| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Statement on Standards for the Diagnosis and Care of Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 2,912 |
| 2 | A Self-complete Measure of Health Status for Chronic Airflow Limitation: The St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 2,658 |
| 3 | An Expanded Definition of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1988 | 2,578 |
| 4 | Lung Function Testing: Selection of Reference Values and Interpretative Strategies | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1991 | 2,517 |
| 5 | Standardization of Spirometry—1987 Update | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 2,357 |
| 6 | Changes in the normal maximal expiratory flow-volume curve with growth and aging | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1983 | 1,591 |
| 7 | High Inflation Pressure Pulmonary Edema: Respective Effects of High Airway Pressure, High Tidal Volume, and Positive End-expiratory Pressure | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1988 | 1,535 |
| 8 | Maximal respiratory pressures: normal values and relationship to age and sex | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1969 | 1,381 |
| 9 | Damage of the Airway Epithelium and Bronchial Reactivity in Patients with Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1985 | 1,269 |
| 10 | Mucosal Inflammation in Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 1,267 |
| 11 | Objective Measurement of Patterns of Nasal CPAP Use by Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1993 | 1,195 |
| 12 | Skin test antigens: an evaluation whose time has come | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1978 | 1,153 |
| 13 | Cellular Events in the Bronchi in Mild Asthma and after Bronchial Provocation | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1989 | 1,127 |
| 14 | Reference spirometric values using techniques and equipment that meet ATS recommendations | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1981 | 1,118 |
| 15 | Medical Section pf the American Lung Association: Guidelines for the Initial Management of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia: Diagnosis, Assessment of Severity, and Initial Antimicrobial Therapy | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1993 | 1,081 |
| 16 | Macrophages and Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils in Lung Defense and Injury | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 1,063 |
| 17 | Diagnosis of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia by Bacteriologic Analysis of Bronchoscopic and Nonbronchoscopic “Blind” Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1991 | 1,010 |
| 18 | Eosinophils and Mast Cells in Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Subjects with Mild Asthma: Relationship to Bronchial Hyperreactivity | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1988 | 962 |
| 19 | Bronchoalveolar eosinophilia during allergen-induced late asthmatic reactions | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1985 | 956 |
| 20 | Bronchial Biopsies in Asthma: An Ultrastructural, Quantitative Study and Correlation with Hyperreactivity | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1989 | 942 |
| 21 | A simple method for assessing the validity of the esophageal balloon technique | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1982 | 881 |
| 22 | Identification of Activated T Lymphocytes and Eosinophils in Bronchial Biopsies in Stable Atopic Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 876 |
| 23 | Incidence, Risk, and Prognosis Factors of Nosocomial Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 874 |
| 24 | Pressure-Volume Curve of Total Respiratory System in Acute Respiratory Failure: Computed Tomographic Scan Study | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 846 |
| 25 | Spirometric standards for healthy nonsmoking adults | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1971 | 838 |
| 26 | Mechanisms of bronchial hyperreactivity in normal subjects after upper respiratory tract infection | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1976 | 817 |
| 27 | Experimental pulmonary edema due to intermittent positive pressure ventilation with high inflation pressures. Protection by positive end-expiratory pressure | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1974 | 801 |
| 28 | Reductions in Exercise Lactic Acidosis and Ventilation as a Result of Exercise Training in Patients with Obstructive Lung Disease | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1991 | 800 |
| 29 | Nosocomial Pneumonia in Patients Receiving Continuous Mechanical Ventilation: Prospective Analysis of 52 Episodes with Use of a Protected Specimen Brush and Quantitative Culture Techniques | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1989 | 798 |
| 30 | The Mechanics of Airway Narrowing in Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1989 | 787 |
| 31 | Predicted Values for Clinical Exercise Testing1–3 | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1984 | 768 |
| 32 | The maximal expiratory flow-volume curve. Normal standards, variability, and effects of age | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1976 | 767 |
| 33 | Measuring Quality of Life in Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1993 | 766 |
| 34 | Chronic Cough: The Spectrum and Frequency of Causes, Key Components of the Diagnostic Evaluation, and Outcome of Specific Therapy | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 763 |
| 35 | Allergic and Nonallergic Asthmatics Have Distinct Patterns of T-Cell Activation and Cytokine Production in Peripheral Blood and Bronchoalveolar Lavage | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 752 |
| 36 | Normal Polysomnographic Values for Children and Adolescents | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 729 |
| 37 | Prognosis in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease1–3 | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1986 | 716 |
| 38 | Causes of mortality in patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1985 | 705 |
| 39 | State of the Art | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1983 | 691 |
| 40 | The Structure of Large and Small Airways in Nonfatal and Fatal Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1993 | 685 |
| 41 | A Community-based Study of the Epidemiology of Asthma: Incidence Rates, 1964–1983 | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 677 |
| 42 | Increased Mortality in Philadelphia Associated with Daily Air Pollution Concentrations | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 670 |
| 43 | Standardization of Spirometry — 1987 Update | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 656 |
| 44 | Cytokines of the Lung | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1990 | 650 |
| 45 | Epidemiology Standardization Project (American Thoracic Society) | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1978 | 646 |
| 46 | ATS statement--Snowbird workshop on standardization of spirometry | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1979 | 642 |
| 47 | Resurgent Tuberculosis in New York City: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Homelessness, and the Decline of Tuberculosis Control Programs | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1991 | 636 |
| 48 | Effect of an Inhaled Corticosteroid on Airway Inflammation and Symptoms in Asthma | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1992 | 635 |
| 49 | An improved method for isolating type II cells in high yield and purity | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1986 | 629 |
| 50 | A Prospective Study of Lung Water Measurements during Patient Management in an Intensive Care Unit | The American Review of Respiratory Disease | 1987 | 623 |
