| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Standardisation of spirometry | European Respiratory Journal | 2005 | 12,939 |
| 2 | ATS Statement | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 9,334 |
| 3 | Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 7,792 |
| 4 | The American-European Consensus Conference on ARDS. Definitions, mechanisms, relevant outcomes, and clinical trial coordination. | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1994 | 6,954 |
| 5 | Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Hospital-acquired, Ventilator-associated, and Healthcare-associated Pneumonia | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2005 | 6,817 |
| 6 | Standardization of Spirometry, 1994 Update. American Thoracic Society. | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1995 | 6,085 |
| 7 | An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 6,033 |
| 8 | Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2007 | 5,801 |
| 9 | Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 5,055 |
| 10 | An Official ATS/IDSA Statement: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Diseases | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2007 | 5,021 |
| 11 | Lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows | European Respiratory Journal | 1993 | 4,781 |
| 12 | Interpretative strategies for lung function tests | European Respiratory Journal | 2005 | 4,712 |
| 13 | Multi-ethnic reference values for spirometry for the 3–95-yr age range: the global lung function 2012 equations | European Respiratory Journal | 2012 | 4,203 |
| 14 | American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Consensus Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 3,814 |
| 15 | Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper | European Respiratory Journal | 2004 | 3,804 |
| 16 | Epidemiology of Obstructive Sleep Apnea | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 3,723 |
| 17 | Spirometric Reference Values from a Sample of the General U.S. Population | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 3,656 |
| 18 | Ventilator-induced Lung Injury | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 3,350 |
| 19 | An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,134 |
| 20 | Ventilator-associated Pneumonia | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 3,085 |
| 21 | ATS/ERS Recommendations for Standardized Procedures for the Online and Offline Measurement of Exhaled Lower Respiratory Nitric Oxide and Nasal Nitric Oxide, 2005 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2005 | 2,976 |
| 22 | Statement on Standards for the Diagnosis and Care of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 2,912 |
| 23 | International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma | European Respiratory Journal | 2014 | 2,898 |
| 24 | The Richmond Agitation–Sedation Scale | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 2,873 |
| 25 | International study of asthma and allergies in childhood (ISAAC): rationale and methods | European Respiratory Journal | 1995 | 2,860 |
| 26 | ATS/ACCP Statement on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 2,746 |
| 27 | Sleep-disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 2,679 |
| 28 | Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2018 | 2,678 |
| 29 | An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Key Concepts and Advances in Pulmonary Rehabilitation | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 2,668 |
| 30 | A Self-complete Measure of Health Status for Chronic Airflow Limitation: The St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 2,658 |
| 31 | Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Diagnosis and Treatment | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 2,655 |
| 32 | Haemodynamic definitions and updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 2,583 |
| 33 | An Expanded Definition of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1988 | 2,578 |
| 34 | Comorbidity and its impact on 1590 patients with COVID-19 in China: a nationwide analysis | European Respiratory Journal | 2020 | 2,551 |
| 35 | Lung Function Testing: Selection of Reference Values and Interpretative Strategies | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1991 | 2,517 |
| 36 | Global strategy for asthma management and prevention: GINA executive summary | European Respiratory Journal | 2008 | 2,510 |
| 37 | Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study | Thorax | 2003 | 2,415 |
| 38 | 2015 ESC/ERS Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension | European Respiratory Journal | 2015 | 2,415 |
| 39 | Surgical repair of tricuspid atresia | Thorax | 1971 | 2,405 |
| 40 | Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2017 Report. GOLD Executive Summary | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2017 | 2,393 |
| 41 | Assessment of Global Incidence and Mortality of Hospital-treated Sepsis. Current Estimates and Limitations | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2016 | 2,385 |
| 42 | Standardization of Spirometry—1987 Update | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 2,357 |
| 43 | Development and first validation of the COPD Assessment Test | European Respiratory Journal | 2009 | 2,311 |
| 44 | Particulate Air Pollution as a Predictor of Mortality in a Prospective Study of U.S. Adults | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1995 | 2,299 |
| 45 | ATS/ERS Statement on Respiratory Muscle Testing | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 2,270 |
| 46 | Standardisation of the measurement of lung volumes | European Respiratory Journal | 2005 | 2,253 |
| 47 | Guidelines for Methacholine and Exercise Challenge Testing—1999 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 2,209 |
| 48 | Usefulness of the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale as a measure of disability in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Thorax | 1999 | 2,156 |
| 49 | Statement on Sarcoidosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1999 | 2,102 |
| 50 | Relation between Respiratory Changes in Arterial Pulse Pressure and Fluid Responsiveness in Septic Patients with Acute Circulatory Failure | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 2,071 |
| 51 | An Official ATS Clinical Practice Guideline: Interpretation of Exhaled Nitric Oxide Levels (FeNO) for Clinical Applications | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 2,047 |
