| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2017 | 2,705 |
| 2 | Risk factors for ischaemic and intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke in 22 countries (the INTERSTROKE study): a case-control study | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,565 |
| 3 | Global and regional effects of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with acute stroke in 32 countries (INTERSTROKE): a case-control study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 1,414 |
| 4 | A call to action and a lifecourse strategy to address the global burden of raised blood pressure on current and future generations: the Lancet Commission on hypertension | Lancet, The | 2016 | 670 |
| 5 | Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 594 |
| 6 | Hypertension in developing countries | Lancet, The | 2012 | 513 |
| 7 | Modelling global risk factors affecting construction cost performance | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 422 |
| 8 | Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study) | European Heart Journal | 2015 | 391 |
| 9 | The Causes, Treatment, and Outcome of Acute Heart Failure in 1006 Africans From 9 Countries | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2012 | 376 |
| 10 | Duration of protection with RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine in prevention of Plasmodium falciparum disease in Mozambican children: single-blind extended follow-up of a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2005 | 367 |
| 11 | Immunogenicity of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine and implications for duration of vaccine efficacy: secondary analysis of data from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2015 | 262 |
| 12 | Placental pathology in malaria: A histological, immunohistochemical, and quantitative study | Human Pathology | 2000 | 253 |
| 13 | Global mortality variations in patients with heart failure: results from the International Congestive Heart Failure (INTER-CHF) prospective cohort study | The Lancet Global Health | 2017 | 247 |
| 14 | May Measurement Month 2017: an analysis of blood pressure screening results worldwide | The Lancet Global Health | 2018 | 245 |
| 15 | Safety of the RTS,S/AS02D candidate malaria vaccine in infants living in a highly endemic area of Mozambique: a double blind randomised controlled phase I/IIb trial | Lancet, The | 2007 | 244 |
| 16 | Using satellite radar backscatter to predict above‐ground woody biomass: A consistent relationship across four different African landscapes | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 222 |
| 17 | Avanços metodológicos na avaliação da qualidade da forragem conservada | Revista Brasileira De Zootecnia | 2007 | 217 |
| 18 | Hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa: strategies to achieve the 2030 elimination targets | The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2017 | 217 |
| 19 | Occurrence of death and stroke in patients in 47 countries 1 year after presenting with atrial fibrillation: a cohort study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 216 |
| 20 | Pyrolysis characteristics and global kinetics of coconut and cashew nut shells | Fuel Processing Technology | 2006 | 208 |
| 21 | Removal of nickel(II) ions from aqueous solution by biosorption in a fixed bed column: Experimental and theoretical breakthrough curves | Biochemical Engineering Journal | 2006 | 202 |
| 22 | Cassava: The Drought, War and Famine Crop in a Changing World | Sustainability | 2010 | 202 |
| 23 | Voices from the frontline: findings from a thematic analysis of a rapid online global survey of maternal and newborn health professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemic | BMJ Global Health | 2020 | 195 |
| 24 | May Measurement Month 2018: a pragmatic global screening campaign to raise awareness of blood pressure by the International Society of Hypertension | European Heart Journal | 2019 | 193 |
| 25 | Efficacy and safety of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for malaria in African infants: a pooled analysis of six randomised, placebo-controlled trials | Lancet, The | 2009 | 189 |
| 26 | The emergence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa as a serious agricultural problem and public health risk | Acta Tropica | 2003 | 186 |
| 27 | Natural resource use, crop damage and attitudes of rural people in the vicinity of the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique | Environmental Conservation | 1998 | 177 |
| 28 | Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Mozambique | Hypertension | 2009 | 174 |
| 29 | Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 168 |
| 30 | Wood fuel consumption in Maputo, Mozambique | Biomass and Bioenergy | 2004 | 159 |
| 31 | May Measurement Month 2019 | Hypertension | 2020 | 157 |
| 32 | Thermal lens and Z-scan measurements: Thermal and optical properties of laser glasses – A review | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids | 2006 | 141 |
| 33 | Physical Activity in 22 African Countries | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2011 | 140 |
| 34 | Standard method for developing stroke registers in low-income and middle-income countries: experiences from a feasibility study of a stepwise approach to stroke surveillance (STEPS Stroke) | Lancet Neurology, The | 2007 | 135 |
| 35 | Antioxidant activity, phenolics and UPLC–ESI(–)–MS of extracts from different tropical fruits parts and processed peels | Food Research International | 2015 | 134 |
| 36 | Managing the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa: Policies, Incentives and Options for the Rural Poor | Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research | 2010 | 133 |
| 37 | Persistent konzo and cyanogen toxicity from cassava in northern Mozambique | Acta Tropica | 2002 | 132 |
| 38 | African 1, an Epidemiologically Important Clonal Complex of Mycobacterium bovis Dominant in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad | Journal of Bacteriology | 2009 | 125 |
| 39 | A review of hybrid renewable energy systems in mini-grids for off-grid electrification in developing countries | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2021 | 120 |
| 40 | A Serious New Threat to Brazilian Freshwater Ecosystems: The Naturalization of Nonnative Fish by Decree | Conservation Letters | 2014 | 118 |
| 41 | Blue Carbon Storage in Tropical Seagrass Meadows Relates to Carbonate Stock Dynamics, Plant–Sediment Processes, and Landscape Context: Insights from the Western Indian Ocean | Ecosystems | 2018 | 118 |
| 42 | Rising African cassava production, diseases due to high cyanide intake and control measures | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture | 2008 | 116 |
| 43 | Estimating least-developed countries’ vulnerability to climate-related extreme events over the next 50 years | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 110 |
| 44 | Postamputation Pain and Sensory Changes in Treatment-naive Patients | Anesthesiology | 2005 | 109 |
| 45 | A Lysosomal Storage Disease Induced by Ipomoea Carnea in Goats in Mozambique | Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation | 1999 | 108 |
| 46 | Diabetes diagnosis and care in sub-Saharan Africa: pooled analysis of individual data from 12 countries | Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology,the | 2016 | 108 |
| 47 | Heart Failure in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America: The INTER-CHF study | International Journal of Cardiology | 2016 | 108 |
| 48 | Sea urchin overgrazing of seagrasses: A review of current knowledge on causes, consequences, and management | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2008 | 106 |
| 49 | The southern African climate under 1.5 °C and 2 °C of global warming as simulated by CORDEX regional climate models | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 105 |
| 50 | Accurate Early Infant HIV Diagnosis in Primary Health Clinics Using a Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Test | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) | 2014 | 102 |
