| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Appraising the quality of qualitative research | Midwifery | 2006 | 359 |
| 2 | A descriptive study of the use of the Internet by women seeking pregnancy-related information | Midwifery | 2009 | 251 |
| 3 | Women's expectations and experiences of childbirth | Midwifery | 2001 | 243 |
| 4 | The birth experience and women's postnatal depression: A systematic review | Midwifery | 2016 | 234 |
| 5 | Women's behaviour, beliefs and information sources about physical exercise in pregnancy | Midwifery | 2004 | 218 |
| 6 | The ‘anatomy’ of infant sucking | Midwifery | 1986 | 216 |
| 7 | Conflicting ideologies as a source of emotion work in midwifery | Midwifery | 2004 | 206 |
| 8 | A prospective study of women's views of factors contributing to a positive birth experience | Midwifery | 1999 | 203 |
| 9 | Women's experiences of labour and birth: an evolutionary concept analysis | Midwifery | 2009 | 203 |
| 10 | Not-patient and not-visitor: A metasynthesis fathers’ encounters with pregnancy, birth and maternity care | Midwifery | 2012 | 198 |
| 11 | Cross-cultural comparison of levels of childbirth-related fear in an Australian and Swedish sample | Midwifery | 2011 | 186 |
| 12 | Advanced maternal age and adverse perinatal outcome: A review of the evidence | Midwifery | 2011 | 183 |
| 13 | State of the science of maternal–infant bonding: A principle-based concept analysis | Midwifery | 2013 | 179 |
| 14 | Prevalence and factors associated with the development of antenatal and postnatal depression among Jordanian women | Midwifery | 2011 | 175 |
| 15 | Risk, theory, social and medical models: A critical analysis of the concept of risk in maternity care | Midwifery | 2010 | 169 |
| 16 | Psychological factors that impact on women's experiences of first-time motherhood: a qualitative study of the transition | Midwifery | 2010 | 168 |
| 17 | Physical health after childbirth and maternal depression in the first 12 months post partum: Results of an Australian nulliparous pregnancy cohort study | Midwifery | 2014 | 168 |
| 18 | The use of complementary and alternative medicine by pregnant women: A literature review | Midwifery | 2011 | 162 |
| 19 | Developing an instrument to assess infant breastfeeding behaviour in the early neonatal period | Midwifery | 1988 | 157 |
| 20 | Why do women request caesarean section in a normal, healthy first pregnancy? | Midwifery | 2010 | 157 |
| 21 | Factors related to exercise over the course of pregnancy including women's beliefs about the safety of exercise during pregnancy | Midwifery | 2009 | 155 |
| 22 | Women's experience of the encounter with the midwife during childbirth | Midwifery | 1996 | 154 |
| 23 | Internet use by Chinese women seeking pregnancy-related information | Midwifery | 2013 | 154 |
| 24 | Stressful events, social support and coping strategies of primiparous women during the postpartum period: a qualitative study | Midwifery | 2011 | 153 |
| 25 | Sources of information used by women during pregnancy to meet their information needs | Midwifery | 2014 | 151 |
| 26 | Fears associated with childbirth among nulliparous women in Turkey | Midwifery | 2009 | 148 |
| 27 | The influence of childbirth expectations on Western Australian women's perceptions of their birth experience | Midwifery | 2007 | 147 |
| 28 | Relationships: The hidden threads in the tapestry of maternity care | Midwifery | 2008 | 147 |
| 29 | The woman's birth experience—The effect of interpersonal relationships and continuity of care | Midwifery | 2013 | 146 |
| 30 | ‘They treat you like you are not a human being’: Maltreatment during labour and delivery in rural northern Ghana | Midwifery | 2014 | 143 |
| 31 | The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on maternity care in Europe | Midwifery | 2020 | 143 |
| 32 | Traditional beliefs and practices in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum: A review of the evidence from Asian countries | Midwifery | 2018 | 142 |
| 33 | A systematic review of systematic reviews of interventions to improve maternal mental health and well-being | Midwifery | 2013 | 141 |
| 34 | The ‘Know Your Midwife’ scheme—a randomised trial of continuity of care by a team of midwives | Midwifery | 1989 | 140 |
| 35 | Maternal and perinatal outcomes by planned place of birth among women with low-risk pregnancies in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Midwifery | 2018 | 139 |
| 36 | Women's views and experiences of postnatal hospital care in the Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers 2000 | Midwifery | 2005 | 136 |
| 37 | Effects of antenatal education on fear of childbirth, maternal self-efficacy and parental attachment | Midwifery | 2016 | 135 |
| 38 | Psychosocial correlates of exclusive breastfeeding: A systematic review | Midwifery | 2013 | 133 |
| 39 | Journeying through labour and delivery: perceptions of women who have given birth | Midwifery | 1996 | 132 |
| 40 | Women's lived experience of fear of childbirth | Midwifery | 2009 | 131 |
| 41 | Falling by the wayside: a phenomenological exploration of perceived breast-milk inadequacy in lactating women | Midwifery | 1999 | 127 |
| 42 | Factors related to a negative birth experience – A mixed methods study | Midwifery | 2017 | 127 |
| 43 | A qualitative study exploring the support needs of first-time mothers on their journey towards intuitive parenting | Midwifery | 2006 | 126 |
| 44 | Fathers' experiences of childbirth | Midwifery | 1998 | 125 |
| 45 | A qualitative study of the experiences of women who are obese and pregnant in the UK | Midwifery | 2011 | 123 |
| 46 | Expectant first-time fathers’ experiences of pregnancy | Midwifery | 2003 | 122 |
| 47 | Maternal parental self-efficacy in the postpartum period | Midwifery | 2011 | 122 |
| 48 | Emotion work and boundary maintenance in hospital-based midwifery | Midwifery | 2005 | 119 |
| 49 | Compassion for others, self-compassion, quality of life and mental well-being measures and their association with compassion fatigue and burnout in student midwives: A quantitative survey | Midwifery | 2016 | 119 |
| 50 | Tormented by ghosts from their past’: A meta-synthesis to explore the psychosocial implications of a traumatic birth on maternal well-being | Midwifery | 2014 | 118 |
