| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Social relationships and health | Science | 1988 | 5,484 |
| 2 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 3 | Gene-expression profiles predict survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma | Nature Medicine | 2002 | 1,788 |
| 4 | Global, regional, and national disease burden estimates of acute lower respiratory infections due to respiratory syncytial virus in young children in 2015: a systematic review and modelling study | Lancet, The | 2017 | 1,634 |
| 5 | Participation Rates in Epidemiologic Studies | Annals of Epidemiology | 2007 | 1,517 |
| 6 | Epidemiology of urinary tract infections: incidence, morbidity, and economic costs | American Journal of Medicine | 2002 | 1,413 |
| 7 | Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,331 |
| 8 | Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 1,307 |
| 9 | Depression and Type 2 Diabetes Over the Lifespan | Diabetes Care | 2008 | 1,281 |
| 10 | Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment | Nature | 2016 | 1,204 |
| 11 | The epidemiology of urinary tract infection | Nature Reviews Urology | 2010 | 1,146 |
| 12 | Viral Clearance Without Destruction of Infected Cells During Acute HBV Infection | Science | 1999 | 1,144 |
| 13 | Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program | Nature | 2021 | 1,069 |
| 14 | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): A literature review | Journal of Infection and Public Health | 2020 | 1,059 |
| 15 | Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2000 | 1,057 |
| 16 | Gender-based violence, relationship power, and risk of HIV infection in women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa | Lancet, The | 2004 | 1,041 |
| 17 | Urinary Tract Infection Syndromes | Infectious Disease Clinics of North America | 2014 | 915 |
| 18 | Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 870 |
| 19 | Executive Summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop + 10: Addressing the Unfinished Agenda of Staging Reproductive Aging | Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2012 | 851 |
| 20 | Supermarkets, Other Food Stores, and Obesity | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2006 | 841 |
| 21 | Urinary Tract Infection | Annals of Epidemiology | 2000 | 828 |
| 22 | Executive summary of the Stages of Reproductive Aging Workshop + 10 | Menopause | 2012 | 824 |
| 23 | Discordant Protein and mRNA Expression in Lung Adenocarcinomas | Molecular and Cellular Proteomics | 2002 | 813 |
| 24 | Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Diabetes, and Ethnicity in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey | Diabetes Care | 2004 | 811 |
| 25 | Antibody-dependent enhancement of severe dengue disease in humans | Science | 2017 | 800 |
| 26 | A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 762 |
| 27 | The Epidemiology of Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Varicose Veins | Annals of Epidemiology | 2005 | 752 |
| 28 | GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment | Science | 2013 | 750 |
| 29 | Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 746 |
| 30 | Global, regional and national burden of osteoarthritis 1990-2017: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 | Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | 2020 | 732 |
| 31 | Cumulative Impact of Sustained Economic Hardship on Physical, Cognitive, Psychological, and Social Functioning | New England Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 713 |
| 32 | New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 710 |
| 33 | Statins and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 706 |
| 34 | The Changing Microbial Epidemiology in Cystic Fibrosis | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2010 | 697 |
| 35 | A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY | Annual Review of Public Health | 2005 | 692 |
| 36 | The CARE Guidelines: Consensus‐Based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development | Headache | 2013 | 628 |
| 37 | Network modeling links breast cancer susceptibility and centrosome dysfunction | Nature Genetics | 2007 | 602 |
| 38 | Stigma, discrimination and the health of illicit drug users | Drug and Alcohol Dependence | 2007 | 592 |
| 39 | Overweight and Hypertension | Circulation | 1969 | 590 |
| 40 | A Null Mutation in Human APOC3 Confers a Favorable Plasma Lipid Profile and Apparent Cardioprotection | Science | 2008 | 588 |
| 41 | The CARE Guidelines: Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting Guideline Development | Global Advances in Health and Medicine | 2013 | 575 |
| 42 | Assessing the Measurement Properties of Neighborhood Scales: From Psychometrics to Ecometrics | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2007 | 571 |
| 43 | DISQUISITIONS ON ORIGINAL ANTIGENIC SIN | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1966 | 551 |
| 44 | Artemisinin and the antimalarial endoperoxides: from herbal remedy to targeted chemotherapy | Microbiological Reviews | 1996 | 548 |
| 45 | Prospective association between obesity and depression: evidence from the Alameda County Study | International Journal of Obesity | 2003 | 546 |
| 46 | Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height | Nature | 2017 | 544 |
| 47 | The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood | Nature Communications | 2015 | 533 |
| 48 | Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2005 | 513 |
| 49 | John Henryism and the health of African-Americans | Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry | 1994 | 486 |
| 50 | Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function | Nature Communications | 2018 | 484 |
