Table 4.

Top 15 Affiliations with the most publications.

Rank1	Affiliation	Country/Territory	Publication numbers	Total citations2	Citations per publication3	Distribution of years4
						1961–1990	1991–2005	2006–2020
1	ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV)	India	170	2,247	13.22	84	45	41
2	Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)	India	111	1,738	15.66	2	36	73
3	United States Department of Defense	USA	103	6,048	58.72	35	39	29
4	Department Of Biotechnology (DBT) India	India	102	3,862	37.86	0	14	88
5	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)	USA	94	5,676	60.38	31	35	28
6	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-USA	USA	89	4,830	54.27	0	23	66
7	United States Army	USA	88	5,762	65.48	29	35	24
8	National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)	Japan	86	2,485	28.9	0	25	61
9	Mahidol University	Thailand	81	2,114	26.1	6	9	66
10	Huazhong Agricultural University	China	68	1,424	20.94	0	3	65
11	Nagasaki University	Japan	65	1,958	30.12	12	20	33
12	Armed Forces Research Institute Of Medical Science (AFRIMS)	Thailand	64	3,944	61.63	23	18	23
13	Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention	China	62	1,950	30.95	1	1	60
13	National Defense Medical Center	Taiwan (China)	62	3,302	53.26	0	37	25
15	Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences	India	59	1,666	28.24	0	25	34

¹Ranked by publication numbers.

²Total citations mean the sum of citations received these years (before our research time) about the publications (the publication numbers column in this table) of each author.

³Citations per publication was calculated according to the publication numbers and their total citations.

⁴Distribution of years means the publication numbers published in 1961–1990, 1991–2005, and 2006–2020 respectively.