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Top 50 most-cited campus publications

  • This list is updated every three to four months; significant changes are unlikely to occur more frequently.

    We compile the list using Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. We search the Affiliation field for Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne. Results are then sorted in descending order of times cited.

    The Cited column refers to the number of times the article has been cited; this is a widely used measure to determine an author's or institution's research output.

    Limitations:

    1. Publications must be contained in the Scopus database.
    2. Campus affiliation is not always included in all publications.
    [Source: Scopus. Retrieved: Aug 18 2026] Cited
    1. Ritchie, M.E., Phipson, B., Wu, D., Hu, Y., Law, C.W., Shi, W. and Smyth, G.K. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies', Nucleic Acids Research 2015; vol.43(7), pp.e47
    		 30,787
    2. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University if Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019', Lancet 2020; vol.396(10258), pp.1204-1222
    		 15,615
    3. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 Diseases and Injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017', Lancet 2018; vol.392(10159), pp.1789-1858  11,995 
    4. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010', Lancet 2012; vol.380(9859), pp.2095-2128  11,902 
    5. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Cardiology Department, Royal Children's Hospital; Critical Care and Neurosciences Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global burden of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, 1990-2019: update from the GBD 2019 Study', Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2020; vol.76(25), pp.2982-3021  10,182 
    6. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic, Australia.], 'A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010', Lancet 2012; vol.380(9859), pp.2224-2260  10,059 
    7. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Cardiology Department, Royal Children's Hospital; Critical Care and Neurosciences Department, Population Health Theme, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, vic., Australia.], 'Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019', Lancet 2020; vol.396(10258), pp.1223-1249  9,715 
    8. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010', Lancet 2012; vol.380(9859), pp.2197-2223  7,510 
    9. Karczewski, K.J., et al. [Centre for Population Genomics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans', Nature 2020; vol.581(7809), pp.434-443  7,456 
    10. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010', Lancet 2012; vol.380(9859), pp.2163-2196  7,046 
    11. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet 2017; vol.390(10100), pp.1211-1259  6,896 
    12. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017', Lancet 2018; vol.392(10159), pp.1736-1788  6,790 
    13. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013', Lancet 2015; vol.385(9963), pp.117-171  6,718 
    14. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195 countries over 25 years', New England Journal of Medicine 2017; vol.377(1), pp.13-27  6,648 
    15. Bycroft, C., Freeman, C., Petkova, D., Band, G., Elliott, L.T., Sharp, K., Motyer, A., Vukcevic, D., Delaneau, O., O’Connell, J., Cortes, A., Welsh, S., Young, A., Effingham, M., McVean, G., Leslie, S., Allen, N., Donnelly, P. and Marchini, J. [Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data', Nature 2018; vol.562(7726), pp.203-209  6,556 
    16. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015', Lancet 2016; vol.388(10053), pp.1545-1602  6,445 
    17. Sterne, J.A.C., White, I.R., Carlin, J.B., Spratt, M., Royston, P., Kenward, M.G., Wood, A.M. and Carpenter, J.R. [Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls', BMJ 2009; vol.338, b2393  5,950 
    18. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013', Lancet 2015; vol.386(9995), pp.743-800  5,793 
