| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences | Lancet, The | 2008 | 4,719 |
| 2 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015 | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 4,254 |
| 3 | Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world | Lancet, The | 2010 | 3,851 |
| 4 | Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2017 | 2,705 |
| 5 | Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan, and the UK: a molecular, biological, and epidemiological study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2010 | 2,485 |
| 6 | Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost? | Lancet, The | 2013 | 2,031 |
| 7 | Asian-Pacific clinical practice guidelines on the management of hepatitis B: a 2015 update | Hepatology International | 2016 | 1,908 |
| 8 | How many child deaths can we prevent this year? | Lancet, The | 2003 | 1,849 |
| 9 | Global burden of childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea | Lancet, The | 2013 | 1,701 |
| 10 | Evidence of the COVID-19 Virus Targeting the CNS: Tissue Distribution, Host–Virus Interaction, and Proposed Neurotropic Mechanisms | ACS Chemical Neuroscience | 2020 | 1,698 |
| 11 | What works? Interventions for maternal and child undernutrition and survival | Lancet, The | 2008 | 1,682 |
| 12 | Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study | Lancet, The | 2017 | 1,634 |
| 13 | International standards for newborn weight, length, and head circumference by gestational age and sex: the Newborn Cross-Sectional Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,480 |
| 14 | The Burden of Primary Liver Cancer and Underlying Etiologies From 1990 to 2015 at the Global, Regional, and National Level | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 1,448 |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Every Newborn: progress, priorities, and potential beyond survival | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,319 |
| 17 | Global, regional, and national trends in haemoglobin concentration and prevalence of total and severe anaemia in children and pregnant and non-pregnant women for 1995–2011: a systematic analysis of population-representative data | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 1,297 |
| 18 | Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study | Lancet, The | 2015 | 1,295 |
| 19 | Evidence-based, cost-effective interventions: how many newborn babies can we save? | Lancet, The | 2005 | 1,252 |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Moringa oleifera: a food plant with multiple medicinal uses | Phytotherapy Research | 2007 | 1,166 |
| 22 | Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-ResistantCandida aurison 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2017 | 1,099 |
| 23 | Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2020 | 1,054 |
| 24 | The State of US Health, 1990-2016 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2018 | 1,042 |
| 25 | Tocilizumab in Patients Hospitalized with Covid-19 Pneumonia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2021 | 1,022 |
| 26 | Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost? | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,013 |
| 27 | Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 959 |
| 28 | Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver consensus recommendations on hepatocellular carcinoma | Hepatology International | 2010 | 944 |
| 29 | STROCSS 2021: Strengthening the reporting of cohort, cross-sectional and case-control studies in surgery | International Journal of Surgery | 2021 | 938 |
| 30 | Modifiable risk factors, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in 155 722 individuals from 21 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): a prospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 2020 | 935 |
| 31 | Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Progression of Nondiabetic Renal Disease | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2001 | 927 |
| 32 | Broadly neutralizing antibodies overcome SARS-CoV-2 Omicron antigenic shift | Nature | 2022 | 917 |
| 33 | Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2012 update | Hepatology International | 2012 | 874 |
| 34 | Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 2017 | 841 |
| 35 | The effect of physical activity on mortality and cardiovascular disease in 130 000 people from 17 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries: the PURE study | Lancet, The | 2017 | 838 |
| 36 | Comparison of Risk Prediction Using the CKD-EPI Equation and the MDRD Study Equation for Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2012 | 810 |
| 37 | Use of secondary prevention drugs for cardiovascular disease in the community in high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (the PURE Study): a prospective epidemiological survey | Lancet, The | 2011 | 803 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED) | The Lancet Global Health | 2015 | 725 |
| 40 | Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2011 | 710 |
| 41 | Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 682 |
| 42 | Short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children | Lancet, The | 2018 | 682 |
| 43 | Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries | New England Journal of Medicine | 2014 | 679 |
| 44 | A living WHO guideline on drugs for covid-19 | BMJ, The | 2020 | 664 |
| 45 | Use of quantitative molecular diagnostic methods to identify causes of diarrhoea in children: a reanalysis of the GEMS case-control study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 658 |
| 46 | International standards for fetal growth based on serial ultrasound measurements: the Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project | Lancet, The | 2014 | 656 |
| 47 | Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals | Lancet, The | 2004 | 643 |
| 48 | Mortality risk in preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants in low-income and middle-income countries: a pooled country analysis | Lancet, The | 2013 | 637 |
| 49 | Prevention of diarrhea and pneumonia by zinc supplementation in children in developing countries: Pooled analysis of randomized controlled trials | Journal of Pediatrics | 1999 | 634 |
| 50 | Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher– Lancet Commission | Lancet, The | 2018 | 610 |
