| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017 | JAMA Oncology | 2019 | 1,691 |
| 2 | Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Elective Rectal/Pelvic Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Recommendations | World Journal of Surgery | 2013 | 933 |
| 3 | Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score | BMJ, The | 2020 | 779 |
| 4 | Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Liver Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations | World Journal of Surgery | 2016 | 459 |
| 5 | Guidelines for perioperative care in elective rectal/pelvic surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations | Clinical Nutrition | 2012 | 334 |
| 6 | Liver metastases | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2021 | 190 |
| 7 | EFFECTS OF UNPROCESSED BRAN ON COLON FUNCTION IN NORMAL SUBJECTS AND IN DIVERTICULAR DISEASE | Lancet, The | 1974 | 189 |
| 8 | Repeated Freeze–Thaw Cycles in Cryosurgery | Nature | 1968 | 174 |
| 9 | Oestrogen receptors and breast cancer: Current status* | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 173 |
| 10 | Does wearing two pairs of gloves protect operating theatre staff from skin contamination? | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1988 | 159 |
| 11 | A structurally distinct TGF-β mimic from an intestinal helminth parasite potently induces regulatory T cells | Nature Communications | 2017 | 159 |
| 12 | Role of hepatic intra-arterial therapies in metastatic neuroendocrine tumours (NET): guidelines from the NET-Liver-Metastases Consensus Conference | Hpb | 2015 | 153 |
| 13 | Cancer Cachexia and Fat–Muscle Physiology | New England Journal of Medicine | 2011 | 127 |
| 14 | Randomized clinical trial of local infiltration plus patient-controlled opiate analgesia vs. epidural analgesia following liver resection surgery | Hpb | 2012 | 83 |
| 15 | Meta-analysis and Meta-regression of Survival After Liver Transplantation for Unresectable Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma | Annals of Surgery | 2021 | 80 |
| 16 | Implementation of an enhanced recovery programme following pancreaticoduodenectomy | Hpb | 2012 | 76 |
| 17 | Hospital volume and patient outcomes after cholecystectomy in Scotland: retrospective, national population based study | BMJ, The | 2012 | 75 |
| 18 | Evaluating the collection, comparability and findings of six global surgery indicators | British Journal of Surgery | 2019 | 74 |
| 19 | A simple method for the determination of oestrogen receptor concentrations in breast tumours and other tissues | Clinica Chimica Acta | 1975 | 73 |
| 20 | Systematic review of systemic adjuvant, neoadjuvant and perioperative chemotherapy for resectable colorectal-liver metastases | Hpb | 2016 | 73 |
| 21 | PATTERNS OF RECURRENT DISEASE IN BREAST CANCER | Lancet, The | 1970 | 71 |
| 22 | Primary lymphoma of the breast | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 62 |
| 23 | Ten years of the Surgical Safety Checklist | British Journal of Surgery | 2018 | 61 |
| 24 | Linked DNA markers for presymptomatic diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis | Lancet, The | 1991 | 60 |
| 25 | Habitual Myofibrillar Protein Synthesis Is Normal in Patients with Upper GI Cancer Cachexia | Clinical Cancer Research | 2015 | 60 |
| 26 | Variation in global uptake of the Surgical Safety Checklist | British Journal of Surgery | 2020 | 60 |
| 27 | Oestrogen receptor concentration in primary breast cancer and axillary node metastases | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 1981 | 59 |
| 28 | Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Liver Transplantation: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Recommendations | Transplantation | 2022 | 56 |
| 29 | THE HOSPITAL URINE BOTTLE AND BEDPAN AS RESERVOIRS OF INFECTION BY PSEUDOMONAS PYOCYANEA | Lancet, The | 1958 | 55 |
| 30 | A systematic review of the incidence of and risk factors for postoperative atrial fibrillation following general surgery | Anaesthesia | 2018 | 54 |
| 31 | Factors in perioperative care that determine blood loss in liver surgery | Hpb | 2012 | 53 |
| 32 | AXILLARY NODES IN BREAST CANCER | Lancet, The | 1972 | 50 |
| 33 | Plasma prolactin and breast cancer | Cancer | 1974 | 50 |
| 34 | The effects of physical distancing on population mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK | The Lancet Digital Health | 2020 | 47 |
| 35 | Colonic Propulsion in Diverticular Disease, Idiopathic Constipation, and the Irritable Colon Syndrome | Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology | 1977 | 46 |
| 36 | Systematic review of endoscopy ultrasound-guided thermal ablation treatment for pancreatic cancer | Endoscopic Ultrasound | 2020 | 46 |
| 37 | Global Inequities in Precision Medicine and Molecular Cancer Research | Frontiers in Oncology | 2018 | 44 |
| 38 | Screening for large bowel neoplasms in individuals with a family history of colorectal cancer | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 40 |
| 39 | The control and predictability of a cryolesion | Cryobiology | 1970 | 39 |
| 40 | Global Surgery: A 30‐Year Bibliometric Analysis (1987–2017) | World Journal of Surgery | 2019 | 39 |
| 41 | Gastrointestinal Transit Estimated by an Isotope Capsule | Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology | 1974 | 38 |
| 42 | DNA analysis of breast tumour fine needle aspirates using flow cytometry | British Journal of Cancer | 1987 | 38 |
| 43 | Colorectal Liver Metastasis in the Setting of Lymph Node Metastasis: Defining the Benefit of Surgical Resection | Annals of Surgical Oncology | 2012 | 37 |
| 44 | An immunohistochemical study of the tissue distribution of the breast cyst fluid protein, zinc alpha2glycoprotein | Histopathology | 1987 | 36 |
| 45 | A multicentre phase II trial of vindesine in malignant melanoma | European Journal of Cancer & Clinical Oncology | 1982 | 35 |
| 46 | The Cardiff-St Mary's trial | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 35 |
| 47 | Pulmonary function and fibrinogen metabolism in acute pancreatitis | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 33 |
| 48 | Malnutrition, nutritional interventions and clinical outcomes of patients with acute small bowel obstruction: results from a national, multicentre, prospective audit | BMJ Open | 2019 | 33 |
| 49 | Genome‐Wide Association Study of NAFLD Using Electronic Health Records | Hepatology Communications | 2022 | 33 |
| 50 | Feasibility and clinical utility of endoscopic ultrasound guided biopsy of pancreatic cancer for next-generation molecular profiling | Chinese Clinical Oncology | 2019 | 33 |
