| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2018 | 15,209 |
| 2 | GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 14,041 |
| 3 | The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration | PLoS Medicine | 2009 | 13,772 |
| 4 | The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate healthcare interventions: explanation and elaboration | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2009 | 13,452 |
| 5 | ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions | BMJ, The | 2016 | 8,654 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Effects of an Angiotensin-Converting–Enzyme Inhibitor, Ramipril, on Cardiovascular Events in High-Risk Patients | New England Journal of Medicine | 2000 | 8,226 |
| 8 | Beneficial Effect of Carotid Endarterectomy in Symptomatic Patients with High-Grade Carotid Stenosis | New England Journal of Medicine | 1991 | 8,207 |
| 9 | The american college of rheumatology 1990 criteria for the classification of fibromyalgia | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1990 | 7,828 |
| 10 | Scoping studies: advancing the methodology | Implementation Science | 2010 | 7,812 |
| 11 | GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction—GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 6,722 |
| 12 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 6,362 |
| 13 | Using SeDuMi 1.02, A Matlab toolbox for optimization over symmetric cones | Optimization Methods and Software | 1999 | 5,627 |
| 14 | GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 5,517 |
| 15 | Development and reliability of a system to classify gross motor function in children with cerebral palsy | Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology | 1997 | 5,263 |
| 16 | Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts | Nature | 1990 | 5,173 |
| 17 | Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in U.S. Adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication–Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 2010 | 4,750 |
| 18 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 19 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 | Intensive Care Medicine | 2017 | 4,590 |
| 20 | Development of an upper extremity outcome measure: The DASH (disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and head) | Intensive Care Medicine | 1996 | 4,131 |
| 21 | Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease | Chest | 2016 | 4,060 |
| 22 | Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 4,012 |
| 23 | Measurement of health status | Contemporary Clinical Trials | 1989 | 3,981 |
| 24 | Comparison of the efficacy and safety of new oral anticoagulants with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomised trials | Lancet, The | 2014 | 3,942 |
| 25 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012 | Intensive Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,906 |
| 26 | Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008* | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2008 | 3,827 |
| 27 | Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2016 | 3,807 |
| 28 | Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease | Chest | 2012 | 3,745 |
| 29 | Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life | Medical Care | 2003 | 3,681 |
| 30 | Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses? | Lancet, The | 1998 | 3,390 |
| 31 | A process dissociation framework: Separating automatic from intentional uses of memory | Journal of Memory and Language | 1991 | 3,383 |
| 32 | Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (or it takes at least two to tango) | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 3,255 |
| 33 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,249 |
| 34 | Antibiotic resistance—the need for global solutions | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2013 | 3,184 |
| 35 | Telmisartan, Ramipril, or Both in Patients at High Risk for Vascular Events | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 3,155 |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | Effects of Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | New England Journal of Medicine | 2010 | 3,117 |
| 38 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,066 |
| 39 | The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal | Nature | 2008 | 3,057 |
| 40 | Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet, The | 2020 | 3,026 |
| 41 | Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life | Annals of Internal Medicine | 1993 | 2,982 |
| 42 | 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 |
| 43 | Effects of pretreatment with clopidogrel and aspirin followed by long-term therapy in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the PCI-CURE study | Lancet, The | 2001 | 2,914 |
| 44 | International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma | European Respiratory Journal | 2014 | 2,898 |
| 45 | Intra-arterial Prourokinase for Acute Ischemic Stroke | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1999 | 2,784 |
| 46 | A clinical approach to diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis | Lancet Neurology, The | 2016 | 2,782 |
| 47 | The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study | Quality of Life Research | 2010 | 2,751 |
| 48 | Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia in Patients Treated with Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin or Unfractionated Heparin | New England Journal of Medicine | 1995 | 2,664 |
| 49 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,634 |
| 50 | Tisagenlecleucel in Adult Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma | New England Journal of Medicine | 2019 | 2,594 |
