Citation Analysis Reveals Leading Institutions, Scientists Researching AIDS

Scientists Researching AIDS Sidebars TOP 25 RESEARCHERS RANKED BY TOTAL CITATIONS AND CITATION IMPACT OF AIDS JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1993-95 RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY TOTAL CITATIONS AND CITATION IMPACT OF AIDS JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1993-95 Editor's Note: Early in the AIDS epidemic, a small group of investigators and research centers focused on studying the syndrome. Now, more than 15 years later, the field has grown to encompass hundreds of scientists worldwide and several journals specifically dedicated to the field of HIV research. This reprint from the May/June 1996 issue of the newsletter Science Watch ranks institutions and scientists studying AIDS by the total number of citations of their papers published between 1993 and 1995, as well as by the citation impact (citations per paper) of these articles. The analysis is an update of the newsletter's 1993 AIDS survey (4 [5]:1, 1993). Both are based on information from the Science Indicators Database of the Philadelphia-based Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). The May/June 1996 Science Watch article (7 [3]:1, 1996), which analyzes the rankings, is reprinted here with the permission of the newsletter and ISI, its publisher. For more information on the citation databases and papers discussed in this article, contact Christopher King, editor of Science Watch, ISI, 3501 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104; (800) 523-1850, Ext. 1341. Fax: (215) 387-1266. E-mail: cking@isinet.com. Much of the history of AIDS research has already passed from journals and newspapers into the annals of the history of science. But what of recent research? Here Science Watch concentrates on research papers dealing with AIDS that were published from 1993 to 1995. To identify these papers, analysts first created a list of 50 AIDS-related key words, which were derived from nine AIDS journals (AIDS, AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, International Journal of STD and AIDS, AIDS Patient Care, AIDS Care, AIDS Education and Prevention, Pediatric AIDS and HIV Infection, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases) and such general life-science journals as Science and Nature. These key words were then plugged into ISI's Science Indicators Database to create a listing of pertinent AIDS papers. This search came up with more than 34,000 articles. From these articles, Science Watch gleaned the most-cited institutions and researchers. TOP 25 RESEARCHERS RANKED BY TOTAL CITATIONS AND CITATION IMPACT OF AIDS JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1993-95 (Authors Publishing 20 Or More Papers) Rank Name Institution (in 1993-95) Number of Papers Total Citations 1 Anthony S. Fauci National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) 83 1,402 2 David D. Ho Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York 83 1,123 3 Giuseppe Pantaleo NIAID 37 1,005 4 Mario Clerici University of Milan 58 913 5 Gene M. Shearer National Cancer Institute (NCI) 57 901 6 Jan Marc Orenstein George Washington University 25 724 7 Donald P. Kotler Columbia University 42 713 8 George M. Shaw University of Alabama 38 688 9 Beatrice H. Hahn University of Alabama 36 598 10 Michael S. Saag University of Alabama 30 594 11 Jay A. Levy University of California, San Francisco 51 577 12 Erik Declercq Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium 107 562 13 Jeffrey D.Lifson Genelabs Technology Inc., Redwood City,Calif. 20 548 14 Yunzhen Cao Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 29 523 15 Emilio Emini Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, West Point, Pa. 51 514 16 John P. Moore Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 44 486 17 Frank Miedema University of Amsterdam 56 483 Douglas D.Richman University of California, San Diego 70 483 19 Robert C. Gallo NCI 170 472 20 Craig W. Hendrix Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center, Lockland Air Force Base, Texas 20 408 21 Joseph Sodroski Harvard University 48 366 22 Roel A. Coutinho Municipal Health Services, Amsterdam 48 339 23 Luc Montagnier Institut Pasteur, Paris 49 333 William A. Schleif Merck, Sharpe & Dohme 34 333 25 Mark A. Wainberg McGill University 71 323 Rank Name Institution (in 1993-95) Number of Papers Citation Impact 1 Jan Marc Orenstein George Washington University 25 28.96 2 Jeffrey D. Lifson Genelabs Technology Inc. 20 27.40 3 Guiseppe Pantaleo NIAID 37 27.16 4 Craig W. Hendrix Wilford Hall U.S. Air Force Medical Center 20 20.40 5 Michael S. Saag University of Alabama 30 19.80 6 George M. Shaw University of Alabama 38 18.11 7 Yunzhen Cao Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 29 18.03 8 Donald P. Kotler Columbia University 42 16.98 9 Anthony S. Fauci NIAID 83 16.89 10 Beatrice H. Hahn University of Alabama 36 16.61 11 Gene M. Shearer NCI 57 15.81 12 Richard T.D'Aquila Harvard University 20 15.80 13 Mario Clerici University of Milan 58 15.74 14 Francine E. McCutchan Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Research, Rockville, Md. 23 13.96 15 David D. Ho Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 