| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Definition, diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus and its complications. Part 1: diagnosis and classification of diabetes mellitus. Provisional report of a WHO Consultation | Egyptian Journal of Botany | 1998 | 10,827 |
| 2 | Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis | Age and Ageing | 2019 | 6,824 |
| 3 | The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | 2013 | 4,927 |
| 4 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 5 | Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies: Third report of the DLB consortium | Neurology | 2005 | 4,604 |
| 6 | Specific killing of BRCA2-deficient tumours with inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase | Nature | 2005 | 4,382 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property | Nature | 2011 | 4,243 |
| 9 | Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease | Nature | 2012 | 4,038 |
| 10 | The Association Between Quantitative Measures of Dementia and of Senile Change in the Cerebral Grey Matter of Elderly Subjects | British Journal of Psychiatry | 1968 | 4,023 |
| 11 | Neuroimaging standards for research into small vessel disease and its contribution to ageing and neurodegeneration | Lancet Neurology, The | 2013 | 3,919 |
| 12 | A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity | Science | 2007 | 3,884 |
| 13 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 14 | Global burden of NAFLD and NASH: trends, predictions, risk factors and prevention | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2018 | 3,487 |
| 15 | Imatinib Compared with Interferon and Low-Dose Cytarabine for Newly Diagnosed Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 3,227 |
| 16 | Five-Year Follow-up of Patients Receiving Imatinib for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 3,212 |
| 17 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 18 | Reanalysis and revision of the Cambridge reference sequence for human mitochondrial DNA | Nature Genetics | 1999 | 2,800 |
| 19 | Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions | The Cochrane Library | 2017 | 2,780 |
| 20 | Analysis of serial measurements in medical research. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1990 | 2,752 |
| 21 | The New Governance: Governing without Government | Political Studies | 1996 | 2,725 |
| 22 | Shared Decision Making: A Model for Clinical Practice | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2012 | 2,681 |
| 23 | Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 2,599 |
| 24 | Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2018 | 2,599 |
| 25 | Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease | Movement Disorders | 2007 | 2,497 |
| 26 | KinectFusion: Real-time dense surface mapping and tracking | Movement Disorders | 2011 | 2,480 |
| 27 | Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 2,422 |
| 28 | A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence | Nature | 2003 | 2,381 |
| 29 | Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward | Energy and Environmental Science | 2018 | 2,378 |
| 30 | Explaining the Decrease in U.S. Deaths from Coronary Disease, 1980–2000 | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 2,286 |
| 31 | Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,284 |
| 32 | Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism | Nature | 2014 | 2,254 |
| 33 | SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in nasal epithelial cells together with innate immune genes | Nature Medicine | 2020 | 2,182 |
| 34 | Geographically Weighted Regression: A Method for Exploring Spatial Nonstationarity | Geographical Analysis | 1996 | 2,156 |
| 35 | Replication of Genome-Wide Association Signals in UK Samples Reveals Risk Loci for Type 2 Diabetes | Science | 2007 | 2,040 |
| 36 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 37 | Data on the distribution of fibre types in thirty-six human muscles | Journal of the Neurological Sciences | 1973 | 1,989 |
| 38 | Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 1,962 |
| 39 | Sequence diversity in CYP3A promoters and characterization of the genetic basis of polymorphic CYP3A5 expression | Nature Genetics | 2001 | 1,954 |
| 40 | Clinical guidelines: Potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1999 | 1,943 |
| 41 | Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: Movement Disorder Society Task Force guidelines | Movement Disorders | 2012 | 1,908 |
| 42 | The strategic analysis of intangible resources | Strategic Management Journal | 1992 | 1,854 |
| 43 | Single-cell RNA-seq reveals new types of human blood dendritic cells, monocytes, and progenitors | Science | 2017 | 1,846 |
| 44 | What is an adequate sample size? Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies | Psychology and Health | 2010 | 1,833 |
| 45 | Observations on the brains of demented old people | Journal of the Neurological Sciences | 1970 | 1,828 |
| 46 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 47 | Evolution of nitrogen functionalities in carbonaceous materials during pyrolysis | Carbon | 1995 | 1,815 |
| 48 | IL28B is associated with response to chronic hepatitis C interferon-α and ribavirin therapy | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 1,808 |
| 49 | Functional impact of global rare copy number variation in autism spectrum disorders | Nature | 2010 | 1,803 |
| 50 | Spatio-temporal transcriptome of the human brain | Nature | 2011 | 1,753 |
