Teixeira da Rocha2 Author Orcid Image
Article Authors Cited by Tweetations (3) Metrics

    Research Letter

    1Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

    2Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica Toxicológica, Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

    Corresponding Author:

    Waseem Hassan, PhD

    Institute of Chemical Sciences

    University of Peshawar

    University Road

    Peshawar, 25000

    Pakistan

    Phone: 92 919216652

    Email: waseem_anw@yahoo.com



    Recently in dermatology, the most influential scientists were reported [1,2]. Similarly, after analyzing the publications over 10 years (2011-2020), the top authors in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) were also described [3]. In this letter, we are reporting for the first time the top three authors in three world-class journals (ie, JAAD, JAMA Dermatology [JAMA-D], and American Journal of Clinical Dermatology [AJCD]). On July 24, 2022, the data was retrieved from the Scopus database, and the analysis was performed on RStudio (Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny) software (RStudio, PBC). We only analyzed research articles and excluded the year 2022. Scopus has been covering JAAD, JAMA-D and AJCD since 1979, 2013 and 2000, respectively. In total:

    • JAAD published 17,065 research articles. A total of 93 authors published at least 30 articles (for a total of 2732 articles). In these publications, the authors were from 2307 universities in 65 countries.
    • JAMA-D has published 1200 articles, of which 5975 authors from 1900 universities in 56 countries have contributed.
    • AJCD has published 492 articles. In all publications, 1866 authors were from 838 universities in 45 countries.

    During the analysis, authors were included from JAMA-D and AJCD if they had published at least 5 research articles.

    There are several bibliometric indicators that can be used for analysis. For example, the h-index considers both the number of publications and citations. In other words, a dermatologist with 5 articles with 5 or more citations (each) will have an h-index of 5. The g-index is another interesting indicator. It represents the highest number “g” of articles that together received g2 or more citations. A g-index of 10 indicates that the top 10 publications have been cited at least 100 times (102). The m-quotient (or m-index) considers both the h-index and the number of years. The m-index can be obtained by dividing the h-index by the number of years since the first publication of an author. For example, an h-index of 10 for an individual over 5 years means that the m-quotient is 2.

    Our results differed from earlier reports [1-3], as they ranked the authors on the basis of the total number of publications and the h-index. We highlighted the most influential authors in all 3 journals on the basis of the total number of publications, total citations, h-index, g-index, and m-index. The data is presented in Table 1. We also provide the list of the top 10 most productive universities and countries (Table 2).

    The major limitations of this letter are name changes (variations in initials) and duplication of common names (authors and universities), which are not addressed. This may affect the ranking. We only relied on Scopus; other databases were not included in this study.

    Table 1. The list of the top 3 authors in JAAD, AJCD, and JAMA-D.a
    Number of publicationsTotal citationH-indexG-indexM-index
    JAADb,c
     Feldman SR (n=127)Feldman SR (n=12,778)Lebwohl M (55)Feldman SR (112)Gelfand JM (1.895)
     Lebwohl M (n=108)Lebwohl M (n=10,127)Feldman SR (48)Lebwohl M (100)Patel KR (1.8)
     Paller AS (n=77)Menter A (n=7754)Gottlieb AB (39)Paller AS (77)Silverberg JI (1.769)
    AJCDd,e
     Piérard GE (n=10)Silverberg JI (n=260)Silverberg JI (8)Piérard GE (10)Simpson EL (1.75)
     Silverberg JI (n=9)Armstrong AW (n=244)Armstrong AW (8)Silverberg JI (9)Chen Z (1.25)
     Armstrong AW (n=9)Feldman SR (n=218)Feldman SR (7)Armstrong AW (9)Paller AS (1.25)
    JAMA-Df,g
     Mostaghimi A (n=30)Margolis DJ (n=1159)Armstrong AW (15)Mostaghimi A (24)Mostaghimi A (2)
     Marghoob AA (n=21)Schmults CD (n=1088)Margolis DJ (14)Marghoob AA (21)Armstrong AW (1.5)
     Margolis DJ (n=20)Weinstock MA (n=1067)Marghoob AA (14)Margolis DJ (20)Tkachenko E (1.5)

    aThe ranking is based on the number of publications, total citations, h-index, g-index, and m-index. The data was retrieved from Scopus on July 28, 2022, and analyzed on RStudio (Bibliometrix/Biblioshiny).

