Most impactive authors
A total of 12,894 authors had published in the research of CRS and NPs in the past two decades. Among them, 265 authors had published ≥10 publications. We analyzed the core authors in this field according to Price’s law(mp=0.749*\(\sqrt{n\text{pm}}\text{ax}\)). In this law, mp is the minimum number of articles published by core authors in the statistical period, andnpmax is the number of articles published by the authors with the most significant number of publications in the statistical period. Through calculation, mp = 9.41, and 265 core authors with publications ≥ 10 were counted. Supplementary table 2 shows the top 5 authors regarding the number of publications. The author with the most publications was Prof. Bachert Claus, who had published 158 articles cited 10,093 times. Furthermore, we noted that Prof. Zhang Luo had a significantly later average publication year than the other four professors and remained active in CRS and NPs-related research in recent years.
We drew a visualized collaboration network of these 265 authors (Figure 2D). The same color represents a cluster of authors with collaborative relationships, such as the collaboration between Bachert Claus, Wang chengshuo, Lou hongfei, and others.
Authors with ≥50 co-citations were screened. The most co-cited author was Bachert, C (n=2808), followed by Fokkens, WJ (n=1767) and Gevaert, P (n=1061) (Supplementary table 3). Close collaboration among the co-cited authors was prevalent (Supplementary figure 2).