Table 1. Characteristics of the top 11 highly cited ECG-related articles (TC-2013 > 950).
| Rank (TC-2013) | Rank (C-2013) | Rank (TC/Y) | Article Title | First Author | Published year | Published Journal |
| 1(3,033) | 2(203) | 2(178.41) | Spontaneous initiation of atrial fibrillation by ectopic beats originating in the pulmonary veins | Haissaguerre | 1998 | New England Journal of Medicine |
| 2(2,802) | 20(80) | 66(29.49) | An analysis of the time-relations of electrocardiograms. | Bazett | 1920 | Heart |
| 3(2,766) | 6(128) | 1(212.77) | Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the LosartanIntervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study (LIFE): a randomised trial against atenolol | Dahlof | 2002 | Lancet |
| 4(1,452) | 19(81) | 11(60.5) | Health inequalities among British civil-servants - the Whitehall-II study | Marmot | 1991 | Lancet |
| 5(1,389) | 18(82) | 12(60.39) | Right bundle-branch block, persistent ST segment elevation and sudden cardiac death - a distinct clinical and electrocardiographic syndrome - a multicenter report | Brugada | 1992 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology |
| 6(1,140) | 9(123) | 13(60) | Heart rate variability: standards of measurement, physiological interpretation and clinical use. Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. | No authors listed | 1996 | European Heart Journal |
| 7(1,135) | 11(103) | 6(75.67) | The TIMI risk score for unstable angina/non-ST elevation MI: a method for prognostication and therapeutic decisionc making | Antman | 2000 | Journal of the American Medical Association |
| 8(1,097) | 111(24) | 143(19.95) | The electrocardiogram in population studies - a classification system | Blackburn | 1960 | Circulation |
| 9(1,058) | 1(225) | 3(132.25) | Universal definition of myocardial infarction | Thygesen | 2007 | Circulation |
| 10(999) | 61(35) | 27(43.43) | Frequency-domain measures of heart period variability and mortality after myocardial-infarction | Bigger | 1992 | Circulation |
C-2013: the total number of citations of the article in 2013; ECG: electrocardiogram; TC-2013: total count of citations since the article was published to the end of 2013; TC/Y: total count of citations since the article was published to the end of the specific year.