Thorax

Papers
(The TQCC of Thorax is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaping and CBD: can new technology overcome old problems?240
Case-based discussion: neonates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for undiagnosed recalcitrant pulmonary hypertension—management challenges157
Rectal organoid morphometric analysis (ROMA)—re: optimising measurements automatically117
E-cigarette use in young adults and adolescents: not so safe?115
Fibrosing mediastinitis: ‘haemoptysis in the Heartland’87
Strengthening the evidence base to support stronger regulation of social media based advertising of e-cigarette products to youth85
Serum IgA isotypes are associated with percent emphysema, wall thickness and lung function decline79
Ablation for lung cancer: hot or cold intervention78
Lung development genes, adult lung function and cardiovascular comorbidities75
Correction: British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202366
Is the provision of a national opt-out tobacco dependence treatment service in acute hospitals in England equitable? A national cohort study62
What constitutes meaningful gain in skeletal muscle strength in COPD?61
Emulated trial investigating effects of multiple treatments: estimating combined effects of mucoactive nebulisers in cystic fibrosis using registry data61
Complex coexistence of COPD and cardiovascular disease61
Mechanisms driving immunopathogenesis of viral exacerbations in chronic respiratory disease59
Ultrafine particles and health: the next frontier in understanding air pollution hazards58
TB PCR in BAL and EBUS-TBNA samples for the diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal lymph node TB: retrospective TRiBE study54
Ultra-low-dose CT versus chest X-ray for patients suspected of pulmonary disease at the emergency department: a multicentre randomised clinical trial54
At-risk registers integrated into primary care to stop asthma crises in the UK: cluster randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation53
Upstaging of screen-detected lung cancers during diagnostic assessment43
Neuropsychiatric diagnoses after montelukast initiation in paediatric patients with asthma42
Toxic metals and lung health: silent poisons?41
British Thoracic Society Guideline for pleural disease41
Muscle memory: genetic factors underlying functional impairment in COPD40
Paediatric asthma hospitalisations continue to decrease in Finland and Sweden between 2015 and 202039
Beyond detection: what happens after lung cancer screening matters more39
Activation of epithelial and inflammatory pathways in adolescent elite athletes exposed to intense exercise and air pollution38
Ageing and ivacaftor: unravelling the long-term effects38
Lung function as independent predictor of cardiovascular disease risk: implications for practice and policy37
COPD in Africa: risk factors, hospitalisation, readmission and associated outcomes—a systematic review and meta-analysis36
Stretching the diagnosis: tracheobronchomegaly in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency or coexisting Mounier-Kuhn syndrome?35
Delayed presentation of pulmonary Echinococcus in a patient with no major risk factors35
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 B33
Implications of the 2022 lung function update and GLI global reference equations among patients with interstitial lung disease32
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with suboptimal asthma care in the UK: the SABINA healthCARe-Based envirONmental cost of treatment (CARBON) study32
Intensive care unit interventions to promote sleep and circadian biology in reducing incident delirium: a scoping review32
Differentiation of malignant from benign pleural effusions based on artificial intelligence32
Short-term exposure to ultrafine particles and asthma hospital admissions in children in Copenhagen, Denmark32
Tool in lesion verification of shape-sensing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with cone beam CT in sampling peripheral pulmonary nodules31
Smartphones: a useful option for the pulmonary rehab toolkit?31
Disproportionate increase in COPD exacerbation risk for 3 months after discontinuing LAMA or ICS: insights from the FLAME trial30
‘Mind the gap’29
Lower airway microbiota in COPD and healthy controls29
Global asthma and pest control: bugs and WASPs29
Impact of sex on severe asthma: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis of UK primary and specialist care28
Association between vitamin D status at 3 years and eosinophilic asthma in 6-year-old children with a history of severe bronchiolitis28
Correction: RAGE-induced ILC2 expansion in acute lung injury due to haemorrhagic shock28
Smart steps forward: the role of wearables in long-term rehabilitation after lung transplantation27
Non-invasive ventilation: interpretation of ventilator supplied data27
