| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,230 |
| 2 | Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 786 |
| 3 | Drug resistance and treatment failure in leishmaniasis: A 21st century challenge | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2017 | 571 |
| 4 | Quantifying the Total and Bioavailable Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Dioxins in Biochars | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 485 |
| 5 | Health equity and COVID-19: global perspectives | International Journal for Equity in Health | 2020 | 442 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | A Twelve-Year Longitudinal Study of Science Concept Learning | American Educational Research Journal | 1991 | 360 |
| 8 | Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change? | World Bank Economic Review | 2006 | 352 |
| 9 | Newborn-Care Training and Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries | New England Journal of Medicine | 2010 | 344 |
| 10 | The Saliva of Hemiptera | Advances in Insect Physiology | 1972 | 334 |
| 11 | A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa | BMC Public Health | 2013 | 320 |
| 12 | Brucellosis at the animal/ecosystem/human interface at the beginning of the 21st century | Preventive Veterinary Medicine | 2011 | 315 |
| 13 | Effect of an Early Resuscitation Protocol on In-hospital Mortality Among Adults With Sepsis and Hypotension | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2017 | 288 |
| 14 | Emerging contaminants in urban groundwater sources in Africa | Water Research | 2015 | 243 |
| 15 | A Bayesian approach for estimating values for prevalence and diagnostic test characteristics of porcine cysticercosis | International Journal for Parasitology | 2004 | 239 |
| 16 | A randomized trial of the intrauterine contraceptive device vs hormonal contraception in women who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2007 | 220 |
| 17 | Biofortification of wheat with zinc through zinc fertilization in seven countries | Plant and Soil | 2012 | 216 |
| 18 | Impact of HIV on tuberculosis in Zambia: a cross sectional study. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1990 | 204 |
| 19 | Assessment of the Performance of CORDEX Regional Climate Models in Simulating East African Rainfall | Journal of Climate | 2013 | 203 |
| 20 | How specific are perceptual skills? A cross‐cultural study of pattern reproduction* | British Journal of Psychology | 1979 | 198 |
| 21 | The emergence of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Eastern and Southern Africa as a serious agricultural problem and public health risk | Acta Tropica | 2003 | 186 |
| 22 | Effect of household and community interventions on the burden of tuberculosis in southern Africa: the ZAMSTAR community-randomised trial | Lancet, The | 2013 | 186 |
| 23 | A randomized trial on acceptability of voluntary HIV counselling and testing | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2004 | 185 |
| 24 | HPTN 071 (PopART): Rationale and design of a cluster-randomised trial of the population impact of an HIV combination prevention intervention including universal testing and treatment – a study protocol for a cluster randomised trial | Trials | 2014 | 185 |
| 25 | Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Growth Failure/Stunting in Global Child Health | Pediatrics | 2016 | 184 |
| 26 | Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers: Evidence from panel data analysis of manufacturing firms in Zambia | Journal of Development Economics | 2006 | 182 |
| 27 | Does Severity of HIV Disease in HIV-Infected Mothers Affect Mortality and Morbidity among Their Uninfected Infants? | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2005 | 178 |
| 28 | Urban groundwater quality in sub-Saharan Africa: current status and implications for water security and public health | Hydrogeology Journal | 2017 | 175 |
| 29 | Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium‐scale farms | Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom) | 2016 | 171 |
| 30 | Adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnancies: The Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry study | Reproductive Health | 2015 | 158 |
| 31 | Negative sputum smear results in HIV-positive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Lusaka, Zambia | Tubercle and Lung Disease | 1993 | 155 |
| 32 | Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes | New Phytologist | 2011 | 155 |
| 33 | Effectiveness of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Among Trauma-Affected Children in Lusaka, Zambia | JAMA Pediatrics | 2015 | 155 |
| 34 | Development of a multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification (mLAMP) method for the simultaneous detection of bovine Babesia parasites | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 2007 | 151 |
| 35 | The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa | Lancet, The | 2017 | 150 |
| 36 | A “One Health” surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: Moving away from improvisation | Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 147 |
| 37 | Termite-induced heterogeneity in African savanna vegetation: mechanisms and patterns | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2010 | 144 |
| 38 | A prospective study of maternal, fetal and neonatal deaths in low- and middle-income countries | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2014 | 144 |
| 39 | A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa | Science | 2021 | 144 |
| 40 | Response to the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) Pandemic Across Africa: Successes, Challenges, and Implications for the Future | Frontiers in Pharmacology | 2020 | 143 |
| 41 | Net Benefits: A Multicountry Analysis of Observational Data Examining Associations between Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets and Health Outcomes | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 140 |
| 42 | Host specificity of temperate and tropical animals | Nature | 1979 | 139 |
| 43 | Triple jeopardy: disabled people and the COVID-19 pandemic | Lancet, The | 2021 | 137 |
| 44 | Upper Proterozoic schist belts in the Nigerian sector of the Pan-African Province of West Africa | Precambrian Research | 1983 | 136 |
| 45 | Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa: successes and challenges in scaling-up a nevirapine-based program in Lusaka, Zambia | Aids | 2003 | 135 |
| 46 | Patient‐reported barriers and drivers of adherence to antiretrovirals in sub‐Saharan Africa: a meta‐ethnography | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2010 | 135 |
| 47 | Mental Health and Disclosure of HIV Status in Zambian Adolescents With HIV Infection | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999) | 2007 | 134 |
| 48 | Can sexual health interventions make community-based health systems more responsive to adolescents? A realist informed study in rural Zambia | Reproductive Health | 2020 | 134 |
| 49 | Evidence for a Neoproterozoic ocean in south-central Africa from mid-oceanic-ridge–type geochemical signatures and pressure-temperature estimates of Zambian eclogites | Geology | 2003 | 133 |
| 50 | Covid-19 deaths in Africa: prospective systematic postmortem surveillance study | BMJ, The | 2021 | 133 |
