Top 15 most productive institutions for highly cited vaccine researches
| Institution (country) | No. of highly cited papers (%) | No. of citations(%) | Average citation count per paper | H-Index |
| Harvard University (USA) | 332 (10.19) | 109 934 (12.50) | 331.13 | 180 |
| University of London (UK) | 284 (8.72) | 95 963 (10.91) | 337.90 | 160 |
| University of California System (USA) | 233 (7.15) | 81 111 (9.22) | 348.12 | 143 |
| Harvard Medical School (USA) | 194 (5.96) | 59 705 (6.79) | 307.76 | 122 |
| Centres for Disease Control Prevention (USA) | 169 (5.19) | 47 870 (5.44) | 283.25 | 108 |
| National Institutes of Health (USA) | 166 (5.10) | 68 332 (7.77) | 411.64 | 122 |
| University of Oxford (UK) | 162 (4.97) | 62 536 (7.11) | 386.02 | 114 |
| University of Washington Seattle (USA) | 159 (4.88) | 61 405 (6.98) | 386.20 | 118 |
| Johns Hopkins University (USA) | 155 (4.76) | 63 879 (7.26) | 412.12 | 109 |
| University College London (UK) | 128 (3.93) | 42 899 (4.88) | 335.15 | 94 |
| University of Texas (USA) | 121 (3.71) | 50 168 (5.70) | 414.61 | 95 |
| Imperial College London (UK) | 120 (3.68) | 41 693 (4.74) | 347.44 | 90 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital (USA) | 116 (3.56) | 34 673 (3.94) | 298.91 | 85 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) | 116 (3.56) | 36 553 (4.16) | 315.11 | 86 |
| London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine (UK) | 112 (3.44) | 52 605 (5.98) | 469.69 | 85 |