| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Quality in Australian Health Care Study | Medical Journal of Australia | 1995 | 2,072 |
| 2 | “Mental health literacy”: a survey of the public's ability to recognise mental disorders and their beliefs about the effectiveness of treatment | Medical Journal of Australia | 1997 | 1,667 |
| 3 | LITHIUM SALTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PSYCHOTIC EXCITEMENT | Medical Journal of Australia | 1949 | 1,317 |
| 4 | Attempt to fulfil Koch's postulates for pyloric Campylobacter | Medical Journal of Australia | 1985 | 1,213 |
| 5 | What drives change? Barriers to and incentives for achieving evidence‐based practice | Medical Journal of Australia | 2004 | 938 |
| 6 | Methods of Biochemical Analysis | Medical Journal of Australia | 1956 | 857 |
| 7 | When and how do young people seek professional help for mental health problems? | Medical Journal of Australia | 2007 | 750 |
| 8 | Does the CONSORT checklist improve the quality of reports of randomised controlled trials? A systematic review | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 725 |
| 9 | Respiratory rate: the neglected vital sign | Medical Journal of Australia | 2008 | 707 |
| 10 | The association between hospital overcrowding and mortality among patients admitted via Western Australian emergency departments | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 671 |
| 11 | Increase in patient mortality at 10 days associated with emergency department overcrowding | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 666 |
| 12 | Outcome of critically ill patients undergoing interhospital transfer | Medical Journal of Australia | 2001 | 633 |
| 13 | Pyloric Campylobacter infection and gastroduodenal disease | Medical Journal of Australia | 1985 | 606 |
| 14 | A prospective before‐and‐after trial of a medical emergency team | Medical Journal of Australia | 2003 | 602 |
| 15 | Non‐melanoma skin cancer in Australia: the 2002 national survey and trends since 1985 | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 559 |
| 16 | An unusual cause of severe metabolic acidosis | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 552 |
| 17 | The prevalence and impact of overweight and obesity in an Australian obstetric population | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 536 |
| 18 | Health benefits of herbs and spices: the past, the present, the future | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 515 |
| 19 | Gestational diabetes mellitus ‐ management guidelines: The Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society | Medical Journal of Australia | 1998 | 506 |
| 20 | Quality in qualitative research | Medical Journal of Australia | 2008 | 494 |
| 21 | “Q” FEVER, A NEW FEVER ENTITY: CLINICAL FEATURES, DIAGNOSIS AND LABORATORY INVESTIGATION | Medical Journal of Australia | 1937 | 493 |
| 22 | Principles of Preventive Psychiatry | Medical Journal of Australia | 1965 | 490 |
| 23 | The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique | Medical Journal of Australia | 1960 | 489 |
| 24 | Overweight and obesity in Australia: the 1999–2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab) | Medical Journal of Australia | 2003 | 489 |
| 25 | COVID ‐19 acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ): clinical features and differences from typical pre‐ COVID ‐19 ARDS | Medical Journal of Australia | 2020 | 441 |
| 26 | Depression, anxiety and their relationship with chronic diseases: a review of the epidemiology, risk and treatment evidence | Medical Journal of Australia | 2009 | 434 |
| 27 | Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics | Medical Journal of Australia | 1956 | 433 |
| 28 | “Stress” and coronary heart disease: psychosocial risk factors | Medical Journal of Australia | 2003 | 423 |
| 29 | Speech and Brain‐Mechanisms | Medical Journal of Australia | 1960 | 404 |
| 30 | Recognising clinical instability in hospital patients before cardiac arrest or unplanned admission to intensive care: A pilot study in a tertiary‐care hospital | Medical Journal of Australia | 1999 | 376 |
| 31 | A “noble instrument”: the obstetric forceps | Medical Journal of Australia | 1999 | 372 |
| 32 | INTENSIVE OXYGEN THERAPY AS A POSSIBLE CAUSE OF RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA: A CLINICAL APPROACH | Medical Journal of Australia | 1951 | 371 |
| 33 | Sinus Arrhythmia in Acute Myocardial Infarction | Medical Journal of Australia | 1978 | 368 |
| 34 | Overweight and obesity in Australia: the 1999–2000 Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab) | Medical Journal of Australia | 2004 | 368 |
| 35 | Infection of humans and horses by a newly described morbillivirus | Medical Journal of Australia | 1995 | 363 |
| 36 | SISTER JOSEPH'S NODULE | Medical Journal of Australia | 1969 | 359 |
| 37 | Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in an Australian population | Medical Journal of Australia | 1990 | 356 |
| 38 | THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN STARVATION | Medical Journal of Australia | 1951 | 354 |
| 39 | The continuing use of complementary and alternative medicine in South Australia: costs and beliefs in 2004 | Medical Journal of Australia | 2006 | 353 |
| 40 | Perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus: an Australian experience | Medical Journal of Australia | 2009 | 352 |
| 41 | CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN QUEENSLAND | Medical Journal of Australia | 1980 | 345 |
| 42 | Quality, morale and the new contract with GPs | Medical Journal of Australia | 2004 | 345 |
| 43 | Improving mental health literacy as a strategy to facilitate early intervention for mental disorders | Medical Journal of Australia | 2007 | 344 |
| 44 | Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Australian children and adolescents: reassessment of 1985 and 1995 data against new standard international definitions | Medical Journal of Australia | 2001 | 343 |
| 45 | Gregg's rubella legacy 1941–1991 | Medical Journal of Australia | 1991 | 342 |
| 46 | Preliminary validation of a clinical scale for measuring the duration of post‐traumatic amnesia | Medical Journal of Australia | 1986 | 337 |
| 47 | Evidence of liver damage by toxin from a bloom of the blue‐green alga, Microcystis aeruginosa | Medical Journal of Australia | 1983 | 331 |
| 48 | The King versus Aleck Bourne | Medical Journal of Australia | 2009 | 327 |
| 49 | CareTrack: assessing the appropriateness of health care delivery in Australia | Medical Journal of Australia | 2012 | 327 |
| 50 | The accuracy of manual diagnosis for cervical zygapophysial joint pain syndromes | Medical Journal of Australia | 1988 | 324 |
