| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | The MOS social support survey | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 5,216 |
| 2 | The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Position paper from the World Health Organization | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 4,799 |
| 3 | From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 3,569 |
| 4 | Shared decision-making in the medical encounter: What does it mean? (or it takes at least two to tango) | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 3,322 |
| 5 | Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 2,934 |
| 6 | The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Development and general psychometric properties | Social Science and Medicine | 1998 | 2,809 |
| 7 | The disablement process | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 2,739 |
| 8 | The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale | Social Science and Medicine | 1993 | 2,619 |
| 9 | Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 2,291 |
| 10 | Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 2,208 |
| 11 | Doctor-patient communication: A review of the literature | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 1,982 |
| 12 | The evolving concept of health literacy | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,954 |
| 13 | HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action | Social Science and Medicine | 2003 | 1,940 |
| 14 | Decision-making in the physician–patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,921 |
| 15 | Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them? | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 1,919 |
| 16 | What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model | Social Science and Medicine | 2009 | 1,877 |
| 17 | Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research: a theoretical model | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,749 |
| 18 | The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 1,749 |
| 19 | What is participatory research? | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 1,596 |
| 20 | Risk factors for functional status decline in community-living elderly people: a systematic literature review | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,579 |
| 21 | Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests | Social Science and Medicine | 2022 | 1,474 |
| 22 | The disability paradox: high quality of life against all odds | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,456 |
| 23 | Positive psychological states and coping with severe stress | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 1,392 |
| 24 | Income inequality and health: A causal review | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 1,332 |
| 25 | Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: A systematic review | Social Science and Medicine | 2013 | 1,325 |
| 26 | Income inequality and population health: A review and explanation of the evidence | Social Science and Medicine | 2006 | 1,321 |
| 27 | On the measurement of inequalities in health | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 1,312 |
| 28 | Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,297 |
| 29 | Patient satisfaction: A review of issues and concepts | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 1,295 |
| 30 | Experiences of discrimination: Validity and reliability of a self-report measure for population health research on racism and health | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 1,270 |
| 31 | The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 1,265 |
| 32 | Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality | Social Science and Medicine | 2014 | 1,252 |
| 33 | Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,237 |
| 34 | Correlates and consequences of internalized stigma for people living with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Social Science and Medicine | 2010 | 1,189 |
| 35 | Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior | Social Science and Medicine | 1992 | 1,155 |
| 36 | Transgender stigma and health: A critical review of stigma determinants, mechanisms, and interventions | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 1,113 |
| 37 | War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: Bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks | Social Science and Medicine | 2010 | 1,095 |
| 38 | Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 1,089 |
| 39 | ‘Discovering’ chronic illness: Using grounded theory | Social Science and Medicine | 1990 | 1,081 |
| 40 | Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: An overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 1,067 |
| 41 | Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity | Social Science and Medicine | 2014 | 1,064 |
| 42 | The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey—I. Evaluation of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and construct validity across general populations in Sweden | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 1,060 |
| 43 | Understanding and representing ‘place’ in health research: A relational approach | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 1,035 |
| 44 | Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials | Social Science and Medicine | 2018 | 1,029 |
| 45 | Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study | Social Science and Medicine | 2012 | 1,024 |
| 46 | Systematic Literature Review on the Spread of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media | Social Science and Medicine | 2019 | 1,000 |
| 47 | Measuring patient-centered communication in Patient–Physician consultations: Theoretical and practical issues | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 958 |
| 48 | Culture and stigma: Adding moral experience to stigma theory | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 951 |
| 49 | Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review | Social Science and Medicine | 2010 | 948 |
| 50 | The relative influence of individual, social and physical environment determinants of physical activity | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 947 |