Air athletes breathe: weighing benefits against harm27
Highlights from this issue26
Single-cell mapping reveals CXCL11 as a driver of mucus production and inflammation in influenza A virus exacerbation in COPD26
Quantitative BAL: a suitable method for the assessment of epithelial lining fluid in alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?26
Case of hot tub lung showing a shadow distribution consistent with unequal ventilation26
Testosterone and lung function: bigger lungs, slower decline or some combination of both?26
Early experience of a new national lung allocation scheme in the UK based on clinical urgency25
Functional impairment in COPD can be predicted using genomic-derived data25
Medical management of inpatients with tobacco dependency25
Impact of ambient air pollution on lung function in preterm-born school-aged children25
Sleep-disordered breathing in children and adults with intellectual disability: mind the gap!25
Opt-out tobacco dependency treatment for inpatients: confronting entrenched inequalities but under threat25
Correction: British thoracic Society Winter Meeting 202225
Invasive pulmonary infection caused byTrichoderma longibrachiatum24
Recent trends in asthma diagnosis, preschool wheeze diagnosis and asthma exacerbations in English children and adolescents: a SABINA Jr study24
Sex-based differences in effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis24
National mesothelioma networks: platforms for better care and research opportunities24
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of biologic and targeted synthetic therapies in sarcoidosis23
Adolescent exercise capacity predicts higher exercise tolerance later in life when compounded by anaemia in patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations23
Basement membrane repair response biomarker PRO-C4 predicts progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PFBIO and PROFILE cohorts23
Topological data analysis identifies molecular phenotypes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis23
British Thoracic Society Clinical Statement on pulmonary rehabilitation23
Journal club22
Heat-related hospitalisations for asthma – challenges for research22
Untangling the web between menopause and respiratory disease22
Silicone depositions: an unusual finding in the explanted and newly transplanted lungs22
Web-based physical activity promotion in young people with CF: a randomised controlled trial22
Early prediction of bronchopulmonary dysplasia by urinary metabolomics: a case–control study21
Fixing lung health in the UK: accelerating respiratory research and innovation21
Peripheral airway balloon dilation: a standalone technique for lung nodule biopsy or just another tool in the armamentarium?21
Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community21
MAC attack: MSCs and macrophages join forces against chronic lung infection21
Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous trace elements and lung function: a national cross-sectional study21
Understanding the effectiveness of different exercise training programme designs on V̇O2peakin COPD: a component network meta-analysis21
Why asthma progresses to COPD: environmental and genetic drivers21
Effects of azithromycin in severe eosinophilic asthma with concomitant monoclonal antibody treatment20
Small nodules, big implications: rethinking diagnostic value in robotic-assisted bronchoscopy20
Association of fluoroquinolones with the risk of spontaneous pneumothorax: nationwide case–time–control study20
Tracheobronchial amyloidosis: visualising airway lesions with CT post processing20
Association between maternal asthma and impaired infant lung function is diminished by inhaled corticosteroid use in pregnancy19
Factors associated with guideline-concordant maintenance inhaled medication for COPD: a population-based, longitudinal cohort study19
Thymoma with mysterious ossification in a young female19
When biomarkers disagree: interpreting F eNO and eosinophils across airway disease19
Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in people aged less than 50 years old19
Blood eosinophils take centre stage in predicting the response to sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT): a familiar twist19
Comparing tests in the absence of a reference standard19
Reduced lung function and health-related quality of life after treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in Gambian children: a cross-sectional comparative study19
Effect of simvastatin on postoperative complications in patients undergoing one-lung ventilation during surgery: the Prevention HARP-2 randomised controlled trial19
No association between troponin and COPD without cardiovascular influence: findings from a population-based cohort (SCAPIS)19
Searching, again, for answers in all the wrong places18
