Table 4.

Top Cited manuscripts per citations.

No	References	Title	TC	TC/Y	NTC
1	Luoma K et al. (24), Spine	Low back pain in relation to lumbar disc degeneration	900	37.5	8.67
2	Cheung et al. (11), Spine	Prevalence and pattern of lumbar magnetic resonance imaging changes in a population study of one thousand forty-three individuals	634	42.3	13.67
3	Borenstein et al. (25), J Bone JT Surg Ser A	The value of magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine to predict low-back pain in asymptomatic subjects: a seven-year follow-up study	336	14.6	6.59
4	Kjaer et al. (26), Spine	Magnetic resonance imaging and low back pain in adults: a diagnostic imaging study of 40-year-old men and women	332	17.5	6.79
5	Kader et al. (27), Clin Radiol	Correlation between the mri changes in the lumbar multifidus muscles and leg pain	325	13.5	3.13
5	Barrey et al. (28), Eur Spine J	Compensatory mechanisms contributing to keep the sagittal balance of the spine	302	27.5	14.36
6	Brinjikji et al. (29), Am J Neuroradiol	MRI findings of disc degeneration are more prevalent in adults with low back pain than in asymptomatic controls: a systematic review and meta-analysis	291	32.3	12.88
7	Carragee et al. (30), Spine	The rates of false-positive lumbar discography in select patients without low back symptoms	283	11.8	2.73
9	Liuke et al. (31), Int J Obes	Disc degeneration of the lumbar spine in relation to overweight	280	14.7	5.73
10	Teraguchi et al. (21), Osteoarthritis Cartilage	Prevalence and distribution of intervertebral disc degeneration over the entire spine in apopulation-based cohort: the wakayama spine study	266	26.6	12.18

TC, Total Citations; TC/Y, Total Citations Per Year; NTC, Normalized Total Citations.