TABLE 1.
Top 20 prolific countries, research institutions and journals in this emerging field.
| Ranking | Country | Research Institution | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (1811) | University of California (183)—United States | Journal of Medical Virology (150) |
| 2 | China (1,030) | University of Texas (104)—United States | PLoS One (130) |
| 3 | United Kingdom (560) | University of Hong Kong (93)—China | Scientific Reports (100) |
| 4 | Italy (534) | University of Oxford (92)—United Kingdom | Nature (88) |
| 5 | Germany (359) | Wuhan University (76)—China | Viruses (82) |
| 6 | India (320) | University of Washington (76)—United States | Nature Communication (70) |
| 7 | France (299) | University of Pennsylvania (71)—United States | Frontiers in Immunology (70) |
| 8 | Canada (274) | Stanford University (63)—United States | International Journal of Infectious Diseases (68) |
| 9 | Spain (214) | University College London (59)—United Kingdom | Science (67) |
| 10 | Australia (196) | University of Cambridge (58)—United Kingdom | Emerging Microbes & Infections (64) |
| 11 | Brazil (173) | Massachusetts General Hospital (58)—United States | Journal of Clinical Virology (62) |
| 12 | Japan (150) | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (55)—China | Medical Hypotheses (62) |
| 13 | Switzerland (141) | Tongji Hospital (54)—China | International Journal of Molecular Sciences (57) |
| 14 | Iran (140) | Columbia University (52)—United States | Cell (50) |
| 15 | South Korea (115) | University of Toronto (52)—Canada | Journal of Clinical Microbiology (46) |
| 16 | Belgium (105) | University of Edinburgh (51)—United Kingdom | Infection, Genetics and evolution (45) |
| 17 | Turkey (98) | University of Milan (51)—Italy | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (44) |
| 18 | Sweden (88) | Brigham and Women’s Hospital (51)—United States | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (42) |
| 19 | Saudi Arabia (67) | Peking Union Medical College (50)—China | BMC Infectious Diseases (41) |
| 20 | Austria (67) | Fudan University (48)—China | Eurosurveillance (39) |