| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital | Lancet, The | 2008 | 2,798 |
| 2 | Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries | Lancet, The | 2007 | 2,473 |
| 3 | Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study | Science | 2011 | 2,075 |
| 4 | Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better | Lancet, The | 2008 | 625 |
| 5 | Alcohol Use and Sexual Risks for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review of Empirical Findings | Prevention Science | 2007 | 472 |
| 6 | PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries | PLoS Medicine | 2012 | 436 |
| 7 | Adult Starvation and Disease‐Related Malnutrition | Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition | 2010 | 397 |
| 8 | Measuring AIDS stigmas in people living with HIV/AIDS: the Internalized AIDS-Related Stigma Scale | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2009 | 391 |
| 9 | Association between maternal age at childbirth and child and adult outcomes in the offspring: a prospective study in five low-income and middle-income countries (COHORTS collaboration) | The Lancet Global Health | 2015 | 295 |
| 10 | Obesity and the nutrition transition in Sub‐Saharan Africa | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2014 | 288 |
| 11 | Urbanization and economic growth: the arguments and evidence for Africa and Asia | Environment and Urbanization | 2013 | 285 |
| 12 | A comparison of HIV/AIDS-related stigma in four countries: Negative attitudes and perceived acts of discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS | Social Science and Medicine | 2009 | 247 |
| 13 | What is the relevance of mental health to HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs in developing countries? A systematic review | Aids | 2006 | 243 |
| 14 | Towards a sustainable theory of health-related stigma: lessons from the HIV/AIDS literature | Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology | 2006 | 231 |
| 15 | Burnout in Relation to Specific Contributing Factors and Health Outcomes among Nurses: A Systematic Review | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2013 | 231 |
| 16 | Disclosure of HIV status to sex partners and sexual risk behaviours among HIV-positive men and women, Cape Town, South Africa | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 210 |
| 17 | Community-based intervention to increase HIV testing and case detection in people aged 16–32 years in Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Thailand (NIMH Project Accept, HPTN 043): a randomised study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2011 | 204 |
| 18 | Traditional beliefs about the cause of AIDS and AIDS-related stigma in South Africa | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2004 | 202 |
| 19 | Maternal postnatal depression and children's growth and behaviour during the early years of life: exploring the interaction between physical and mental health | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 2010 | 195 |
| 20 | The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa | Agrekon | 2009 | 194 |
| 21 | Prevalence, risk factors and disability associated with fall-related injury in older adults in low- and middle-incomecountries: results from the WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) | BMC Medicine | 2015 | 174 |
| 22 | Physical inactivity and associated factors among university students in 23 low-, middle- and high-income countries | International Journal of Public Health | 2015 | 166 |
| 23 | The VUKA family program: Piloting a family-based psychosocial intervention to promote health and mental health among HIV infected early adolescents in South Africa | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2014 | 165 |
| 24 | What price fairness when security is at stake? Police legitimacy in South Africa | Regulation and Governance | 2014 | 164 |
| 25 | Associations among adolescent risk behaviours and self-esteem in six domains | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 2004 | 162 |
| 26 | Higher education and economic development: The importance of building technological capabilities | International Journal of Educational Development | 2015 | 160 |
| 27 | Declines in HIV prevalence can be associated with changing sexual behaviour in Uganda, urban Kenya, Zimbabwe, and urban Haiti | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 157 |
| 28 | Promising Change, Delivering Continuity: REDD+ as Conservation Fad | World Development | 2017 | 154 |
| 29 | Stigma, discrimination and the implications for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa | Sahara J | 2004 | 153 |
| 30 | Unravelling the contexts of stigma: from internalisation to resistance to change | Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology | 2006 | 150 |
| 31 | Curriculum reform in post-1990s sub-Saharan Africa | International Journal of Educational Development | 2008 | 149 |
| 32 | Men who have sex with men: stigma and discrimination | Lancet, The | 2012 | 149 |
| 33 | Adult starvation and disease-related malnutrition: A proposal for etiology-based diagnosis in the clinical practice setting from the International Consensus Guideline Committee | Clinical Nutrition | 2010 | 145 |
| 34 | Global benchmarking of children's exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across 22 countries | Obesity Reviews | 2019 | 144 |
| 35 | Household food security status in South Africa | Agrekon | 2009 | 142 |
| 36 | Effect of community-based voluntary counselling and testing on HIV incidence and social and behavioural outcomes (NIMH Project Accept; HPTN 043): a cluster-randomised trial | The Lancet Global Health | 2014 | 141 |
| 37 | New insights into HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from the National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012 | African Journal of AIDS Research | 2016 | 141 |
| 38 | Point of care in your pocket: a research agenda for the field of m-health | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2012 | 136 |
| 39 | Food security in South Africa: a review of national surveys | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2011 | 135 |
| 40 | Work related stress, burnout, job satisfaction and general health of nurses: A follow‐up study | International Journal of Nursing Practice | 2016 | 129 |
| 41 | Nutritional contribution of street foods to the diet of people in developing countries: a systematic review | Public Health Nutrition | 2014 | 126 |
| 42 | The effects of parasite infections on cognitive processes in children | Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology | 1991 | 125 |
| 43 | Randomized Trial of a Community-based Alcohol-related HIV Risk-reduction Intervention for Men and Women in Cape Town South Africa | Annals of Behavioral Medicine | 2008 | 124 |
| 44 | Trends in adolescent alcohol and other drug use: findings from three sentinel sites in South Africa (1997–2001) | Journal of Adolescence | 2004 | 119 |
| 45 | Accuracy of serological assays for detection of recent infection with HIV and estimation of population incidence: a systematic review | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2009 | 119 |
| 46 | A Decline in New HIV Infections in South Africa: Estimating HIV Incidence from Three National HIV Surveys in 2002, 2005 and 2008 | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 119 |
| 47 | Mental Health Policy Development and Implementation in Four African Countries | Journal of Health Psychology | 2007 | 116 |
| 48 | Evidence of impact | Aids | 2014 | 115 |
| 49 | Realizing the Potential for HIV Self-Testing | AIDS and Behavior | 2014 | 114 |
| 50 | Transition from Birth to Ten to Birth to Twenty: the South African cohort reaches 13 years of age | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2004 | 113 |
