| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Projection of the year 2050 burden of diabetes in the US adult population: dynamic modeling of incidence, mortality, and prediabetes prevalence | Population Health Metrics | 2010 | 1,074 |
| 2 | National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences | Population Health Metrics | 2012 | 730 |
| 3 | Accuracy and completeness of mortality data in the Department of Veterans Affairs | Population Health Metrics | 2006 | 460 |
| 4 | The share of ultra-processed foods and the overall nutritional quality of diets in the US: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study | Population Health Metrics | 2017 | 365 |
| 5 | Comparative quantification of health risks: Conceptual framework and methodological issues | Population Health Metrics | 2003 | 363 |
| 6 | Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm | Population Health Metrics | 2012 | 327 |
| 7 | Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data | Population Health Metrics | 2010 | 310 |
| 8 | Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease | Population Health Metrics | 2013 | 297 |
| 9 | A generic model for the assessment of disease epidemiology: the computational basis of DisMod II | Population Health Metrics | 2003 | 291 |
| 10 | Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges | Population Health Metrics | 2005 | 275 |
| 11 | The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003 | Population Health Metrics | 2009 | 259 |
| 12 | The County Health Rankings: rationale and methods | Population Health Metrics | 2015 | 257 |
| 13 | Projection of the future diabetes burden in the United States through 2060 | Population Health Metrics | 2018 | 201 |
| 14 | Measuring the burden of arboviral diseases: the spectrum of morbidity and mortality from four prevalent infections | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 198 |
| 15 | Prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome in metropolitan, urban, and rural Georgia | Population Health Metrics | 2007 | 194 |
| 16 | Further validation of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory in a US adult population sample | Population Health Metrics | 2009 | 192 |
| 17 | Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 176 |
| 18 | The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996 | Population Health Metrics | 2006 | 170 |
| 19 | The burden of disease profile of residents of Nairobi's slums: Results from a Demographic Surveillance System | Population Health Metrics | 2008 | 167 |
| 20 | Statistical modeling of volume of alcohol exposure for epidemiological studies of population health: the US example | Population Health Metrics | 2010 | 163 |
| 21 | Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 147 |
| 22 | Health-related quality of life after TBI: a systematic review of study design, instruments, measurement properties, and outcome | Population Health Metrics | 2015 | 144 |
| 23 | Psychometric properties of the CDC Symptom Inventory for assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | Population Health Metrics | 2005 | 143 |
| 24 | Cigarette smoking prevalence in US counties: 1996-2012 | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 136 |
| 25 | Prevalence of physical activity and obesity in US counties, 2001–2011: a road map for action | Population Health Metrics | 2013 | 133 |
| 26 | Assessing disability weights based on the responses of 30,660 people from four European countries | Population Health Metrics | 2015 | 133 |
| 27 | Random forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 132 |
| 28 | Estimation of country-specific and global prevalence of male circumcision | Population Health Metrics | 2016 | 131 |
| 29 | Smoking and smokeless tobacco use in nine South and Southeast Asian countries: prevalence estimates and social determinants from Demographic and Health Surveys | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 130 |
| 30 | Summarizing health-related quality of life (HRQOL): development and testing of a one-factor model | Population Health Metrics | 2016 | 124 |
| 31 | National mortality burden due to communicable, non-communicable, and other diseases in Ethiopia, 1990–2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 | Population Health Metrics | 2017 | 122 |
| 32 | A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 120 |
| 33 | Using remotely sensed night-time light as a proxy for poverty in Africa | Population Health Metrics | 2008 | 117 |
| 34 | Use of the Social Security Administration Death Master File for ascertainment of mortality status | Population Health Metrics | 2004 | 116 |
| 35 | Determining the best population-level alcohol consumption model and its impact on estimates of alcohol-attributable harms | Population Health Metrics | 2012 | 115 |
| 36 | How do Zimbabweans value health states? | Population Health Metrics | 2003 | 113 |
| 37 | Falling behind: life expectancy in US counties from 2000 to 2007 in an international context | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 111 |
| 38 | Cancer trends in Lebanon: a review of incidence rates for the period of 2003–2008 and projections until 2018 | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 110 |
| 39 | Left behind: widening disparities for males and females in US county life expectancy, 1985–2010 | Population Health Metrics | 2013 | 108 |
| 40 | Diabetes prevalence and diagnosis in US states: analysis of health surveys | Population Health Metrics | 2009 | 102 |
| 41 | Social autopsy for maternal and child deaths: a comprehensive literature review to examine the concept and the development of the method | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 102 |
| 42 | Salt intakes in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-regression | Population Health Metrics | 2016 | 98 |
| 43 | National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 96 |
| 44 | Epidemiology of dyslipidemia in Chinese adults: meta-analysis of prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control | Population Health Metrics | 2014 | 96 |
| 45 | Diabetes and urbanization in the Omani population: an analysis of national survey data | Population Health Metrics | 2006 | 95 |
| 46 | Estimated causes of death in Thailand, 2005: implications for health policy | Population Health Metrics | 2010 | 94 |
| 47 | Household food access and child malnutrition: results from the eight-country MAL-ED study | Population Health Metrics | 2012 | 93 |
| 48 | Regional inequalities in under-5 mortality in Nigeria: a population-based analysis of individual- and community-level determinants | Population Health Metrics | 2011 | 89 |
| 49 | Developing a comprehensive time series of GDP per capita for 210 countries from 1950 to 2015 | Population Health Metrics | 2012 | 89 |
| 50 | Reconsidering the use of rankings in the valuation of health states: a model for estimating cardinal values from ordinal data | Population Health Metrics | 2003 | 88 |
