Thorax

Papers
(The TQCC of Thorax is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaping and CBD: can new technology overcome old problems?184
Case-based discussion: neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for undiagnosed recalcitrant pulmonary hypertension—management challenges142
Journal club118
E-cigarette use in young adults and adolescents: not so safe?113
Fibrosing mediastinitis: ‘haemoptysis in the Heartland’111
Strengthening the evidence base to support stronger regulation of social media based advertising of e-cigarette products to youth111
Beware, vaping e-cigarettes around children is adversely impacting their lung health94
Ablation for lung cancer: hot or cold intervention84
Neuropsychiatric diagnoses after montelukast initiation in paediatric patients with asthma72
Emulated trial investigating effects of multiple treatments: estimating combined effects of mucoactive nebulisers in cystic fibrosis using registry data67
Correction:British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202364
Rectal organoid morphometric analysis (ROMA)—re: optimising measurements automatically63
Effects of tobacco smoking on recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study62
Complex coexistence of COPD and cardiovascular disease62
British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease61
Automatic oxygen titration versus constant oxygen flow rates during walking in COPD: a randomised controlled, double-blind, crossover trial61
TB PCR in BAL and EBUS-TBNA samples for the diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node TB: retrospective TRiBE study61
Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: a nationwide case-crossover study during 2007–201858
Ultra-low-dose CT versus chest X-ray for patients suspected of pulmonary disease at the emergency department: a multicentre randomised clinical trial56
Lung development genes, adult lung function and cardiovascular comorbidities54
Correction:RAGE-induced ILC2 expansion in acute lung injury due to haemorrhagic shock50
Highlights from this issue47
Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis45
Lower airway microbiota in COPD and healthy controls45
Muscle memory: genetic factors underlying functional impairment in COPD44
Prevalence of lung cysts in adolescents and adults with a germlineDICER1pathogenic/likely pathogenic variant: a report from the National Institutes of Health and International Pleuropulmonary B44
Implications of the 2022 lung function update and GLI global reference equations among patients with interstitial lung disease43
Ageing and ivacaftor: unravelling the long-term effects43
BTS Clinical Statement on air travel for passengers with respiratory disease42
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and asthma hospital admissions in children in Copenhagen, Denmark41
Airflow obstruction, impaired lung function and risk of sudden cardiac death: a prospective cohort study41
Impact of sex on severe asthma: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of UK primary and specialist care39
Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review39
Lung function as independent predictor of cardiovascular disease risk: implications for practice and policy37
Differentiation of malignant from benign pleural effusions based on artificial intelligence37
Toxic metals and lung health: silent poisons?37
Activation of epithelial and inflammatory pathways in adolescent elite athletes exposed to intense exercise and air pollution36
COPD in Africa: risk factors, hospitalisation, readmission and associated outcomes—a systematic review and meta-analysis36
Paediatric asthma hospitalisations continue to decrease in Finland and Sweden between 2015 and 202036
Case of hot tub lung showing a shadow distribution consistent with unequal ventilation35
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study35
Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data35
Past, present and future of conservative oxygen therapy in critical care35
Air athletes breathe: weighing benefits against harm34
Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency34
Invasive pulmonary infection caused byTrichoderma longibrachiatum34
Human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical dysplasia in adult female cystic fibrosis (CF) lung transplant recipients34
Highlights from this issue33
Sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults with intellectual disability: mind the gap!33
Impact of ambient air pollution on lung function in preterm-born school-aged children33
Testosterone and lung function: bigger lungs, slower decline or some combination of both?33
Correction:British thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202233
Topological data analysis identifies molecular phenotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis32
A syndrome by any other name: playing the long-term outcome CARDS32
Journal club32
Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?32
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of biologic and targeted synthetic therapies in sarcoidosis31
Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency31
Recent trends in asthma diagnosis, preschool wheeze diagnosis and asthma exacerbations in English children and adolescents: a SABINA Jr study31
Web-based physical activity promotion in young people with CF: a randomised controlled trial31
Parenchymal lung abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis30
Disadvantage in early-life and persistent asthma in adolescents: a UK cohort study29
Journal club29
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation29
Smart steps forward: the role of wearables in long-term rehabilitation after lung transplantation29
Management of a complex thoracic infection, one compartment at a time28
Returning to work following critical illness: milestone or millstone?28
Journal club28
Association of fluoroquinolones with the risk of spontaneous pneumothorax: nationwide case–time–control study28
Effects of traditional mind–body movement therapy on chronic cardiopulmonary dyspnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis28
Heat-related hospitalisations for asthma – challenges for research26
Comparing tests in the absence of a reference standard26
Untangling the web between menopause and respiratory disease26
Silicone depositions: an unusual finding in the explanted and newly transplanted lungs26
Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peakin COPD: a component network meta-analysis25
Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous trace elements and lung function: a national cross-sectional study25
Effect of CRTH2 antagonism on the response to experimental rhinovirus infection in asthma: a pilot randomised controlled trial25
Exploring the challenges of accessing medication for patients with cystic fibrosis25
Blood eosinophils take centre stage in predicting the response to sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT): a familiar twist24
Maintaining light sedation is important: next steps for research24
Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community24
