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| 2 | Intimate partner violence: causes and prevention | Lancet, The | 2002 | 1,338 |
| 3 | The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research | Experimental Physiology | 2020 | 1,300 |
| 4 | Preparation and Properties of a Cholesterol Oxidase from Nocardia sp. and Its Application to the Enzymatic Assay of Total Cholesterol in Serum | Clinical Chemistry | 1973 | 1,230 |
| 5 | Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa | Lancet, The | 2004 | 1,041 |
| 6 | Mitochondrial diseases | Nature Reviews Disease Primers | 2016 | 1,001 |
| 7 | Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study | Lancet, The | 2010 | 964 |
| 8 | Iodine-deficiency disorders | Lancet, The | 2008 | 787 |
| 9 | Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers | Lancet, The | 2007 | 734 |
| 10 | Cognitive Vulnerability to Persistent Depression | Cognition and Emotion | 1988 | 704 |
| 11 | Discovery and occurrence of the fumonisins: a historical perspective. | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2001 | 690 |
| 12 | microRNAs in cancer management | Lancet Oncology, The | 2012 | 674 |
| 13 | Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriaceae | Studies in Mycology | 2006 | 646 |
| 14 | HIV prevention, treatment, and care services for people who inject drugs: a systematic review of global, regional, and national coverage | Lancet, The | 2010 | 629 |
| 15 | Functional links between motor and language systems | European Journal of Neuroscience | 2005 | 622 |
| 16 | Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 605 |
| 17 | Phage-encoded combinatorial chemical libraries based on bicyclic peptides | Nature Chemical Biology | 2009 | 595 |
| 18 | Identification and Functional Expression of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier | Science | 2012 | 588 |
| 19 | A 3 min reasoning test based on grammatical transformation | Learning and Behavior | 1968 | 587 |
| 20 | Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for severe acute lower respiratory infections in young children in 2010: a systematic analysis | Lancet, The | 2013 | 584 |
| 21 | Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 579 |
| 22 | CORONARY HEART-DISEASE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF WORK | Lancet, The | 1953 | 571 |
| 23 | Interactions among members of the Bcl-2 protein family analyzed with a yeast two-hybrid system. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1994 | 565 |
| 24 | THE DOUBLE ARRAY OF FILAMENTS IN CROSS-STRIATED MUSCLE | Journal of Cell Biology | 1957 | 560 |
| 25 | Motor cortex maps articulatory features of speech sounds | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 555 |
| 26 | The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research* | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | 2020 | 546 |
| 27 | The epidemiology of rape and sexual coercion in South Africa: an overview | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 545 |
| 28 | Production of Fumonisin Analogs by Fusarium Species | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 540 |
| 29 | From work with men and boys to changes of social norms and reduction of inequities in gender relations: a conceptual shift in prevention of violence against women and girls | Lancet, The | 2015 | 535 |
| 30 | The Motor Somatotopy of Speech Perception | Current Biology | 2009 | 524 |
| 31 | An arcuato-paraventricular and -dorsomedial hypothalamic neuropeptide Y-containing system which lacks noradrenaline in the rat | Brain Research | 1985 | 515 |
| 32 | Improving the prevention and management of chronic disease in low-income and middle-income countries: a priority for primary health care | Lancet, The | 2008 | 509 |
| 33 | PRIMA-1 Reactivates Mutant p53 by Covalent Binding to the Core Domain | Cancer Cell | 2009 | 508 |
| 34 | Food variety and dietary diversity scores in children: are they good indicators of dietary adequacy? | Public Health Nutrition | 2006 | 505 |
| 35 | TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study | PLoS Medicine | 2006 | 487 |
| 36 | Body size and breast cancer risk: Findings from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition (EPIC) | International Journal of Cancer | 2004 | 484 |
| 37 | Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention | Lancet, The | 2009 | 477 |
| 38 | Imprinted expression of the murine Angelman syndrome gene, Ube3a, in hippocampal and Purkinje neurons | Nature Genetics | 1997 | 466 |
| 39 | A pan-cancer proteomic perspective on The Cancer Genome Atlas | Nature Communications | 2014 | 456 |
| 40 | Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa: prevalence, risk factors and association with HIV infection | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 440 |
| 41 | A summation technique for the detection of small evoked potentials | Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology | 1954 | 437 |
| 42 | Walking or Talking?: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of Action Verb Processing | Brain and Language | 2001 | 426 |
| 43 | Evidence for a hierarchy of predictions and prediction errors in human cortex | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 419 |
| 44 | Human protectin (CD59), an 18,000-20,000 MW complement lysis restricting factor, inhibits C5b-8 catalysed insertion of C9 into lipid bilayers | Immunology | 1990 | 419 |
| 45 | Vitamin B-12, vitamin B-6, and folate nutritional status in men with hyperhomocysteinemia | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1993 | 411 |
| 46 | Theca: the forgotten cell of the ovarian follicle | Reproduction | 2010 | 402 |
| 47 | Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 396 |
| 48 | A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Risk Factors | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 380 |
| 49 | EPIC-Norfolk: study design and characteristics of the cohort. European Prospective Investigation of Cancer | British Journal of Cancer | 1999 | 379 |
| 50 | Language-Selective and Domain-General Regions Lie Side by Side within Broca’s Area | Current Biology | 2012 | 373 |
