SHORT ANALYSIS Doctor coauthor Short title Doctor coauthor Long title The 20 highest performing authors in Medicine published more than 7700 articles in seven years. Authors Martin Schmidt 1 , Benedikt Fecher 1 , Christian Kobsda 1 Author affiliation 1 Knowledge Dimension, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany Author bios Martin Schmidt is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Landscape Systems Analysis within Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research and associate researcher at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Benedikt Fecher is the programme director of the research programme Knowledge Dimension and heads the Open Science research group at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Christian Kobsda works as the political consultant at the Leibniz Association and is an associate researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. Author social links Martin Schmidt: ORCID – ResearchGate – Twitter Benedikt Fecher: ORCID – ResearchGate Christian Kobsda: ORCID – ResearchGate – Twitter Date published 10 July 2017 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.815926 Cite as (APA) Schmidt, M., Fecher, B., Kobsda, C. (2017). The 20 highest performing authors in Medicine published more than 7700 articles in six years. Elephant in the lab. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.815926 Description The number of authors per article in the subject area Medicine is 11 on average with a maximum of 1193 authors (Figure 1). Only Physics and Astronomy (Schmidt et al. 2017a ) as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology (Schmidt et al. 2017a ) have higher numbers regarding authors per article. The mean number of coauthors is increasing by 0.4 per year in the