| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | ALSPAC-The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 1,234 |
| 2 | Rates of caesarean section: analysis of global, regional and national estimates | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2007 | 769 |
| 3 | Socio-economic disparities in pregnancy outcome: why do the poor fare so poorly? | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2000 | 675 |
| 4 | Self‐selection and bias in a large prospective pregnancy cohort in Norway | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2009 | 665 |
| 5 | How effective is antenatal care in preventing maternal mortality and serious morbidity? An overview of the evidence | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 357 |
| 6 | Effect of Women's Nutrition before and during Early Pregnancy on Maternal and Infant Outcomes: A Systematic Review | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 357 |
| 7 | The longitudinal study of the Northern Finland birth cohort of 1966 | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1988 | 338 |
| 8 | Prediction of childhood obesity by infancy weight gain: an individual‐level meta‐analysis | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 338 |
| 9 | Decreased birthweights in infants after maternal in utero exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–1945 | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1992 | 318 |
| 10 | Physical and mental health outcomes of prenatal maternal stress in human and animal studies: a review of recent evidence | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2008 | 317 |
| 11 | Socio-economic disparities in preterm birth: causal pathways and mechanisms | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 308 |
| 12 | The role of infection in preterm labour and delivery | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 307 |
| 13 | Performance of a new pubertal self-assessment questionnaire: a preliminary study | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 295 |
| 14 | Leisure-time physical activity among pregnant women in the US | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2004 | 292 |
| 15 | Necrotising enterocolitis hospitalisations among neonates in the United States | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2006 | 285 |
| 16 | Active and passive maternal smoking during pregnancy and the risks of low birthweight and preterm birth: the Generation R Study | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2008 | 276 |
| 17 | Low birthweight, preterm births and intrauterine growth retardation in relation to maternal smoking | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1997 | 274 |
| 18 | Intergenerational Influences on Child Growth and Undernutrition | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 274 |
| 19 | Stress, infection and preterm birth: a biobehavioural perspective | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2001 | 270 |
| 20 | The Christchurch Child Development Study: a review of epidemiological findings | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1989 | 254 |
| 21 | The Effects of Iodine Deficiency in Pregnancy and Infancy | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 245 |
| 22 | The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study: a 15 year longitudinal study | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1990 | 236 |
| 23 | Vitamin D During Pregnancy and Maternal, Neonatal and Infant Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 231 |
| 24 | Stress, social support and pregnancy outcome: a reassessment based on recent research | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1996 | 230 |
| 25 | Partner violence during pregnancy and risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2004 | 230 |
| 26 | The relation of fetal length, ponderal index and head circumference to blood pressure and the risk of hypertension in adult life | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1992 | 220 |
| 27 | Do women change their health behaviours in pregnancy? Findings from the Southampton Women's Survey | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2009 | 215 |
| 28 | The research implications of the selection of a gestational age estimation method | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2007 | 214 |
| 29 | Pregnancy and Birth Cohort Resources in Europe: a Large Opportunity for Aetiological Child Health Research | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2013 | 214 |
| 30 | The Effects of Household Food Production Strategies on the Health and Nutrition Outcomes of Women and Young Children: A Systematic Review | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 208 |
| 31 | Biological Mechanisms for Nutritional Regulation of Maternal Health and Fetal Development | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 197 |
| 32 | The Impact of Early Age at First Childbirth on Maternal and Infant Health | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 194 |
| 33 | Routine Iron/Folate Supplementation during Pregnancy: Effect on Maternal Anaemia and Birth Outcomes | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 192 |
| 34 | Childhood influences on adult health: a review of recent work from the British 1946 national birth cohort study, the MRC National Survey of Health and Development | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1997 | 188 |
| 35 | Evidence for an association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and birthweight: a meta‐analysis and new data | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1999 | 187 |
| 36 | Epidemiology of neonatal necrotising enterocolitis: a population-based study | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2002 | 187 |
| 37 | Maternal Nutrition and Birth Outcomes: Effect of Balanced Protein‐Energy Supplementation | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 185 |
| 38 | Accuracy of reporting maternal in-hospital diagnoses and intrapartum procedures in Washington State linked birth records | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2005 | 183 |
| 39 | A comparison of LMP‐based and ultrasound‐based estimates of gestational age using linked California livebirth and prenatal screening records | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2007 | 179 |
| 40 | Diet during early pregnancy and development of gestational diabetes | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2008 | 172 |
| 41 | Birth defects monitoring in California: a resource for epidemiological research | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1991 | 168 |
| 42 | Nutrition Education and Counselling Provided during Pregnancy: Effects on Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Outcomes | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2012 | 168 |
| 43 | Maternal obesity as an independent risk factor for caesarean delivery | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2004 | 166 |
| 44 | Disparities in the risk of gestational diabetes by race-ethnicity and country of birth | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2010 | 166 |
| 45 | Increasing prevalence of gastroschisis in Europe 1980?2002: a phenomenon restricted to younger mothers? | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2007 | 165 |
| 46 | Self-reported smoking, cotinine levels, and patterns of smoking in pregnancy | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2005 | 164 |
| 47 | Obesity, gestational weight gain and preterm birth: a study within the Danish National Birth Cohort | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2007 | 160 |
| 48 | Maternal Multivitamin Intake, Plasma Folate and Vitamin B12 Levels and Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk in Offspring | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2018 | 158 |
| 49 | The epidemiology of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1997 | 157 |
| 50 | Changes in dietary intake from the first to the second trimester of pregnancy | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2006 | 155 |
