| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta-analysis | Statistics in Medicine | 2002 | 26,845 |
| 2 | The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2011 | 12,681 |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2009 | 9,774 |
| 6 | Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1992 | 9,277 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2008 | 7,988 |
| 9 | A SIMPLE METHOD OF ESTIMATING FIFTY PER CENT ENDPOINTS12 | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1938 | 7,537 |
| 10 | The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2011 | 7,498 |
| 11 | Quality criteria were proposed for measurement properties of health status questionnaires | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2007 | 7,331 |
| 12 | Measuring agreement in method comparison studies | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1999 | 7,294 |
| 13 | A Modified Poisson Regression Approach to Prospective Studies with Binary Data | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2004 | 6,963 |
| 14 | GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 6,722 |
| 15 | Estimating the mean and variance from the median, range, and the size of a sample | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2005 | 6,548 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Multiple imputation using chained equations: Issues and guidance for practice | Statistics in Medicine | 2011 | 6,168 |
| 18 | Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 6,130 |
| 19 | A simulation study of the number of events per variable in logistic regression analysis | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1996 | 6,007 |
| 20 | Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2013 | 5,867 |
| 21 | NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2018 | 5,861 |
| 22 | Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 5,823 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from the sample size, median, range and/or interquartile range | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2014 | 5,713 |
| 25 | Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2011 | 5,550 |
| 26 | Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 5,525 |
| 27 | GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 5,517 |
| 28 | CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988 | American Journal of Infection Control | 1988 | 5,396 |
| 29 | Validation of a combined comorbidity index | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1994 | 5,389 |
| 30 | 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 |
| 31 | Biofilms: Survival Mechanisms of Clinically Relevant Microorganisms | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2002 | 5,321 |
| 32 | Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2018 | 4,731 |
| 33 | Mendelian randomization with invalid instruments: effect estimation and bias detection through Egger regression | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 4,680 |
| 34 | No Adjustments Are Needed for Multiple Comparisons | Epidemiology | 1990 | 4,588 |
| 35 | SOCIAL NETWORKS, HOST RESISTANCE, AND MORTALITY: A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY RESIDENTS | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1979 | 4,447 |
| 36 | Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2010 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 2010 | 4,415 |
| 37 | Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2008 | 4,412 |
| 38 | Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: Literature review and proposed guidelines | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1993 | 4,410 |
| 39 | Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1998 | 4,216 |
| 40 | Consistent Estimation in Mendelian Randomization with Some Invalid Instruments Using a Weighted Median Estimator | Genetic Epidemiology | 2016 | 4,142 |
| 41 | Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity‐score matched samples | Statistics in Medicine | 2009 | 4,077 |
| 42 | ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?* | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 4,018 |
| 43 | Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology | Epidemiology | 2000 | 4,017 |
| 44 | Screening for Depression in Well Older Adults: Evaluation of a Short Form of the CES-D | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 1994 | 4,008 |
| 45 | Preventing tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis among adults: use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and recommendation of ACIP, supported by the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), for use of Tdap among health-care personnel | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 2006 | 3,977 |
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | REPRODUCIBILITY AND VALIDITY OF A SEMIQUANTITATIVE FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1985 | 3,799 |
| 48 | Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 1999 | 3,777 |
| 49 | Antiseptics and Disinfectants: Activity, Action, and Resistance | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1999 | 3,661 |
| 50 | The global prevalence of dementia: A systematic review and metaanalysis | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2013 | 3,654 |
| 51 | Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 3,560 |
| 52 | 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 |
| 53 | Epidemiology of Invasive Candidiasis: a Persistent Public Health Problem | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2007 | 3,459 |
| 54 | Increased Prevalence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Adults | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 3,416 |
| 55 | Assessing the Performance of Prediction Models | Epidemiology | 2010 | 3,387 |
| 56 | Staphylococcus aureus Infections: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Clinical Manifestations, and Management | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2015 | 3,304 |
| 57 | Epidemiology of Sarcopenia among the Elderly in New Mexico | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1998 | 3,279 |
