| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | From epidemiological synergy to public health policy and practice: the contribution of other sexually transmitted diseases to sexual transmission of HIV infection | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 1999 | 1,896 |
| 2 | HIV testing attitudes, AIDS stigma, and voluntary HIV counselling and testing in a black township in Cape Town, South Africa | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2003 | 579 |
| 3 | Rapid tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs): the way forward | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 455 |
| 4 | Measuring sexual behaviour: methodological challenges in survey research | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2001 | 429 |
| 5 | Male circumcision and risk of syphilis, chancroid, and genital herpes: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 329 |
| 6 | Recent trends in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in the European Union | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 262 |
| 7 | The many faces of sex work | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 261 |
| 8 | Illicit drug use in sexual settings (‘chemsex’) and HIV/STI transmission risk behaviour among gay men in South London: findings from a qualitative study: Table 1 | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2015 | 261 |
| 9 | Male circumcision: assessment of health benefits and risks. | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 1998 | 258 |
| 10 | Audio computer assisted self interview and face to face interview modes in assessing response bias among STD clinic patients | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 245 |
| 11 | Prevalence of sexually transmitted co-infections in people living with HIV/AIDS: systematic review with implications for using HIV treatments for prevention | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2011 | 237 |
| 12 | Social capital, poverty, and income inequality as predictors of gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia and AIDS case rates in the United States | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2003 | 229 |
| 13 | The near disappearance of genital warts in young women 4 years after commencing a national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2011 | 220 |
| 14 | Approaches to the control of sexually transmitted infections in developing countries: old problems and modern challenges | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 217 |
| 15 | Sex on demand: geosocial networking phone apps and risk of sexually transmitted infections among a cross-sectional sample of men who have sex with men in Los Angeles county | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2014 | 212 |
| 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 | Sexually transmitted infections and risk behaviours in women who have sex with women | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2000 | 205 |
| 18 | Increases in sexually transmitted infections and sexual risk behaviour without a concurrent increase in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men in San Francisco: a suggestion of HIV serosorting? | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 196 |
| 19 | The seroepidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 in Europe | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 193 |
| 20 | Rapid decline in presentations of genital warts after the implementation of a national quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination programme for young women | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2009 | 193 |
| 21 | Sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy: prevalence, impact on pregnancy outcomes, and approach to treatment in developing countries | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 192 |
| 22 | Mycoplasma genitalium: prevalence, clinical significance, and transmission | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 192 |
| 23 | Estimates of the number of female sex workers in different regions of the world | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 190 |
| 24 | Natural history of genital warts. | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 1971 | 189 |
| 25 | Social and psychological impact of HPV testing in cervical screening: a qualitative study | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 188 |
| 26 | European course on HPV associated pathology: guidelines for primary care physicians for the diagnosis and management of anogenital warts | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2000 | 180 |
| 27 | Validation of a simplified grading of Gram stained vaginal smears for use in genitourinary medicine clinics | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2002 | 180 |
| 28 | Lymphogranuloma venereum | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2002 | 178 |
| 29 | Signs and symptoms of urethritis and cervicitis among women with or without Mycoplasma genitalium or Chlamydia trachomatis infection | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 176 |
| 30 | Mitochondrial toxicity and HIV therapy | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2001 | 175 |
| 31 | Trichomoniasis and HIV interactions: a review | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2013 | 174 |
| 32 | Defining genital tract cytokine signatures of sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis in women at high risk of HIV infection: a cross-sectional study | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2014 | 173 |
| 33 | Trichomoniasis: clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 172 |
| 34 | Oral sex and the transmission of viral STIs | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 1998 | 166 |
| 35 | The acceptability of self-sampled screening for HPV DNA: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2017 | 165 |
| 36 | Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in different population groups: systematic review andmeta-analysis | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2018 | 165 |
| 37 | Increase in sexually transmitted infections among homosexual men in Amsterdam in relation to HAART | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2001 | 163 |
| 38 | Methodology of the third British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3) | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2014 | 160 |
| 39 | Declines in HIV prevalence can be associated with changing sexual behaviour in Uganda, urban Kenya, Zimbabwe, and urban Haiti | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 157 |
| 40 | The burden of infection with HSV-1 and HSV-2 in England and Wales: implications for the changing epidemiology of genital herpes | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2000 | 155 |
| 41 | "A bit more truthful": the validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rural northern Tanzania using five methods | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 155 |
| 42 | Risk of HIV/AIDS in China: subpopulations of special importance | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2005 | 153 |
| 43 | Prevalence and correlates of exchanging sex for drugs or money among adolescents in the United States | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2006 | 153 |
| 44 | Establishing the National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England: results from the first full year of screening | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 151 |
| 45 | Oral sex and transmission of non-viral STIs | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 1998 | 148 |
| 46 | Syphilis in pregnancy | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2000 | 148 |
| 47 | Risk factors for genital HPV DNA in men resemble those found in women: a study of male attendees at a Danish STD clinic | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2002 | 148 |
| 48 | Incidence of acute hepatitis C virus infection among men who have sex with men with and without HIV infection: a systematic review | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2012 | 146 |
| 49 | Sexual behaviour of young people in international tourist resorts | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 144 |
| 50 | Consistency in the reporting of sexual behaviour by adolescent girls in Kenya: a comparison of interviewing methods | Sexually Transmitted Infections | 2004 | 144 |
