First 100 Years: Top 100 Authors

As Optometry and Vision Science celebrates its centennial year, I am taking this month's editorial as an opportunity to recognize authors who have contributed in a significant way to shaping the journal's content and defining scholarship within our community. The table lists 104 individuals who rank among the top 100 contributors to the journal based on the total number of articles published. Where there were ties, authors share the same rank. I also added a few extra, all the way to 101 to include a few worthy contributors. It seemed right to have Westheimer and Ellerbrock included on this list.

To build this summary table, I compiled the full list of authors from more than 10,000 individual articles published between 1926 and 2021. Once the full list of authors was assembled, the total number of articles published was counted and authors ranked by their totals.

This list took some effort to compile, but it was a great way to look back and reflect on the many authors who have shaped our journal and vision science over the past 100 years. For members of the American Academy of Optometry, the full journal archive from 1926 to 2022 is available on the journal website: http://optvissci.com.

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Author	Publications (n)	Author rank	Affiliation
Anthony Adams	118	1	UCB
Lyndon Jones	78	2	UW (CA)
Monroe Hirsch	76	3	UCB
Glenn Fry	74	4	OSU
David Atchison	71	5	QUT (AU)
Michael Twa	71	5	UHCO
Mark Bullimore	70	7	UHCO
Brien Holden	69	8	UNSW (AU)
Richard Hill	67	9	OSU
Carel Koch	64	10	DeMars Optom College
Michael Harris	62	11	UCB
Karla Zadnik	60	12	OSU
William F. Harris	57	13	UJ (ZA)
Kenneth Ciuffreda	56	14	SUNY
Donald Mutti	55	15	OSU
G. Lynn Mitchell	54	16	OSU
Theodore Grosvenor	54	16	UHCO
Mark Willcox	53	18	UNSW (AU)
Nathan Efron	52	19	QUT (AU)
Kenneth Polse	50	20	UCB
Henry Hofstetter	49	21	IUSO
Bruce Wick	46	22	UHCO
Trefford Simpson	45	23	UW (CA)
Larry Thibos	45	23	IUSO
Harold Bedell	45	23	UHCO
Lisa Jordan-Jones	44	26	OSU
Jay Enoch	43	27	UCB
Pauline Cho	42	28	HKPU (CN)
Alan Tomlinson	41	29	GCU (UK)
Merton Flom	40	30	UHCO
Merrill J. Allen	40	30	IUSO
Ruth Manny	40	30	UHCO
Mitchell Scheiman	40	30	Salus
Arnulf Remole	40	30	UW (CA)
T. David Williams	40	30	UW (CA)
Leo Carney	40	30	QUT (AU)
Arthur Bradley	39	37	IUSO
Robert Rutstein	39	37	UAB
Eli Peli	39	37	Harvard
James Sheedy	39	37	PUCO
Susan Cotter	38	41	MBKU
David Goss	37	42	IUSO
Desmond Fonn	37	42	UW (CA)
Neil Charman	37	42	UM (UK)
Brian Brown	36	45	QUT (AU)
Joanne Wood	36	45	QUT (AU)
Marjean T. Kulp	36	45	OSU
George Smith	35	48	UM (AU)
Fiona Stapleton	35	48	UNSW
Chris Johnson	35	48	UI
Irving Fatt	34	51	UCB
Jason Nichols	33	52	UAB
Michael Collins	33	52	QUT (AU)
Barry Weissman	33	52	UCLA
Raymond Applegate	33	52	UHCO
Konrad Pesudovs	32	52	UNSW (AU)
Michael Rouse	32	52	MBKU
Lawrence Stark	32	52	UCB
Ian Bailey	32	52	UCB
Ray H. Rengstorff	32	52	Salus
David Elliott	32	52	UB (UK)
Joseph Barr	31	62	OSU
Paul N. De Land	31	62	MBKU
Mark Rosenfield	31	62	SUNY
Helen Swarbrick	31	62	UNSW
Noel Brennan	30	66	J & J
Cliff Schor	30	67	UCB
J. Boyd Eskridge	30	67	UAB
Jeffrey Cooper	30	67	SUNY
Morton Sarver	30	67	UCB
Robin Chalmers	29	71	Research Consultant
Jack Kurtz	29	71	Clinical Practice
Meng Lin	28	73	UCB
Eric Papas	27	74	UNSW (AU)
Sudi Patel	27	74	Svjetlost Eye Hospital (HR)
Francis Young	27	74	WSU
Robert Mandell	27	74	UCB
William Larson	27	74	UM (CA)
Bernie Gilmartin	26	79	AU (UK)
Thomas Naduvilath	26	79	UNSW
Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy	26	79	UCB
Philip Morgan	26	79	UM (UK)
Henry Knoll	25	83	B&L
George Woo	25	83	HKPU (CN)
Michael Doughty	25	83	GCU (UK)
Jeffrey Walline	25	83	OSU
John Schoessler	25	83	OSU
Meredith Morgan	25	83	UCB
John Lovasik	24	89	UM (CA)
Elwin Marg	24	89	UCB
Jacob Sivak	24	89	UW (CA)
Earl Smith	24	89	UHCO
Ecosse Lamoureux	23	93	NUS (SG)
Kent Daum	23	93	UAB
David Berntsen	23	93	UHCO
Velma Dobson	23	93	UA
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan	23	93	UW (CA)
Jane Gwiazda	22	98	NECO
Eric Borsting	22	98	MBKU
Barbara Caffery	22	100	Toronto Eye Care
Lorraine Sinnott	21	101	OSU
Walter W. Chase	21	101	MBKU
Vincent J. Ellerbrock	21	101	OSU
Gerald Westheimer	21	101	UCB

Authors who have served as the Editor in Chief are indicated in bold type. AU (UK) = Aston University, United Kingdom; B&L = Bausch & Lomb, Inc.; GCU (UK) = Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom; HKPU (CN) = Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China; HR = Croatia; IUSO = Indiana University School of Optometry; J & J = Johnson and Johnson, Inc.; MBKU = Marshall B. Ketchum University; NECO = New England College of Optometry; NUS (SG) = National University, Singapore; OSU = Ohio State University; PUCO = Pacific University College of Optometry; QUT (AU) = Queensland University of Technology, Australia; SALUS = Salus University, Pennsylvania College of Optometry; SUNY = State University of New York; UA = University of Arizona; UAB = University of Alabama at Birmingham; UB (UK) = University of Bradford; UCB = University of California at Berkeley; UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles; UHCO = University of Houston College of Optometry; UI = University of Iowa; UJ (ZA) = University of Johannesburg, South Africa; UM (AU) = University of Melbourne, Australia; UM (CA) = University of Montreal, Canada; UM (UK) = University of Manchester; UNSW (AU) = University of New South Wales, Australia; UW (CA) = University of Waterloo, Canada; WSU = Washington State University.

Michael D. Twa, OD, PhD, FAAO
Editor in Chief
Optometry and Vision Science
University of Houston College of Optometry
Houston, TX