| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988 | American Journal of Infection Control | 1988 | 5,396 |
| 2 | The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Comprehensive Approach to Its Definition and Study | Annals of Internal Medicine | 1994 | 4,309 |
| 3 | A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 3,845 |
| 4 | Serum TSH, T4, and Thyroid Antibodies in the United States Population (1988 to 1994): National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2002 | 3,291 |
| 5 | Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 1998 | 2,709 |
| 6 | The Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in the United States, 1988 through 1994 | New England Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 2,473 |
| 7 | The contributions of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections to cirrhosis and primary liver cancer worldwide | Journal of Hepatology | 2006 | 2,205 |
| 8 | Decline in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease after the Introduction of Protein–Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 2,063 |
| 9 | Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1988-1994 Through 2013-2014 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 1,843 |
| 10 | The Epidemiology of Infections Caused by Escherichia coli O157: H7, Other Enterohemorrhagic E. coli, and the Associated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome | Epidemiologic Reviews | 1991 | 1,776 |
| 11 | THE EFFICACY OF INFECTION SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMS IN PREVENTING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN US HOSPITALS | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1985 | 1,738 |
| 12 | THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF APPENDICITIS AND APPENDECTOMY IN THE UNITED STATES | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1990 | 1,732 |
| 13 | High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution | The Lancet Global Health | 2018 | 1,721 |
| 14 | Global Illness and Deaths Caused by Rotavirus Disease in Children | Emerging Infectious Diseases | 2003 | 1,620 |
| 15 | Urinary Creatinine Concentrations in the U.S. Population: Implications for Urinary Biologic Monitoring Measurements | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2005 | 1,542 |
| 16 | Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2015 | 1,524 |
| 17 | Exposure of the U.S. Population to Bisphenol A and 4- tertiary -Octylphenol: 2003–2004 | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2008 | 1,519 |
| 18 | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Working Case Definition | Annals of Internal Medicine | 1988 | 1,512 |
| 19 | Rapid detection and typing of dengue viruses from clinical samples by using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1992 | 1,457 |
| 20 | Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States | Science | 1999 | 1,445 |
| 21 | CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: A modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections | American Journal of Infection Control | 1992 | 1,435 |
| 22 | Polymerase chain reaction amplification and typing of rotavirus nucleic acid from stool specimens | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1990 | 1,424 |
| 23 | Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusDisease in Three Communities | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 1,386 |
| 24 | Decrease in Anogenital Distance among Male Infants with Prenatal Phthalate Exposure | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2005 | 1,372 |
| 25 | Trends in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in US Youth and Adults by Sex and Age, 2007-2008 to 2015-2016 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 1,364 |
| 26 | National nosocomial infections surveillance system (NNIS): Description of surveillance methods | American Journal of Infection Control | 1991 | 1,339 |
| 27 | Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index | American Journal of Medicine | 1991 | 1,327 |
| 28 | Identification of Single Specimens of the Anopheles Gambiae Complex by the Polymerase Chain Reaction | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1993 | 1,297 |
| 29 | Tularemia as a Biological Weapon | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2001 | 1,255 |
| 30 | Identification of group A rotavirus gene 4 types by polymerase chain reaction | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1992 | 1,244 |
| 31 | Prevention of Neural-Tube Defects with Folic Acid in China | New England Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 1,227 |
| 32 | Epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever as a public health, social and economic problem in the 21st century | Trends in Microbiology | 2002 | 1,225 |
| 33 | Bronchiolitis-Associated Hospitalizations Among US Children, 1980-1996 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1999 | 1,199 |
| 34 | Epidemiology of Drug Resistance: Implications for a Post--Antimicrobial Era | Science | 1992 | 1,180 |
| 35 | The global burden of typhoid fever | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 1,142 |
| 36 | HMEC-1: Establishment of an Immortalized Human Microvascular Endothelial Cell Line | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 1992 | 1,130 |
| 37 | Binding of HTLV-III/LAV to T4+ T cells by a complex of the 110K viral protein and the T4 molecule | Science | 1986 | 1,126 |
| 38 | DNA amplification for direct detection of HIV-1 in DNA of peripheral blood mononuclear cells | Science | 1988 | 1,107 |
| 39 | Bacterial Meningitis in the United States in 1995 | New England Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 1,096 |
| 40 | Emerging flaviviruses: the spread and resurgence of Japanese encephalitis, West Nile and dengue viruses | Nature Medicine | 2004 | 1,081 |
| 41 | The global burden of viral hepatitis from 1990 to 2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2016 | 1,080 |
| 42 | State of Disparities in Cardiovascular Health in the United States | Circulation | 2005 | 1,075 |
| 43 | Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Its Role as a Human Pathogen | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2004 | 1,069 |
| 44 | Recommendations for Improving Serum Creatinine Measurement: A Report from the Laboratory Working Group of the National Kidney Disease Education Program | Clinical Chemistry | 2006 | 1,057 |
| 45 | 1993 Revised Classification System for HIV Infection and Expanded Surveillance Case Definition for AIDS Among Adolescents and Adults | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1993 | 1,014 |
| 46 | Mycobacterium aviumComplex Infection in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome | New England Journal of Medicine | 1991 | 1,006 |
| 47 | The epidemiology of human listeriosis | Microbes and Infection | 2007 | 1,001 |
| 48 | Phylogeny of the Genus Flavivirus | Journal of Virology | 1998 | 991 |
| 49 | Hepatitis E virus (HEV): Molecular cloning and sequencing of the full-length viral genome | Virology | 1991 | 978 |
| 50 | Rapid Detection of West Nile Virus from Human Clinical Specimens, Field-Collected Mosquitoes, and Avian Samples by a TaqMan Reverse Transcriptase-PCR Assay | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2000 | 976 |
