We present a ranking of researchers based on paper and patent output. Patent analytics firm IP Checkups counted patents assigned to faculty members at their current affiliations who were corresponding authors on the ∼200 research papers highlighted in 2013 in SciBX, a weekly publication that scans 50 select journals for articles of translational interest. The rankings, of the top senior (Table 1) and junior faculty (Table 2), are biased to favor researchers who have been at their current affiliation for an extended period. Figure 1 shows the area of research focus for papers highlighted in SciBX in 2013. Cancer dominated at nearly 30% of the highlighted papers; other areas of interest included fibrosis and the microbiome.

Table 1 Top translational researchers in 2013, ranked by total patents at their current affiliation.
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Table 2 Top translational junior faculty in 2013, ranked by total patents at their current affiliation.
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Areas of focus by percentage for research papers highlighted in SciBX in 2013.

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