| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 5,825 |
| 2 | Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 2,336 |
| 3 | Burden of major musculoskeletal conditions | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2003 | 2,060 |
| 4 | The worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2010 | 1,616 |
| 5 | The global burden of oral diseases and risks to oral health | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2005 | 1,323 |
| 6 | Global epidemiology of haemoglobin disorders and derived service indicators | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 1,287 |
| 7 | Determinants of low birth weight: methodological assessment and meta-analysis | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1987 | 1,272 |
| 8 | World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2001 | 1,260 |
| 9 | Prevalence and determinants of common perinatal mental disorders in women in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2012 | 1,231 |
| 10 | The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies* | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 1,159 |
| 11 | Developing the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2010 | 1,144 |
| 12 | The global burden of typhoid fever | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 1,142 |
| 13 | Epidemiology and etiology of childhood pneumonia | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 1,111 |
| 14 | The treatment gap in mental health care | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 1,018 |
| 15 | Chlamydia, gonorrhoea, trichomoniasis and syphilis: global prevalence and incidence estimates, 2016 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2019 | 985 |
| 16 | Experience from a multicentre stroke register: a preliminary report | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1976 | 979 |
| 17 | Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2000 | 933 |
| 18 | The global burden of diarrhoeal disease, as estimated from studies published between 1992 and 2000 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2003 | 897 |
| 19 | Corneal blindness: a global perspective | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2001 | 882 |
| 20 | Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 849 |
| 21 | Global magnitude of visual impairment caused by uncorrected refractive errors in 2004 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 835 |
| 22 | Global burden of Shigella infections: implications for vaccine development and implementation of control strategies | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1999 | 795 |
| 23 | Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2000 | 776 |
| 24 | Re-evaluating the burden of rabies in Africa and Asia | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2005 | 771 |
| 25 | Quantifying the burden of disease: the technical basis for disability-adjusted life years | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1994 | 765 |
| 26 | Estimated global incidence of Japanese encephalitis: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2011 | 758 |
| 27 | Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2005 | 693 |
| 28 | Revisting wilson and Jungner in the genomic age: a review of screening criteria over the past 40 years | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 680 |
| 29 | The Declaration of Helsinki and public health | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 668 |
| 30 | Global data on blindness | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1995 | 658 |
| 31 | Inherited haemoglobin disorders: an increasing global health problem | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2001 | 652 |
| 32 | The diagnosis of ischaemic heart pain and intermittent claudication in field surveys | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1962 | 651 |
| 33 | Socioeconomic status and obesity in adult populations of developing countries: a review | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 635 |
| 34 | Cerebrovascular disease in the community: results of a WHO collaborative study | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1980 | 632 |
| 35 | Thresholds for the cost–effectiveness of interventions: alternative approaches | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2015 | 614 |
| 36 | Stroke: a global response is needed | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2016 | 605 |
| 37 | Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2003 | 605 |
| 38 | Childhood blindness in the context of VISION 2020--the right to sight | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2001 | 582 |
| 39 | The mononuclear phagocyte system: a new classification of macrophages, monocytes, and their precursor cells | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1972 | 537 |
| 40 | Cost–effectiveness thresholds: pros and cons | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2016 | 518 |
| 41 | A simple system for the assessment of trachoma and its complications | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1987 | 516 |
| 42 | The global burden of congenital toxoplasmosis: a systematic review | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2013 | 510 |
| 43 | The global burden of kidney disease and the sustainable development goals | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2018 | 504 |
| 44 | Enzyme immunoassays in diagnostic medicine. Theory and practice | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1976 | 504 |
| 45 | Estimating child mortality due to diarrhoea in developing countries | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 495 |
| 46 | a study of typhoid fever in five Asian countries: disease burden and implications for controls | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 494 |
| 47 | Snake-bites: appraisal of the global situation | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1998 | 487 |
| 48 | Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Zaire, 1976 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1978 | 485 |
| 49 | Effects of improved water supply and sanitation on ascariasis, diarrhoea, dracunculiasis, hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, and trachoma | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 1991 | 479 |
| 50 | Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under five years: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2008 | 464 |