    19. Victora, C.G., Bahl, R., Barros, A.J.D., França, G.V.A., Horton, S., Krasevec, J., Murch, S., Sankar, M.J., Walker, N., Rollins, N.C., Allen, K., Dharmage, S., Lodge, C., Peres, K.G., Bhandari, N., Chowdhury, R., Sinha, B., Taneja, S., Giugliani, E., Horta, B., Maia, F., de Mola, C.L., Hajeebhoy, N., Lutter, C., Piwoz, E., Martines, J.C. and Richter, L. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect', Lancet 2016; vol.387(10017), pp.475-490  5,760 
    20. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015', Lancet 2016; vol.388(10053), pp.1459-1544  5,754 
    21. Fisher, R.S., Acevedo, C., Arzimanoglou, A., Bogacz, A., Cross, J.H., Elger, C.E., Engel Jr, J., Forsgren, L., French, J.A., Glynn, M., Hesdorffer, D.C., Lee, B.I., Mathern, G.W., Moshé, S.L., Perucca, E., Scheffer, I.E., Tomson, T., Watanabe, M. and Wiebe, S. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'ILAE official report: a practical clinical definition of epilepsy', Epilepsia 2014; vol.55(4), pp.475-482  5,071 
    22. Maude, S.L., Laetsch, T.W., Buechner, J., Rives, S., Boyer, M., Bittencourt, H., Bader, P., Verneris, M.R., Stefanski, H.E., Myers, G.D., Qayed, M., De Moerloose, B., Hiramatsu, H., Schlis, K., Davis, K.L., Martin, P.L., Nemecek, E.R., Yanik, G.A., Peters, C., Baruchel, A., Boissel, N., Mechinaud, F., Balduzzi, A., Krueger, J., June, C.H., Levine, B.L., Wood, P., Taran, T., Leung, M., Mueller, K.T., Zhang, Y., Sen, K., Lebwohl, D., Pulsipher, M.A. and Grupp, S.A. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia], 'Tisagenlecleucel in children and young adults with B-cell lymphoblastic leukemia', New England Journal of Medicine 2018; vol.378(5), pp.439-448  5,041 
    23. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021', Lancet 2024; vol.403(10440), pp.2133–2161  4,653 
    24. Klionsky, D.J., et al. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)', Autophagy 2016; vol.12(1), pp.1-222  4,647 
    25. Scheffer, I.E., Berkovic, S., Capovilla, G., Connolly, M.B., French, J., Guilhoto, L., Hirsch, E., Jain, S., Mathern, G.W., Moshé, S.L., Nordli, D.R., Perucca, E., Tomson, T., Wiebe, S., Zhang, Y.H. and Zuberi, S.M. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position Paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology', Epilepsia 2017; vol.58(4), pp.512-521  4,640 
    26. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet 2017; vol.390(10100), pp.1151-1210
    		 4,381 
    27. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic, Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017', Lancet 2018; vol.392(10159), pp.1923-1994  4,355 
    28. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015', Lancet 2016; vol.388(10053), pp.1659-1724  3,958 
    29. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Neurology Department, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet Neurology 2019; vol.18(5), pp.439-458  3,768 
    30. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet Neurology 2019; vol.18(5), pp.459-480  3,360 
    31. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national burden of cardiovascular diseases for 10 causes, 1990 to 2015', Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2017; vol.70(1), pp.1-25  3,314 
    32. McCrory, P., Meeuwisse, W., Dvořák, J., Aubry, M., Bailes, J., Broglio, S., Cantu, R.C., Cassidy, D., Echemendia, R.J., Castellani, R.J., Davis, G.A., Ellenbogen, R., Emery, C., Engebretsen, L., Feddermann-Demont, N., Giza, C.C., Guskiewicz, K.M., Herring, S., Iverson, G.L., Johnston, K.M., Kissick, J., Kutcher, J., Leddy, J.J., Maddocks, D., Makdissi, M., Manley, G.T., McCrea, M., Meehan, W.P., Nagahiro, S., Patricios, J., Putukian, M., Schneider, K.J., Sills, A., Tator, C.H., Turner, M. and Vos, P.E. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Consensus statement on concussion in sport - the 5th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Berlin, October 2016', British Journal of Sports Medicine 2017; vol.51(11), pp.838-847  3,285 
    33. Giambartolomei, C., Vukcevic, D., Schadt, E.E., Franke, L., Hingorani, A.D., Wallace, C. and Plagnol, V. [Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia], 'Bayesian test for colocalisation between pairs of genetic association studies using summary statistics', PLoS Genetics 2014; vol.10(5), e1004383  3,098 
