| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Theory of Visual Control of Braking Based on Information about Time-to-Collision | Perception | 1976 | 1,997 |
| 2 | Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2004 | 1,597 |
| 3 | Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions | Nature Neuroscience | 2019 | 1,589 |
| 4 | Intelligence and educational achievement | Intelligence | 2007 | 1,288 |
| 5 | Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment | Nature | 2016 | 1,204 |
| 6 | An integrated theory of language production and comprehension | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2013 | 1,109 |
| 7 | DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life | Genome Biology | 2015 | 928 |
| 8 | Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 924 |
| 9 | Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 893 |
| 10 | The neuroscience of human intelligence differences | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2010 | 886 |
| 11 | Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 870 |
| 12 | Where we look when we steer | Nature | 1994 | 856 |
| 13 | OpenMx 2.0: Extended Structural Equation and Statistical Modeling | Psychometrika | 2016 | 775 |
| 14 | Grip Strength across the Life Course: Normative Data from Twelve British Studies | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 734 |
| 15 | Structural priming: A critical review. | Psychological Bulletin | 2008 | 723 |
| 16 | Plummeting gannets: a paradigm of ecological optics | Nature | 1981 | 717 |
| 17 | The Impact of Childhood Intelligence on Later Life: Following Up the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2004 | 693 |
| 18 | Visual proprioceptive control of standing in human infants | Perception & Psychophysics | 1974 | 691 |
| 19 | Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 675 |
| 20 | Syntactic co-ordination in dialogue | Cognition | 2000 | 646 |
| 21 | Why is conversation so easy? | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2004 | 600 |
| 22 | Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 594 |
| 23 | Sex Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants | Cerebral Cortex | 2018 | 594 |
| 24 | Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic | Molecular Psychiatry | 2011 | 571 |
| 25 | Effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment on daytime function in sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome | Lancet, The | 1994 | 556 |
| 26 | Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height | Nature | 2017 | 544 |
| 27 | Genome-wide association scan identifies a colorectal cancer susceptibility locus on 11q23 and replicates risk loci at 8q24 and 18q21 | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 542 |
| 28 | Intelligence Predicts Health and Longevity, but Why? | Current Directions in Psychological Science | 2004 | 525 |
| 29 | Do people use language production to make predictions during comprehension? | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2007 | 524 |
| 30 | Brain age predicts mortality | Molecular Psychiatry | 2018 | 513 |
| 31 | Emotional distress in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence of risk and resilience from a longitudinal cohort study | Psychological Medicine | 2022 | 511 |
| 32 | Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings | Molecular Psychiatry | 2015 | 488 |
| 33 | Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function | Nature Communications | 2018 | 484 |
| 34 | The optic flow field: the foundation of vision | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences | 1980 | 475 |
| 35 | The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 472 |
| 36 | Factor structure and validity of a trait emotional intelligence measure | Personality and Individual Differences | 2003 | 471 |
| 37 | The Gaussian Graphical Model in Cross-Sectional and Time-Series Data | Multivariate Behavioral Research | 2018 | 462 |
| 38 | The Autonomy of Visual Kinaesthesis | Perception | 1973 | 454 |
| 39 | Are monkeys logical? | Nature | 1977 | 437 |
| 40 | Enduring Links From Childhood Mathematics and Reading Achievement to Adult Socioeconomic Status | Psychological Science | 2013 | 435 |
| 41 | Intelligence | Annual Review of Psychology | 2012 | 404 |
| 42 | Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 403 |
| 43 | New gene functions in megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation | Nature | 2011 | 401 |
| 44 | The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond | BMC Geriatrics | 2007 | 399 |
| 45 | Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death | Psychological Science in the Public Interest: A Journal of the American Psychological Society | 2010 | 390 |
| 46 | How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis | Psychological Science | 2018 | 387 |
| 47 | Cognitive reserve and the neurobiology of cognitive aging | Ageing Research Reviews | 2004 | 372 |
| 48 | Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study | Social Science and Medicine | 2021 | 369 |
| 49 | Comparison of risk factor associations in UK Biobank against representative, general population based studies with conventional response rates: prospective cohort study and individual participant meta-analysis | BMJ, The | 2020 | 363 |
| 50 | Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing | Psychological Science | 2008 | 351 |
