| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption-II | Addiction | 1993 | 10,134 |
| 3 | Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding | Lancet, The | 2020 | 9,430 |
| 4 | A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 9,397 |
| 5 | Intensive Blood Glucose Control and Vascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 6,447 |
| 6 | Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 6,376 |
| 7 | Intensive versus Conventional Glucose Control in Critically Ill Patients | New England Journal of Medicine | 2009 | 6,065 |
| 8 | Hegemonic Masculinity | Gender and Society | 2005 | 5,791 |
| 9 | Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2019 | 5,764 |
| 10 | Canagliflozin and Cardiovascular and Renal Events in Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2017 | 5,629 |
| 11 | PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2012 | 5,083 |
| 12 | Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2011 | 4,743 |
| 13 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 14 | Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy in Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2018 | 4,701 |
| 15 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 | Intensive Care Medicine | 2017 | 4,590 |
| 16 | The Magma Algebra System I: The User Language | Journal of Symbolic Computation | 1997 | 4,378 |
| 17 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015 | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 4,254 |
| 18 | Evolocumab and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease | New England Journal of Medicine | 2017 | 4,179 |
| 19 | Least-squares frequency analysis of unequally spaced data | Astrophysics and Space Science | 1976 | 4,171 |
| 20 | World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2020 | 4,050 |
| 21 | Physical Activity and Public Health | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2007 | 3,959 |
| 22 | Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration | Lancet Neurology, The | 2013 | 3,919 |
| 23 | The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine | 2020 | 3,871 |
| 24 | Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy | New England Journal of Medicine | 2019 | 3,760 |
| 25 | Carbon Dioxide Capture: Prospects for New Materials | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition | 2010 | 3,452 |
| 26 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 27 | Reliability of the PEDro Scale for Rating Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials | Physical Therapy | 2003 | 3,431 |
| 28 | Telmisartan, Ramipril, or Both in Patients at High Risk for Vascular Events | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 3,155 |
| 29 | Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection | Nature Medicine | 2021 | 3,133 |
| 30 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 31 | Parkinson disease | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2017 | 3,048 |
| 32 | Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century | Health Promotion International | 2000 | 3,032 |
| 33 | Simultaneous localization and mapping: part I | IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine | 2006 | 3,014 |
| 34 | Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not? | Lancet, The | 2012 | 2,874 |
| 35 | Updated Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2013 | 2,865 |
| 36 | PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2017 | 2,854 |
| 37 | A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis | Lancet Neurology, The | 2016 | 2,782 |
| 38 | Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions | The Cochrane Library | 2017 | 2,780 |
| 39 | Haemodynamic definitions and updated clinical classification of pulmonary hypertension | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 2,583 |
| 40 | On digital soil mapping | Geoderma | 2003 | 2,543 |
| 41 | Blood pressure lowering for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet, The | 2016 | 2,464 |
| 42 | Managing the co-creation of value | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | 2008 | 2,459 |
| 43 | The NAFLD fibrosis score: A noninvasive system that identifies liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD | Hepatology | 2007 | 2,448 |
| 44 | What low back pain is and why we need to pay attention | Lancet, The | 2018 | 2,444 |
| 45 | The global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2014 | 2,433 |
| 46 | Prevalence of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in the United States | JAMA Ophthalmology | 2004 | 2,397 |
| 47 | Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals | Nature | 2017 | 2,363 |
| 48 | International table of glycemic index and glycemic load values: 2002, | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2002 | 2,308 |
| 49 | Diabetic retinopathy | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,305 |
| 50 | Effects of different blood-pressure-lowering regimens on major cardiovascular events: results of prospectively-designed overviews of randomised trials | Lancet, The | 2003 | 2,300 |