| 58 | Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2007 | 3,253 |
| 59 | The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): a resource for assessing exposure to environmental pollutants | Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology | 2001 | 3,194 |
| 60 | Graphical methods and numerical summaries for presenting results from multiple-treatment meta-analysis: an overview and tutorial | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 3,127 |
| 61 | Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Objectives and Design | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2002 | 3,068 |
| 62 | THE LASSO METHOD FOR VARIABLE SELECTION IN THE COX MODEL | Statistics in Medicine | 1997 | 3,038 |
| 63 | The development of QUADAS: a tool for the quality assessment of studies of diagnostic accuracy included in systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2003 | 3,036 |
| 64 | The Danish National Patient Registry: a review of content, data quality, and research potential | Clinical Epidemiology | 2015 | 3,029 |
| 65 | The COSMIN study reached international consensus on taxonomy, terminology, and definitions of measurement properties for health-related patient-reported outcomes | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2010 | 2,945 |
| 66 | Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2003 | 2,923 |
| 67 | Causal Diagrams for Epidemiologic Research | Epidemiology | 1999 | 2,911 |
| 68 | THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS RISK IN COMMUNIT (ARIC) STUDY: DESIGN AND OBJECTIVES | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1989 | 2,906 |
| 69 | Measuring agreement in method comparison studies | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1999 | 2,880 |
| 70 | Acinetobacter baumannii : Emergence of a Successful Pathogen | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2008 | 2,829 |
| 71 | Global Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates and Trends—An Update | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2016 | 2,818 |
| 72 | Funnel plots for detecting bias in meta-analysis | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2001 | 2,792 |
| 73 | Relaxing the Rule of Ten Events per Variable in Logistic and Cox Regression | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2007 | 2,791 |
| 74 | Mycotoxins | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2003 | 2,772 |
| 75 | Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases: a Clinical Update | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2005 | 2,767 |
| 76 | Multiple imputation: a primer | Statistical Methods in Medical Research | 1999 | 2,741 |
| 77 | Progressing toward tuberculosis elimination in low-incidence areas of the United States. Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 2002 | 2,733 |
| 78 | The estimation of the bactericidal power of the blood | Epidemiology and Infection | 1938 | 2,726 |
| 79 | TOTAL ENERGY INTAKE: IMPLICATIONS FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC ANALYSES | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1986 | 2,726 |
| 80 | Mendelian randomization: Using genes as instruments for making causal inferences in epidemiology | Statistics in Medicine | 2008 | 2,716 |
| 81 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2010 | 2,716 |
| 82 | Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1998 | 2,709 |
| 83 | Mendelian Randomization Analysis With Multiple Genetic Variants Using Summarized Data | Genetic Epidemiology | 2013 | 2,705 |
| 84 | Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies | Statistics in Medicine | 2015 | 2,704 |
| 85 | Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Children Aged 8 Years — Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 Sites, United States, 2014 | MMWR Surveillance Summaries | 2018 | 2,687 |
| 86 | Bivariate analysis of sensitivity and specificity produces informative summary measures in diagnostic reviews | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2005 | 2,557 |
| 87 | The physical activity scale for the elderly (PASE): Development and evaluation | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1993 | 2,534 |
| 88 | PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2016 | 2,530 |
| 89 | Guidelines for preventing the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in health-care settings, 2005 | MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 2005 | 2,529 |
| 90 | Sick Individuals and Sick Populations | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1985 | 2,515 |
| 91 | Pathogen Recognition and Inflammatory Signaling in Innate Immune Defenses | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2009 | 2,488 |
| 92 | Translation, Validation, and Norming of the Dutch Language Version of the SF-36 Health Survey in Community and Chronic Disease Populations | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1998 | 2,484 |
| 93 | Improving the sensitivity of the Barthel Index for stroke rehabilitation | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1989 | 2,481 |
| 94 | Social Ties and Mental Health | Journal of Urban Health | 2001 | 2,478 |
| 95 | Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Associated With Healthcare-Associated Infections: Annual Summary of Data Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006–2007 | Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology | 2008 | 2,458 |
| 96 | Guideline for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 1999 | American Journal of Infection Control | 1999 | 2,444 |
| 97 | Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 2,436 |
| 98 | Cross-Validation of Item Selection and Scoring for the SF-12 Health Survey in Nine Countries | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1998 | 2,428 |
| 99 | Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz). International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection | Health Physics | 1998 | 2,422 |
| 100 | The cardiovascular health study: Design and rationale | Annals of Epidemiology | 1991 | 2,407 |
