| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The effect of walking on risk factors for cardiovascular disease: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials | Preventive Medicine | 2015 | 194 |
| 2 | Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport: A Review of the Literature | Quest | 2017 | 180 |
| 3 | Mass and position determination of attached particles on cantilever based mass sensors | Review of Scientific Instruments | 2007 | 179 |
| 4 | An examination of what metaphor construction reveals about the evolution of preservice teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2007 | 178 |
| 5 | ac electrokinetic micropumps: The effect of geometrical confinement, Faradaic current injection, and nonlinear surface capacitance | Physical Review E | 2006 | 154 |
| 6 | Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystals: enhanced light-matter interactions for lab-on-a-chip applications | Microfluidics and Nanofluidics | 2008 | 153 |
| 7 | Accumulated versus Continuous Exercise for Health Benefit | Sports Medicine | 2009 | 145 |
| 8 | Involvement of Fathers in Pediatric Obesity Treatment and Prevention Trials: A Systematic Review | Pediatrics | 2017 | 130 |
| 9 | Pick-and-place nanomanipulation using microfabricated grippers | Nanotechnology | 2006 | 127 |
| 10 | SU-8 Cantilevers for Bio/chemical Sensing; Fabrication, Characterisation and Development of Novel Read-out Methods | Sensors | 2008 | 127 |
| 11 | Walking: the first steps in cardiovascular disease prevention | Current Opinion in Cardiology | 2010 | 125 |
| 12 | Early and middle Holocene in the Aegean Sea: interplay between high and low latitude climate variability | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2009 | 117 |
| 13 | On the nature of cross‐hatch patterns on compositionally graded Si1−xGexalloy layers | Applied Physics Letters | 1994 | 116 |
| 14 | Monolithic integration of optical waveguides for absorbance detection in microfabricated electrophoresis devices | Electrophoresis | 2001 | 112 |
| 15 | Shot Noise of a Quantum Shuttle | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 108 |
| 16 | Fabrication and actuation of customized nanotweezers with a 25 nm gap | Nanotechnology | 2001 | 103 |
| 17 | Current noise in a vibrating quantum dot array | Physical Review B | 2004 | 102 |
| 18 | Missing Early Education and Care During the Pandemic: The Socio-Emotional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Young Children | Early Childhood Education Journal | 2021 | 101 |
| 19 | Effects of frequency, intensity, duration and volume of walking interventions on CVD risk factors: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis of randomised controlled trials among inactive healthy adults | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2018 | 96 |
| 20 | Electronic transport through Si nanowires: Role of bulk and surface disorder | Physical Review B | 2006 | 95 |
| 21 | Catalytic ammonia decomposition: miniaturized production of CO -free hydrogen for fuel cells | Catalysis Communications | 2005 | 94 |
| 22 | Securitisation, Counterterrorism and the Silencing of Dissent: The Educational Implications ofPrevent | British Journal of Educational Studies | 2016 | 94 |
| 23 | Long-term stable electroosmotic pump with ion exchange membranes | Lab on A Chip | 2005 | 88 |
| 24 | On the stiction of MEMS materials | Tribology Letters | 2005 | 83 |
| 25 | Electronic transport at semiconductor surfaces––from point-contact transistor to micro-four-point probes | Surface Science | 2002 | 78 |
| 26 | Mathematical under-preparedness: the influence of the pre-tertiary mathematics experience on students’ ability to make a successful transition to tertiary level mathematics courses in Ireland | International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology | 2007 | 75 |
| 27 | Implementing formative assessment in primary physical education: teacher perspectives and experiences | Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy | 2013 | 75 |
| 28 | Structural characterization of cubic silicon nitride | Europhysics Letters | 2000 | 74 |
| 29 | The interaction between emotional intelligence and cognitive ability in predicting scholastic performance in school-aged children | Personality and Individual Differences | 2012 | 73 |
| 30 | Use of Culture, PCR Analysis, and DNA Microarrays for Detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli from Chicken Feces | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2004 | 72 |
| 31 | Lesson observation and quality in primary education as contextual teaching and learning processes | International Journal of Educational Development | 2006 | 72 |
| 32 | Digital video: The impact on children’s learning experiences in primary physical education | European Physical Education Review | 2013 | 72 |
| 33 | Using lesson study to support knowledge development in initial teacher education: Insights from early number classrooms | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2016 | 70 |
| 34 | Cladocera as indicators of trophic state in Irish lakes | Journal of Paleolimnology | 2010 | 68 |
| 35 | MEMS device for bending test: measurements of fatigue and creep of electroplated nickel | Sensors and Actuators A: Physical | 2003 | 67 |
| 36 | Prevalence and Correlates of Physical Inactivity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Ireland | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 66 |
| 37 | A Layered Approach to Critical Friendship as a Means to Support Pedagogical Innovation in Pre-service Teacher Education | Studying Teacher Education | 2016 | 66 |
| 38 | Self-rated walking pace and all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: individual participant pooled analysis of 50 225 walkers from 11 population British cohorts | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2018 | 66 |
| 39 | Self–other contingencies: Enacting social perception | Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences | 2009 | 64 |
| 40 | The blue economy: Identifying geographic concepts and sensitivities | Geography Compass | 2019 | 64 |
| 41 | A multi-proxy study of lake-development in response to catchment changes during the Holocene at Lochnagar, north-east Scotland | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2005 | 62 |
| 42 | “What Works”: systematic review of the “FRIENDS for Life” programme as a universal school-based intervention programme for the prevention of child and youth anxiety | Educational Psychology in Practice | 2015 | 62 |
| 43 | Pedagogical principles of learning to teach meaningful physical education | Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy | 2018 | 60 |
| 44 | Adolescent Girls’ Perceptions of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies | American Journal of Health Promotion | 2019 | 59 |
| 45 | Dyadic concordance in mother and preschooler resting cardiovascular function varies by risk status | Developmental Psychobiology | 2014 | 57 |
| 46 | The Effects of Continuous Compared to Accumulated Exercise on Health: A Meta-Analytic Review | Sports Medicine | 2019 | 57 |
| 47 | Investigation of the bond strength between the photo-sensitive polymer SU-8 and gold | Microelectronic Engineering | 2005 | 56 |
| 48 | International Approaches to Whole-of-School Physical Activity Promotion | Quest | 2015 | 56 |
| 49 | The 2002–2007 trends of prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in Irish schoolchildren | Pediatric Allergy and Immunology | 2012 | 53 |
| 50 | Moving to learn Ireland – Classroom teachers’ experiences of movement integration | Teaching and Teacher Education | 2016 | 53 |
