| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2009 | 20,458 |
| 2 | PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2018 | 15,209 |
| 3 | ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions | BMJ, The | 2016 | 8,654 |
| 4 | A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care | New England Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 6,156 |
| 5 | CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2010 | 5,910 |
| 6 | CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials | BMC Medicine | 2010 | 4,939 |
| 7 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 8 | AMSTAR 2: a critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews that include randomised or non-randomised studies of healthcare interventions, or both | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2017 | 4,681 |
| 9 | Temperature dependence of the energy gap in semiconductors | Physica | 1967 | 4,617 |
| 10 | Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria | Lancet Neurology, The | 2018 | 4,605 |
| 11 | SPIRIT 2013 Statement: Defining Standard Protocol Items for Clinical Trials | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2013 | 4,463 |
| 12 | Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement | Lancet, The | 1999 | 4,420 |
| 13 | Functional Bowel Disorders | Gastroenterology | 2006 | 4,197 |
| 14 | World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2020 | 4,050 |
| 15 | Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease | Chest | 2012 | 3,745 |
| 16 | SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials | BMJ, The | 2013 | 3,435 |
| 17 | Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses? | Lancet, The | 1998 | 3,390 |
| 18 | Development of AMSTAR: a measurement tool to assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2007 | 3,253 |
| 19 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 20 | Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? | Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions | 2006 | 3,097 |
| 21 | Atezolizumab in patients with locally advanced and metastatic urothelial carcinoma who have progressed following treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 2 trial | Lancet, The | 2016 | 3,077 |
| 22 | The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement | PLoS Medicine | 2015 | 2,892 |
| 23 | Irinotecan plus Fluorouracil and Leucovorin for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2000 | 2,871 |
| 24 | ALGORITHMS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF POINTS REQUIRED TO REPRESENT A DIGITIZED LINE OR ITS CARICATURE | Cartographica | 1973 | 2,859 |
| 25 | The N1 Wave of the Human Electric and Magnetic Response to Sound: A Review and an Analysis of the Component Structure | Psychophysiology | 1987 | 2,857 |
| 26 | Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions | The Cochrane Library | 2017 | 2,780 |
| 27 | CONSORT 2010 Statement: Updated Guidelines for Reporting Parallel Group Randomized Trials | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2010 | 2,752 |
| 28 | The Lancet Commission on pollution and health | Lancet, The | 2018 | 2,747 |
| 29 | Electrochemical Supercapacitors | Lancet, The | 1999 | 2,631 |
| 30 | PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies: 2015 Guideline Statement | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2016 | 2,530 |
| 31 | Genome-wide association studies for complex traits: consensus, uncertainty and challenges | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2008 | 2,496 |
| 32 | Defining the clinical course of multiple sclerosis | Neurology | 2014 | 2,344 |
| 33 | The class imbalance problem: A systematic study1 | Intelligent Data Analysis | 2002 | 2,292 |
| 34 | The Global Burden of Cancer 2013 | JAMA Oncology | 2015 | 2,269 |
| 35 | The CONSORT Statement: Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of Parallel-Group Randomized Trials | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2001 | 2,255 |
| 36 | 87Sr/86Sr, δ13C and δ18O evolution of Phanerozoic seawater | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 2,246 |
| 37 | Microwave Photonics | Journal of Lightwave Technology | 2009 | 2,208 |
| 38 | A comparison of direct versus self-report measures for assessing physical activity in adults: a systematic review | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2008 | 2,122 |
| 39 | GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 2,105 |
| 40 | Stochasticity in gene expression: from theories to phenotypes | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2005 | 2,066 |
| 41 | Transition from “Supercapacitor” to “Battery” Behavior in Electrochemical Energy Storage | Journal of the Electrochemical Society | 1991 | 2,024 |
| 42 | Increased Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity Resistance in Mice Lacking the Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-1B Gene | Science | 1999 | 2,002 |
| 43 | Validation of a Decisional Conflict Scale | Medical Decision Making | 1995 | 1,919 |
| 44 | Consensus statement on concussion in sport—the 5thinternational conference on concussion in sport held in Berlin, October 2016 | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2017 | 1,903 |
| 45 | Cortisol in teleosts: dynamics, mechanisms of action, and metabolic regulation | Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries | 1999 | 1,891 |
| 46 | The definition and classification of glaucoma in prevalence surveys | British Journal of Ophthalmology | 2002 | 1,868 |
| 47 | ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 48 | The epithelial–mesenchymal transition: new insights in signaling, development, and disease | Journal of Cell Biology | 2006 | 1,819 |
| 49 | Surface Modifications for Antifouling Membranes | Chemical Reviews | 2010 | 1,810 |
| 50 | Sirt1 promotes fat mobilization in white adipocytes by repressing PPAR-γ | Nature | 2004 | 1,799 |
