In science, there is a mantra: “publish or perish”. However, there are almost 30,000 academic journals, and quantity does not equal quality.  One of the most important indicators of the quality of a scientific or medical paper is if others cite it in their own work. Yang et al. (1) decided to perform a “bibliometric analysis” on the top 100 most-cited articles in the keratoconus literature, it revealed who the names of the people on what could arguably be the most important papers in the field. One of the top 5 authors was ELZA’s Medical Director, Prof. Farhad Hafezi. This is accolade is in addition to the fact that earlier this year, the authors of a similar bibliometric analysis found Prof. Hafezi to be the #1 author in corneal cross-linking (CXL) (2), in addition to his high ranking in the keratoconus literature.

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Reference

  1. Yang K, Xu L, Zhu M, et al. A bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most-cited articles on keratoconus. Int Ophthalmol. Published online May 12, 2022.
  2. Wang S, Yang K, Wang Y, et al. Trends in research on corneal cross linking from 2001 to 2020: a bibliometric analysis. Clin Exp Optom. Published online February 20, 2022:1-7.