| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews | International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare | 2015 | 3,820 |
| 2 | An Evidence‐Based Approach to Scoping Reviews | Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing | 2016 | 340 |
| 3 | Locus coeruleus volume and cell population changes during Alzheimer's disease progression: A stereological study in human postmortem brains with potential implication for early‐stage biomarker discovery | Alzheimer's and Dementia | 2017 | 263 |
| 4 | Systematic mixed studies reviews: Updating results on the reliability and efficiency of the mixed methods appraisal tool | International Journal of Nursing Studies | 2015 | 245 |
| 5 | Peripheral Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease | Journal of Alzheimer's Disease | 2011 | 179 |
| 6 | Incidence and Prevalence of Pressure Injuries in Adult Intensive Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Critical Care Medicine | 2018 | 159 |
| 7 | The WHO analgesic ladder for cancer pain control, twenty years of use. How much pain relief does one get from using it? | Supportive Care in Cancer | 2006 | 152 |
| 8 | Quantifying the accretion of hyperphosphorylated tau in the locus coeruleus and dorsal raphe nucleus: the pathological building blocks of early Alzheimer's disease | Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology | 2017 | 145 |
| 9 | Neuropathologic Correlates of Psychiatric Symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease | Journal of Alzheimer's Disease | 2018 | 133 |
| 10 | Impact of Cancer-Related Symptom Synergisms on Health-Related Quality of Life and Performance Status | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2008 | 96 |
| 11 | How accurate are sphygmomanometers? | Journal of Human Hypertension | 1998 | 94 |
| 12 | Factors associated with lower gait speed among the elderly living in a developing country: a cross-sectional population-based study | BMC Geriatrics | 2015 | 88 |
| 13 | Surgical site infection in patients submitted to digestive surgery: Risk prediction and the NNIS risk index | American Journal of Infection Control | 2006 | 87 |
| 14 | Nursing Workload as a Risk Factor for Healthcare Associated Infections in ICU: A Prospective Study | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 85 |
| 15 | Nursing Activities Score in the intensive care unit: Analysis of the related factors | Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | 2008 | 84 |
| 16 | Nursing workload in intensive care units: A study using the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System-28 (TISS-28) | Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | 2007 | 67 |
| 17 | Sexuality and quality of life of breast cancer patients post mastectomy | European Journal of Oncology Nursing | 2011 | 64 |
| 18 | Fatigue in Brazilian cancer patients, caregivers, and nursing students: a psychometric validation study of the Piper Fatigue Scale-Revised | Supportive Care in Cancer | 2009 | 63 |
| 19 | The cognitive effects of opioids in chronic non-cancer pain | Pain | 2010 | 62 |
| 20 | Gender Differences in Life Expectancy and Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Older Adults in São Paulo, Brazil | Women's Health Issues | 2011 | 62 |
| 21 | Pressure injuries in critical patients: Incidence, patient-associated factors, and nursing workload | Journal of Nursing Management | 2019 | 60 |
| 22 | Self-Efficacy and Fear Avoidance Beliefs in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: Coexistence and Associated Factors | Pain Management Nursing | 2014 | 59 |
| 23 | The CUPID (Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability) Study: Methods of Data Collection and Characteristics of Study Sample | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 58 |
| 24 | Leukocyte telomere length in patients with schizophrenia: A meta-analysis | Schizophrenia Research | 2015 | 58 |
| 25 | Relationship Between Cortisol Levels and Memory Performance may be Modulated by the Presence or Absence of Cognitive Impairment: Evidence from Healthy Elderly, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Subjects | Journal of Alzheimer's Disease | 2010 | 53 |
| 26 | A Systematic Review of Topical Treatments to Control the Odor of Malignant Fungating Wounds | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2010 | 52 |
| 27 | A randomised controlled trial evaluating the effect of immersion bath on labour pain | Midwifery | 2009 | 50 |
| 28 | The relationship between anemia, hemoglobin concentration and frailty in Brazilian older adults | Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging | 2015 | 49 |
| 29 | COVID-19 Vaccines Safety Tracking (CoVaST): Protocol of a Multi-Center Prospective Cohort Study for Active Surveillance of COVID-19 Vaccines’ Side Effects | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2021 | 49 |
| 30 | Advanced practice nursing: a possibility for Primary Health Care? | Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem | 2018 | 48 |
| 31 | Burnout and nursing work environment in public health institutions | Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem | 2018 | 48 |
| 32 | Development and Validation of a 10-Year Mortality Prediction Model: Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data From Five Cohorts of Older Adults in Developed and Developing Countries | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2017 | 47 |
| 33 | Undernutrition as a major risk factor for death among older Brazilian adults in the community-dwelling setting: SABE survey | Nutrition | 2011 | 46 |
| 34 | Pain in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A multidisciplinary, International guideline for optimized management | Pancreatology | 2018 | 46 |
| 35 | Women’s reproductive health knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to the Zika virus outbreak in northeast Brazil | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 46 |
| 36 | Stressing factors and coping strategies used by oncology nurses | Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem | 2008 | 45 |
| 37 | Nursing workload and staff allocation in an intensive care unit: A pilot study according to Nursing Activities Score (NAS) | Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | 2010 | 45 |
| 38 | A Comparison of “Hands Off” Versus “Hands On” Techniques for Decreasing Perineal Lacerations During Birth | Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health | 2006 | 44 |
| 39 | Action research in the healthcare field: a scoping review | JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports | 2018 | 44 |
| 40 | Polymyxin B Nephrotoxicity: From Organ to Cell Damage | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 43 |
| 41 | The cultural adaptation and validation of the “Burn Specific Health Scale-Revised” (BSHS-R): Version for Brazilian burn victims | Burns | 2008 | 42 |
| 42 | Breast Milk and Glucose for Pain Relief in Preterm Infants: A Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial | Pediatrics | 2012 | 40 |
| 43 | Adult women's experiences of urinary incontinence: a systematic review of qualitative evidence | JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports | 2017 | 38 |
| 44 | New Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) adjustments for survival prediction | World Journal of Emergency Surgery | 2018 | 38 |
| 45 | Nursing activities score (NAS): A proposal for practical application in intensive care units | Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | 2007 | 37 |
| 46 | The cognitive effects of opioids in cancer: a systematic review | Supportive Care in Cancer | 2009 | 37 |
| 47 | The use of the "vulnerability" concept in the nursing area | Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem | 2008 | 36 |
| 48 | Influence of Therapeutic Play on the anxiety of hospitalized school-age children: Clinical trial | Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem | 2017 | 36 |
| 49 | The effects of an online basic life support course on undergraduate nursing students’ learning | International Journal of Medical Education | 2017 | 35 |
| 50 | Whole-genome sequencing of 1,171 elderly admixed individuals from Brazil | Nature Communications | 2022 | 35 |
