“…There have been some attempts to identify and analyse the most cited articles in some areas of health care, such as surgery (Huo et al, 2015;Joyce, Kelly, & Carroll, 2014;Joyce et al, 2015;Kelly, Glynn, O'Briain, Felle, & McCabe, 2010;Paladugu, Schein, Gardezi, & Wise, 2002;Ponce & Lozano, 2010), cardiovascular disease (Shuaib, Khan, Shahid, Valdes, & Alweis, 2015), urology (Hennessey, Afshar, & MacNeily, 2009), digestive disease (Loomes & van Zanten, 2013), radiology (Pagni, Khan, Cohen, & Choudhri, 2014;Yoon et al, 2013), integrative and complementary medicine (Tam, Wong, Wong, & Cheung, 2012), emergency medicine (Shuaib, Acevedo, Khan, Santiago, & Gaeta, 2015) or oncology (Tas, 2014). These types of studies have also been performed in the specific area of nursing, such as the top 50 most frequently cited articles in nursing journals (Garfield, 1984;Wong, Tam, Wong, & Cheung, 2013), or nursing academics in Canada (Hack, Crooks, Plohman, & Kepron, 2010). However, to our knowledge, no study has examined the most cited papers regarding a subject of study, such as stress, in a specific area of knowledge, such as nursing, as proposed in this research.…”