| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1992 | 29,313 |
| 2 | Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis | Qualitative Health Research | 2005 | 27,239 |
| 3 | Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta-analysis | Statistics in Medicine | 2002 | 26,845 |
| 4 | A Global Measure of Perceived Stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 21,013 |
| 5 | Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups | International Journal for Quality in Health Care | 2007 | 20,392 |
| 6 | A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey | Medical Care | 1996 | 14,204 |
| 7 | Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1998 | 12,612 |
| 8 | Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2010 | 11,655 |
| 9 | The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection | Medical Care | 1992 | 10,953 |
| 10 | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2009 | 9,774 |
| 11 | Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1992 | 9,277 |
| 12 | The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2009 | 8,425 |
| 13 | Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science | Implementation Science | 2009 | 8,265 |
| 14 | Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data | Medical Care | 2005 | 8,119 |
| 15 | Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data | Medical Care | 1998 | 8,081 |
| 16 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2008 | 7,988 |
| 17 | Scoping studies: advancing the methodology | Implementation Science | 2010 | 7,812 |
| 18 | A global measure of perceived stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 7,571 |
| 19 | A SIMPLE METHOD OF ESTIMATING FIFTY PER CENT ENDPOINTS12 | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1938 | 7,537 |
| 20 | Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2007 | 7,331 |
| 21 | Measuring agreement in method comparison studies | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1999 | 7,294 |
| 22 | A Modified Poisson Regression Approach to Prospective Studies with Binary Data | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2004 | 6,963 |
| 23 | The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions | Implementation Science | 2011 | 6,856 |
| 24 | Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2020 | 6,765 |
| 25 | GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 6,722 |
| 26 | Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 6,672 |
| 27 | Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1997 | 6,576 |
| 28 | Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2005 | 6,548 |
| 29 | Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2005 | 6,429 |
| 30 | Finding Structure in Time | Cognitive Science | 1990 | 6,281 |
| 31 | The feasibility of creating a checklist for the assessment of the methodological quality both of randomised and non-randomised studies of health care interventions | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 1998 | 6,272 |
| 32 | Multiple imputation using chained equations: Issues and guidance for practice | Statistics in Medicine | 2011 | 6,168 |
| 33 | Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 6,130 |
| 34 | A simulation study of the number of events per variable in logistic regression analysis | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1996 | 6,007 |
| 35 | Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation | Technical Report Series - World Health Organization, Geneva | 2000 | 5,961 |
| 36 | Development and preliminary testing of the new five-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) | Quality of Life Research | 2011 | 5,877 |
| 37 | Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 5,867 |
| 38 | Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 5,865 |
| 39 | Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 5,825 |
| 40 | Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 5,823 |
| 41 | The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1993 | 5,797 |
| 42 | Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems | Human Factors | 1995 | 5,779 |
| 43 | CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting | American Journal of Infection Control | 2008 | 5,758 |
| 44 | Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 5,713 |
| 45 | Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 5,525 |
| 46 | The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change | American Journal of Health Promotion | 1997 | 5,523 |
| 47 | GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 5,517 |
| 48 | CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988 | American Journal of Infection Control | 1988 | 5,396 |
| 49 | Validation of a combined comorbidity index | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1994 | 5,389 |
| 50 | Evaluating the added predictive ability of a new marker: From area under the ROC curve to reclassification and beyond | Statistics in Medicine | 2008 | 5,331 |
| 51 | Biofilms: Survival Mechanisms of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2002 | 5,321 |
| 52 | The MOS social support survey | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 5,065 |
| 53 | Health Promotion by Social Cognitive Means | Health Education and Behavior | 2004 | 4,968 |
| 54 | The Structure of Coping | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1978 | 4,886 |
| 55 | Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2018 | 4,731 |
