Title	Publication Date	Language	Citations
A hierarchical regression approach to meta‐analysis of diagnostic test accuracy evaluations	2001/09/05	English	1,001
Stratification and weighting via the propensity score in estimation of causal treatment effects: a comparative study	2004/08/24	English	992
Combining independent studies of a diagnostic test into a summary roc curve: Data‐analytic approaches and some additional considerations	1993/07/30	English	979
The use of propensity score methods with survival or time‐to‐event outcomes: reporting measures of effect similar to those used in randomized experiments	2013/09/30	English	969
Spatial disease clusters: Detection and inference	1995/04/30	English	948
Flexible parametric proportional‐hazards and proportional‐odds models for censored survival data, with application to prognostic modelling and estimation of treatment effects	2002/07/16	English	943
Estimating and comparing time‐dependent areas under receiver operating characteristic curves for censored event times with competing risks	2013/09/12	English	912
A critical appraisal of propensity‐score matching in the medical literature between 1996 and 2003	2007/11/23	English	880
A tutorial on propensity score estimation for multiple treatments using generalized boosted models	2013/03/18	English	873
Controlling the risk of spurious findings from meta‐regression	2004/05/18	English	871
On the C‐statistics for evaluating overall adequacy of risk prediction procedures with censored survival data	2011/01/13	English	867
A comparison of the ability of different propensity score models to balance measured variables between treated and untreated subjects: a Monte Carlo study	2006/05/17	English	813
Network meta‐analysis for indirect treatment comparisons	2002/07/26	English	796
A comparison of methods to detect publication bias in meta‐analysis	2001/02/05	English	790
A breast cancer prediction model incorporating familial and personal risk factors	2004/03/23	English	788
Comparative analysis of two rates	1985/04/01	English	777
A framework for the investigation of pleiotropy in two‐sample summary data Mendelian randomization	2017/01/23	English	766
Selection of important variables and determination of functional form for continuous predictors in multivariable model building	2007/12/03	English	729
Subgroup analysis, covariate adjustment and baseline comparisons in clinical trial reporting: current practiceand problems	2002/09/20	English	709
The design versus the analysis of observational studies for causal effects: parallels with the design of randomized trials	2006/10/30	English	704
Methods for combining randomized clinical trials: Strengths and limitations	1987/04/01	English	654
Social contagion theory: examining dynamic social networks and human behavior	2012/06/18	English	647
Dose‐response analyses using restricted cubic spline functions in public health research	2010/01/19	English	646
A comparison of 12 algorithms for matching on the propensity score	2013/10/07	English	645
Imputing missing covariate values for the Cox model	2009/05/19	English	634
Regression models for relative survival	2003/12/18	English	621
The performance of different propensity score methods for estimating marginal hazard ratios	2012/12/12	English	601
Much ado about nothing: a comparison of the performance of meta‐analytical methods with rare events	2006/04/04	English	600
Sample size requirements for estimating intraclass correlations with desired precision	2002/04/10	English	599
Models for temporal variation in cancer rates. II: Age–period–cohort models	1987/06/01	English	588