Table 4.
Top ten institutions in publishing articles on water – related diseases (1980–2015)
| Ranka | Institution | Country | Frequency (%) N = 2267 |
TC | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | United States Environmental Protection Agency | USA | 84 (3.71) | 3076 | 28 |
| 2nd | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | USA | 82 (3.62) | 2695 | 28 |
| 3rd | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA | 38 (1.68) | 1288 | 18 |
| 4th | UC Berkeley | USA | 33 (1.46) | 2969 | 20 |
| 5th | Columbia University Medical Center | USA | 23 (1.01) | 982 | 14 |
| 6th | Harvard School of Public Health | USA | 20 (0.88) | 878 | 13 |
| 7th | Organisation Mondiale de la Sante | WHO | 19 (0.84) | 512 | 11 |
| 7th | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | UK | 19 (0.84) | 267 | 9 |
| 9th | Umweltbundesamt, Germany | Germany | 17 (0.75) | 552 | 9 |
| 10th | Kaohsiung Medical University | Taiwan | 15 (0.66) | 645 | 11 |
TC total citations
h-index:Hirsh index
aInstitutes having similar number of publications were given the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers