Some 15 percent of the world’s most influential studies on COVID-19 vaccines were written by Israeli scientists – 536 from Jan 2020 to Jun 2022. In the major medical journals (New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine), Israel was third and fourth respectively.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-produced-some-15-of-worlds-top-covid-vaccine-studies-analysis-shows/

https://ijhpr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13584-022-00548-3#MOESM2