Table 1.

Top 10 productive country/region and institutions on quorum sensing (2004–2023).

Rank	Country/region	Article counts	Centrality	Total number of citations	Average number of citations	Institutions	Article counts	Total number of citations
1	USA	1,292	0.51	77,508	59.99	University of Nottingham	129	9,895
2	China	1,048	0.32	22,044	21.03	Center National De La Recherche Scientifique	124	4,163
3	India	514	0.12	12,590	24.49	Princeton University	112	15,931
4	England	318	0.25	17,273	54.32	University of Wisconsin System	90	10,809
5	Germany	232	0.14	10,497	45.25	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	89	10,809
6	France	195	0.17	7,103	36.43	Chinese Academy of Sciences	88	2,424
7	South Korea	188	0.01	5,886	31.31	Ghent University	85	4,305
8	Japan	172	0.11	4,393	25.54	University of Washington	83	7,228
9	Italy	153	0.05	5,154	33.69	University of Copenhagen	81	6,284
10	Canada	151	0.09	7,072	46.83	Egyptian Knowledge Bank	80	1,363