---
title: "Sciensano (Belgium): research papers"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Sciensano (Belgium) took part in 33 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (24), statistics (8) and management (1). 6 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/companies/sciensano-belgium
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/companies/sciensano-belgium.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Sciensano (Belgium) took part in 33 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (24), statistics (8) and management (1). 6 of them were published in… (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Sciensano (Belgium)

[Browse company research profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/companies/directory/page/3.md)

Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Sciensano (Belgium): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Sciensano (Belgium) took part in 33 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (24), statistics (8) and management (1).
- 6 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Ghent University (13), Erasmus MC (5) and National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (4).
- The journals publishing most of them were Population Health Metrics (7), BMC Medical Research Methodology (5) and Health Policy (3).
- The most-cited of them is “Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement” (Population Health Metrics, 2024), with 40 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 3 of its papers 3 times; 100% of those links came from papers with a university author and 0% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 6 times, 0% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Sciensano (Belgium) has 3,803 works with 148,038 citations (h-index 123).
- The tracked journals hold 28 of its 3,324 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.8%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (228), COVID-19 epidemiological studies (225) and Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (202).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 7 |
| 2 | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 5 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Globalization and Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/globalization-and-health.md) | 2 |
| 5 | [Evaluation and Program Planning](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/evaluation-and-program-planning.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [International Journal for Equity in Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-for-equity-in-health.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [SSM - Population Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ssm-population-health.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Ghent University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ghent-university.md) | 13 |
| 2 | Erasmus MC | 5 |
| 3 | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment | 4 |
| 4 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | 4 |
| 5 | Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz | 3 |
| 6 | Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz | 3 |
| 7 | Istituto Superiore di Sanità | 3 |
| 8 | [KU Leuven](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/ku-leuven.md) | 3 |
| 9 | National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge | 3 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Belgium | 21 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 7 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 6 |
| 4 | Portugal | 6 |
| 5 | Germany | 5 |
| 6 | Denmark | 4 |
| 7 | Spain | 3 |
| 8 | Hungary | 3 |
| 9 | Italy | 3 |
| 10 | Norway | 3 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | disability-adjusted life years | 5 |
| 2 | Belgium | 4 |
| 3 | non-communicable diseases | 4 |
| 4 | obesity | 4 |
| 5 | disease burden | 3 |
| 6 | sex differences | 3 |
| 7 | socioeconomic deprivation | 3 |
| 8 | Belgian Health Interview Survey | 2 |
| 9 | Flanders | 2 |
| 10 | cardiovascular disease | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 1.6 | [Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-024-00347-9) | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 2024-10-07 | Brecht Devleesschauwer, Periklis Charalampous, Vanessa Gorasso et al. |
| 2 | 38 | 0.6 | [Identifying common enablers and barriers in European health information systems](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.09.006) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2021-09-22 | Petronille Bogaert, Marieke Verschuuren, Herman J. Van Oyen et al. |
| 3 | 27 | 1.0 | [Which government policies to create sustainable food systems have the potential to simultaneously address undernutrition, obesity and environmental sustainability?](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-024-01060-w) | [Globalization and Health](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/globalization-and-health.md) | 2024-07-27 | Celia Burgaz, Iris Van Dam, Kelly Garton et al. |
| 4 | 21 | 0.4 | [Implementing healthy food environment policies in New Zealand: nine years of inaction](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00809-8) | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 2022-01-15 | Sally Mackay, Sarah Gerritsen, Fiona Sing et al. |
| 5 | 20 | 0.2 | [Towards a sustainable EU health information system infrastructure: A consensus driven approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.10.009) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2018-10-16 | Petronille Bogaert, HANS A. M. VAN OERS, Herman J. Van Oyen |
| 6 | 9 | 0.3 | [Unlocking the genomic landscape: Results of the Beyond 1 Million Genomes (B1MG) pilot in Belgium towards Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105060) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2024-04-01 | Tuğçe Schmitt, Hélène Antoine Poirel, Émilie Cauët et al. |
| 7 | 4 | 0.1 | [The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-024-00328-y) | [Population Health Metrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/population-health-metrics.md) | 2024-04-23 | Elly Mertens, Junior Ocira, Diana Sagastume et al. |
| 8 | 3 | 0.1 | [Identification of health-related needs: The needs examination, evaluation and dissemination (NEED) assessment framework](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105263) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2025-02-13 | Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Muriel Levy, Rani Claerman et al. |
| 9 | 2 | 0.1 | [The potential impact fraction of population weight reduction scenarios on non-communicable diseases in Belgium: application of the g-computation approach](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02212-7) | [BMC Medical Research Methodology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/bmc-medical-research-methodology.md) | 2024-04-14 | Ingrid Pelgrims, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Stefanie Vandevijvere et al. |
| 10 | 2 | 0.1 | [The role of burden of disease estimates in European Union Health policymaking: A systematic analysis of EU legislation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105387) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2025-07-02 | José Chen-Xu, Diana Grad, Nour Mahrouseh et al. |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | University of North Texas | University | United States | 1 |
| 2 | Constructor University | University | Germany | 1 |
| 3 | North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | University | United States | 1 |
| 4 | World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe | Government | Denmark | 1 |
| 5 | Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering | Research facility | Italy | 1 |
| 6 | National Research Council | Nonprofit | Italy | 1 |
| 7 | [McMaster University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/mcmaster-university.md) | University | Canada | 1 |
| 8 | American University of Beirut | University | Lebanon | 1 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Philipps University of Marburg | University | Germany | 1 |
| 2 | Cyprus University of Technology | University | Cyprus | 1 |
| 3 | University of Malta | University | Malta | 1 |
| 4 | [Aarhus University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/aarhus-university.md) | University | Denmark | 1 |
| 5 | Aarhus University Hospital | Healthcare | Denmark | 1 |
| 6 | Harokopio University of Athens | University | Greece | 1 |
| 7 | Office Of Health Economics | Government | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 8 | Luxembourg Institute of Health | Nonprofit | Luxembourg | 1 |
| 9 | Hospital Clínic de Barcelona | Healthcare | Spain | 1 |
| 10 | Central Denmark Region | Government | Denmark | 1 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## In OpenAlex

*Sciensano (Belgium) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium |
| Works in OpenAlex | 3,803 |
| Citations | 148,038 |
| h-index | 123 |
| i10-index | 3,268 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 3.46 |
| Website | [www.sciensano.be](https://www.sciensano.be/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/04ejags36](https://ror.org/04ejags36) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210145009](https://openalex.org/I4210145009) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 446 | 11,309 | 5 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 520 | 12,471 | 6 | 1.2% |
| 2024 | 579 | 11,032 | 5 | 0.9% |
| 2023 | 486 | 9,565 | 5 | 1.0% |
| 2022 | 539 | 8,717 | 4 | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 446 | 7,404 | 1 | 0.2% |
| 2020 | 331 | 4,375 | 3 | 0.9% |
| 2019 | 270 | 1,509 | 3 | 1.1% |
| 2018 | 148 | 318 | 1 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 5 | 79 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research | Medicine | 228 |
| 2 | COVID-19 epidemiological studies | Mathematics | 225 |
| 3 | Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 202 |
| 4 | Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 202 |
| 5 | COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies | Medicine | 171 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Sciensano (Belgium). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/sciensano-belgium

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-companies-sciensano-belgium,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Sciensano (Belgium)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/sciensano-belgium}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).