83 13.53 16 Margaret A. Fischl University of Miami 22 12.77 17 Richard A. Koup Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 24 12.75 18 Matthijs Tersmette University of Amsterdam 22 12.50 19 Edward Arnold Rutgers University 22 12.36 20 Stephen H. Hughes NCI 25 11.88 21 Anna Karlsson Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 22 11.64 22 Martin S. Hirsch Harvard University 28 11.32 23 Jay A. Levy University of California, San Francisco 51 11.31 24 John P. Moore Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center 44 11.05 25 Ronald C.Desrosiers Harvard University 28 10.25 Source: ISI's Science Indicators Database, 1993-95 Institutions were ranked according to total citations and citation impact (citations per paper) in two groups: those that produced more than 250 papers during 1993-95, and those that produced between 100 and 249 papers (see table). As it did in Science Watch's 1993 AIDS survey (4[5]:1, May 1993), the National Cancer Institute captured the top spot in the total-citations ranking among the big producers. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) topped the list in the citations-per-paper category. Among authors, NIAID director Anthony S. Fauci recorded the highest number of citations (see table). Fauci and his colleagues also accounted for the most-cited paper in AIDS research during the last three years: a 1993 Nature report on the activity of HIV in lymphoid tissue, which has been cited nearly 500 times (G. Pantaleo et al., Nature, 362:355-8, 1993). Immediately below Fauci in the total-citations ranking is David D. Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. As Science Watch reported in its March/April issue (7[2]:1, March/April 1996), Ho and colleagues accounted for the most-cited paper published in 1995, a Nature report on viral and immune-system dynamics in HIV-1 infection (D.D. Ho et al., Nature, 373 :123-6, 1995)-one of two 1995 AIDS reports that garnered more than 100 citations in their first year of publication. The other is the Ho et al. companion paper (X. Wei et al., Nature, 373 :117-22, 1995). It should be noted that in the institutional rankings, Ho and colleagues' 1995 report and all other papers from the Aaron Diamond center were gathered and tabulated with those of New York University, as the two institutions were affiliated between 1993 and 1995. The Aaron Diamond center is now associated with Rockefeller University. Aside from the 1993 report from Fauci and colleagues, the other most-cited papers in AIDS research over the last three years included a paper that appeared in the same issue of Nature. This article also reported on viral activity during the incubation period of the disease (J. Embretson et al., Nature, 362 :359-62, 1993). The paper has now been cited more than 400 times. A report on the action of TH1 and TH2 T-helper cells during HIV infection was next, with more than 300 citations to date (M. Clerici, G.M. Shearer, Immunology Today, 14 [3]:107-10, 1993). Also cited more than 300 times was a report from Science on HIV levels in plasma at all stages of infection (M. Piatak et al., Science, 259 :1749-54, 1993), and a review from Fauci and colleagues on the immunopathogenesis of HIV infection (G. Pantaleo et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 328 :327-35, 1993). Regarding national performance, United States institutions collected the highest number of total citations: 48,967. The U.S. was followed by England (6,630), France (5,789), Germany (3,735), Italy (3,636), and Canada (2,527). RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RANKED BY TOTAL CITATIONS AND CITATION IMPACT OF AIDS JOURNAL ARTICLES, 1993-95 TOP 10 PUBLISHING 250 OR MORE PAPERS Rank Name Total Citations Name Citation Impact 1 National Cancer Institute 4,735 NIAID 6.92 2 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) 4,501 New York University 5.31 3 Harvard University 3,856 Stanford University 4.64 4 University of California (UC) San Francisco 3,514 University of Alabama 4.35 5 Centers for Disease Control 2,328 Harvard University 4.31 6 Johns Hopkins University 2,283 UC-San Francisco 4.27 7 New York University 2,242 Duke University 4.07 8 Department of Veterans Affairs 1,903 UC-San Diego 3.95 9 UC-Los Angeles 1,633 University of Washington 3.86 10 UC-San Diego 1,508 Johns Hopkins University 3.84 TOP 10 PUBLISHING 100 OR MORE PAPERS Rank Name Citations Name Citation Impact 1 Yale University 1,130 George Washington Univ. 6.91 2 University of Amsterdam 1,107 Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Research 6.84 3 University of Minnesota 983 Abbott Laboratories Inc., Abbott Park, Ill. 6.17 4 Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Research, Rockville, Md. 958 Massachusetts General Hospital 5.68 5 George Washington University 954 University of Minnesota 5.55 6 Washington University 925 New York University 5.31 7 Emory University 870 Scripps Clinic & Res. Institute, San Diego 5.15 8 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 818 Yale University 5.04 Northwestern University 818 University of Amsterdam 4.92 10 University of Oxford 804 University of Oxford 4.79 Source:ISI's Science Indicators Database, 1993-95

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