    bJAAD: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

    cTotal publications: 26,185; total citations: 566,620 (citations of 20,000 documents); total h-index: 242 (of 20,000 documents); Impact Factor (2021): 15.48; CiteScore: 8.1; Scientific Journal Ranking (SJR; 2021): 1.948; Source-normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP; 2021): 2.512.

    dAJCD: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology.

    eTotal publications: 1418; total citations: 46,803; total h-index: 99; Impact Factor (2021): 6.23; CiteScore: 12.1; SJR (2021): 1.956; SNIP (2021): 3.024.

    fJAMA-D: JAMA Dermatology.

    gTotal publications: 3544; total citations: 46,377; total h-index: 82; Impact Factor (2021): 11.8; CiteScore: 12.5; SJR (2021): 2.412; SNIP (2021): 3.658.

    Table 2. List of the top 10 most productive universities and countries.
    UniversitiesPublications, nCountryPublications, n
    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology(top 10 universities and countries)
     Mayo Clinic171United States2395
     Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine162Italy155
     Harvard Medical School144Canada146
     University of Pennsylvania141Germany118
     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai134Israel88
     University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine131Austria65
     University of California, San Francisco126United Kingdom64
     Wake Forest School of Medicine113Japan58
     Massachusetts General Hospital110France55
     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center87Spain45
    American Journal of Clinical Dermatology(top 10 universities and countries)
     Harvard Medical School94United States778
     University of Pennsylvania74France96
     Brigham and Women\'s Hospital73United Kingdom78
     University of California, San Francisco64Germany71
     University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine57Spain65
     Northwestern University56Australia62
     Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine54Canada57
     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center48Italy50
     Massachusetts General Hospital40Netherlands46
     Inserm37Denmark43
    JAMA Dermatology(top 10 universities and countries)
     Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine17United States206
     Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai15Germany46
     Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liege13Italy37
     University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center11Turkey35
     University of Toronto11Canada33
     Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena11United Kingdom29
     Springer Nature11France24
     Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital10New Zealand24
     Harvard Medical School10Belgium19
     University of Southern California10Spain18

    Conflicts of Interest

    None declared.

    1. Maymone MBC, Laughter M, Vashi NA, Jones JD, Hugh J, Dunnick CA, et al. The most cited articles and authors in dermatology: A bibliometric analysis of 1974-2019. J Am Acad Dermatol 2020 Jul;83(1):201-205. [CrossRef] [Medline]
    2. Szeto MD, Presley CL, Maymone MBC, Laughter MR, Lada SM, Runion TM, et al. Top authors in dermatology by h-index: a bibliometric analysis of 1980-2020. J Am Acad Dermatol 2021 Dec;85(6):1573-1579. [CrossRef] [Medline]
    3. Martin A, Thatiparthi A, Liu J, Wu JJ. The most cited articles and authors in JAAD in the last decade. Practical Dermatol 2021 Apr:42-49.

    ‎
    AJCD: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology
    JAAD: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    JAMA-D: JAMA Dermatology

    Edited by R Dellavalle, T Sivesind; submitted 29.05.22; peer-reviewed by N Henrique, S Quinn; comments to author 02.07.22; revised version received 28.07.22; accepted 03.08.22; published 23.08.22

    Copyright

    ©Waseem Hassan, Mehreen Zafar, Joao Batista Teixeira da Rocha. Originally published in JMIR Dermatology (http://derma.jmir.org), 23.08.2022.

    This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Dermatology, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://derma.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.