| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale | Sleep | 1991 | 13,667 |
| 2 | Sleep–Related Breathing Disorders in Adults: Recommendations for Syndrome Definition and Measurement Techniques in Clinical Research | Sleep | 1999 | 4,931 |
| 3 | The Insomnia Severity Index: Psychometric Indicators to Detect Insomnia Cases and Evaluate Treatment Response | Sleep | 2011 | 2,889 |
| 4 | Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Sleep Parameters From Childhood to Old Age in Healthy Individuals: Developing Normative Sleep Values Across the Human Lifespan | Sleep | 2004 | 2,608 |
| 5 | The Cumulative Cost of Additional Wakefulness: Dose-Response Effects on Neurobehavioral Functions and Sleep Physiology From Chronic Sleep Restriction and Total Sleep Deprivation | Sleep | 2003 | 2,531 |
| 6 | The Role of Actigraphy in the Study of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms | Sleep | 2003 | 2,213 |
| 7 | Reliability and Factor Analysis of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale | Sleep | 1992 | 1,753 |
| 8 | The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ): Psychometric Properties of A Survey Instrument for School-Aged Children | Sleep | 2000 | 1,688 |
| 9 | Meta-Analysis of Short Sleep Duration and Obesity in Children and Adults | Sleep | 2008 | 1,687 |
| 10 | Sleep-related breathing disorders in adults: recommendations for syndrome definition and measurement techniques in clinical research. The Report of an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Task Force | Sleep | 1999 | 1,662 |
| 11 | EEG Arousals: Scoring Rules and Examples | Sleep | 1992 | 1,606 |
| 12 | Practice Parameters for the Indications for Polysomnography and Related Procedures: An Update for 2005 | Sleep | 2005 | 1,590 |
| 13 | Sleep Duration and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies | Sleep | 2010 | 1,577 |
| 14 | Guidelines for the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT): A Standard Measure of Sleepiness | Sleep | 1986 | 1,553 |
| 15 | Automatic Sleep/Wake Identification From Wrist Activity | Sleep | 1992 | 1,533 |
| 16 | Estimation of the Clinically Diagnosed Proportion of Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Middle-aged Men and Women | Sleep | 1997 | 1,452 |
| 17 | Sleep Complaints Among Elderly Persons: An Epidemiologic Study of Three Communities | Sleep | 1995 | 1,426 |
| 18 | The Consensus Sleep Diary: Standardizing Prospective Sleep Self-Monitoring | Sleep | 2012 | 1,404 |
| 19 | Sleep Health: Can We Define It? Does It Matter? | Sleep | 2014 | 1,363 |
| 20 | Cumulative sleepiness, mood disturbance, and psychomotor vigilance performance decrements during a week of sleep restricted to 4-5 hours per night | Sleep | 1997 | 1,239 |
| 21 | Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Performance: A Meta-Analysis | Sleep | 1996 | 1,234 |
| 22 | Chronic Behavioral Disorders of Human REM Sleep: A New Category of Parasomnia | Sleep | 1986 | 1,221 |
| 23 | Activity-Based Sleep-Wake Identification: An Empirical Test of Methodological Issues | Sleep | 1994 | 1,188 |
| 24 | The Efficacy of Surgical Modifications of the Upper Airway in Adults With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome | Sleep | 1996 | 1,127 |
| 25 | Sleep disordered breathing and mortality: eighteen-year follow-up of the Wisconsin sleep cohort | Sleep | 2008 | 1,112 |
| 26 | Psychological And Behavioral Treatment Of Insomnia: Update Of The Recent Evidence (1998–2004) | Sleep | 2006 | 1,096 |
| 27 | Practice Parameters for Clinical Use of the Multiple Sleep Latency Test and the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test | Sleep | 2005 | 1,013 |
| 28 | Practice Parameters for the Use of Actigraphy in the Assessment of Sleep and Sleep Disorders: An Update for 2007 | Sleep | 2007 | 1,004 |
| 29 | Further Validation of Actigraphy for Sleep Studies | Sleep | 2003 | 1,003 |
| 30 | A Systematic Review Assessing Bidirectionality between Sleep Disturbances, Anxiety, and Depression | Sleep | 2013 | 978 |
| 31 | Recommendations for a Standard Research Assessment of Insomnia | Sleep | 2006 | 951 |
| 32 | Sex Differences in Insomnia: A Meta-Analysis | Sleep | 2006 | 944 |
| 33 | Association between Puberty and Delayed Phase Preference | Sleep | 1993 | 914 |
| 34 | Derivation of Research Diagnostic Criteria for Insomnia: Report of an American Academy of Sleep Medicine Work Group | Sleep | 2004 | 904 |
| 35 | National Institutes of Health State of the Science Conference Statement | Sleep | 2005 | 869 |
| 36 | Relationship Between Hours of CPAP Use and Achieving Normal Levels of Sleepiness and Daily Functioning | Sleep | 2007 | 866 |
| 37 | Sleep in Normal Aging and Dementia | Sleep | 1993 | 827 |
| 38 | Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Community-Dwelling Elderly | Sleep | 1991 | 821 |
| 39 | The Role of Actigraphy in the Evaluation of Sleep Disorders | Sleep | 1995 | 819 |
| 40 | EEG arousals: scoring rules and examples: a preliminary report from the Sleep Disorders Atlas Task Force of the American Sleep Disorders Association | Sleep | 1992 | 809 |
| 41 | Association of Usual Sleep Duration With Hypertension: The Sleep Heart Health Study | Sleep | 2006 | 792 |
| 42 | Epidemiology of Insomnia, Depression, and Anxiety | Sleep | 2005 | 783 |
| 43 | Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society | Sleep | 2015 | 782 |
| 44 | Inadequate Sleep as a Risk Factor for Obesity: Analyses of the NHANES I | Sleep | 2005 | 762 |
| 45 | Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Chronic Insomnia | Sleep | 1999 | 758 |
| 46 | Catastrophes, Sleep, and Public Policy: Consensus Report | Sleep | 1988 | 749 |
| 47 | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Enhances Depression Outcome in Patients with Comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Insomnia | Sleep | 2008 | 748 |
| 48 | Measuring Sleep: Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Specificity of Wrist Actigraphy Compared to Polysomnography | Sleep | 2013 | 740 |
| 49 | REM Sleep Behavior Disorder: Clinical, Developmental, and Neuroscience Perspectives 16 Years After its Formal Identification in SLEEP | Sleep | 2002 | 734 |
| 50 | A Preliminary Report from the Sleep Disorders Atlas Task Force of the American Sleep Disorders Association | Sleep | 1992 | 730 |