| 52 | Guidelines for the Management of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 2,041 |
| 53 | Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure asthma control | European Respiratory Journal | 1999 | 2,019 |
| 54 | Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2019 | 2,013 |
| 55 | Weaning from mechanical ventilation | European Respiratory Journal | 2007 | 1,962 |
| 56 | Effect of Exacerbation on Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 1,946 |
| 57 | Standardisation of the single-breath determination of carbon monoxide uptake in the lung | European Respiratory Journal | 2005 | 1,925 |
| 58 | Relationship between exacerbation frequency and lung function decline in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Thorax | 2002 | 1,849 |
| 59 | American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 1,828 |
| 60 | Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2010 | 1,820 |
| 61 | Standardization of Spirometry 2019 Update. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Technical Statement | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2019 | 1,812 |
| 62 | Risk of Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Family Members of Intensive Care Unit Patients | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2005 | 1,775 |
| 63 | The Epidemiology of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society | 2008 | 1,756 |
| 64 | The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire | Respiratory Medicine | 1991 | 1,743 |
| 65 | Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in France | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,736 |
| 66 | Cluster Analysis and Clinical Asthma Phenotypes | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 1,727 |
| 67 | High Level of Burnout in Intensivists | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2007 | 1,715 |
| 68 | Reference Equations for the Six-Minute Walk in Healthy Adults | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 1,712 |
| 69 | An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease | European Respiratory Journal | 2014 | 1,663 |
| 70 | General considerations for lung function testing | European Respiratory Journal | 2005 | 1,661 |
| 71 | American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,644 |
| 72 | An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Asthma Control and Exacerbations | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2009 | 1,591 |
| 73 | Changes in the normal maximal expiratory flow-volume curve with growth and aging | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1983 | 1,591 |
| 74 | Asthma | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 1,576 |
| 75 | Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 1,575 |
| 76 | Reversibility of Lung Collapse and Hypoxemia in Early Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 1,558 |
| 77 | T-helper Type 2–driven Inflammation Defines Major Subphenotypes of Asthma | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2009 | 1,547 |
| 78 | High Inflation Pressure Pulmonary Edema: Respective Effects of High Airway Pressure, High Tidal Volume, and Positive End-expiratory Pressure | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1988 | 1,535 |
| 79 | Severe acute exacerbations and mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Thorax | 2005 | 1,529 |
| 80 | An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline: Treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Update of the 2011 Clinical Practice Guideline | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2015 | 1,521 |
| 81 | Can Guideline-defined Asthma Control Be Achieved? | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 1,489 |
| 82 | A measure of quality of life for clinical trials in chronic lung disease. | Thorax | 1987 | 1,476 |
| 83 | The European Community Respiratory Health Survey | European Respiratory Journal | 1994 | 1,456 |
| 84 | Clinical Characteristics of Patients in a Case Control Study of Sarcoidosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 1,455 |
| 85 | Pathophysiology and Management of Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 1,451 |
| 86 | Association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and systemic inflammation: a systematic review and a meta-analysis | Thorax | 2004 | 1,441 |
| 87 | Microvascular Blood Flow Is Altered in Patients with Sepsis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2002 | 1,401 |
| 88 | Prevalence of Sleep-disordered Breathing in Women | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 1,391 |
| 89 | Best Compliance during a Decremental, But Not Incremental, Positive End-Expiratory Pressure Trial Is Related to Open-Lung Positive End-Expiratory Pressure | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 1,389 |
| 90 | Maximal respiratory pressures: normal values and relationship to age and sex | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1969 | 1,381 |
| 91 | An Official American Thoracic Society Statement: Update on the Mechanisms, Assessment, and Management of Dyspnea | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2012 | 1,379 |
| 92 | Systemic manifestations and comorbidities of COPD | European Respiratory Journal | 2009 | 1,365 |
| 93 | Optimal assessment and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) | European Respiratory Journal | 1995 | 1,361 |
| 94 | Role of lopinavir/ritonavir in the treatment of SARS: initial virological and clinical findings | Thorax | 2004 | 1,361 |
| 95 | Clinical Course and Prediction of Survival in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 1,342 |
| 96 | Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2000 | 1,338 |
| 97 | Routine Use of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2011 | 1,318 |
| 98 | Standards for the diagnosis and care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. American Thoracic Society | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1995 | 1,312 |
| 99 | Outcomes following acute exacerbation of severe chronic obstructive lung disease. The SUPPORT investigators (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments) | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1996 | 1,298 |
| 100 | Early Lactate-Guided Therapy in Intensive Care Unit Patients | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2010 | 1,290 |
