Table 1

Bibliometric information associated with the top 20 of the top 100 cited articles in acute kidney injury

Rank	Authors	Title	Journals	Years	Times cited (web)	Citation index (web)	Times cited (Scopus)	Citation index (Scopus)	PMID
1	Bellomo et al	Acute renal failure: definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group	Critical Care	2004	1971	164.25	2219	184.92	15 312 219
2	Mehta et al	Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney injury	Critical Care	2007	1652	183.56	1725	191.67	17 331 245
3	Uchino et al	Acute renal failure in critically ill patients—a multinational, multicenter study	JAMA—Journal of the American Medical Association	2005	1297	117.91	1489	135.36	16 106 006
4	Thadhani et al	Medical progress—acute renal failure	New England Journal of Medicine	1996	963	48.15	1139	56.95	8 618 585
5	Mishra et al	Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as a biomarker for acute renal injury after cardiac surgery	Lancet	2005	949	86.27	1079	98.09	15 811 456
6	Chertow et al	Acute kidney injury, mortality, length of stay, and costs in hospitalized patients	Journal of the American Society of Nephrology	2005	893	81.18	1035	94.09	16 177 006
7	Ronco et al	Effects of different doses in continuous veno-venous haemofiltration on outcomes of acute renal failure: a prospective randomised trial	Lancet	2000	816	51.00	1032	64.5	10 892 761
8	Paller et al	Oxygen free radicals in ischemic acute renal failure in the rat	Journal of Clinical Investigation	1984	814	25.44	575	17.97	6 434 591
9	McCullough et al	Acute renal failure after coronary intervention: incidence, risk factors, and relationship to mortality	American Journal of Medicine	1997	799	42.05	1016	53.47	9 375 704
10	Levy et al	The effect of acute renal failure on mortality—a cohort analysis	JAMA—Journal of the American Medical Association	1996	793	39.65	998	49.9	8 622 223
11	Rihal et al	Incidence and prognostic importance of acute renal failure after percutaneous coronary intervention	Circulation	2002	691	49.36	877	62.64	12 010 907
12	Solomon et al	Effects of saline, mannitol, and furosemide to prevent acute decreases in renal function induced by radiocontrast agents	New England Journal of Medicine	1994	684	31.09	905	41.14	7 969 280
13	Mehran et al	A simple risk score for prediction of contrast-induced nephropathy after percutaneous coronary intervention—development and initial validation	Journal of the American College of Cardiology	2004	677	56.42	844	70.33	15 464 318
14	Mishra et al	Identification of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as a novel early urinary biomarker for ischemic renal injury	Journal of the American Society of Nephrology	2003	645	49.62	735	56.54	14 514 731
15	Chertow et al	Independent association between acute renal failure and mortality following cardiac surgery	American Journal of Medicine	1998	630	35.00	747	41.5	9 576 407
16	Parfrey et al	Contrast material-induced renal failure in patients with diabetes mellitus, renal insufficiency, or both. A prospective controlled study	New England Journal of Medicine	1989	618	22.89	635	23.52	2 643 041
17	Aspelin et al	Nephrotoxic effects in high-risk patients undergoing angiography	New England Journal of Medicine	2003	575	44.23	758	58.31	12 571 256
18	Brivet et al	Acute renal failure in intensive care units—causes, outcome, and prognostic factors of hospital mortality: a prospective, multicenter study	Critical Care Medicine	1996	538	26.90	632	31.6	8 605 788
19	Togel et al	Administered mesenchymal stem cells protect against ischemic acute renal failure through differentiation-independent mechanisms	American Journal of Physiology—Renal Physiology	2005	524	47.64	625	56.82	15 713 913
20	Merten et al	Prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy with sodium bicarbonate—a randomized controlled trial	JAMA—Journal of the American Medical Association	2004	513	42.75	714	59.5	15 150 204

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See online supplementary table S1 for a complete list of T100.