| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Systematic review of the prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China: could nicotine be a therapeutic option? | Internal and Emergency Medicine | 2020 | 228 |
| 2 | Editorial: Nicotine and SARS-CoV-2: COVID-19 may be a disease of the nicotinic cholinergic system | Toxicology Reports | 2020 | 191 |
| 3 | Current smoking, former smoking, and adverse outcome among hospitalized COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease | 2020 | 133 |
| 4 | Systematic review of the prevalence of current smoking among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China: could nicotine be a therapeutic option? Reply | Internal and Emergency Medicine | 2021 | 109 |
| 5 | Results of the COVID-19 mental health international for the general population (COMET-G) study | European Neuropsychopharmacology | 2022 | 84 |
| 6 | Improved strategies to counter the COVID-19 pandemic: Lockdowns vs. primary and community healthcare | Toxicology Reports | 2021 | 80 |
| 7 | Repeated leftover serosurvey of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies, Greece, March and April 2020 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 53 |
| 8 | Building the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance network in veterinary medicine (EARS-Vet) | Eurosurveillance | 2021 | 51 |
| 9 | Antibiotic treatment and antimicrobial resistance in children with urinary tract infections | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance | 2020 | 49 |
| 10 | Smoking prevalence among hospitalized COVID-19 patients and its association with disease severity and mortality: an expanded re-analysis of a recent publication | Harm Reduction Journal | 2021 | 42 |
| 11 | COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance: Data from the Greek Electronic System for the Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance—WHONET-Greece (January 2018–March 2021) | Life | 2021 | 25 |
| 12 | Adherence to Dietary Recommendations, Nutrient Intake Adequacy and Diet Quality among Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Patients: Results from the GreeCF Study | Nutrients | 2020 | 24 |
| 13 | Review and Analysis of National Monitoring Systems for Antimicrobial Resistance in Animal Bacterial Pathogens in Europe: A Basis for the Development of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network in Veterinary Medicine (EARS-Vet) | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2022 | 24 |
| 14 | Strong correlation between the rates of intrinsically antibiotic-resistant species and the rates of acquired resistance in Gram-negative species causing bacteraemia, EU/EEA, 2016 | Eurosurveillance | 2019 | 23 |
| 15 | West Nile virus in humans, Greece, 2018: the largest seasonal number of cases, 9 years after its emergence in the country | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 23 |
| 16 | Defining the scope of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance network in Veterinary medicine (EARS-Vet): a bottom-up and One Health approach | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 2022 | 21 |
| 17 | Nationwide Survey in Greece about Knowledge, Risk Perceptions, and Preventive Behaviors for COVID-19 during the General Lockdown in April 2020 | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2020 | 20 |
| 18 | Eight-year trends in the relative isolation frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility among bloodstream isolates from Greek hospitals: data from the Greek Electronic System for the Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance – WHONET-Greece, 2010 to 2017 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 19 |
| 19 | Nutritional Status of Pediatric Cancer Patients at Diagnosis and Correlations with Treatment, Clinical Outcome and the Long-Term Growth and Health of Survivors | Children | 2020 | 18 |
| 20 | Changes from 2017 to 2018 in e‐cigarette use and in ever marijuana use with e‐cigarettes among US adolescents: analysis of the National Youth Tobacco Survey | Addiction | 2021 | 18 |
| 21 | Childhood Malnutrition: Time for Action | Children | 2021 | 18 |
| 22 | The Influence of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Children and Their Parents in Relation to Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece | Childhood Obesity | 2020 | 16 |
| 23 | Artificial Intelligence in Differential Diagnostics of Meningitis: A Nationwide Study | Diagnostics | 2021 | 16 |
| 24 | Nutritional Risks among Adolescent Athletes with Disordered Eating | Children | 2021 | 15 |
| 25 | Applying the exposome concept to working life health | Environmental Epidemiology | 2022 | 15 |
| 26 | Young People’s Views on Food Hygiene and Food Safety: A Multicentre Qualitative Study | Education Sciences | 2021 | 13 |
| 27 | Family History and Gastric Cancer Risk: A Pooled Investigation in the Stomach Cancer Pooling (STOP) Project Consortium | Cancers | 2021 | 13 |
| 28 | Awareness, knowledge and trust in the Greek authorities towards COVID-19 pandemic: results from the Epirus Health Study cohort | BMC Public Health | 2021 | 12 |
| 29 | The Role of Coronavirus RNA-Processing Enzymes in Innate Immune Evasion | Life | 2021 | 12 |
| 30 | Gut microbiome and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review | Pediatric Research | 2022 | 12 |
| 31 | Development of a universal short patient satisfaction questionnaire on the basis of SERVQUAL: Psychometric analyses with data of diabetes and stroke patients from six different European countries | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 11 |
| 32 | Sleeping patterns and childhood obesity: an epidemiological study in 1,728 children in Greece | Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine | 2021 | 11 |
| 33 | Orthorexia Nervosa in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Literature Review | Children | 2022 | 11 |
| 34 | Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials | Viruses | 2023 | 11 |
| 35 | Germline determinants of humoral immune response to HPV-16 protect against oropharyngeal cancer | Nature Communications | 2021 | 10 |
| 36 | Weight Pressures and Eating Disorder Symptoms among Adolescent Female Gymnasts of Different Performance Levels in Greece | Children | 2022 | 10 |
| 37 | Mobility, spatial variation and human health risk assessment of mercury in soil from an informal e-waste recycling site, Lagos, Nigeria | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 2021 | 9 |
| 38 | Atomic spectrometry update – a review of advances in environmental analysis | Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry | 2022 | 9 |
| 39 | Tea consumption and gastric cancer: a pooled analysis from the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project consortium | British Journal of Cancer | 2022 | 9 |
| 40 | Atomic spectrometry update – a review of advances in environmental analysis | Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry | 2023 | 9 |
| 41 | Breakfast consumption and obesity among preadolescents: An epidemiological study | Pediatrics International | 2020 | 8 |
| 42 | Extracurricular Sports Participation and Sedentary Behavior in Association with Dietary Habits and Obesity Risk in Children and Adolescents and the Role of Family Structure: a Literature Review | Current Nutrition Reports | 2021 | 8 |
| 43 | Household food spending, parental and childhood’s diet quality, in financial crisis: a cross-sectional study in Greece | European Journal of Public Health | 2021 | 8 |
| 44 | Diversity and Resistance Profiles of Human Non-typhoidal Salmonella spp. in Greece, 2003–2020 | Antibiotics | 2021 | 8 |
| 45 | Allium vegetables intake and the risk of gastric cancer in the Stomach cancer Pooling (StoP) Project | British Journal of Cancer | 2022 | 8 |
| 46 | Phytoremediation of Cadmium-Contaminated Soils: A Review of New Cadmium Hyperaccumulators and Factors Affecting their Efficiency | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 2022 | 8 |
| 47 | Ceramides in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: Existing Evidence and Therapeutic Considerations for Diet as an Anticeramide Treatment | Nutrients | 2023 | 8 |
| 48 | Triage for Malnutrition Risk among Pediatric and Adolescent Outpatients with Cystic Fibrosis, Using a Disease-Specific Tool | Children | 2020 | 7 |
| 49 | Mental Health and Wellbeing at Schools: Health Promotion in Primary Schools with the Use of Digital Methods | Children | 2021 | 7 |
| 50 | Cost-effectiveness of emergency preparedness measures in response to infectious respiratory disease outbreaks: a systematic review and econometric analysis | BMJ Open | 2021 | 7 |
