| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | William S. Halsted and Local Anesthesia | Anesthesiology | 1975 | 73 |
| 2 | Donora, Pennsylvania: an environmental disaster of the 20th century | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 57 |
| 3 | Preemptive biopreparedness: can we learn anything from history? | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 40 |
| 4 | The Unfulfilled Promise Of Public Health: Déjà Vu All Over Again | Health Affairs | 2002 | 31 |
| 5 | The Allergy Archives: Pioneers and Milestones | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2003 | 26 |
| 6 | The Invention of Braille | American Journal of Public Health | 2011 | 17 |
| 7 | Corrigenda and Addenda to Diels' Galenica | Traditio | 1967 | 15 |
| 8 | Hospital Smoking Bans and Their Impact | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 15 |
| 9 | The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 13 |
| 10 | Jaundice in the Hippocratic Corpus | Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery | 2007 | 13 |
| 11 | Models of public health education: choices for the future? | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 11 |
| 12 | The great contribution: Index Medicus, Index-Catalogue, and IndexCat | Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA | 2009 | 10 |
| 13 | Anthrax in Transit: Practical Experience and Intellectual Exchange | Isis | 2008 | 9 |
| 14 | Legislating Fear and the Public Health in Gilded Age Massachusetts | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | 2007 | 8 |
| 15 | “…So That Others May Walk”: The March of Dimes | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 7 |
| 16 | Divórcio entre teoria e prática: o sistema de treinamento em saúde pública nos Estados Unidos | Ciencia E Saude Coletiva | 2008 | 7 |
| 17 | The wages of sin | Lancet, The | 1999 | 6 |
| 18 | One Size Does Not Fit All in the Transgender Community | American Journal of Public Health | 2003 | 6 |
| 19 | Freeing the Insane | American Journal of Public Health | 2006 | 6 |
| 20 | The National Library of Medicine Global Health Events web archive, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic collecting | Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA | 2020 | 6 |
| 21 | Exploring Acupuncture: Ancient Ideas, Modern Techniques | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 5 |
| 22 | An historical overview of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, 1985–2015 | Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA | 2018 | 5 |
| 23 | The pleasures and perils of prophetic advocacy: Henry E. Sigerist and the politics of medical reform. | American Journal of Public Health | 1996 | 4 |
| 24 | Cholera in Paris | American Journal of Public Health | 2000 | 4 |
| 25 | Smallpox: The First Vaccine | American Journal of Public Health | 2011 | 4 |
| 26 | William Osler's historiography: a rhetorical analysis | Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien D'histoire De La Médecine | 1986 | 4 |
| 27 | Form and Function: Early Efforts to Relate Chemical Structure and Pharmacological Activity | Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien D'histoire De La Médecine | 1988 | 3 |
| 28 | Domestic Violence—Medieval and Modern | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 3 |
| 29 | The Effects of the Corset | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 3 |
| 30 | John Harvey Kellogg, MD: Health Reformer and Antismoking Crusader | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 3 |
| 31 | Popularizing the Toothbrush | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 3 |
| 32 | The AIDS Memorial Quilt | American Journal of Public Health | 2006 | 3 |
| 33 | Medicine and the Revolution | Military Medicine | 1984 | 2 |
| 34 | Ignore AIDS and it will bury the rest of you | American Journal of Public Health | 2000 | 2 |
| 35 | "Salus Populi Suprema Lex": the health of the people is the supreme law | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 2 |
| 36 | Saudi Nutrition Education for Pregnant Women, 1988 | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 2 |
| 37 | The March on Washington, 1963 | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 2 |
| 38 | Factory Injuries and Progressive Reform | American Journal of Public Health | 2004 | 2 |
| 39 | Jacques Miller on the thymus | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2005 | 2 |
| 40 | History at the intersection of disability and public health: The case of John Galsworthy and disabled soldiers of the First World War | Disability and Health Journal | 2011 | 2 |
| 41 | Understanding the role of medical experts during a public health crisis digital tools and library resources for research on the 1918 Spanish influenza | Disability and Health Journal | 2014 | 2 |
| 42 | Creating a Monster: Newspapers, Magazines, and America's Drug Problem | Molecular Interventions: Pharmacological Perspectives From Biology, Chemistry and Genomics | 2002 | 2 |
| 43 | The "Dreadful Visitation": public health and public awareness in seventeenth-century London | Bulletin of the Medical Library Association | 1997 | 2 |
| 44 | Le Blon's Anatomical Color Engravings | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | 1968 | 1 |
| 45 | Historical note: Atherton Seidell and the photoduplication of library material | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | 1989 | 1 |
| 46 | “Who’s on First?”: Garrison-Morton-Norman at the End of the Twentieth Century | Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien D'histoire De La Médecine | 1995 | 1 |
| 47 | Night Shift in a Glass Factory | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 1 |
| 48 | The "truth" Tobacco Memorial | American Journal of Public Health | 2001 | 1 |
| 49 | Medical Education for Women, 1870 | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 1 |
| 50 | The Tooth Puller [L'arracheur de dents] | American Journal of Public Health | 2002 | 1 |
