| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Treat-to-target in systemic lupus erythematosus: recommendations from an international task force | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2014 | 558 |
| 2 | Sjögren syndrome | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2016 | 511 |
| 3 | EULAR recommendations for the management of Sjögren’s syndrome with topical and systemic therapies | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2020 | 307 |
| 4 | Interferon-alpha in mixed cryoglobulinemia patients: a randomized, crossover-controlled trial | Blood | 1993 | 289 |
| 5 | Antibodies to hepatitis C virus in patients with mixed cryoglobulinemia | Arthritis and Rheumatism | 1991 | 265 |
| 6 | Determinants of adherence to osteoporosis treatment in clinical practice | Osteoporosis International | 2006 | 253 |
| 7 | Characterization of systemic disease in primary Sjögren's syndrome: EULAR-SS Task Force recommendations for articular, cutaneous, pulmonary and renal involvements | Rheumatology | 2015 | 220 |
| 8 | Disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: report of the Consensus Study Group of the European Workshop for Rheumatology Research. II. Identification of the variables indicative of disease activity and their use in the development of an activity score. The European Consensus Study Group for Disease Activity in SLE | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1992 | 208 |
| 9 | Standardisation of labial salivary gland histopathology in clinical trials in primary Sjögren's syndrome | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2017 | 200 |
| 10 | Vitamin D status and response to treatment in post-menopausal osteoporosis | Osteoporosis International | 2009 | 198 |
| 11 | Primary Sjögren’s syndrome as a multi-organ disease: impact of the serological profile on the clinical presentation of the disease in a large cohort of Italian patients | Rheumatology | 2014 | 185 |
| 12 | Association between hepatitis C virus and mixed cryoglobulinemia [see comment] | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1991 | 163 |
| 13 | Genome-wide association study of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis reveals genomic loci stratified by ANCA status | Nature Communications | 2019 | 160 |
| 14 | Vitamin D deficiency in rheumatoid arthritis: prevalence, determinants and associations with disease activity and disability | Arthritis Research and Therapy | 2010 | 156 |
| 15 | Hepatitis C virus and mixed cryoglobulinaernia | European Journal of Clinical Investigation | 1993 | 138 |
| 16 | Influence of geolocation and ethnicity on the phenotypic expression of primary Sjögren's syndrome at diagnosis in 8310 patients: a cross-sectional study from the Big Data Sjögren Project Consortium | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2017 | 132 |
| 17 | Biomarkers of lymphoma in Sjögren’s syndrome and evaluation of the lymphoma risk in prelymphomatous conditions: Results of a multicenter study | Journal of Autoimmunity | 2014 | 126 |
| 18 | Classification criteria for Sjogren’s syndrome: A critical review | Journal of Autoimmunity | 2012 | 122 |
| 19 | International Consensus for ultrasound lesions in gout: results of Delphi process and web-reliability exercise | Rheumatology | 2015 | 122 |
| 20 | Is salivary gland ultrasonography a useful tool in Sjögren’s syndrome? A systematic review | Rheumatology | 2016 | 120 |
| 21 | Early diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome: EULAR-SS task force clinical recommendations | Expert Review of Clinical Immunology | 2016 | 118 |
| 22 | International consensus: What else can we do to improve diagnosis and therapeutic strategies in patients affected by autoimmune rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritides, systemic sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome and Sjogren's syndrome)? | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2017 | 107 |
| 23 | Proteomic analysis of saliva: a unique tool to distinguish primary Sjögren's syndrome from secondary Sjögren's syndrome and other sicca syndromes | Arthritis Research and Therapy | 2011 | 97 |
| 24 | Disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus: report of the Consensus Study Group of the European Workshop for Rheumatology Research. III. Development of a computerised clinical chart and its application to the comparison of different indices of disease activity. The European Consensus Study Group for Disease Activity in SLE | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 1992 | 96 |
