TABLE 3.

Study design of the 100 most-cited papers.

Study design	Number of articles	Number of citations WoS-CC a	Citation average
Literature review	58	23,795	410.26
In vivo laboratory study	17	5,841	343.59
Cohort	7	2,384	340.57
Non-randomized clinical trial	7	2,145	306.43
Practice guideline	4	1,454	363.50
Case-control study	3	960	320.00
In vitro laboratory study	2	476	238.00
Case series	1	455	455.00
Systematic review	1	234	234.00

^a WoS-CC, web of science core collection.