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are not peer reviewed.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.