| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission | Lancet, The | 2020 | 4,658 |
| 2 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 3 | Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health | Lancet, The | 2008 | 3,651 |
| 4 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,982 |
| 5 | Prediabetes: a high-risk state for diabetes development | Lancet, The | 2012 | 1,950 |
| 6 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 7 | The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 1,704 |
| 8 | Oral diseases: a global public health challenge | Lancet, The | 2019 | 1,675 |
| 9 | Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 1,634 |
| 10 | Inflammation, obesity, stress and coronary heart disease: is interleukin-6 the link? | Atherosclerosis | 2000 | 1,611 |
| 11 | Adolescence and the social determinants of health | Lancet, The | 2012 | 1,524 |
| 12 | Subjective wellbeing, health, and ageing | Lancet, The | 2015 | 1,510 |
| 13 | Once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in prevention of colorectal cancer: a multicentre randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2010 | 1,483 |
| 14 | Life course epidemiology | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2003 | 1,413 |
| 15 | New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution | Nature | 2015 | 1,328 |
| 16 | Child developmental risk factors for adult schizophrenia in the British 1946 birth cohort | Lancet, The | 1994 | 1,280 |
| 17 | Development of the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 2001 | 1,221 |
| 18 | Positive Psychological Well-Being and Mortality: A Quantitative Review of Prospective Observational Studies | Psychosomatic Medicine | 2008 | 1,148 |
| 19 | Problems of reporting genetic associations with complex outcomes | Lancet, The | 2003 | 1,144 |
| 20 | Socioeconomic status and smoking: a review | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2012 | 1,126 |
| 21 | The effects of acute psychological stress on circulating inflammatory factors in humans: A review and meta-analysis | Brain, Behavior, and Immunity | 2007 | 1,081 |
| 22 | Contribution of job control and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease incidence | Lancet, The | 1997 | 1,045 |
| 23 | Prognosis Research Strategy (PROGRESS) 3: Prognostic Model Research | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 1,006 |
| 24 | Mortality and causes of death in the WHO multinational study of vascular disease in diabetes | Diabetologia | 2001 | 979 |
| 25 | Stress and cardiovascular disease | Nature Reviews Cardiology | 2012 | 935 |
| 26 | Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 870 |
| 27 | Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies | Lancet, The | 2018 | 858 |
| 28 | Cortisol awakening response and psychosocial factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis | Biological Psychology | 2009 | 841 |
| 29 | Socioeconomic status and the 25 × 25 risk factors as determinants of premature mortality: a multicohort study and meta-analysis of 1·7 million men and women | Lancet, The | 2017 | 825 |
| 30 | Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: prospective study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2006 | 820 |
| 31 | Conceptualising engagement with digital behaviour change interventions: a systematic review using principles from critical interpretive synthesis | Translational Behavioral Medicine | 2017 | 798 |
| 32 | Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study | Social Science and Medicine | 2003 | 788 |
| 33 | Do stress-related psychosocial factors contribute to cancer incidence and survival? | Nature Clinical Practice Oncology | 2008 | 786 |
| 34 | Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data | Lancet, The | 2012 | 786 |
| 35 | Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 754 |
| 36 | Physical activity and risk of neurodegenerative disease: a systematic review of prospective evidence | Psychological Medicine | 2009 | 753 |
| 37 | Causal Relationship between Obesity and Vitamin D Status: Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Multiple Cohorts | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 753 |
| 38 | The Common Risk Factor Approach: a rational basis for promoting oral health | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology | 2000 | 747 |
| 39 | Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 746 |
| 40 | Grip Strength across the Life Course: Normative Data from Twelve British Studies | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 734 |
| 41 | Loneliness, social isolation, and behavioral and biological health indicators in older adults. | Health Psychology | 2011 | 729 |
| 42 | Socioeconomic Status and Adiposity in Childhood: A Systematic Review of Cross‐sectional Studies 1990–2005 | Obesity | 2008 | 722 |
| 43 | Natural selection on EPAS1 ( HIF2α ) associated with low hemoglobin concentration in Tibetan highlanders | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 708 |
| 44 | Effect of lisinopril on progression of retinopathy in normotensive people with type 1 diabetes | Lancet, The | 1998 | 696 |
| 45 | Assessing salivary cortisol in large-scale, epidemiological research | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 2009 | 694 |
| 46 | Trajectories of glycaemia, insulin sensitivity, and insulin secretion before diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an analysis from the Whitehall II study | Lancet, The | 2009 | 692 |
| 47 | Stress and Food Choice: A Laboratory Study | Psychosomatic Medicine | 2000 | 682 |
| 48 | A review and analysis of the use of ‘habit’ in understanding, predicting and influencing health-related behaviour | Health Psychology Review | 2015 | 669 |
| 49 | Cohort Profile: The Whitehall II study | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2005 | 643 |
| 50 | Nutrition knowledge and food intake | Appetite | 2000 | 641 |
