Bibliometric analysis of worldwide publications on multi-, extensively, and totally drug – resistant tuberculosis (2006–2015)

Table 6 Top ten active institutions/ organizations in MDR, XDR, and TDR-TB publications (2006–2015)

SCR^a	Institution/ Organization	Country	Frequency	% N = 2260	HCA	% of HCA^b
1^st	Organisation Mondiale de la Sante	WHO	104	4.60	35	33.65
2^nd	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	CDC (USA)	89	3.94	31	34.83
3^rd	Brigham and Women’s Hospital	USA	74	3.27	18	24.32
4^th	Harvard Medical School	USA	73	3.23	20	27.40
5^th	Universiteit Stellenbosch	S. Africa	61	2.70	23	37.70
6^th	University of Cape Town	S. Africa	54	2.39	16	29.63
7^th	Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University	USA	44	1.95	25	56.82
8^th	South African Medical Research Council	S. Africa	43	1.90	17	39.53
9^th	Universita degli Studi di Sassari	Italy	42	1.86	18	42.86
9^th	IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri	Italy	42	1.86	18	42.86
9^th	Partners in Health	USA	42	1.86	12	28.57

^aSCR: standard competition rank. Equal countries were given the same ranking number, and then a gap is left in the ranking numbers
^bHCA: number of highly cited articles. Articles with ≥ 30 citations were considered HCA. Percentage of HCA was calculated by dividing total number of HCA by total number of publications for each institution/ organization assigned

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