| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Association of the T-cell regulatory gene CTLA4 with susceptibility to autoimmune disease | Nature | 2003 | 1,980 |
| 2 | Causes of vision loss worldwide, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis | The Lancet Global Health | 2013 | 1,317 |
| 3 | Major risk factors for stillbirth in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet, The | 2011 | 987 |
| 4 | Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 877 |
| 5 | GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment | Science | 2013 | 750 |
| 6 | Self‐selection and bias in a large prospective pregnancy cohort in Norway | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2009 | 665 |
| 7 | Familial Risk and Heritability of Cancer Among Twins in Nordic Countries | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 648 |
| 8 | Maximum likelihood estimation of limited and discrete dependent variable models with nested random effects | Journal of Econometrics | 2005 | 552 |
| 9 | Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 529 |
| 10 | Caesarean section is associated with an increased risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of observational studies | Diabetologia | 2008 | 496 |
| 11 | Global Estimates on the Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Diabetic Retinopathy: A Meta-analysis From 1990 to 2010 | Diabetes Care | 2016 | 435 |
| 12 | Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 402 |
| 13 | Stillbirths: the way forward in high-income countries | Lancet, The | 2011 | 389 |
| 14 | Trends and mortality effects of vitamin A deficiency in children in 138 low-income and middle-income countries between 1991 and 2013: a pooled analysis of population-based surveys | The Lancet Global Health | 2015 | 389 |
| 15 | Use of cod liver oil during the first year of life is associated with lower risk of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes: a large, population-based, case-control study | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2003 | 369 |
| 16 | Long-term mortality in a nationwide cohort of childhood-onset type 1 diabetic patients in Norway | Diabetologia | 2006 | 328 |
| 17 | Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 311 |
| 18 | Preterm birth, infant weight gain, and childhood asthma risk: A meta-analysis of 147,000 European children | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2014 | 285 |
| 19 | Stillbirths: why they matter | Lancet, The | 2011 | 276 |
| 20 | Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index | Human Molecular Genetics | 2016 | 275 |
| 21 | Glial-conditional deletion of aquaporin-4 ( Aqp4 ) reduces blood–brain water uptake and confers barrier function on perivascular astrocyte endfeet | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 272 |
| 22 | Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Cataract Worldwide and in World Regions, 1990 to 2010 | | 2015 | 264 |
| 23 | Individual differences in pain sensitivity: Genetic and environmental contributions | Pain | 2008 | 240 |
| 24 | Folic acid supplements in pregnancy and early childhood respiratory health | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 2009 | 234 |
| 25 | Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3 | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 220 |
| 26 | Genetic Evidence for Causal Relationships Between Maternal Obesity-Related Traits and Birth Weight | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 220 |
| 27 | Moderate Effects of Hearing Loss on Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being: Results From the Nord-Trøndelag Hearing Loss Study | Psychosomatic Medicine | 2004 | 215 |
| 28 | Is delivery by cesarean section a risk factor for food allergy? | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2003 | 214 |
| 29 | Pregnancy and Birth Cohort Resources in Europe: a Large Opportunity for Aetiological Child Health Research | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 2013 | 214 |
| 30 | Associations of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain with pregnancy outcome and postpartum weight retention: a prospective observational cohort study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | 2014 | 209 |
| 31 | Changes in mortality inequalities over two decades: register based study of European countries | BMJ, The | 2016 | 204 |
| 32 | Blood Glucose and Risk of Incident and Fatal Cancer in the Metabolic Syndrome and Cancer Project (Me-Can): Analysis of Six Prospective Cohorts | PLoS Medicine | 2009 | 202 |
| 33 | Remapping the Insulin Gene/IDDM2 Locus in Type 1 Diabetes | Diabetes | 2004 | 198 |
| 34 | Obesity in Adolescence and Adulthood and the Risk of Adult Mortality | Epidemiology | 2004 | 195 |
| 35 | Trends in inequalities in premature mortality: a study of 3.2 million deaths in 13 European countries | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2015 | 195 |
| 36 | Enterovirus Infection and Progression From Islet Autoimmunity to Type 1 Diabetes | Diabetes | 2010 | 192 |
| 37 | Lung cancer and air pollution: a 27 year follow up of 16 209 Norwegian men | Thorax | 2003 | 191 |
| 38 | Maternal dietary patterns and preterm delivery: results from large prospective cohort study | BMJ, The | 2014 | 189 |
| 39 | Height, body mass index, and prostate cancer: a follow-up of 950 000 Norwegian men | British Journal of Cancer | 2003 | 187 |
| 40 | The biobank of the Norwegian mother and child cohort Study: A resource for the next 100 years | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2006 | 186 |
| 41 | Body Mass Index in Adolescence in Relation to Total Mortality: 32-Year Follow-up of 227,000 Norwegian Boys and Girls | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 181 |
| 42 | Body Mass Index in Relation to Adult Asthma among 135,000 Norwegian Men and Women | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2004 | 180 |
| 43 | Prosthesis rejection in acquired major upper-limb amputees: a population-based survey | Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology | 2012 | 174 |
| 44 | Cohort Profile: Cohort of Norway (CONOR) | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 171 |
| 45 | Development of Land Use Regression Models for Particle Composition in Twenty Study Areas in Europe | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 167 |
| 46 | Prescription drug use among fathers and mothers before and during pregnancy. A population‐based cohort study of 106 000 pregnancies in Norway 2004–2006 | British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | 2008 | 162 |
| 47 | Determinants of plasma concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances in pregnant Norwegian women | Environment International | 2013 | 160 |
| 48 | Number of People Blind or Visually Impaired by Glaucoma Worldwide and in World Regions 1990 – 2010: A Meta-Analysis | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 159 |
| 49 | Road traffic accident risk related to prescriptions of the hypnotics zopiclone, zolpidem, flunitrazepam and nitrazepam | Sleep Medicine | 2008 | 158 |
| 50 | The Nordic prescription databases as a resource for pharmacoepidemiological research—a literature review | Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety | 2013 | 156 |
