| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world | Lancet, The | 2010 | 3,851 |
| 2 | Quadrivalent Vaccine against Human Papillomavirus to Prevent High-Grade Cervical Lesions | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 1,886 |
| 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 | The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations | Nature | 2016 | 1,216 |
| 5 | Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis | Lancet, The | 2004 | 1,086 |
| 6 | The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises | Lancet, The | 2021 | 1,030 |
| 7 | Resazurin Microtiter Assay Plate: Simple and Inexpensive Method for Detection of Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2002 | 1,000 |
| 8 | The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate | Lancet, The | 2019 | 905 |
| 9 | Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: a multicentre implementation study | Lancet, The | 2011 | 902 |
| 10 | Trauma and PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | Högre Utbildning | 2017 | 801 |
| 11 | Aspirin in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery | New England Journal of Medicine | 2014 | 735 |
| 12 | Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study | Lancet Oncology, The | 2015 | 718 |
| 13 | Reconstructing Native American population history | Nature | 2012 | 699 |
| 14 | Indigenous and tribal peoples' health (The Lancet–Lowitja Institute Global Collaboration): a population study | Lancet, The | 2016 | 682 |
| 15 | A randomized, double blind, comparative trial of micafungin (FK463) vs. fluconazole for the treatment of oesophageal candidiasis | Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 2005 | 676 |
| 16 | Posttraumatic stress disorder in the World Mental Health Surveys | Psychological Medicine | 2017 | 675 |
| 17 | Epidemiology of maternal depression, risk factors, and child outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2016 | 673 |
| 18 | The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future | Lancet, The | 2021 | 669 |
| 19 | The global burden of women’s cancers: a grand challenge in global health | Lancet, The | 2017 | 666 |
| 20 | Undertreatment of people with major depressive disorder in 21 countries | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2017 | 664 |
| 21 | Taenia solium cysticercosis | Lancet, The | 2003 | 663 |
| 22 | Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better | Lancet, The | 2008 | 625 |
| 23 | Human T-lymphotropic virus 1: recent knowledge about an ancient infection | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2007 | 622 |
| 24 | The World Health Organization and the Transition From “International” to “Global” Public Health | American Journal of Public Health | 2006 | 595 |
| 25 | The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come | Lancet, The | 2018 | 595 |
| 26 | Association of Postoperative High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels With Myocardial Injury and 30-Day Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2017 | 579 |
| 27 | The epidemiological burden of obesity in childhood: a worldwide epidemic requiring urgent action | BMC Medicine | 2019 | 551 |
| 28 | The Impact of Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus (HPV; Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) L1 Virus‐Like Particle Vaccine on Infection and Disease Due to Oncogenic Nonvaccine HPV Types in Generally HPV‐Naive Women Aged 16–26 Years | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2009 | 528 |
| 29 | The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move | Lancet, The | 2018 | 511 |
| 30 | The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys | ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders | 2017 | 507 |
| 31 | Impact of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-6/11/16/18 Vaccine on All HPV-Associated Genital Diseases in Young Women | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2010 | 493 |
| 32 | Severe COVID-19 during Pregnancy and Possible Vertical Transmission | American Journal of Perinatology | 2020 | 487 |
| 33 | The ORIGINS of Primary Health Care and SELECTIVE Primary Health Care | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 482 |
| 34 | Consensus Statement on Chronic and Subacute High Altitude Diseases | High Altitude Medicine and Biology | 2005 | 467 |
| 35 | Evolutionary history and global spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing lineage | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 466 |
| 36 | Recommendations for Treatment of Human Infections Caused by Bartonella Species | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2004 | 456 |
| 37 | Genetic Variation and Population Structure in Native Americans | PLoS Genetics | 2007 | 454 |
| 38 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Sporotrichosis: 2007 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2007 | 445 |
| 39 | Current Consensus Guidelines for Treatment of Neurocysticercosis | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2002 | 435 |
| 40 | Microscopic-Observation Drug-Susceptibility Assay for the Diagnosis of TB | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 428 |
| 41 | Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America | Lancet, The | 2015 | 426 |
| 42 | Interconnected microbiomes and resistomes in low-income human habitats | Nature | 2016 | 425 |
| 43 | Clinical symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of neurocysticercosis | Lancet Neurology, The | 2014 | 408 |
| 44 | The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels | Lancet, The | 2022 | 402 |
| 45 | National Character Does Not Reflect Mean Personality Trait Levels in 49 Cultures | Science | 2005 | 400 |
| 46 | The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change | Nature Climate Change | 2021 | 400 |
| 47 | A Large Proportion of P. falciparum Isolates in the Amazon Region of Peru Lack pfhrp2 and pfhrp3: Implications for Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 382 |
| 48 | Geographic Patterns of Genome Admixture in Latin American Mestizos | PLoS Genetics | 2008 | 377 |
| 49 | Antibiotics as Major Disruptors of Gut Microbiota | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 2020 | 352 |
| 50 | Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals | PLoS Genetics | 2014 | 350 |
