| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship | Scientific Data | 2016 | 8,670 |
| 2 | Intensive Blood Glucose Control and Vascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 6,447 |
| 3 | Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 6,376 |
| 4 | Approved Lists of Bacterial Names | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 1980 | 6,087 |
| 5 | Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide | BMJ, The | 2014 | 5,661 |
| 6 | Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2011 | 4,743 |
| 7 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 8 | Deep Eutectic Solvents (DESs) and Their Applications | Chemical Reviews | 2014 | 4,488 |
| 9 | Caspases: the executioners of apoptosis | Biochemical Journal | 1997 | 4,290 |
| 10 | Molecular mechanisms of cell death: recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee on Cell Death 2018 | Cell Death and Differentiation | 2018 | 4,036 |
| 11 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 12 | Novel solvent properties of choline chloride/urea mixturesElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: spectroscopic data. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b2/b210714g/ | Chemical Communications | 2003 | 3,741 |
| 13 | Hypervariable ‘minisatellite’ regions in human DNA | Nature | 1985 | 3,495 |
| 14 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,249 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 17 | Deep Eutectic Solvents Formed between Choline Chloride and Carboxylic Acids: Versatile Alternatives to Ionic Liquids | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2004 | 3,121 |
| 18 | International ERS/ATS guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma | European Respiratory Journal | 2014 | 2,898 |
| 19 | Tectonic models for accretion of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | Journal of the Geological Society | 2007 | 2,744 |
| 20 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,634 |
| 21 | Qualitative Research: Consensus methods for medical and health services research | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 2,627 |
| 22 | Regulation of cell death: the calcium–apoptosis link | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2003 | 2,604 |
| 23 | Oxidative DNA damage: mechanisms, mutation, and disease | FASEB Journal | 2003 | 2,603 |
| 24 | Anti-TNF Antibody Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Risk of Serious Infections and Malignancies | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 2,190 |
| 25 | Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes, 2018. A Consensus Report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) | Diabetes Care | 2018 | 2,190 |
| 26 | Differential Impact of Blood Pressure–Lowering Drugs on Central Aortic Pressure and Clinical Outcomes | Circulation | 2006 | 2,091 |
| 27 | A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 2,054 |
| 28 | Individual-specific ‘fingerprints’ of human DNA | Nature | 1985 | 2,040 |
| 29 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 30 | The Swift X-Ray Telescope | Space Science Reviews | 2005 | 1,940 |
| 31 | The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2007 | 1,940 |
| 32 | Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study | Lancet, The | 2012 | 1,937 |
| 33 | The genome sequence of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni reveals hypervariable sequences | Nature | 2000 | 1,869 |
| 34 | Genomewide Association Analysis of Coronary Artery Disease | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 1,865 |
| 35 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 36 | Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height | Nature | 2010 | 1,789 |
| 37 | Qualitative Research: Reaching the parts other methods cannot reach: an introduction to qualitative methods in health and health services research | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 1,747 |
| 38 | Community study of role of viral infections in exacerbations of asthma in 9-11 year old children | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 1,737 |
| 39 | Integrating quantitative and qualitative research: how is it done? | Qualitative Research | 2006 | 1,695 |
| 40 | Type 2 diabetes | Lancet, The | 2017 | 1,691 |
| 41 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017 | JAMA Oncology | 2019 | 1,691 |
| 42 | Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,685 |
| 43 | Comparison of Two Methods to Detect Publication Bias in Meta-analysis | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 1,658 |
| 44 | Accretion leading to collision and the Permian Solonker suture, Inner Mongolia, China: Termination of the central Asian orogenic belt | Tectonics | 2003 | 1,625 |
| 45 | A complex secretory program orchestrated by the inflammasome controls paracrine senescence | Nature Cell Biology | 2013 | 1,566 |
| 46 | Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1997 | 1,543 |
| 47 | The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene | Science | 2016 | 1,543 |
| 48 | The amount of carbon released from peat and forest fires in Indonesia during 1997 | Nature | 2002 | 1,534 |
| 49 | Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 1,439 |
| 50 | Curcumin: The story so far | European Journal of Cancer | 2005 | 1,420 |