Effects of azithromycin in severe eosinophilic asthma with concomitant monoclonal antibody treatment24
Establishing the exposure–outcome relation between airborne particulate matter and children’s health24
MAC attack: MSCs and macrophages join forces against chronic lung infection24
Observational UK cohort study to describe intermittent oral corticosteroid prescribing patterns and their association with adverse outcomes in asthma24
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study23
Global and regional burden of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis from 1990 to 2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 201923
Fixing lung health in the UK: accelerating respiratory research and innovation23
Mediators of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): systematic review and meta-analyses23
Journal club22
Searching, again, for answers in all the wrong places22
QCOVID in Scotland: time to recalibrate our expectations?22
Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in people aged less than 50 years old22
COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multiciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors22
Correction:Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data22
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on lung cancer survival in England: an analysis of the rapid cancer registration dataset21
Inequalities in care and the burden of wheeze and asthma in young children from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds21
Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the host response in severe community-acquired pneumonia21
Variability in sensitivity to inflammation in muscle and lung of patients with COPD may underlie susceptibility to lung function decline20
Rare case of bilateral lung nodules20
Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma20
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation during outpatient-managed acute COPD exacerbation: the latest new PR model?20
MUC5B, telomere length and longitudinal quantitative interstitial lung changes: the MESA Lung Study20
Prospective nationwide multicentre cohort study of the clinical significance of autoimmune features in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias20
Cause-specific mortality in COPD subpopulations: a cohort study of 339 647 people in England19
Epithelial damage and ageing: the perfect storm19
What’s new in pleural disease?19
Derivation and validation of a simple multidimensional index incorporating exercise capacity parameters for survival prediction in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis19
Projecting the impact of triple CFTR modulator therapy on intravenous antibiotic requirements in cystic fibrosis using patient registry data combined with treatment effects from randomised trials19
Highlights from this issue19
Effect of time of day and seasonal variation on bronchodilator responsiveness: the SPIRO-TIMETRY study19
Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve outcomes following critical illness: a multicentre study19
Correction: BTS clinical statement on pulmonary sarcoidosis19
Highlights from this issue18
Does impaired respiratory function lead to sudden cardiac death?18
Selective androgen receptor modulation for muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised control trial18
New statement and new hope for patients with refractory chronic cough18
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation on endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy18
Does pay-for-performance improve patient outcomes in acute exacerbation of COPD admissions?18
Correction: What’s hot that the other lot got18
Time to move out of the shadows: ILA in patients with lung cancer18
Persistent alveolar inflammatory response in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is associated with mortality17
Novel electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy system for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules: a prospective, multicentre study17
Sex differences in COPD in relation to smoking exposure: a population-based cohort study17
Effect of quitting smoking on health outcomes during treatment for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of the TB & Tobacco Trial17
Use of inhaled corticosteroids and risk of acquiringPseudomonas aeruginosain patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease17
Challenging the gold standard: the limitations of molecular assays for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisheteroresistance17
Classifying ARDS by dynamic or static oxygenation impairment or are other approaches needed for greater value16
Identifying a hyperinflammatory subphenotype of ARDS associated with worse outcomes: may ferritin help?16
Children’s charter for lung health16
Airflow obstruction and small airway dysfunction following pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross-sectional survey16
Atopic and non-atopic effects of fish oil supplementation during pregnancy16
Circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a new association16
Effects of exercise training in people with non-small cell lung cancer before lung resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Computational fluid dynamics model predictions of inhaled corticosteroid deposition in patients with severe asthma16
British Thoracic Society Guideline for diagnosing and monitoring paediatric sleep-disordered breathing16
High-flow nasal oxygen: benefits are hard to show in COVID-19 patients with mild hypoxaemia16
Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?15
Collagen neoepitopes in sarcoidosis: what do they tell us?15
Multiple intrathoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis as visualised on medical thoracoscopy15
Journal club15
To progress or not to progress: new insights into the evolution of pleuropulmonary blastomas come from studying lung cysts in adolescents and adults withDICER1-related tumour predisposition15
A prospective longitudinal study of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis in pulmonary tuberculosis in Indonesia (APICAL)14
Bacterial biofilms predominate in both acute and chronic human lung infections14
Symptom-related screening programme for early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism: the SYSPPE study14
Reversible bronchiectasis14
Correction: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting February 202114
Type-2 inflammation: a key treatable trait associated with lung function decline in chronic airways disease14
Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery plus pulmonary rehabilitation on complications after video-assisted lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial14
Laryngeal widening and adequate ventilation by expiratory pressure load training improve aerobic capacity in COPD: a randomised controlled trial14
Angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery as an unexpected evolution of an apparent pulmonary thromboembolism14
Advanced MicroRNA delivery for lung inflammatory therapy: surfactant protein A controls cellular internalisation and degradation of extracellular vesicles14
