Best in the journal CHEST: 2014

Most downloaded, most cited, and most popular on social media—did your favorite make the list?

February 10, 2015

By: Kristi Bruno

It’s awards season, so we thought we’d get in on the fun! It isn’t the Oscars or the Emmys and there are no red carpets, awkward acceptance speeches, and Kanye West won't jump on the stage to grab the microphone, but we’re highlighting the most cited, most downloaded, and most popular articles on social media from the journal CHEST. Did any of your favorites make the list?

Most Downloaded

• Pharmacologic Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
• Overview of the Management of Cough: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
• Pulmonary Hypertension Surveillance: United States, 2001 to 2010
• Anatomy and Neurophysiology of Cough: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
• Nutrition in the ICU: An Evidence-Based Approach
• Once-Daily Umeclidinium/Vilanterol 125/25 μg Therapy in COPD: A Randomized, Controlled Study
• Introduction and Executive Summary: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement
• Early Management of Severe Sepsis: Concepts and Controversies
• An Official Multi-Society Statement: Ventilator-Associated Events: The New Definition
• Methodologies for the Development of the Management of Cough: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report

Most Cited

• The Role of the Pulmonologist in Rapid On-site Cytologic Evaluation of Transbronchial Needle Aspiration: A Prospective Study
• Increased Risk of Exacerbation and Hospitalization in Subjects With an Overlap Phenotype: COPD-Asthma
• EIF2AK4 Mutations in Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis
• Point: Should Fibrinolytics Be Routinely Administered Intrapleurally for Management of a Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion? Yes
• Counterpoint: Should Fibrinolytics Be Routinely Administered Intrapleurally for Management of a Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion? No
• A Multicenter Study of ICU Telemedicine Reengineering of Adult Critical Care
• Albuterol Administration Is Commonly Associated With Increases in Serum Lactate in Patients With Asthma Treated for Acute Exacerbation of Asthma
• Accuracy of Point-of-Care Multiorgan Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism
• Pharmacologic Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report

Top Social Media Articles

• Pharmacologic Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Adults: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
• Passive Smoking Impairs Histone Deacetylase-2 in Children With Severe Asthma
• Endosonographic Mediastinal Lymph Node Staging of Lung Cancer
• Experiences of Racism and the Incidence of Adult-Onset Asthma in the Black Women’s Health Study
• A Multicenter Study of ICU Telemedicine Reengineering of Adult Critical Care
• Assessment of the Safety and Efficiency of Using an Age-Adjusted D-dimer Threshold to Exclude Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
• Accuracy of Point-of-Care Multiorgan Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism
• Ethical Considerations: Care of the Critically Ill and Injured During Pandemics and Disasters: CHEST Consensus Statement
• EIF2AK4 Mutations in Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis
• Pulmonary Hypertension Surveillance: United States, 2001 to 2010

Kristi Bruno is Public Relations and Social Media Manager with the American College of Chest Physicians. She enjoys new media, health-care communications, estate sales, dachshunds, and Chicago in the summer. Find her on Twitter @kristibruno.