| Preferred Reporting Items for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies: The PRISMA-DTA Statement | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 1K |
| Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure | PLoS Biology | 2018 | 133 |
| Workers' health and productivity under occupational heat strain: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet Planetary Health, The | 2018 | 131 |
| Reporting of stepped wedge cluster randomised trials: extension of the CONSORT 2010 statement with explanation and elaboration | BMJ, The | 2018 | 119 |
| Registration of systematic reviews in PROSPERO: 30,000 records and counting | Systematic Reviews | 2018 | 111 |
| CONSORT-SPI 2018 Explanation and Elaboration: guidance for reporting social and psychological intervention trials | Trials | 2018 | 96 |
| A systematic review and consensus definitions for standardised end-points in perioperative medicine: pulmonary complications | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2018 | 93 |
| Cellular Immunotherapy for Septic Shock. A Phase I Clinical Trial | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2018 | 79 |
| Interventions to improve management and health outcomes for children and adults with asthma who present to the emergency department | The Cochrane Library | 2018 | 78 |
| Improving surgical practice - a systematic review of effective education strategies to improve surgical technical skills in operative procedures | The Cochrane Library | 2018 | 78 |
| Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of physical activity policies in schools: A systematic review | Preventive Medicine | 2018 | 75 |
| Clinical trials evaluating red blood cell transfusion thresholds: An updated systematic review and with additional focus on patients with cardiovascular disease | American Heart Journal | 2018 | 74 |
| What is a predatory journal? A scoping review | F1000Research | 2018 | 64 |
| Safety and Efficacy of Adult Stem Cell Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction and Ischemic Heart Failure (SafeCell Heart): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Stem Cells Translational Medicine | 2018 | 63 |
| DELTA guidance on choosing the target difference and undertaking and reporting the sample size calculation for a randomised controlled trial | BMJ, The | 2018 | 61 |
| Barriers to and enablers of diabetic retinopathy screening attendance: a systematic review of published and grey literature | Diabetic Medicine | 2018 | 58 |
| Permissive hypotension versus conventional resuscitation strategies in adult trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials | Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery | 2018 | 55 |
| Diagnostic accuracy, risk assessment, and cost-effectiveness of component-resolved diagnostics for food allergy: A systematic review | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2018 | 55 |
| Access to palliative care by disease trajectory: a population-based cohort of Ontario decedents | BMJ Open | 2018 | 50 |
| Bone Morbidity and Recovery in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Results of a Six-Year Prospective Cohort Study | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2018 | 50 |
| Reproducible research practices are underused in systematic reviews of biomedical interventions | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2018 | 46 |
| Inequalities in the use of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic status: evidence from the PURE observational study | The Lancet Global Health | 2018 | 44 |
| Efficacy of iron supplementation on fatigue and physical capacity in non-anaemic iron-deficient adults: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials | BMJ Open | 2018 | 44 |
| The efficacy and safety of topical tranexamic acid: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Transfusion Medicine Reviews | 2018 | 43 |
| Barriers to immunization among newcomers: A systematic review | Vaccine | 2018 | 43 |
