Leading knowledge producers within the biomedical informatics community

Objectives: To present findings on academic leadership within the biomedical informatics community based upon the number of research articles produced by authors, institutions, and countries within five biomedical informatics journals. Methods: Five biomedical informatics journals were analyzed for the most producing author, institution, and country for two time periods: 1995-1999 and 2000-2004. Results: Results show that an overall trend exists whereby the academic leadership for author, institution, and country is the U.S. The results exist for both time periods of 1995-1999 and 2000-2004. Conclusions: Even though individual institutional and author rankings may have fluctuated within the two time periods (1995-1999 and 2000-2004), U.S. dominance at the institutional and author level remains significant within the five biomedical journals selected for this study.