Table 3. Bibliometric indicators of the institutions with the largest number of signatures in original articles on leishmaniasis produced by South American countries in SCOPUS, 2000-2011.

Order	Institution	Country	Papers	(%)	Degree	Interm. x 100	Proximity x 100
1	Oswaldo Cruz Foundation/Fiocruz	Brazil	652	(11.1)	315	33.1	53.7
2	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	322	(5.5)	222	18.1	48.3
3	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	266	(4.5)	148	7.8	44.1
4	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	196	(3.4)	122	7.5	44.7
5	Universidade Federal da Bahia	Brazil	126	(2.2)	98	2.9	42.0
6	Universidade Estadual Paulista	Brazil	102	(1.7)	64	3.4	40.6
7	Instituto Evandro Chagas	Brazil	98	(1.7)	74	1.8	41.7
8	Universidad Central de Venezuela	Venezuela	89	(1.5)	80	6.1	40.4
9	Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto	Brazil	82	(1.4)	58	1.1	40.0
10	Universidade Estadual de Maringá	Brazil	76	(1.3)	35	1.6	39.9
11	Universidade Federal de São Paulo	Brazil	72	(1.2)	59	1.7	42.5
12	Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia	Peru	65	(1.1)	97	6.4	42.2
13	Universidad de Antioquia	Colombia	61	(1.0)	68	5.5	41.7
14	Universidade Federal do Piauí	Brazil	55	(0.9)	46	1.0	40.1
15	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	53	(0.9)	33	1.1	40.1
16	Universidade de Brasília	Brazil	52	(0.9)	55	2.7	42.3
17	Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas	Colombia	51	(0.9)	50	3.1	39.8
18	Universidad de Los Andes	Colombia	44	(0.8)	36	2.4	35.3
19	Universidade Federal do Maranhão	Brazil	43	(0.7)	45	1.0	39.8
20	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte	Brazil	41	(0.7)	50	1.3	40.0
21	Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza	Brazil	40	(0.7)	29	0.7	38.1
22	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	U.K.	38	(0.7)	93	4.3	43.9
23	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul	Brazil	38	(0.7)	28	0.8	37.5
24	Universidade Federal Fluminense	Brazil	37	(0.6)	25	0.6	38.5
25	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	Brazil	35	(0.6)	41	2.0	39.8
26	Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas	Venezuela	32	(0.6)	32	2.3	38.7
27	Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud	Argentina	30	(0.5)	50	3.6	39.3
28	National Institutes of Health	USA	29	(0.5)	52	3.1	41.8
29	Universidad de Carabobo	Venezuela	27	(0.5)	39	1.5	39.3
30	Instituto Adolfo Lutz	Brazil	26	(0.4)	19	0.3	37.2
31	Kochi University, Kohasu	Japan	26	(0.4)	34	1.2	31.2
32	University of California	USA	26	(0.4)	39	1.2	41.1
33	University of Glasgow	U.K.	25	(0.4)	42	0.9	41.1
34	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	France	24	(0.4)	44	2.6	39.1
35	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	24	(0.4)	29	2.0	38.3
36	Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora	Brazil	24	(0.4)	12	0.0	37.7
37	Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo	Brazil	24	(0.4)	23	0.7	38.3
38	Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro	Brazil	23	(0.4)	23	0.7	38.1
39	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas	Argentina	22	(0.4)	59	2.7	37.4
40	University of Cambridge, Cambridge	U.K.	22	(0.4)	42	1.1	41.7
41	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	21	(0.4)	26	1.0	39.5
42	Universidade Federal do Paraná	Brazil	21	(0.4)	29	1.4	38.9
43	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	21	(0.4)	21	0.4	38.9
44	University of Washington	USA	21	(0.4)	69	2.0	42.5
45	Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública	Brazil	20	(0.3)	21	0.1	37.5
46	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	20	(0.3)	25	0.7	32.0
47	Universidade Federal do Pará	Brazil	20	(0.3)	24	0.2	38.6
48	University of Iowa	USA	19	(0.3)	34	0.4	39.5
49	University of Texas	USA	19	(0.3)	35	3.0	41.5