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation during outpatient-managed acute COPD exacerbation: the latest new PR model?18
Rare case of bilateral lung nodules18
Atomoxetine plus oxybutynin for obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised-controlled trial with detailed pathophysiology18
Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on lung cancer survival in England: an analysis of the rapid cancer registration dataset18
Correction: Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data18
Mediators of systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD): systematic review and meta-analyses18
Observational UK cohort study to describe intermittent oral corticosteroid prescribing patterns and their association with adverse outcomes in asthma18
MUC5B, telomere length and longitudinal quantitative interstitial lung changes: the MESA Lung Study18
Questioned role of adjunctive corticosteroids in non-HIV Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: to give or not to give18
Effect of mesenchymal stem cells on the host response in severe community-acquired pneumonia17
Variability in forced expiratory volume in 1 s in children with symptomatically well-controlled asthma17
Correlates of 5-year decline in 6-min walk distance in the COPDGene cohort17
Inequalities in care and the burden of wheeze and asthma in young children from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds17
Maternal eating disorders and respiratory outcomes in childhood: findings from the EU Child Cohort Network17
Is acetazolamide a ‘REMedy’ for rapid eye movement-predominant obstructive sleep apnoea?17
COPD basal cells are primed towards secretory to multiciliated cell imbalance driving increased resilience to environmental stressors16
Health economic model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation services integrated within lung cancer screening in the United Kingdom16
Maternal prenatal carotenoids and child lung function: exploration of modifying factors16
Variability: the law of life?16
Effect of time of day and seasonal variation on bronchodilator responsiveness: the SPIRO-TIMETRY study16
Pulmonary arterio-venous malformation on endobronchial ultrasound bronchoscopy15
Variability in sensitivity to inflammation in muscle and lung of patients with COPD may underlie susceptibility to lung function decline15
Time to move out of the shadows: ILA in patients with lung cancer15
Cause-specific mortality in COPD subpopulations: a cohort study of 339 647 people in England15
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of SPACE for COPD delivered as a pulmonary rehabilitation maintenance programme: a randomised controlled trial15
What’s new in pleural disease?15
Epithelial damage and ageing: the perfect storm15
Real-world effectiveness and safety of nirsevimab, RSV maternal vaccine and RSV vaccines for older adults: a living systematic review and meta-analysis15
Correction: What’s hot that the other lot got14
Spirometry phenotypes at 8 years in children born extremely preterm or with extremely low birth weight14
Sex differences in COPD in relation to smoking exposure: a population-based cohort study14
Novel electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy system for the diagnosis of peripheral pulmonary nodules: a prospective, multicentre study14
Computational fluid dynamics model predictions of inhaled corticosteroid deposition in patients with severe asthma14
Time to next procedure in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing aspiration: derivation and initial validation of the RED score14
Circulating miRNAs and childhood asthma ICS response: a stratified analysis in the intervention arm of an RCT with vitamin D effect modification14
Understanding the bidirectional relationship between chronic respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease using genetic evidence14
Improving lung cancer screening: the role and challenges of risk prediction models14
Haemoptysis in an adolescent post vertebral body tethering surgery for scoliosis14
Selective androgen receptor modulation for muscle weakness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised control trial14
Feast of data and methods: how advancing epidemiology brings COPD, diet and plasma proteomics to the table14
Is it time to re-evaluate the levels of evidence in medical research: commentary on inhaled corticosteroids in COPD13
Atopic and non-atopic effects of fish oil supplementation during pregnancy13
British Thoracic Society Guideline for diagnosing and monitoring paediatric sleep-disordered breathing13
Persistent alveolar inflammatory response in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is associated with mortality13
Classifying ARDS by dynamic or static oxygenation impairment or are other approaches needed for greater value13
New statement and new hope for patients with refractory chronic cough13