    34. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990-2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Lancet Global Health 2017; vol.5(12), pp.e1221-e1234  3,090 
    35. Kotloff, K.L., Nataro, J.P., Blackwelder, W.C., Nasrin, D., Farag, T.H., Panchalingam, S., Wu, Y., Sow, S.O., Sur, D., Breiman, R.F., Faruque, A.S.G., Zaidi, A.K.M., Saha, D., Alonso, P.L., Tamboura, B., Sanogo, D., Onwuchekwa, U., Manna, B., Ramamurthy, T., Kanungo, S., Ochieng, J.B., Omore, R., Oundo, J.O., Hossain, A., Das, S.K., Ahmed, S., Qureshi, S., Quadri, F., Adegbola, R.A., Antonio, M., Hossain, M.J., Akinsola, A., Mandomando, I., Nhampossa, T., Acácio, S., Biswas, K., O'Reilly, C.E., Mintz, E.D., Berkeley, L.Y., Muhsen, K., Sommerfelt, H., Robins-Browne, R.M. and Levine, M.M. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study', Lancet 2013; vol.382(9888), pp.209-222  3,082 
    36. Patton, G.C., Sawyer, S.M., Santelli, J.S., Ross, D.A., Afifi, R., Allen, N.B., Arora, M., Azzopardi, P., Baldwin, W., Bonell, C., Kakuma, R., Kennedy, E., Mahon, J., McGovern, T., Mokdad, A.H., Patel, V., Petroni, S., Reavley, N., Taiwo, K., Waldfogel, J., Wickremarathne, D., Barroso, C., Bhutta, Z., Fatusi, A.O., Mattoo, A., Diers, J., Fang, J., Ferguson, J., Ssewamala, F. and Viner, R.M. [Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing', Lancet 2016; vol.387(10036), pp.2423-2478  3,068 
    37. Fisher, R.S., Cross, J.H., French, J.A., Higurashi, N., Hirsch, E., Jansen, F.E., Lagae, L., Moshé, S.L., Peltola, J., Roulet Perez, E., Scheffer, I.E. and Zuberi, S.M. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Operational classification of seizure types by the International League Against Epilepsy: position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology', Epilepsia 2017; vol.58(4), pp.522-530  3,064 
    38. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Population Health Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet 2018; vol.392(10152), pp.1015-1035  2,969 
    39. Sawyer, S.M., Azzopardi, P.S., Wickremarathne, D. and Patton, G.C. [Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The age of adolescence', Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2018; vol.2(3), pp.223-228  2,932 
    40. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017', Lancet 2018; vol.392(10159), pp.1859-1922  2,760 
    41. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville VIC 3083, Australia.], 'Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021', Lancet 2024; vol.403(10440), pp.2100–2132               2,650 
    42. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The global burden of cancer 2013', JAMA Oncology 2015; vol.1(4), pp.505-527  2,625 
    43. Greenland, S., Senn, S.J., Rothman, K.J., Carlin, J.B., Poole, C., Goodman, S.N. and Altman, D.G. [Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations', European Journal of Epidemiology 2016; vol.31(4), pp.337-350  2,615 
    44. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021', Lancet 2024; vol.403(10440), pp.2162–2203  2,607 
    45. Capper, D., et al. [Children's Cancer Centre, Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours', Nature 2018; vol.555(7697), pp.469-474  2,577 
    46. Carapetis, J.R., Steer, A.C., Mulholland, E.K. and Weber, M. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'The global burden of group A streptococcal diseases', Lancet Infectious Diseases 2005; vol.5(11), pp.685-694  2,496 
    47. Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013', Lancet 2015; vol.386(10010), pp.2287-2323  2,415 
    48. Saigal, S. and Doyle, L.W. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'An overview of mortality and sequelae of preterm birth from infancy to adulthood', Lancet 2008; vol.371(9608), pp.261-269  2,407 
    49. ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium. [Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes', Nature 2020; vol.578(7793), pp.82-93  2,389 
    50. Klionsky, D.J., et al. [Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne; Royal Children's Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)', Autophagy 2021; vol.17(1), pp.1-382  2,346 

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