| 25 | Sonographic analysis of the ankle in patients with psoriatic arthritis | Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology | 2000 | 95 |
| 26 | Salivary gland ultrasonography: a highly specific tool for the early diagnosis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome | Arthritis Research and Therapy | 2015 | 94 |
| 27 | Fetal outcome and recommendations of pregnancies in lupus nephritis in the 21st century. A prospective multicenter study | Journal of Autoimmunity | 2016 | 89 |
| 28 | Salivary gland ultrasound abnormalities in primary Sjögren’s syndrome: consensual US-SG core items definition and reliability | RMD Open | 2017 | 87 |
| 29 | Clinical predictors of response and discontinuation of belimumab in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in real life setting. Results of a large, multicentric, nationwide study | Journal of Autoimmunity | 2018 | 86 |
| 30 | Churg-Strauss syndrome: clinical and serological features of 19 patients from a single Italian centre | British Journal of Rheumatology | 2002 | 85 |
| 31 | Maternal outcome in pregnant women with lupus nephritis. A prospective multicenter study | Journal of Autoimmunity | 2016 | 80 |
| 32 | Peripheral neuropathy in mixed cryoglobulinemia: clinical and electrophysiologic investigations | Journal of Rheumatology | 1992 | 78 |
| 33 | Renal flares in 91 SLE patients with diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis | Kidney International | 2002 | 73 |
| 34 | Parvoviral infection of endothelial cells and stromal fibroblasts: a possible pathogenetic role in scleroderma | Journal of Cutaneous Pathology | 2004 | 73 |
| 35 | Interstitial lung fibrosis and rheumatic disorders in patients with hepatitis C virus infection | British Journal of Rheumatology | 1997 | 72 |
| 36 | Autonomic dysfunction in systemic sclerosis: time and frequency domain 24 hour heart rate variability analysis | Rheumatology | 1997 | 72 |
| 37 | Weight of salivary gland ultrasonography compared to other items of the 2016 ACR/EULAR classification criteria for Primary Sjögren’s syndrome | Journal of Internal Medicine | 2020 | 66 |
| 38 | A retrospective, multicenter study evaluating the prognostic value of minor salivary gland histology in a large cohort of patients with primary Sjögren’s syndrome | Lupus | 2015 | 63 |
| 39 | The dermatopathologic manifestations of hepatitis C infection: a clinical, histological, and molecular assessment of 35 cases | Human Pathology | 2003 | 59 |
| 40 | Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTD): a new frontier for rheumatology | Best Practice and Research in Clinical Rheumatology | 2007 | 57 |
| 41 | Ultrasound in the diagnosis of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease. A systematic literature review and a meta-analysis | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage | 2016 | 55 |
| 42 | Epidemiological profile and north–south gradient driving baseline systemic involvement of primary Sjögren’s syndrome | Rheumatology | 2020 | 54 |
| 43 | Proteomic analysis of the saliva: A clue for understanding primary from secondary Sjögren's syndrome? | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2008 | 52 |
| 44 | Clinical and biological differences between cryoglobulinaemic and hypergammaglobulinaemic purpura in primary Sjögren's syndrome: results of a large multicentre study | Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology | 2015 | 51 |
| 45 | Quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: impact of disability and lifetime depressive spectrum symptomatology | Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology | 2005 | 49 |
| 46 | Genetic Epidemiology of Paget’s Disease of Bone in Italy: sequestosome1/p62 Gene Mutational Test and Haplotype Analysis at 5q35 in a Large Representative Series of Sporadic and Familial Italian Cases of Paget’s Disease of Bone | Calcified Tissue International | 2009 | 46 |
| 47 | Is GRP78/BiP a potential salivary biomarker in patients with rheumatoid arthritis? | Proteomics - Clinical Applications | 2010 | 46 |
| 48 | Interferon-alpha in mixed cryoglobulinemia patients: a randomized, crossover-controlled trial | Blood | 1993 | 46 |
| 49 | Disease activity assessment of rheumatic diseases during pregnancy: a comprehensive review of indices used in clinical studies | Autoimmunity Reviews | 2019 | 44 |
| 50 | High values of alpha (CXCL10) and beta (CCL2) circulating chemokines in patients with psoriatic arthritis, in presence or absence of autoimmune thyroiditis | Autoimmunity | 2008 | 41 |
