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: June 2025] 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

25 173
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

12 317
3.

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

11 367
4.

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

10 429
5.

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

9 705
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.], '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

7 182
7.

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

7 163
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.], '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

6 646
9.

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

6 362
10.

Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Cardiology Department, Royal Children's Hospital; Critical Care and Neurosciences Department, Population Health Theme, Murdoch Childrens 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

6 220
11.

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

6 179
12.

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

6 148
13.

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

5 985
14.

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

5 966
15.

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

5 788
16.

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

5 474
17.

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

5 334
18.

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

5 206
19.

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

4 952
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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

4 929
21.

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

4 492
22.

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

4 281
23.

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

4 257
24.

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

4 053
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

3 921
26.

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

3 870
27.

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

3 694
28.

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

3 482
29.

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

3 014
30.

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

3 005
31.

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

2 832
32.

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

2 570
33.

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

2 556
34.

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

2 521
35.

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

2 519
36.

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

2 442
37.

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

2 430
38.

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

2 335
39.

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

2 288

40.

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

2 268
41.

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

2 258
42.

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

2 109
43.

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

2 104
44.

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

2 104
45.

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 Childrens 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

2 090
46.

Global Burden of Disease Collaborators. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016', Lancet 2017; vol.390(10100), pp.1345-1422

2 085
47.

Verhagen, A.M., Ekert, P.G., Pakusch, M., Silke, J., Connolly, L.M., Reid, G.E., Moritz, R.L., Simpson, R.J. and Vaux, D.L. [Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Identification of DIABLO, a mammalian protein that promotes apoptosis by binding to and antagonizing IAP proteins', Cell 2000; vol.102(1), pp.43-53

2 051
48.

Easton, D.F., et al. [Genetic Health Services Victoria, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci', Nature 2007; vol.447(7148), pp.1087-1093

1 969
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

1 962
50.

Soriano, J.B., et al. [Murdoch Childrens Research Institute; University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia.], 'Global, regional, and national deaths, prevalence, disability-adjusted life years, and years lived with disability for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015', Lancet Respiratory Medicine 2017; vol.5(9), pp.691-706

1 931