| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Type of Vegetarian Diet, Body Weight, and Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes | Diabetes Care | 2009 | 453 |
| 2 | Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2 | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2013 | 423 |
| 3 | Prevalence of fatty liver in Japanese children and relationship to obesity | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | 1995 | 386 |
| 4 | Effects of Walnuts on Serum Lipid Levels and Blood Pressure in Normal Men | New England Journal of Medicine | 1993 | 358 |
| 5 | Does high soy milk intake reduce prostate cancer incidence? The Adventist Health Study (United States) | Cancer Causes and Control | 1998 | 332 |
| 6 | Risk Factors Associated With Suicide in Current and Former US Military Personnel | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2013 | 325 |
| 7 | Association between Class III Obesity (BMI of 40–59 kg/m2) and Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies | PLoS Medicine | 2014 | 299 |
| 8 | Consumer Attitudes Towards Environmental Concerns of Meat Consumption: A Systematic Review | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2019 | 299 |
| 9 | Television Watching and Soft Drink Consumption | JAMA Pediatrics | 2003 | 295 |
| 10 | The Effects of Moderate Exercise Training on Natural Killer Cells and Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections | International Journal of Sports Medicine | 1990 | 270 |
| 11 | Addressing the Soy and Breast Cancer Relationship: Review, Commentary, and Workshop Proceedings | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2006 | 266 |
| 12 | Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Colorectal Cancers | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2015 | 252 |
| 13 | Dietary and lifestyle guidelines for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease | Neurobiology of Aging | 2014 | 251 |
| 14 | Outcomes of root canal treatment and restoration, implant-supported single crowns, fixed partial dentures, and extraction without replacement: A systematic review | Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry | 2007 | 242 |
| 15 | Sustainability of plant-based diets: back to the future | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2014 | 241 |
| 16 | Beyond Meatless, the Health Effects of Vegan Diets: Findings from the Adventist Cohorts | Nutrients | 2014 | 238 |
| 17 | Age at Natural Menopause and Total Mortality and Mortality from Ischemic Heart Disease | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1999 | 236 |
| 18 | Diet and the environment: does what you eat matter? | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2009 | 207 |
| 19 | Vegetarian Dietary Patterns Are Associated With a Lower Risk of Metabolic Syndrome | Diabetes Care | 2011 | 206 |
| 20 | Long-Term Ambient Ozone Concentration and the Incidence of Asthma in Nonsmoking Adults: The Ahsmog Study | Environmental Research | 1999 | 201 |
| 21 | Waterpipe smoking and nicotine exposure: A review of the current evidence | Nicotine and Tobacco Research | 2007 | 201 |
| 22 | Ten Years of Life | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2001 | 199 |
| 23 | Dietary intake and biochemical, hematologic, and immune status of vegans compared with nonvegetarians | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1999 | 194 |
| 24 | Cohort Profile: The Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 190 |
| 25 | Vegetarian Diets and the Incidence of Cancer in a Low-risk Population | Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention | 2013 | 183 |
| 26 | Nut Consumption and Weight Gain in a Mediterranean Cohort: The SUN Study | Obesity | 2007 | 180 |
| 27 | Occupational stress among university teachers | Educational Research | 1994 | 177 |
| 28 | Meal Frequency and Timing Are Associated with Changes in Body Mass Index in Adventist Health Study 2 | Journal of Nutrition | 2017 | 176 |
| 29 | Effect of Early Skin-to-Skin Mother—Infant Contact During the First 3 Hours Following Birth on Exclusive Breastfeeding During the Maternity Hospital Stay | Journal of Human Lactation | 2010 | 171 |
| 30 | Meats, Processed Meats, Obesity, Weight Gain and Occurrence of Diabetes among Adults: Findings from Adventist Health Studies | Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism | 2008 | 170 |
| 31 | Effects of Soy Protein and Soybean Isoflavones on Thyroid Function in Healthy Adults and Hypothyroid Patients: A Review of the Relevant Literature | Thyroid | 2006 | 167 |
| 32 | Long-term Particulate and Other Air Pollutants and Lung Function in Nonsmokers | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 162 |
| 33 | Long-term concentrations of ambient air pollutants and incident lung cancer in California adults: results from the AHSMOG study.Adventist Health Study on Smog. | Environmental Health Perspectives | 1998 | 162 |
| 34 | Caffeine and nicotine: A review of their joint use and possible interactive effects in tobacco withdrawal | Addictive Behaviors | 1994 | 160 |
| 35 | Vegetarian diets and blood pressure among white subjects: results from the Adventist Health Study-2 (AHS-2) | Public Health Nutrition | 2012 | 160 |
| 36 | Nuts and health outcomes: new epidemiologic evidence | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2009 | 158 |
| 37 | Nuts and coronary heart disease: an epidemiological perspective | British Journal of Nutrition | 2006 | 156 |
| 38 | Primary stroke prevention worldwide: translating evidence into action | Lancet Public Health, The | 2022 | 156 |
| 39 | A Monounsaturated Fatty Acid–Rich Pecan-Enriched Diet Favorably Alters the Serum Lipid Profile of Healthy Men and Women | Journal of Nutrition | 2001 | 155 |
| 40 | Serum lipid response to the graduated enrichment of a Step I diet with almonds: a randomized feeding trial | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2003 | 154 |
| 41 | A Brief Historical Overview of the Past Two Decades of Soy and Isoflavone Research | Journal of Nutrition | 2010 | 151 |
| 42 | Infectious episodes in runners before and after the Los Angeles Marathon | Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness | 1990 | 150 |
| 43 | Self-report of physical activity and patterns of mortality in seventh-day adventist men | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1991 | 149 |
| 44 | Anthropometric Factors and Thyroid Cancer Risk by Histological Subtype: Pooled Analysis of 22 Prospective Studies | Thyroid | 2016 | 148 |
| 45 | Vegetarian diets in the Adventist Health Study 2: a review of initial published findings | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2014 | 147 |
| 46 | Water, Other Fluids, and Fatal Coronary Heart Disease: The Adventist Health Study | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2002 | 140 |
| 47 | Effect on Body Weight of a Free 76 Kilojoule (320 Calorie) Daily Supplement of Almonds for Six Months | Journal of the American College of Nutrition | 2002 | 135 |
| 48 | Understanding soft drink consumption among female adolescents using the Theory of Planned Behavior | Health Education Research | 2003 | 135 |
| 49 | Vegetarian Diets: Planetary Health and Its Alignment with Human Health | Advances in Nutrition | 2019 | 135 |
| 50 | Health benefits of plant-derived α-linolenic acid | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2014 | 134 |