Lung epithelial cells interact with immune cells and bacteria to shape the microenvironment in tuberculosis14
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations may be the only clinical criterion present in genetically confirmed hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia14
Role of inflammasomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome14
Correction:Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma13
Highlights from this issue13
Clinical presentation and prognosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients with concomitant upper-extremity versus lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis13
Immediate smoking cessation support during lung cancer screening: long-term outcomes from two randomised controlled trials13
Journal club13
Improving uptake of lung cancer screening: an observational study on the impact of timed appointments and reminders13
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health13
Artificial stone silicosis arrives in the UK: a tragic case of history repeating13
Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study13
Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study13
Opportunistic actinomycosis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis12
Journal club12
Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure therapy in COPD (O-COPD): a randomised controlled trial12
Respiratory and allergic outcomes among 5-year-old children exposed to pesticides12
Respiratory research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years12
Automatic analysis of bronchus-artery dimensions to diagnose and monitor airways disease in cystic fibrosis12
Risk of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other interstitial lung diseases following organic dust exposure12
Remote vision-based digital patient monitoring of pulse and respiratory rates in acute medical wards12
Consolidation with pseudocavitation12
Improvements of the shape and strength of the diaphragm after endoscopic lung volume reduction12
Breathlessness across generations: results from the RHINESSA generation study12
Definition of diaphragmatic sleep disordered breathing and clinical meaning in Duchenne muscular dystrophy11
Comparative estimate of glucose-lowering therapies on risk of incident pneumonia and severe sepsis: an analysis of real-world cohort data11
Combining tuberculin skin test with follow-on interferon gamma release assay markedly improves screening of household contacts11
Journal club11
Disease monitoring using lung function trajectory in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: assessment in two national cohorts11
Infections due to dysregulated immunity: an emerging complication of cancer immunotherapy11
Journal club11
Higher exhaled nitric oxide at 6 weeks of age is associated with less bronchiolitis and wheeze in the first 12 months of age11
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe)11
Altered purine metabolism at reperfusion affects clinical outcome in lung transplantation11
Journal club11
Tobacco industry ownership of pharmaceutical companies: an international survey of people with respiratory disease11
Multicentre evaluation of two multiplex PCR platforms for the rapid microbiological investigation of nosocomial pneumonia in UK ICUs: the INHALE WP1 study10
Common idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk variants are associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis10
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes10
Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active case finding?10
Higher SARS-CoV-2 detection of oropharyngeal compared with nasopharyngeal or saliva specimen for molecular testing: a multicentre randomised comparative accuracy study10
Childhood interstitial lung disease: short lessons from telomeres10
Mild elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality regardless of mean pulmonary artery pressure in mild interstitial lung disease10
Environmental pollutants exposure-derived extracellular vesicles: crucial players in respiratory disorders10
High-dose rifamycins in the treatment of TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis10
Association of circulating cell-free double-stranded DNA and metabolic derangements in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis10
Spontaneous intrapulmonary haemorrhage in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome10
Impacts of sex and gender on severe asthma10
Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease10
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on occupational asthma10
Future risk projection to engage ‘near-miss’ individuals in lung cancer screening eligibility: an analysis of ILST data10
Prognostic accuracy of a peripheral blood transcriptome signature in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis10
Persistent hypoxaemia and a headache in a previously healthy 11-year-old girl10
Antenatal exposures to tobacco and biomass or fossil fuels and wheezing in early childhood in South Africa9
What shall we learn from TEACH?9
Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in the lung9
Cardiac MRI in the assessment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and response to treatment9
Antibiotic pharmacokinetics in infected pleural effusions9
Metabolomic differences in lung function metrics: evidence from two cohorts9
Eosinophilia and fractional exhaled nitric oxide levels in chronic obstructive lung disease9
Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult9
Airway inflammation in severe asthmatics with acid gastro-oesophageal reflux9
Highlights from this issue9
Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a pharmacovigilance study9
Rebound in asthma exacerbations following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal population-based study (COVIDENCE UK)9
Decoding pulmonary nodules: can machine learning enhance malignancy risk stratification?9
Cost-effectiveness of ambulatory care management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: an open-label, randomised controlled trial9
One-step closer to solve the mystery of predicting disease progression in systemic sclerosis associated interstitial lung disease?9
Extensive airway remodelling in severe COPD imparts resiliency to environmental stressors9
Tracheal stenosis after endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration9
Impact of radiographer immediate reporting of X-rays of the chest from general practice on the lung cancer pathway (radioX): a randomised controlled trial9
In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease9
Associations of ultrafine and fine particles with childhood emergency room visits for respiratory diseases in a megacity9
Cost-related non-adherence to medications among adults with asthma in the USA, 2011–20229
Understanding the aetiology of lung function impairment: the crucial role of age of onset9
Chronic berylliosis disease: uncommon pulmonary granulomas beyond sarcoidosis9
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