Authors who are Journalists and Editors

Following on, many authors listed in the database are journalists and journal editors. And the papers published by these authors are not scientific papers but opinion pieces, editorials and news articles. They are not peer reviewed. Table 13 lists some of the authors. For example Richard Horton, the editor in chief of the Lancet has published 1388 papers and ranked #3167. Bridget Kuehn, a journalist, is ranked 17,026 higher than many highly regarded medical scientists and Nobel prize winners. Table 13 is just a list of some names, and it is unknown how many of these editors and journalists are in the database. Is it fair to compare a scientist who has to conduct many experiments to write a paper with an editor or journalist who can write an opinion daily? This standardized citation ranking is indeed questionable.
Table 13. Some of authors who are journalists and editors.