Table 4.

The top 10 high-cited published articles in gout research

Rank	Article title	Authors	Year	Journal	Citations
1	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	GBD 2016 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators	2017	Lancet	2664
2	2012 American College of Rheumatology guidelines for management of gout. Part 1: Systematic nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapeutic approaches to hyperuricemia	Khanna D, et al	2012	Arthritis Care & Research	1032
3	Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Colchicine after Myocardial Infarction	Tardif JC, et al	2019	The New England Journal of Medicine	788
4	2016 updated EULAR evidence-based recommendations for the management of gout	Richette P, et al	2017	Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases	657
5	Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017	GBD Chronic Kidney Disease Collaboration	2020	Lancet	620
6	Global epidemiology of gout: prevalence, incidence and risk factors	Kuo CF, et al	2015	Nature Reviews Rheumatology	587
7	Microtubule-driven spatial arrangement of mitochondria promotes activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome	Misawa T, et al	2013	Nature Immunology	504
8	Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations	Köttgen A, et al	2013	Nature Genetics	493
9	2012 American College of Rheumatology guidelines for management of gout. Part 2: Therapy and antiinflammatory prophylaxis of acute gouty arthritis	Khanna D, et al	2012	Arthritis Care & Research	486
10	Aggregated neutrophil extracellular traps limit inflammation by degrading cytokines and chemokines	Schauer C, et al	2014	Nature Medicine	482