Collagen neoepitopes in sarcoidosis: what do they tell us?13
Challenging the gold standard: the limitations of molecular assays for detection ofMycobacterium tuberculosisheteroresistance13
Donor lung allocation scheme: how can we measure success?12
Clinical presentation and prognosis of acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism in patients with concomitant upper-extremity versus lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis12
Effects of enhanced recovery after surgery plus pulmonary rehabilitation on complications after video-assisted lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial12
Cytisinicline for smoking cessation in individuals with self-reported COPD: a post hoc analysis of the ORCA-2 and ORCA-3 trials12
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 predisposition12
Journal club12
Type-2 inflammation: a key treatable trait associated with lung function decline in chronic airways disease12
Laryngeal widening and adequate ventilation by expiratory pressure load training improve aerobic capacity in COPD: a randomised controlled trial12
Multiple intrathoracic extramedullary haematopoiesis as visualised on medical thoracoscopy12
Identifying a hyperinflammatory subphenotype of ARDS associated with worse outcomes: may ferritin help?12
A long time ago, in an airway far, far away: early changes in the proximal airways in IPF and their response to drug treatment12
Disparities in lung function trajectories among tobacco-exposed individuals12
Symptom-related screening programme for early detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after acute pulmonary embolism: the SYSPPE study11
High-flow nasal oxygen: benefits are hard to show in COVID-19 patients with mild hypoxaemia11
Prevalence and assessment of exercise-induced desaturation in lymphangioleiomyomatosis11
Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study11
Air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of progression from asthma to COPD11
Asthma exacerbations are associated with a decline in lung function: a longitudinal population-based study11
Granules of truth: unpacking the eosinophilic endotype in bronchiectasis11
Lung cancer in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: do antifibrotics have a preventive effect?11
Advanced MicroRNA delivery for lung inflammatory therapy: surfactant protein A controls cellular internalisation and degradation of extracellular vesicles11
Safety, feasibility and efficacy of exercise as an airway clearance technique in cystic fibrosis: a randomised pilot feasibility trial11
Improving uptake of lung cancer screening: an observational study on the impact of timed appointments and reminders11
Role of inflammasomes in acute respiratory distress syndrome11
Angiosarcoma of the pulmonary artery as an unexpected evolution of an apparent pulmonary thromboembolism10
Remote vision-based digital patient monitoring of pulse and respiratory rates in acute medical wards10
Journal club10
Artificial stone silicosis arrives in the UK: a tragic case of history repeating10
Consolidation with pseudocavitation10
Definition of diaphragmatic sleep disordered breathing and clinical meaning in Duchenne muscular dystrophy10
Journal club10
Enhanced diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy using a multiplex droplet digital PCR assay targeting circulating mycobacterial DNA10
Correction: Night shift work is associated with an increased risk of asthma10
Association of blood eosinophils and exhaled nitric oxide with exacerbations in patients with asthma, COPD and asthma+COPD: the NOVELTY study9
Optimising breathlessness triggered services for older people with advanced diseases: a multicentre economic study (OPTBreathe)9
How ExACTly does exercise compare as an alternative to traditional airway clearance techniques in people with cystic fibrosis?9
Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure therapy in COPD (O-COPD): a randomised controlled trial9
Respiratory research in the UK: investing for the next 10 years9
Combining tuberculin skin test with follow-on interferon gamma release assay markedly improves screening of household contacts9
Impact of air pollution on lung function in cystic fibrosis over a decade in London: a UK CF Registry study9
Usual interstitial pneumonia on CT: same pattern, different prognosis9
Risk of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other interstitial lung diseases following organic dust exposure9
Sex differences in expiratory airflow among survivors born before 28 weeks’ gestation or under 1000 g birthweight, and normal birthweight controls9
Mobile instant messaging supported brief physical exercise intervention for smoking cessation: a community-based, cluster randomised controlled trial9