| 56 | Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 4,680 |
| 57 | Purposeful Sampling for Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis in Mixed Method Implementation Research | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2015 | 4,645 |
| 58 | The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Position paper from the World Health Organization | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 4,624 |
| 59 | No Adjustments Are Needed for Multiple Comparisons | Epidemiology | 1990 | 4,588 |
| 60 | The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 | Medical Care | 2003 | 4,547 |
| 61 | SOCIAL NETWORKS, HOST RESISTANCE, AND MORTALITY: A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY RESIDENTS | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1979 | 4,447 |
| 62 | Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing? | International Journal of Human Computer Studies | 1995 | 4,414 |
| 63 | Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 4,412 |
| 64 | Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: Literature review and proposed guidelines | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1993 | 4,410 |
| 65 | Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework. | American Journal of Public Health | 1999 | 4,387 |
| 66 | REVIEW OF COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health | Annual Review of Public Health | 1998 | 4,363 |
| 67 | The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure | Medical Care | 1981 | 4,333 |
| 68 | Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a Self-reported Measure of Medication Adherence | Medical Care | 1986 | 4,262 |
| 69 | Sample Size in Qualitative Interview Studies | Qualitative Health Research | 2016 | 4,227 |
| 70 | Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1998 | 4,216 |
| 71 | An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1980 | 4,209 |
| 72 | Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning | Cognitive Science | 1988 | 4,165 |
| 73 | Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2011 | 4,123 |
| 74 | Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity‐score matched samples | Statistics in Medicine | 2009 | 4,077 |
| 75 | An Experiment in Linguistic Synthesis with a Fuzzy Logic Controller | International Journal of Human Computer Studies | 1999 | 4,067 |
| 76 | ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?* | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 4,018 |
| 77 | Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology | Epidemiology | 2000 | 4,017 |
| 78 | Screening for Depression in Well Older Adults: Evaluation of a Short Form of the CES-D | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1994 | 4,008 |
| 79 | Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO Expert Committee | Technical Report Series - World Health Organization, Geneva | 1995 | 4,003 |
| 80 | The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups | Medical Care | 1994 | 3,992 |
| 81 | PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and Validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales in Healthy and Patient Populations | Medical Care | 2001 | 3,975 |
| 82 | Updating and Validating the Charlson Comorbidity Index and Score for Risk Adjustment in Hospital Discharge Abstracts Using Data From 6 Countries | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2011 | 3,941 |
| 83 | Modeling Valuations for EuroQol Health States | Medical Care | 1997 | 3,859 |
| 84 | The Stress Process | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1981 | 3,821 |
| 85 | Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews | International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare | 2015 | 3,820 |
| 86 | REPRODUCIBILITY AND VALIDITY OF A SEMIQUANTITATIVE FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1985 | 3,799 |
| 87 | Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 3,790 |
| 88 | Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 1999 | 3,777 |
| 89 | Global causes of maternal death: a WHO systematic analysis | The Lancet Global Health | 2014 | 3,772 |
| 90 | Standardised Nordic questionnaires for the analysis of musculoskeletal symptoms | Applied Ergonomics | 1987 | 3,769 |
| 91 | Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices* | Cognitive Science | 1981 | 3,767 |
| 92 | Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: agents of subtle change? | Environmental Health Perspectives | 1999 | 3,763 |
| 93 | External review and validation of the Swedish national inpatient register | BMC Public Health | 2011 | 3,713 |
| 94 | Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life | Medical Care | 2003 | 3,681 |
| 95 | Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 3,661 |
| 96 | The price of innovation: new estimates of drug development costs | Journal of Health Economics | 2003 | 3,576 |
| 97 | Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 3,560 |
| 98 | Implementation Matters: A Review of Research on the Influence of Implementation on Program Outcomes and the Factors Affecting Implementation | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2008 | 3,543 |
| 99 | Adverse health effects of high-effort/low-reward conditions. | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology | 1996 | 3,522 |
| 100 | The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008 | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2010 | 3,521 |
