| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | International variation in the prevalence of COPD (The BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence study | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,818 |
| 3 | Asthma | Lancet, The | 2018 | 1,105 |
| 4 | A summary of the new GINA strategy: a roadmap to asthma control | European Respiratory Journal | 2015 | 636 |
| 5 | Physiology of obesity and effects on lung function | Journal of Applied Physiology | 2010 | 579 |
| 6 | Contact investigation for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis | European Respiratory Journal | 2013 | 558 |
| 7 | Sleep apnea as an independent risk factor for all-cause mortality: the Busselton Health Study | Sleep | 2008 | 554 |
| 8 | Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 529 |
| 9 | The role of particle size in aerosolised pathogen transmission: A review | Journal of Infection | 2011 | 528 |
| 10 | Inhaled Combined Budesonide–Formoterol as Needed in Mild Asthma | New England Journal of Medicine | 2018 | 453 |
| 11 | Health Outcomes of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure versus Oral Appliance Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 434 |
| 12 | Adherence to inhaled therapy, mortality and hospital admission in COPD | Thorax | 2009 | 404 |
| 13 | Systematic review of prevalence of aspirin induced asthma and its implications for clinical practice | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2004 | 365 |
| 14 | Severe and Difficult-to-Treat Asthma in Adults | New England Journal of Medicine | 2017 | 357 |
| 15 | Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pulmonary Diseases | Chest | 2010 | 347 |
| 16 | Is sleep duration related to obesity? A critical review of the epidemiological evidence | Sleep Medicine Reviews | 2008 | 345 |
| 17 | Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13.5 as risk loci for asthma | Lancet, The | 2011 | 345 |
| 18 | Allergic rhinitis | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2020 | 331 |
| 19 | Efficacy of salmeterol/fluticasone propionate by GOLD stage of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: analysis from the randomised, placebo-controlled TORCH study | Respiratory Research | 2009 | 287 |
| 20 | GINA 2019: a fundamental change in asthma management | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 277 |
| 21 | Next-generation Allergic Rhinitis and Its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines for allergic rhinitis based on Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) and real-world evidence | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2020 | 272 |
| 22 | Sleep Apnea as an Independent Risk Factor for All-Cause Mortality: The Busselton Health Study | Sleep | 2008 | 267 |
| 23 | Prevention of asthma during the first 5 years of life: A randomized controlled trial | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2006 | 256 |
| 24 | Dysfunctional Interaction of C/EBPα and the Glucocorticoid Receptor in Asthmatic Bronchial Smooth-Muscle Cells | New England Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 254 |
| 25 | Randomised trial of CPAP vs bilevel support in the treatment of obesity hypoventilation syndrome without severe nocturnal desaturation | Thorax | 2008 | 252 |
| 26 | Prevalence and Progression of Osteoporosis in Patients With COPD | Chest | 2009 | 240 |
| 27 | The Effect of Inhaled IFN-β on Worsening of Asthma Symptoms Caused by Viral Infections. A Randomized Trial | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2014 | 231 |
| 28 | Ropinirole is effective in the treatment of restless legs syndrome. TREAT RLS 2: A 12-week, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study | Movement Disorders | 2004 | 230 |
| 29 | Elevated expression of the NLRP3 inflammasome in neutrophilic asthma | European Respiratory Journal | 2014 | 221 |
| 30 | RAGE and TLRs: Relatives, friends or neighbours? | Molecular Immunology | 2013 | 219 |
| 31 | Underdiagnosis and Overdiagnosis of Asthma | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2018 | 213 |
| 32 | Ventilation heterogeneity is a major determinant of airway hyperresponsiveness in asthma, independent of airway inflammation | Thorax | 2007 | 199 |
| 33 | Inhaler reminders improve adherence with controller treatment in primary care patients with asthma | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2014 | 198 |
| 34 | The extracellular matrix – the under‐recognized element in lung disease? | Journal of Pathology | 2016 | 195 |
| 35 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease mortality and prevalence: the associations with smoking and poverty—a BOLD analysis | Thorax | 2014 | 190 |
| 36 | Two Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials to Evaluate the Efficacy and Tolerability of Mirtazapine for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea | Sleep | 2008 | 188 |
| 37 | Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome | Chest | 2007 | 186 |
| 38 | Seasonality and determinants of moderate and severe COPD exacerbations in the TORCH study | European Respiratory Journal | 2012 | 180 |
| 39 | Budesonide-formoterol reliever therapy versus maintenance budesonide plus terbutaline reliever therapy in adults with mild to moderate asthma (PRACTICAL): a 52-week, open-label, multicentre, superiority, randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2019 | 180 |
| 40 | Full blood count parameters for the detection of asthma inflammatory phenotypes | Clinical and Experimental Allergy | 2014 | 178 |
| 41 | Cardiovascular events in patients with COPD: TORCH Study results | Thorax | 2010 | 177 |
| 42 | Obesity and craniofacial structure as risk factors for obstructive sleep apnoea: Impact of ethnicity | Respirology | 2012 | 176 |
| 43 | Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions | Lancet, The | 2021 | 176 |
| 44 | The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA): 25 years later | European Respiratory Journal | 2019 | 174 |
| 45 | Cardiometabolic changes after continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised sham-controlled study | Thorax | 2012 | 173 |
| 46 | Ethnicity and obstructive sleep apnoea | Sleep Medicine Reviews | 2005 | 170 |
| 47 | Improved asthma outcomes with a simple inhaler technique intervention by community pharmacists | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2007 | 169 |
| 48 | Airborne fungal fragments and allergenicity | Medical Mycology | 2006 | 166 |
| 49 | Metered-Dose Inhaler Technique: The Effect of Two Educational Interventions Delivered in Community Pharmacy Over Time | Journal of Asthma | 2010 | 164 |
| 50 | MACVIA-ARIA Sentinel NetworK for allergic rhinitis (MASK-rhinitis): the new generation guideline implementation | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2015 | 160 |
