| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The digitally engaged patient: Self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era | Social Theory and Health | 2013 | 497 |
| 2 | M-health and health promotion: The digital cyborg and surveillance society | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 323 |
| 3 | ‘Fat Ethics’ – The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics | Social Theory and Health | 2005 | 204 |
| 4 | An institutional theory of welfare state effects on the distribution of population health | Social Theory and Health | 2015 | 189 |
| 5 | Re-framing Stigma: Felt and Enacted Stigma and Challenges to the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 177 |
| 6 | Government-by-exception: Enrolment and experimentality in mass HIV treatment programmes in Africa | Social Theory and Health | 2009 | 171 |
| 7 | Different uses of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory in public mental health research: what is their value for guiding public mental health policy and practice? | Social Theory and Health | 2018 | 157 |
| 8 | What can health inequalities researchers learn from an intersectionality perspective? Understanding social dynamics with an inter-categorical approach? | Social Theory and Health | 2015 | 144 |
| 9 | Molecular Biopolitics, Somatic Ethics and the Spirit of Biocapital | Social Theory and Health | 2007 | 141 |
| 10 | Is A Weight-Centred Health Framework Salutogenic? Some Thoughts on Unhinging Certain Dietary Ideologies | Social Theory and Health | 2005 | 119 |
| 11 | Medicalisation: A Multi-dimensional Concept | Social Theory and Health | 2005 | 116 |
| 12 | In BMI we trust: reframing the body mass index as a measure of health | Social Theory and Health | 2018 | 111 |
| 13 | Discussion Piece: A Critical Take on the Obesity Debate | Social Theory and Health | 2005 | 100 |
| 14 | Beyond Meaning, Discourse and the Empirical World: Critical Realist Reflections on Health | Social Theory and Health | 2003 | 93 |
| 15 | Two decades of Neo-Marxist class analysis and health inequalities: A critical reconstruction | Social Theory and Health | 2015 | 84 |
| 16 | Social Productivity and Well-being of Older People: A Sociological Exploration | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 80 |
| 17 | Neoliberal globalisation and health in a time of economic crisis | Social Theory and Health | 2011 | 80 |
| 18 | Fat is a Sociological Issue: Obesity Rates in Late Modern, ‘Body-Conscious’ Societies | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 77 |
| 19 | Enigmatic Illness: Narratives of Patients who Live with Medically Unexplained Symptoms | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 75 |
| 20 | The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their effects | Social Theory and Health | 2010 | 71 |
| 21 | Evaluating the Health Belief Model: A critical review of studies predicting mammographic and pap screening | Social Theory and Health | 2010 | 70 |
| 22 | Medically unexplained symptoms and the disease label | Social Theory and Health | 2010 | 63 |
| 23 | Foucault's progeny: Jamie Oliver and the art of governing obesity | Social Theory and Health | 2011 | 63 |
| 24 | Theorising disability and chronic illness: Where next for perspectives in medical sociology? | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 63 |
| 25 | Premenstrual Syndrome and Self-policing: Ruptures in Self-Silencing Leading to Increased Self-Surveillance and Blaming of the Body | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 62 |
| 26 | Psychiatric diagnosis as a political device | Social Theory and Health | 2010 | 61 |
| 27 | Cohorts and Generations in the Study of Social Change | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 59 |
| 28 | The thing-power of the human-app health assemblage: thinking with vital materialism | Social Theory and Health | 2019 | 52 |
| 29 | A conceptual framework for examining healthcare access and navigation: a behavioral-ecological perspective | Social Theory and Health | 2018 | 48 |
| 30 | Towards a Theory of Care Transition: From Medical Dominance to Managed Consumerism | Social Theory and Health | 2008 | 47 |
| 31 | Health, Risk and Uncertainty in the Life Course: A Typology of Biographical Certainty Constructions | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 46 |
| 32 | Compliance/Adherence, HIV, and the Critique of Medical Power | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 46 |
| 33 | Fantasy paradigms of health inequalities: Utopian thinking? | Social Theory and Health | 2015 | 46 |
| 34 | Social Capital, Inequality and Health: the Durkheimian Revival | Social Theory and Health | 2003 | 44 |
| 35 | The judgement process in evidence-based medicine and health technology assessment | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 44 |
| 36 | Patient Choice in the NHS: The View from Economic Sociology | Social Theory and Health | 2003 | 42 |
| 37 | Social Class and Ageing Bodies: Understanding Physical Activity in Later Life | Social Theory and Health | 2005 | 42 |
| 38 | Infectious Behaviour: Imputing Subjectivity to HIV Transmission | Social Theory and Health | 2006 | 42 |
| 39 | Knowing as practice: Self-care in the case of chronic multi-morbidities | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 42 |
| 40 | Origins of the Concept of Quality of Life in Health Care: A Rhetorical Solution to a Political Problem | Social Theory and Health | 2004 | 40 |
| 41 | Between bodies and collectivities: Articulating the action of emotion in obesity epidemic discourse | Social Theory and Health | 2010 | 40 |
| 42 | Bricolage as conceptual tool for understanding access to healthcare in superdiverse populations | Social Theory and Health | 2019 | 40 |
| 43 | Regulating Hybrids: ‘Making a Mess’ and ‘Cleaning Up’ in Tissue Engineering and Transpecies Transplantation | Social Theory and Health | 2006 | 39 |
| 44 | Social Structure and the Production, Reproduction and Durability of Health Inequalities | Social Theory and Health | 2007 | 39 |
| 45 | Domination or Mutual Recognition? Professional Subjectivity in Midwifery and Obstetrics | Social Theory and Health | 2008 | 39 |
| 46 | ‘Walk this way’: Public health and the social organization of walking | Social Theory and Health | 2009 | 38 |
| 47 | Theorizing the obesity epidemic: Health crisis, moral panic and emerging hybrids | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 37 |
| 48 | The practical ethics of genetic responsibility: Non-disclosure and the autonomy of affect | Social Theory and Health | 2011 | 36 |
| 49 | Sociology, biology and mechanisms in urban mental health | Social Theory and Health | 2019 | 35 |
| 50 | Rethinking ‘risk’ and self-management for chronic illness | Social Theory and Health | 2012 | 34 |
