| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2019 | 10,984 |
| 2 | A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 9,397 |
| 3 | Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 9,122 |
| 4 | Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 6,376 |
| 5 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2013 | 5,719 |
| 6 | Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown | Nature Protocols | 2016 | 4,743 |
| 7 | Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences | Lancet, The | 2008 | 4,719 |
| 8 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 9 | Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2020 | 4,468 |
| 10 | Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect | Lancet, The | 2016 | 4,440 |
| 11 | Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease | Nature | 2012 | 4,038 |
| 12 | Sex differences in immune responses | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2016 | 3,615 |
| 13 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 14 | SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials | BMJ, The | 2013 | 3,435 |
| 15 | Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward | Statistical Science | 2010 | 3,368 |
| 16 | Association of estimated glomerular filtration rate and albuminuria with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in general population cohorts: a collaborative meta-analysis | Lancet, The | 2010 | 3,277 |
| 17 | Cell Survival Responses to Environmental Stresses Via the Keap1-Nrf2-ARE Pathway | Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology | 2007 | 3,054 |
| 18 | Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 3,053 |
| 19 | Untangling the Concepts of Disability, Frailty, and Comorbidity: Implications for Improved Targeting and Care | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2004 | 3,002 |
| 20 | Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference | Political Analysis | 2007 | 2,997 |
| 21 | The Lancet Commission on pollution and health | Lancet, The | 2018 | 2,747 |
| 22 | Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2013 | 2,721 |
| 23 | Toward an Integrated Clinical, Molecular and Serological Classification of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Report of a Working Party of the 2005 Montreal World Congress of Gastroenterology | Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 2005 | 2,711 |
| 24 | Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies | Statistics in Medicine | 2015 | 2,704 |
| 25 | Forecasting the global burden of Alzheimer's disease | Statistics in Medicine | 2007 | 2,663 |
| 26 | Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,498 |
| 27 | Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2000–13, with projections to inform post-2015 priorities: an updated systematic analysis | Lancet, The | 2015 | 2,437 |
| 28 | Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals | Lancet, The | 2016 | 2,406 |
| 29 | Case–Control Study of Human Papillomavirus and Oropharyngeal Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 2,345 |
| 30 | The Obesity Epidemic in the United States Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis | Epidemiologic Reviews | 2007 | 2,321 |
| 31 | Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity | Pediatric Obesity | 2006 | 2,159 |
| 32 | A National Evaluation of the Effect of Trauma-Center Care on Mortality | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 2,137 |
| 33 | Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 2,130 |
| 34 | Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection: New estimates of age-specific antibody to HCV seroprevalence | Hepatology | 2013 | 2,118 |
| 35 | Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates | Lancet, The | 2009 | 2,086 |
| 36 | Multiple imputation by chained equations: what is it and how does it work? | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 2011 | 2,055 |
| 37 | Association of PD-1, PD-1 Ligands, and Other Features of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment with Response to Anti–PD-1 Therapy | Clinical Cancer Research | 2014 | 2,050 |
| 38 | Estimating the Prevalence of Limb Loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050 | Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | 2008 | 2,032 |
| 39 | Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost? | Lancet, The | 2013 | 2,031 |
| 40 | Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells | Nature | 2010 | 2,011 |
| 41 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,982 |
| 42 | The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 1,977 |
| 43 | Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,961 |
| 44 | Use of Carotid Ultrasound to Identify Subclinical Vascular Disease and Evaluate Cardiovascular Disease Risk: A Consensus Statement from the American Society of Echocardiography Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Task Force Endorsed by the Society for Vascular Medicine | Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography | 2008 | 1,941 |
| 45 | Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? | Lancet, The | 2003 | 1,935 |
| 46 | Prevalence and Burden of Migraine in the United States: Data From the American Migraine Study II | Headache | 2001 | 1,933 |
| 47 | Constructing Inverse Probability Weights for Marginal Structural Models | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 1,880 |
| 48 | Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic | Nature | 2006 | 1,863 |
| 49 | How many child deaths can we prevent this year? | Lancet, The | 2003 | 1,849 |
| 50 | Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of global importance | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2003 | 1,828 |
