| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Anthropometrical parameters and markers of obesity in rats | Laboratory Animals | 2007 | 537 |
| 2 | Recommendations for the health monitoring of rodent and rabbit colonies in breeding and experimental units | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 485 |
| 3 | FELASA recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, guinea pig and rabbit colonies in breeding and experimental units | Laboratory Animals | 2014 | 477 |
| 4 | Recommendations for euthanasia of experimental animals: Part 2 | Laboratory Animals | 1997 | 428 |
| 5 | Single dose streptozotocin-induced diabetes: considerations for study design in islet transplantation models | Laboratory Animals | 2011 | 417 |
| 6 | Recommendations for euthanasia of experimental animals: Part 1 | Laboratory Animals | 1996 | 376 |
| 7 | The ‘Swiss roll’: a simple technique for histological studies of the rodent intestine | Laboratory Animals | 1981 | 374 |
| 8 | Zebrafish: Housing and husbandry recommendations | Laboratory Animals | 2020 | 366 |
| 9 | Improving housing conditions for laboratory mice: a review of 'environmental enrichment' | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 322 |
| 10 | PREPARE: guidelines for planning animal research and testing | Laboratory Animals | 2018 | 322 |
| 11 | Fasting of mice: a review | Laboratory Animals | 2013 | 285 |
| 12 | Ketamine alone and combined with diazepam or xylazine in laboratory animals: a 10 year experience | Laboratory Animals | 1981 | 267 |
| 13 | Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research –A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 262 |
| 14 | Enhancing search efficiency by means of a search filter for finding all studies on animal experimentation in PubMed | Laboratory Animals | 2010 | 259 |
| 15 | Cardiac troponin I is a sensitive, specific biomarker of cardiac injury in laboratory animals | Laboratory Animals | 2006 | 255 |
| 16 | The carbon tetrachloride model in mice | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 249 |
| 17 | Removal of blood from laboratory mammals and birds: First Report of the BVA/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working Group on Refinement | Laboratory Animals | 1993 | 246 |
| 18 | Stress response of rats to handling and experimental procedures | Laboratory Animals | 1980 | 229 |
| 19 | Saphenous vein puncture for blood sampling of the mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guineapig, ferret and mink | Laboratory Animals | 1998 | 228 |
| 20 | Happy animals make good science | Laboratory Animals | 1997 | 224 |
| 21 | A third component causing random variability beside environment and genotype. A reason for the limited success of a 30 year long effort to standardize laboratory animals? | Laboratory Animals | 1990 | 218 |
| 22 | Use of allometry in predicting anatomical and physiological parameters of mammals | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 213 |
| 23 | Does age matter? The impact of rodent age on study outcomes | Laboratory Animals | 2017 | 213 |
| 24 | Refining procedures for the administration of substances | Laboratory Animals | 2001 | 211 |
| 25 | Mass culture of hydra: an improved method and its application to other aquatic invertebrates | Laboratory Animals | 1970 | 210 |
| 26 | Contemporary prevalence of infectious agents in laboratory mice and rats | Laboratory Animals | 2009 | 210 |
| 27 | A non-invasive technique for sequential collection of earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) leukocytes during subchronic immunotoxicity studies | Laboratory Animals | 1991 | 208 |
| 28 | Diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced carcinogenic liver injury in mice | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 206 |
| 29 | A guide to defining and implementing protocols for the welfare assessment of laboratory animals: eleventh report of the BVAAWF/FRAME/RSPCA/UFAW Joint Working Group on Refinement | Laboratory Animals | 2011 | 202 |
| 30 | The concanavalin A model of acute hepatitis in mice | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 199 |
| 31 | A refined method for sequential blood sampling by tail incision in rats | Laboratory Animals | 2000 | 191 |
| 32 | Rodent models in bone-related research: the relevance of calvarial defects in the assessment of bone regeneration strategies | Laboratory Animals | 2011 | 189 |
| 33 | Anaesthetic effects of chloral hydrate, pentobarbitone and urethane in adult male rats | Laboratory Animals | 1993 | 186 |
| 34 | Buprenorphine: a reappraisal of its antinociceptive effects and therapeutic use in alleviating post-operative pain in animals | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 185 |
| 35 | Male management: coping with aggression problems in male laboratory mice | Laboratory Animals | 2003 | 185 |
| 36 | The impact of light, noise, cage cleaning and in-house transport on welfare and stress of laboratory rats | Laboratory Animals | 2009 | 177 |
| 37 | Reported analgesic and anaesthetic administration to rodents undergoing experimental surgical procedures | Laboratory Animals | 2009 | 168 |
| 38 | Preferences for nesting material as environmental enrichment for laboratory mice | Laboratory Animals | 1997 | 152 |
| 39 | A step-by-step guide to systematically identify all relevant animal studies | Laboratory Animals | 2012 | 152 |
| 40 | The laboratory rabbit: an animal model of atherosclerosis research | Laboratory Animals | 2004 | 151 |
| 41 | UKCCCR guidelines for the welfare of animals in experimental neoplasia | Laboratory Animals | 1988 | 149 |
| 42 | Recognizing and assessing pain, suffering and distress in laboratory animals: a survey of current practice in the UK with recommendations | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 142 |
| 43 | The impact of reduced frequency of cage changes on the health of mice housed in ventilated cages | Laboratory Animals | 2001 | 141 |
| 44 | Advantages of glutamate dehydrogenase as a blood biomarker of acute hepatic injury in rats | Laboratory Animals | 2002 | 140 |
| 45 | Experimental animal urine collection: a review | Laboratory Animals | 2004 | 138 |
| 46 | Laboratory environments and rodents' behavioural needs: a review | Laboratory Animals | 2006 | 136 |
| 47 | Stress measurements in mice after transportation | Laboratory Animals | 1995 | 135 |
| 48 | FELASA recommendations for the health monitoring of mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guineapig and rabbit experimental units: Report of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) Working Group on Animal Health accepted by the FELASA Board of Management, November 1995 | Laboratory Animals | 1996 | 135 |
| 49 | Refining rodent husbandry: the mouse: Report of the Rodent Refinement Working Party | Laboratory Animals | 1998 | 135 |
| 50 | Lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory liver injury in mice | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 134 |