Optimised oxygenation improves functional capacity during daily activities in patients with COPD on long-term oxygen therapy: a randomised crossover trial9
Improvements of the shape and strength of the diaphragm after endoscopic lung volume reduction9
Journal club9
Future risk projection to engage �near-miss� individuals in lung cancer screening eligibility: an analysis of ILST data8
Journal club8
Automatic analysis of bronchus-artery dimensions to diagnose and monitor airways disease in cystic fibrosis8
Immediate smoking cessation support during lung cancer screening: long-term outcomes from two randomised controlled trials8
Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active case finding?8
Tracheal stenosis after endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration8
Mild elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance predicts mortality regardless of mean pulmonary artery pressure in mild interstitial lung disease8
Higher SARS-CoV-2 detection of oropharyngeal compared with nasopharyngeal or saliva specimen for molecular testing: a multicentre randomised comparative accuracy study8
LAMA and ICS discontinuation in COPD: run-in to an exacerbation?8
Tobacco industry ownership of pharmaceutical companies: an international survey of people with respiratory disease8
Journal club8
Disease monitoring using lung function trajectory in lymphangioleiomyomatosis: assessment in two national cohorts8
Comparative estimate of glucose-lowering therapies on risk of incident pneumonia and severe sepsis: an analysis of real-world cohort data8
Impact of COPD on cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in people with established cardiovascular disease8
In search of the elusive biomarker(s): a proteomics analysis in rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease8
Impact of a national mesothelioma network on outcomes including survival8
Smoking cessation within lung cancer screening: how much more evidence is needed?8
Impacts of sex and gender on severe asthma8
Journal club8
Can targeted combination pharmacotherapy find its mark in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea?8
Patient stratification using plasma cytokines and their regulators in sepsis: relationship to outcomes, treatment effect and leucocyte transcriptomic subphenotypes8
Environmental pollutants exposure-derived extracellular vesicles: crucial players in respiratory disorders8
Aligning management of chronic cough in asthma with BTS/NICE/SIGN guidance8
Bacterial multiplex polymerase chain reaction tests for the diagnosis and management of pneumonia: ready for prime time?8
Highlights from this issue8
Spontaneous intrapulmonary haemorrhage in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome8
All that pops is not necessarily a pneumothorax!7
Nocturnal gastro-oesophageal reflux and pulmonary abnormalities on chest CT in a general population: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study7
Decoding pulmonary nodules: can machine learning enhance malignancy risk stratification?7
Impact of radiographer immediate reporting of X-rays of the chest from general practice on the lung cancer pathway (radioX): a randomised controlled trial7
Thorax at 807
Pulmonary artery angiosarcoma7
Associations of interstitial lung disease subtype and CT pattern with lung function and survival7
Correction: Safety, feasibility and efficacy of exercise as an airway clearance technique in cystic fibrosis: a randomised pilot feasibility trial7
Antenatal exposures to tobacco and biomass or fossil fuels and wheezing in early childhood in South Africa7
Rare occurrence of tracheal acinic cell carcinoma causing central airway obstruction in a young adult7
Empyema thoracis with splenothoracic fistula7
Antibiotic pharmacokinetics in infected pleural effusions7
Chronic berylliosis disease: uncommon pulmonary granulomas beyond sarcoidosis7
Extensive airway remodelling in severe COPD imparts resiliency to environmental stressors7
Endobronchial obstruction of the left middle lobe7
Understanding the aetiology of lung function impairment: the crucial role of age of onset7
Cardiac MRI in the assessment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and response to treatment7
2024 BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guidelines have the potential to improve UK asthma outcomes, but we must act now7
Multimodality curative-intent treatment in NSCLC: an unprecedented era of change 2017–20257
Rebound in asthma exacerbations following relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal population-based study (COVIDENCE UK)7
Cost-related non-adherence to medications among adults with asthma in the USA, 2011–20227
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation: the missing link?7
Non-cigarette tobacco products, aryl-hydrocarbon receptor repressor gene methylation and smoking-related health outcomes7
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