| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The unacknowledged impact of chronic schistosomiasis | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 444 |
| 2 | Family influences on self-management among functionally independent adults with diabetes or heart failure: do family members hinder as much as they help? | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 186 |
| 3 | Diabetes and the risk of tuberculosis: a neglected threat to public health? | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 181 |
| 4 | Social networks, social capital and chronic illness self-management: a realist review | Chronic Illness | 2011 | 167 |
| 5 | Self-managing and managing self: practical and moral dilemmas in accounts of living with chronic illness | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 154 |
| 6 | Shifting priorities in multimorbidity: a longitudinal qualitative study of patient’s prioritization of multiple conditions | Chronic Illness | 2011 | 153 |
| 7 | The expert patients programme online, a 1-year study of an Internet-based self-management programme for people with long-term conditions | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 152 |
| 8 | An ‘endless struggle’: a qualitative study of general practitioners’ and practice nurses’ experiences of managing multimorbidity in socio-economically deprived areas of Scotland | Chronic Illness | 2011 | 138 |
| 9 | Psychological health in older adult spousal caregivers of older adults | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 135 |
| 10 | Emerging models for mobilizing family support for chronic disease management: a structured review | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 135 |
| 11 | Living with chronic low back pain: a metasynthesis of qualitative research | Chronic Illness | 2013 | 133 |
| 12 | `Recovery' and current mental health policy | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 123 |
| 13 | Multiple chronic diseases and quality of life: patterns emerging from a large national sample, Australia | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 111 |
| 14 | Lay-led self-management in chronic illness: a review of the evidence | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 109 |
| 15 | The biographical impact of teenage and adolescent cancer | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 109 |
| 16 | Patients and providers view gout differently: a qualitative study | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 109 |
| 17 | Motivation and diabetes self-management | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 104 |
| 18 | Development and evaluation of the short version of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care instrument | Chronic Illness | 2009 | 95 |
| 19 | Anticipated stigma and quality of life among people living with chronic illnesses | Chronic Illness | 2012 | 94 |
| 20 | Understanding factors that inhibit or promote the utilization of telecare in chronic lung disease | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 91 |
| 21 | Self-managing versus self-management: reinvigorating the socio-political dimensions of self-management | Chronic Illness | 2011 | 89 |
| 22 | The personal impact of rheumatoid arthritis on patients' identity: a qualitative study | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 87 |
| 23 | Housebound versus nonhousebound patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome | Chronic Illness | 2016 | 87 |
| 24 | Talk of frustration in the narratives of people with chronic pain | Chronic Illness | 2012 | 86 |
| 25 | Supporting self-management for patients with complex medical needs: recommendations of a working group | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 85 |
| 26 | The utility of the Necessity—Concerns Framework in explaining treatment non-adherence in four chronic illness groups in Italy | Chronic Illness | 2009 | 83 |
| 27 | Teledermatology for chronic disease management: coherence and normalization | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 77 |
| 28 | The components of action planning and their associations with behavior and health outcomes | Chronic Illness | 2014 | 75 |
| 29 | Living a secret: Disclosure among adolescents and young adults with chronic illnesses | Chronic Illness | 2017 | 75 |
| 30 | Gender differences and clustering pattern of behavioural risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases: community-based study from a developing country | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 74 |
| 31 | Identifying the long-term needs of stroke survivors using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health | Chronic Illness | 2012 | 74 |
| 32 | Effects of a brief computer-assisted diabetes self-management intervention on dietary, biological and quality-of-life outcomes | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 72 |
| 33 | Patients, persons or partners? Involving those with chronic disease in their care | Chronic Illness | 2009 | 71 |
| 34 | Living with chronic hepatitis C means `you just haven't got a normal life any more' | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 69 |
| 35 | Patients’ and healthcare professionals’ perceptions of self-management support interactions: Systematic review and qualitative synthesis | Chronic Illness | 2018 | 69 |
| 36 | The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression: The making of a “gold standard” and the unmaking of a chronic illness, 1960–1980 | Chronic Illness | 2013 | 68 |
| 37 | ‘It’s something that I manage but it is not who I am’: reflections on internalized stigma in individuals with bipolar disorder | Chronic Illness | 2011 | 66 |
| 38 | The functional and psychological impact of hand osteoarthritis | Chronic Illness | 2010 | 65 |
| 39 | Patients’ perceptions of patient–provider communication and diabetes care: A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies | Chronic Illness | 2020 | 65 |
| 40 | Differences in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in urban and rural India: a problem of urbanization | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 64 |
| 41 | Education and self-management for people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes: a qualitative study of patients' views | Chronic Illness | 2008 | 64 |
| 42 | The lived experience of hope among parents of a child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: perceiving the human being beyond the illness | Chronic Illness | 2009 | 64 |
| 43 | A diabetes peer support intervention that improved glycemic control: mediators and moderators of intervention effectiveness | Chronic Illness | 2013 | 64 |
| 44 | Needs of caregivers in heart failure management: A qualitative study | Chronic Illness | 2015 | 62 |
| 45 | `When I am together with them I feel more ill.' The stigma of multiple sclerosis experienced in social relationships | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 61 |
| 46 | Better safe than sorry — why patients prefer to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants but are afraid to do so: results of a qualitative study | Chronic Illness | 2006 | 61 |
| 47 | Barriers and facilitators to self-care communication during medical appointments in the United States for adults with type 2 diabetes | Chronic Illness | 2014 | 61 |
| 48 | Cascading crises, resilience and social support within the onset and development of multiple chronic conditions | Chronic Illness | 2009 | 60 |
| 49 | A review of the cost-effectiveness of face-to-face behavioural interventions for smoking, physical activity, diet and alcohol | Chronic Illness | 2007 | 59 |
| 50 | Characteristics and well-being of informal caregivers: Results from a nationally-representative US survey | Chronic Illness | 2014 | 58 |
