| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The MOS social support survey | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 5,065 |
| 2 | The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Position paper from the World Health Organization | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 4,624 |
| 3 | From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 3,476 |
| 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 | 3,255 |
| 5 | Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 2,854 |
| 6 | The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): Development and general psychometric properties | Social Science and Medicine | 1998 | 2,731 |
| 7 | The disablement process | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 2,710 |
| 8 | The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale | Social Science and Medicine | 1993 | 2,563 |
| 9 | Patient-centredness: a conceptual framework and review of the empirical literature | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 2,234 |
| 10 | Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 2,155 |
| 11 | Doctor-patient communication: A review of the literature | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 1,947 |
| 12 | HIV and AIDS-related stigma and discrimination: a conceptual framework and implications for action | Social Science and Medicine | 2003 | 1,896 |
| 13 | Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them? | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 1,890 |
| 14 | Decision-making in the physician–patient encounter: revisiting the shared treatment decision-making model | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,887 |
| 15 | The evolving concept of health literacy | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,869 |
| 16 | What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model | Social Science and Medicine | 2009 | 1,801 |
| 17 | Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research: a theoretical model | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,718 |
| 18 | The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 1,704 |
| 19 | Risk factors for functional status decline in community-living elderly people: a systematic literature review | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,558 |
| 20 | What is participatory research? | Social Science and Medicine | 1995 | 1,540 |
| 21 | The disability paradox: high quality of life against all odds | Social Science and Medicine | 1999 | 1,388 |
| 22 | Positive psychological states and coping with severe stress | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 1,356 |
| 23 | Income inequality and population health: A review and explanation of the evidence | Social Science and Medicine | 2006 | 1,291 |
| 24 | Patient satisfaction: A review of issues and concepts | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 1,281 |
| 25 | On the measurement of inequalities in health | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 1,277 |
| 26 | Income inequality and health: A causal review | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 1,263 |
| 27 | Researching health inequalities in adolescents: The development of the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Family Affluence Scale | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,254 |
| 28 | The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 1,235 |
| 29 | Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: A systematic review | Social Science and Medicine | 2013 | 1,232 |
| 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 | 1,203 |
| 31 | Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 1,189 |
| 32 | Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality | Social Science and Medicine | 2014 | 1,158 |
| 33 | Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior | Social Science and Medicine | 1992 | 1,141 |
| 34 | Correlates and consequences of internalized stigma for people living with mental illness: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Social Science and Medicine | 2010 | 1,135 |
| 35 | ‘Discovering’ chronic illness: Using grounded theory | Social Science and Medicine | 1990 | 1,067 |
| 36 | Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 1,067 |
| 37 | 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 | 1,052 |
| 38 | 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 | 1,045 |
| 39 | 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 | 1,042 |
| 40 | Transgender stigma and health: A critical review of stigma determinants, mechanisms, and interventions | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 1,027 |
| 41 | Understanding and representing ‘place’ in health research: A relational approach | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 1,011 |
| 42 | Sample sizes for saturation in qualitative research: A systematic review of empirical tests | Social Science and Medicine | 2022 | 993 |
| 43 | Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study | Social Science and Medicine | 2012 | 978 |
| 44 | Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity | Social Science and Medicine | 2014 | 976 |
| 45 | Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials | Social Science and Medicine | 2018 | 944 |
| 46 | Patient satisfaction: A valid concept? | Social Science and Medicine | 1994 | 937 |
| 47 | Measuring patient-centered communication in Patient–Physician consultations: Theoretical and practical issues | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 936 |
| 48 | The relative influence of individual, social and physical environment determinants of physical activity | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 929 |
| 49 | Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 922 |
| 50 | Culture and stigma: Adding moral experience to stigma theory | Social Science and Medicine | 2007 | 921 |
