Who are these highly prolific authors in critical care?

19,305 articles published by 51,891 authors were identified in Pubmed between 2013 and 2018, considering the eight critical care medicine journals with a 2017-impact factor above five (ESM Fig. Overall, 78 authors were included and their 4510 publications (4095 publications in the eight critical care medicine journals and 415 publications in the four major non-critical care journals) analyzed (ESM Fig. Among the eight critical care medicine journals, the articles were mostly published in Intensive Care Medicine, followed by Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care, Resuscitation and AJRCCM, and in the JAMA followed by NEJM for the four major non-critical care journals (ESM Fig. [Extracted from the article]