| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Development and preliminary testing of the new five-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) | Quality of Life Research | 2011 | 5,877 |
| 2 | The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A Report from the WHOQOL Group | Quality of Life Research | 2004 | 3,091 |
| 3 | The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study | Quality of Life Research | 2010 | 2,751 |
| 4 | Assessing health status and quality-of-life instruments: attributes and review criteria | Quality of Life Research | 2002 | 1,959 |
| 5 | Individual-patient monitoring in clinical practice: are available health status surveys adequate? | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 1,731 |
| 6 | COSMIN guideline for systematic reviews of patient-reported outcome measures | Quality of Life Research | 2018 | 1,600 |
| 7 | Rating the methodological quality in systematic reviews of studies on measurement properties: a scoring system for the COSMIN checklist | Quality of Life Research | 2012 | 1,463 |
| 8 | Development of physical and mental health summary scores from the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) global items | Quality of Life Research | 2009 | 1,272 |
| 9 | COSMIN Risk of Bias checklist for systematic reviews of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures | Quality of Life Research | 2018 | 1,264 |
| 10 | Comparison of the minimally important difference for two health state utility measures: EQ-5D and SF-6D | Quality of Life Research | 2005 | 1,107 |
| 11 | Measurement properties of the EQ-5D-5L compared to the EQ-5D-3L across eight patient groups: a multi-country study | Quality of Life Research | 2013 | 1,082 |
| 12 | Pretesting survey instruments: an overview of cognitive methods | Quality of Life Research | 2003 | 1,059 |
| 13 | Study protocol for the World Health Organization project to develop a Quality of Life assessment instrument (WHOQOL) | Quality of Life Research | 1993 | 1,020 |
| 14 | COSMIN methodology for evaluating the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures: a Delphi study | Quality of Life Research | 2018 | 1,020 |
| 15 | The development and validation of a short measure of functioning and well being for individuals with Parkinson's disease | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 1,004 |
| 16 | Measuring quality of life in children with asthma | Quality of Life Research | 1996 | 970 |
| 17 | Can parents rate their child's health-related quality of life? Results of a systematic review | Quality of Life Research | 2001 | 970 |
| 18 | A six-item short-form survey for measuring headache impact: the HIT-6 | Quality of Life Research | 2003 | 954 |
| 19 | Health-related quality of life measures for women with urinary incontinence: the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire and the Urogenital Distress Inventory | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 949 |
| 20 | Development of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOLTM) Instrument | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 946 |
| 21 | A health-related quality of life measure for multiple sclerosis | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 898 |
| 22 | Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (CPSQI) in Primary Insomnia and Control Subjects | Quality of Life Research | 2005 | 841 |
| 23 | Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: first psychometric and content analytical results | Quality of Life Research | 1998 | 784 |
| 24 | The Short Form Health Survey (SF-36): Translation and validation study of the Iranian version | Quality of Life Research | 2005 | 780 |
| 25 | Smallest real difference, a link between reproducibility and responsiveness | Quality of Life Research | 2001 | 667 |
| 26 | Implementing patient-reported outcomes assessment in clinical practice: a review of the options and considerations | Quality of Life Research | 2012 | 665 |
| 27 | (null) | Quality of Life Research | 1998 | 643 |
| 28 | The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument: a psychometric measure of health-related quality of life | Quality of Life Research | 1999 | 641 |
| 29 | Health-related quality of life associated with chronic conditions in eight countries: Results from the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project | Quality of Life Research | 2004 | 623 |
| 30 | Parent–child agreement across child health-related quality of life instruments: a review of the literature | Quality of Life Research | 2008 | 618 |
| 31 | Testing the validity of the Euroqol and comparing it with the SF-36 health survey questionnaire | Quality of Life Research | 1993 | 617 |
| 32 | Qualitative research and content validity: developing best practices based on science and experience | Quality of Life Research | 2009 | 617 |
| 33 | The impact of measuring patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: a systematic review of the literature | Quality of Life Research | 2008 | 616 |
| 34 | ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research | Quality of Life Research | 2013 | 613 |
| 35 | The role of the bifactor model in resolving dimensionality issues in health outcomes measures | Quality of Life Research | 2007 | 606 |
| 36 | Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples | Quality of Life Research | 2014 | 600 |
| 37 | Small-cell lung cancer patients are just ‘a little bit’ tired: response shift and self-presentation in the measurement of fatigue | Quality of Life Research | 2007 | 586 |
| 38 | Applying item response theory (IRT) modeling to questionnaire development, evaluation, and refinement | Quality of Life Research | 2007 | 579 |
| 39 | Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments | Quality of Life Research | 2009 | 579 |
| 40 | Symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress in a cancer population | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 575 |
| 41 | Development of the EQ-5D-Y: a child-friendly version of the EQ-5D | Quality of Life Research | 2010 | 574 |
| 42 | The proxy problem: child report versus parent report in health-related quality of life research | Quality of Life Research | 1998 | 571 |
| 43 | Is a single-item visual analogue scale as valid, reliable and responsive as multi-item scales in measuring quality of life? | Quality of Life Research | 2004 | 561 |
| 44 | Measuring quality of life in the parents of children with asthma | Quality of Life Research | 1996 | 544 |
| 45 | On assessing responsiveness of health-related quality of life instruments: guidelines for instrument evaluation | Quality of Life Research | 2003 | 542 |
| 46 | The interpretation of scores from the EORTC quality of life questionnaire QLQ-C30 | Quality of Life Research | 1996 | 541 |
| 47 | Swedish population health-related quality of life results using the EQ-5D | Quality of Life Research | 2001 | 539 |
| 48 | Measurement of the quality of life in cancer survivors | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 538 |
| 49 | Psychometric validation of an overactive bladder symptom and health-related quality of life questionnaire: the OAB-q | Quality of Life Research | 2002 | 534 |
| 50 | The development of an individualized questionnaire measure of perceived impact of diabetes on quality of life: the ADDQoL | Quality of Life Research | 1999 | 520 |
