| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Body Mass Index and Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2006 | 1,136 |
| 2 | Cardiac calcification in adult hemodialysis patients | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2002 | 1,020 |
| 3 | Epithelial sodium channel regulated by aldosterone-induced protein sgk | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 688 |
| 4 | Myeloperoxidase, a Leukocyte-Derived Vascular NO Oxidase | Science | 2002 | 631 |
| 5 | Diuretics, Mortality, and Nonrecovery of Renal Function in Acute Renal Failure | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2002 | 604 |
| 6 | COVID-19-associated acute kidney injury: consensus report of the 25th Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) Workgroup | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2020 | 466 |
| 7 | Octogenarians and Nonagenarians Starting Dialysis in the United States | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2007 | 446 |
| 8 | Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function | Nature Communications | 2016 | 412 |
| 9 | Association Among SF36 Quality of Life Measures and Nutrition, Hospitalization, and Mortality in Hemodialysis | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2001 | 389 |
| 10 | Racial Differences in the Progression from Chronic Renal Insufficiency to End-Stage Renal Disease in the United States | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2003 | 386 |
| 11 | Mechanical strain induces growth of vascular smooth muscle cells via autocrine action of PDGF. | Journal of Cell Biology | 1993 | 347 |
| 12 | Recommendations on Acute Kidney Injury Biomarkers From the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Consensus Conference | JAMA Network Open | 2020 | 335 |
| 13 | Epidemiology of Anemia Associated with Chronic Renal Insufficiency among Adults in the United States | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2002 | 330 |
| 14 | Refining Predictive Models in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Renal Failure | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2002 | 328 |
| 15 | A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2022 | 314 |
| 16 | Use of the Albumin/Creatinine Ratio to Detect Microalbuminuria | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2002 | 308 |
| 17 | Association Between Human Fetuin-A and the Metabolic Syndrome | Circulation | 2006 | 294 |
| 18 | Mechanical strain of rat vascular smooth muscle cells is sensed by specific extracellular matrix/integrin interactions. | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 1995 | 278 |
| 19 | Atherogenic High-Fat Diet Reduces Bone Mineralization in Mice | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2001 | 255 |
| 20 | Epoxy metabolites of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) inhibit angiogenesis, tumor growth, and metastasis | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 251 |
| 21 | Association of body size with outcomes among patients beginning dialysis | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2004 | 248 |
| 22 | Associations between Kidney Function and Subclinical Cardiac Abnormalities in CKD | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2012 | 245 |
| 23 | Angiotensin II: a powerful controller of sodium transport in the early proximal tubule. | Hypertension | 1990 | 240 |
| 24 | Grade-Dependent Metabolic Reprogramming in Kidney Cancer Revealed by Combined Proteomics and Metabolomics Analysis | Cancer Research | 2015 | 236 |
| 25 | Collecting Duct Principal Cell Transport Processes and Their Regulation | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2015 | 234 |
| 26 | p21Waf1/Cip1 as a therapeutic target in breast and other cancers | Cancer Cell | 2003 | 231 |
| 27 | Potential antiatherogenic and anti-inflammatory properties of sevelamer in maintenance hemodialysis patients | American Heart Journal | 2005 | 225 |
| 28 | Simultaneous Liver–Kidney Transplantation Summit: Current State and Future Directions | American Journal of Transplantation | 2012 | 225 |
| 29 | Metabolomics in the study of kidney diseases | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2012 | 221 |
| 30 | Developing a Set of Core Outcomes for Trials in Hemodialysis: An International Delphi Survey | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2017 | 218 |
| 31 | Differential regulation of dual NADPH oxidases/peroxidases, Duox1 and Duox2, by Th1 and Th2 cytokines in respiratory tract epithelium | FEBS Letters | 2005 | 214 |
| 32 | Nephrotoxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors beyond tubulointerstitial nephritis: single-center experience | | 2019 | 213 |
| 33 | Incident Atrial Fibrillation and Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease | Circulation | 2013 | 209 |
| 34 | Resistant starch alters gut microbiome and metabolomic profiles concurrent with amelioration of chronic kidney disease in rats | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 2016 | 208 |
| 35 | Estimating GFR Among Participants in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2012 | 207 |
| 36 | AKI Treated with Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2021 | 207 |
| 37 | Pathway analysis of kidney cancer using proteomics and metabolic profiling | Molecular Cancer | 2006 | 205 |
| 38 | The Role of Acute Kidney Injury in Chronic Kidney Disease | Seminars in Nephrology | 2016 | 204 |
| 39 | Impedance vector distribution by sex, race, body mass index, and age in the United States: standard reference intervals as bivariate Z scores | Nutrition | 2002 | 201 |
| 40 | Management of Acute Kidney Injury: Core Curriculum 2018 | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2018 | 201 |
| 41 | Barriers to exercise participation among dialysis patients | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2012 | 199 |
| 42 | Screening for muscle wasting and dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease | Kidney International | 2016 | 199 |
| 43 | Nephrology consultation in acute renal failure | American Journal of Medicine | 2002 | 198 |
| 44 | Correlates and outcomes of dementia among dialysis patients: the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2006 | 198 |
| 45 | THE EFFECT OF PRAVASTATIN ON ACUTE REJECTION AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION-A PILOT STUDY1 | Transplantation | 1996 | 192 |
| 46 | Apoptosis Triggered by Myc-Induced Suppression of Bcl-X L or Bcl-2 Is Bypassed during Lymphomagenesis | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 2001 | 188 |
| 47 | Inflammatory and Atherosclerotic Interactions in the Depleted Uremic Patient | Blood Purification | 2001 | 183 |
| 48 | JAK1/JAK2 inhibition by baricitinib in diabetic kidney disease: results from a Phase 2 randomized controlled clinical trial | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2018 | 183 |
| 49 | Inflammation and dietary protein intake exert competing effects on serum albumin and creatinine in hemodialysis patients | Kidney International | 2001 | 182 |
| 50 | Effect of Antioxidant Therapy on Blood Pressure and NO Synthase Expression in Hypertensive Rats | Hypertension | 2000 | 180 |
