h-index and Author Impact Factor of Neurosurgical Researchers

The dataset provides the h-index and Author Impact Factor (AIF) from 2015-2019 and 5-Year (AIF) of 300 neurosurgical authors. The h-index was retrieved from Scopus in September 2020. The data required to calculate the AIF was retrieved from Scopus from September 2020 to April 2021. There are three groups of neurosurgical authors: (1) the 100 authors with the greatest number of articles of all time within general neurosurgical journals (“Experienced”); (2) the 100 authors with the greatest number of articles during the 2015-2019 period within general neurosurgical journals (“Trending ”); and (3) the 100 Post Graduation Year 7 (PGY 7) neurosurgical residents with the highest h-index (“Amateur”). Author's names were replaced by numbers. Forty-one authors belong to both Experienced and Trending Groups, having their identification number duplicated.