| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1997 | 41,333 |
| 2 | The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2011 | 23,287 |
| 3 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies | Lancet, The | 2007 | 9,433 |
| 4 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2008 | 7,988 |
| 5 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for Reporting Observational Studies | PLoS Medicine | 2007 | 7,961 |
| 6 | Arlequin (version 3.0): An integrated software package for population genetics data analysis | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | 2005 | 6,908 |
| 7 | CONSORT 2010 Explanation and Elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2010 | 5,319 |
| 8 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for Reporting Observational Studies | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2007 | 5,228 |
| 9 | Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2007 | 4,798 |
| 10 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 11 | Trastuzumab after Adjuvant Chemotherapy in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 4,601 |
| 12 | Body-mass index and incidence of cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies | Lancet, The | 2008 | 4,292 |
| 13 | Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018 | Cell Death and Differentiation | 2018 | 4,036 |
| 14 | Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms | Nature | 2005 | 3,772 |
| 15 | μ→eγ at a rate of one out of 109 muon decays? | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 1977 | 3,711 |
| 16 | (null) | Journal of Paleolimnology | 2001 | 3,646 |
| 17 | The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS) | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 2015 | 3,589 |
| 18 | High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China | Nature | 2014 | 3,582 |
| 19 | Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune System | Science | 2012 | 3,422 |
| 20 | Arlequin (version 3.0): an integrated software package for population genetics data analysis | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | 2007 | 3,416 |
| 21 | Chiral perturbation theory to one loop | Annals of Physics | 1984 | 3,331 |
| 22 | Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons | Nature | 2010 | 3,144 |
| 23 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 24 | Chiral perturbation theory: Expansions in the mass of the strange quark | Nuclear Physics B | 1985 | 2,915 |
| 25 | Effect of Carvedilol on Survival in Severe Chronic Heart Failure | New England Journal of Medicine | 2001 | 2,909 |
| 26 | Femoroacetabular Impingement | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 2003 | 2,847 |
| 27 | The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2011 | 2,785 |
| 28 | Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2001 | 2,779 |
| 29 | Postoperative Irradiation with or without Concomitant Chemotherapy for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 2,704 |
| 30 | Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 2,647 |
| 31 | Chemokines and leukocyte traffic | Nature | 1998 | 2,586 |
| 32 | EAU-ESTRO-SIOG Guidelines on Prostate Cancer. Part 1: Screening, Diagnosis, and Local Treatment with Curative Intent | European Urology | 2017 | 2,497 |
| 33 | Role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in apoptosis induction | Apoptosis: an International Journal on Programmed Cell Death | 2000 | 2,406 |
| 34 | GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes | Nucleic Acids Research | 2019 | 2,350 |
| 35 | Host microbiota constantly control maturation and function of microglia in the CNS | Nature Neuroscience | 2015 | 2,340 |
| 36 | Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,284 |
| 37 | Surgical or Transcatheter Aortic-Valve Replacement in Intermediate-Risk Patients | New England Journal of Medicine | 2017 | 2,249 |
| 38 | Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 2,174 |
| 39 | Molecular definitions of cell death subroutines: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2012 | Cell Death and Differentiation | 2012 | 2,144 |
| 40 | Human Chemokines: An Update | Annual Review of Immunology | 1997 | 2,104 |
| 41 | Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis | Lancet, The | 2018 | 2,076 |
| 42 | Coronavirus biology and replication: implications for SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2021 | 2,062 |
| 43 | Thermal and Optical Switching of Iron(II) Complexes | Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English | 1994 | 1,968 |
| 44 | Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years | Science | 2007 | 1,880 |
| 45 | DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours | Nature | 2018 | 1,872 |
| 46 | Power dependence of upconversion luminescence in lanthanide and transition-metal-ion systems | Physical Review B | 2000 | 1,871 |
| 47 | High-resolution carbon dioxide concentration record 650,000–800,000 years before present | Nature | 2008 | 1,837 |
| 48 | Neutrophil-activating peptide-1/interleukin 8, a novel cytokine that activates neutrophils. | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 1989 | 1,808 |
| 49 | A modified test for small-study effects in meta-analyses of controlled trials with binary endpoints | Statistics in Medicine | 2006 | 1,794 |
| 50 | Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 1,783 |
