| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2013 | 5,719 |
| 2 | Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect | Lancet, The | 2016 | 4,440 |
| 3 | Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects | Lancet, The | 2012 | 4,021 |
| 4 | Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio | BMC Medical Research Methodology | 2003 | 2,923 |
| 5 | Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital | Lancet, The | 2008 | 2,798 |
| 6 | International variation in the prevalence of COPD (The BOLD Study): a population-based prevalence study | Lancet, The | 2007 | 1,818 |
| 7 | The role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach. | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1997 | 1,771 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Why invest, and what it will take to improve breastfeeding practices? | Lancet, The | 2016 | 1,455 |
| 10 | Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 1,407 |
| 11 | Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Revisiting Implications for Interventions | Pediatrics | 2010 | 1,369 |
| 12 | Every Newborn: progress, priorities, and potential beyond survival | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,319 |
| 13 | Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges | Lancet, The | 2011 | 979 |
| 14 | Physical activity change during adolescence: a systematic review and a pooled analysis | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2011 | 919 |
| 15 | Interaction between Tobacco and Alcohol Use and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2009 | 908 |
| 16 | Global epidemiology of use of and disparities in caesarean sections | Lancet, The | 2018 | 861 |
| 17 | Evidence-Based Public Health: Moving Beyond Randomized Trials | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 795 |
| 18 | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in five Latin American cities (the PLATINO study): a prevalence study | Lancet, The | 2005 | 787 |
| 19 | Rapid growth in infancy and childhood and obesity in later life - a systematic review | Obesity Reviews | 2005 | 753 |
| 20 | Longevity of posterior composite restorations: Not only a matter of materials | Dental Materials | 2012 | 734 |
| 21 | The who Multicentre Growth Reference Study: Planning, Study Design, and Methodology | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | 2004 | 725 |
| 22 | Long‐term consequences of breastfeeding on cholesterol, obesity, systolic blood pressure and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta‐analysis | Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics | 2015 | 702 |
| 23 | Maternal and child health in Brazil: progress and challenges | Lancet, The | 2011 | 677 |
| 24 | Progress in physical activity over the Olympic quadrennium | Lancet, The | 2016 | 676 |
| 25 | Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis | Lancet, The | 2000 | 657 |
| 26 | Adolescent Physical Activity and Health | Sports Medicine | 2006 | 656 |
| 27 | International standards for fetal growth based on serial ultrasound measurements: the Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project | Lancet, The | 2014 | 656 |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Impact of heat-moisture treatment and annealing in starches: A review | Carbohydrate Polymers | 2011 | 635 |
| 30 | Shaping cities for health: complexity and the planning of urban environments in the 21st century | Lancet, The | 2012 | 596 |
| 31 | Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough | Lancet, The | 2003 | 591 |
| 32 | National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010 | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 577 |
| 33 | Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in youth: the International children’s accelerometry database (ICAD) | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2015 | 556 |
| 34 | Explaining trends in inequities: evidence from Brazilian child health studies | Lancet, The | 2000 | 540 |
| 35 | Evaluation designs for adequacy, plausibility and probability of public health programme performance and impact | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1999 | 538 |
| 36 | Prevalence of chronic low back pain: systematic review | Revista De Saude Publica | 2015 | 535 |
| 37 | Longevity of Posterior Composite Restorations | Journal of Dental Research | 2014 | 520 |
| 38 | Congenital Zika virus syndrome in Brazil: a case series of the first 1501 livebirths with complete investigation | Lancet, The | 2016 | 515 |
| 39 | Brazil's unified health system: the first 30 years and prospects for the future | Lancet, The | 2019 | 515 |
| 40 | EVIDENCE FOR PROTECTION BY BREAST-FEEDING AGAINST INFANT DEATHS FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN BRAZIL | Lancet, The | 1987 | 514 |
| 41 | Superabsorbent hydrogels based on polysaccharides for application in agriculture as soil conditioner and nutrient carrier: A review | European Polymer Journal | 2015 | 514 |
| 42 | Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study | PLoS Medicine | 2016 | 497 |
| 43 | Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Implications for Nutritional Interventions | Pediatrics | 2001 | 479 |
| 44 | Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil | The Lancet Global Health | 2015 | 468 |
| 45 | Breastfeeding and intelligence: a systematic review and meta‐analysis | Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics | 2015 | 465 |
| 46 | Two-sample Mendelian randomization: avoiding the downsides of a powerful, widely applicable but potentially fallible technique | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2016 | 458 |
| 47 | Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Countdown to 2015: a retrospective review of survey data from 54 countries | Lancet, The | 2012 | 454 |
| 48 | Ultra‐processed foods and the nutrition transition: Global, regional and national trends, food systems transformations and political economy drivers | Obesity Reviews | 2020 | 449 |
| 49 | Multimorbidity and mortality in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics | 2016 | 438 |
| 50 | Worldwide prevalence of physical inactivity and its association with human development index in 76 countries | Preventive Medicine | 2011 | 427 |
