| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2019 | 5,764 |
| 2 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2013 | 5,719 |
| 3 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 4 | Global estimates of diabetes prevalence for 2013 and projections for 2035 | Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice | 2014 | 3,465 |
| 5 | Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 2,884 |
| 6 | Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 2,641 |
| 7 | Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma outcome prediction by gene-expression profiling and supervised machine learning | Nature Medicine | 2002 | 2,217 |
| 8 | Leptospirosis | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2001 | 2,140 |
| 9 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 10 | Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 1,736 |
| 11 | Child and adolescent mental health worldwide: evidence for action | Lancet, The | 2011 | 1,634 |
| 12 | Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course | Lancet, The | 2017 | 1,587 |
| 13 | Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,585 |
| 14 | Proline biosynthesis and osmoregulation in plants | Plant Journal | 1993 | 1,429 |
| 15 | New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution | Nature | 2015 | 1,328 |
| 16 | Inequality in early childhood: risk and protective factors for early child development | Lancet, The | 2011 | 1,237 |
| 17 | Closure of Universities Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Impact on Education and Mental Health of Students and Academic Staff | Cureus | 2020 | 1,077 |
| 18 | Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation | Lancet, The | 2013 | 976 |
| 19 | Adaptive co‐management for social–ecological complexity | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 954 |
| 20 | COPD exacerbations: defining their cause and prevention | Lancet, The | 2007 | 863 |
| 21 | Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences | Lancet, The | 2018 | 771 |
| 22 | Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 754 |
| 23 | Effects of Marine Reserves on Adjacent Fisheries | Science | 2001 | 748 |
| 24 | Fishing, Trophic Cascades, and the Process of Grazing on Coral Reefs | Science | 2006 | 738 |
| 25 | The STROCSS statement: Strengthening the Reporting of Cohort Studies in Surgery | International Journal of Surgery | 2017 | 727 |
| 26 | Estimating African American Admixture Proportions by Use of Population-Specific Alleles | American Journal of Human Genetics | 1998 | 718 |
| 27 | Classification of Altered Volcanic Island Arc Rocks using Immobile Trace Elements: Development of the Th–Co Discrimination Diagram | Journal of Petrology | 2007 | 688 |
| 28 | Glucose Metabolism Regulates T Cell Activation, Differentiation, and Functions | Frontiers in Immunology | 2015 | 611 |
| 29 | Hurricane Allen's Impact on Jamaican Coral Reefs | Science | 1981 | 555 |
| 30 | The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020 | The Lancet Global Health | 2021 | 549 |
| 31 | Nutritional supplementation, psychosocial stimulation, and mental development of stunted children: the Jamaican Study | Lancet, The | 1991 | 548 |
| 32 | Caribbean Corals in Crisis: Record Thermal Stress, Bleaching, and Mortality in 2005 | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 517 |
| 33 | The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C | Science | 2019 | 498 |
| 34 | Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications | Science | 2016 | 490 |
| 35 | Adverse effects of biologics: a network meta-analysis and Cochrane overview | The Cochrane Library | 2016 | 481 |
| 36 | Labor market returns to an early childhood stimulation intervention in Jamaica | Science | 2014 | 467 |
| 37 | THE PHYSIOLOGY OF SKELETON FORMATION IN CORALS. I. A METHOD FOR MEASURING THE RATE OF CALCIUM DEPOSITION BY CORALS UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS | Biological Bulletin | 1959 | 433 |
| 38 | Incidence of schizophrenia and other psychoses in ethnic minority groups: results from the MRC AESOP Study | Psychological Medicine | 2006 | 433 |
| 39 | Epithelial-mesenchymal transition in tissue repair and fibrosis | Cell and Tissue Research | 2016 | 431 |
| 40 | An audit of technological innovation capabilities in chinese firms: some empirical findings in Beijing, China | Research Policy | 2004 | 426 |
| 41 | Infective dermatitis of Jamaican children: a marker for HTLV-I infection | Lancet, The | 1990 | 411 |
| 42 | Adaptation of HIV-1 to human leukocyte antigen class I | Nature | 2009 | 408 |
| 43 | Induced Bias in Innovation and the Theory of Distribution | Economic Journal | 1964 | 407 |
| 44 | Modelling the risk of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in persons infected with human T-lymphotropic virus type I | International Journal of Cancer | 1989 | 389 |
| 45 | Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain: review of metabolites and clinical applications | Clinical Radiology | 2009 | 385 |
| 46 | OUTBREAK OF APLASTIC CRISES IN SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA ASSOCIATED WITH PARVOVIRUS-LIKE AGENT | Lancet, The | 1981 | 379 |
| 47 | Pesticide poisoning in the developing world—a minimum pesticides list | Lancet, The | 2002 | 375 |
| 48 | Pollution and Capital Markets in Developing Countries | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2001 | 370 |
| 49 | Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease | Lancet, The | 2009 | 368 |
| 50 | Amorphous computing | Communications of the ACM | 2000 | 365 |
