| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bariatric Surgery | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 5,964 |
| 2 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 3 | M-1/M-2 Macrophages and the Th1/Th2 Paradigm | Journal of Immunology | 2000 | 2,506 |
| 4 | Weight and Type 2 Diabetes after Bariatric Surgery: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | American Journal of Medicine | 2009 | 2,253 |
| 5 | Understanding the Causes of Kidney Transplant Failure: The Dominant Role of Antibody-Mediated Rejection and Nonadherence | American Journal of Transplantation | 2012 | 1,292 |
| 6 | Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2011 | Obesity Surgery | 2013 | 1,256 |
| 7 | Diabetes Mellitus after Kidney Transplantation in the United States | American Journal of Transplantation | 2003 | 1,121 |
| 8 | Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2020 | 784 |
| 9 | Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2008 | Obesity Surgery | 2009 | 741 |
| 10 | American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update | Journal of the American College of Surgeons | 2017 | 664 |
| 11 | Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Intensive Medical Management for the Control of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, and Hyperlipidemia | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2013 | 655 |
| 12 | Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2003 | Obesity Surgery | 2004 | 635 |
| 13 | LRISK FACTORS FOR CHRONIC REJECTION IN RENAL ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS | Transplantation | 1993 | 616 |
| 14 | Increasing Use of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy for Breast Cancer Patients: A Trend Toward More Aggressive Surgical Treatment | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 2007 | 600 |
| 15 | Surgery for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Versus Thoracotomy Approaches to Lobectomy | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2008 | 582 |
| 16 | Lessons Learned From More Than 1,000 Pancreas Transplants at a Single Institution | Annals of Surgery | 2001 | 576 |
| 17 | 20 years or more of follow-up of living kidney donors | Lancet, The | 1992 | 572 |
| 18 | Acute Pancreatitis: Bench to the Bedside | Gastroenterology | 2007 | 550 |
| 19 | Persistent HIV-1 replication maintains the tissue reservoir during therapy | Nature | 2016 | 550 |
| 20 | Transplantation of discordant xenografts: a review of progress | Trends in Immunology | 1990 | 533 |
| 21 | Pancreas transplant outcomes for United States (US) and non-US cases as reported to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the International Pancreas Transplant Registry (IPTR) as of June 2004 | Clinical Transplantation | 2005 | 500 |
| 22 | Prolonged diabetes reversal after intraportal xenotransplantation of wild-type porcine islets in immunosuppressed nonhuman primates | Nature Medicine | 2006 | 499 |
| 23 | Classification and Treatment of Chronic Nonhealing Wounds | Annals of Surgery | 1986 | 456 |
| 24 | DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION, ACUTE REJECTION, AND OUTCOME AFTER CADAVER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION | Transplantation | 1995 | 455 |
| 25 | Evidence for Antibody-Mediated Injury as a Major Determinant of Late Kidney Allograft Failure | Transplantation | 2010 | 447 |
| 26 | Lymph Node Evaluation in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Study | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2005 | 446 |
| 27 | Preemptive Kidney Transplantation: The Advantage and the Advantaged | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2002 | 424 |
| 28 | Is local excision adequate therapy for early rectal cancer? | Diseases of the Colon and Rectum | 2000 | 401 |
| 29 | Expanded T cells from pancreatic lymph nodes of type 1 diabetic subjects recognize an insulin epitope | Nature | 2005 | 387 |
| 30 | CXCR5+ follicular cytotoxic T cells control viral infection in B cell follicles | Nature Immunology | 2016 | 385 |
| 31 | Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis | Journal of the American College of Surgeons | 2012 | 384 |
| 32 | Infection by porcine endogenous retrovirus after islet xenotransplantation in SCID mice | Nature | 2000 | 374 |
| 33 | Proposed Mechanisms for the Translocation of Intestinal Bacteria | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1988 | 373 |
| 34 | Increasing Rates of Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Among Patients With Ductal Carcinoma In Situ | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 2009 | 372 |
| 35 | Cell-Free DNA and Active Rejection in Kidney Allografts | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2017 | 365 |
| 36 | Transplantation of Cultured Islets from Two-Layer Preserved Pancreases in Type 1 Diabetes with Anti-CD3 Antibody | American Journal of Transplantation | 2004 | 333 |
| 37 | Sacral spinal nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence: multicentre study | Lancet, The | 2004 | 330 |
| 38 | Accuracy of Endorectal Ultrasonography in Preoperative Staging of Rectal Tumors | Diseases of the Colon and Rectum | 2002 | 325 |
| 39 | Physician Burnout and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Framework for Action | Diseases of the Colon and Rectum | 2017 | 324 |
| 40 | Primary Perineal Wound Closure After Preoperative Radiotherapy and Abdominoperineal Resection has a High Incidence of Wound Failure | Diseases of the Colon and Rectum | 2005 | 323 |
| 41 | Defining total-body AIDS-virus burden with implications for curative strategies | Nature Medicine | 2017 | 322 |
| 42 | Long-term effects of pancreatic transplantation on diabetic neuropathy | Annals of Neurology | 1997 | 319 |
| 43 | Diagnosis and Management of Antibody-Mediated Rejection: Current Status and Novel Approaches | American Journal of Transplantation | 2014 | 319 |
| 44 | Activation of translation complex eIF4F is essential for the genesis and maintenance of the malignant phenotype in human mammary epithelial cells | Cancer Cell | 2004 | 318 |
| 45 | Risk of Pelvic Fractures in Older Women Following Pelvic Irradiation | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2005 | 318 |
| 46 | Morbidity and Mortality After Living Kidney Donation, 1999-2001: Survey of United States Transplant Centers | American Journal of Transplantation | 2003 | 302 |
| 47 | Mortality Assessment for Pancreas Transplants | American Journal of Transplantation | 2004 | 299 |
| 48 | LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF LIVING KIDNEY DONORS: QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER DONATION1 | Transplantation | 1999 | 299 |
| 49 | PROLONGATION OF CARDIAC XENOGRAFT SURVIVAL BY DEPLETION OF COMPLEMENT | Transplantation | 1993 | 294 |
| 50 | The prevention of invasive cancer of the rectum | Cancer | 1978 | 291 |
