A query to list authors / users by post count:

SELECT wp_users.ID, wp_users.user_nicename, COUNT(*) as count FROM wp_posts, wp_users WHERE wp_posts.post_type='post' AND wp_posts.post_status='publish' AND wp_posts.post_author = wp_users.ID GROUP BY post_author ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 5 ;

Resulting table:

ID,user_nicename,count
29,"user-a",18
66,"user-b",16
26,"user-c",10
24,"user-f",9
48,"user-z",6