| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Trim and Fill: A Simple Funnel-Plot-Based Method of Testing and Adjusting for Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis | Biometrics | 2000 | 10,009 |
| 2 | Recommendations for examining and interpreting funnel plot asymmetry in meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2011 | 4,743 |
| 3 | Blood pressure, stroke, and coronary heart disease *1Part 1, prolonged differences in blood pressure: prospective observational studies corrected for the regression dilution bias | Lancet, The | 1990 | 4,062 |
| 4 | Compendium of Physical Activities: classification of energy costs of human physical activities | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 1993 | 3,318 |
| 5 | Sleep-disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 2,679 |
| 6 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,634 |
| 7 | Hormones and Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Low-Dose Effects and Nonmonotonic Dose Responses | Endocrine Reviews | 2012 | 2,413 |
| 8 | Bone density at various sites for prediction of hip fractures | Lancet, The | 1993 | 2,299 |
| 9 | Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 2,149 |
| 10 | Simulation Study of Confounder-Selection Strategies | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1993 | 2,124 |
| 11 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,982 |
| 12 | Effect of losartan compared with captopril on mortality in patients with symptomatic heart failure: randomised trial—the Losartan Heart Failure Survival Study ELITE II | Lancet, The | 2000 | 1,788 |
| 13 | A Nonparametric “Trim and Fill” Method of Accounting for Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2000 | 1,687 |
| 14 | Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,685 |
| 15 | Creating Healthy Food and Eating Environments: Policy and Environmental Approaches | Annual Review of Public Health | 2008 | 1,676 |
| 16 | Indices of relative weight and obesity | Journal of Chronic Diseases | 1972 | 1,657 |
| 17 | A questionnaire for the assessment of leisure time physical activities | Journal of Chronic Diseases | 1978 | 1,635 |
| 18 | Neighborhood Environments | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2009 | 1,566 |
| 19 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence Diagnostics: A Comparative Review | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1996 | 1,493 |
| 20 | A simultaneous evaluation of 10 commonly used physical activity questionnaires | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 1993 | 1,377 |
| 21 | Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,331 |
| 22 | Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2000 | 1,161 |
| 23 | Vegetables, fruit, and cancer. I. Epidemiology | Cancer Causes and Control | 1991 | 1,114 |
| 24 | Fast-food habits, weight gain, and insulin resistance (the CARDIA study): 15-year prospective analysis | Lancet, The | 2005 | 1,082 |
| 25 | Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program | Nature | 2021 | 1,069 |
| 26 | Carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and incident type 2 diabetes in older women | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2000 | 1,054 |
| 27 | Serum Cholesterol Levels and Six-Year Mortality from Stroke in 350,977 Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial | New England Journal of Medicine | 1989 | 1,043 |
| 28 | Plasma Levels of Soluble CD14 Independently Predict Mortality in HIV Infection | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 957 |
| 29 | Long-term maintenance of weight loss: Current status. | Health Psychology | 2000 | 918 |
| 30 | Low-Grade Systemic Inflammation and the Development of Type 2 Diabetes: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study | Diabetes | 2003 | 908 |
| 31 | The Association of Registered Nurse Staffing Levels and Patient Outcomes | Medical Care | 2007 | 907 |
| 32 | Association of Hormone-Replacement Therapy with Various Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Postmenopausal Women | New England Journal of Medicine | 1993 | 903 |
| 33 | Dietary Antioxidant Vitamins and Death from Coronary Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women | New England Journal of Medicine | 1996 | 896 |
| 34 | Emerging Adulthood and College‐aged Youth: An Overlooked Age for Weight‐related Behavior Change | Obesity | 2008 | 896 |
| 35 | Peak SIV replication in resting memory CD4+ T cells depletes gut lamina propria CD4+ T cells | Nature | 2005 | 877 |
| 36 | Guidelines for overweight in adolescent preventive services: recommendations from an expert committee | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1994 | 869 |
| 37 | A Systematic Screening of Total Antioxidants in Dietary Plants | Journal of Nutrition | 2002 | 836 |
| 38 | Does Body Satisfaction Matter? Five-year Longitudinal Associations between Body Satisfaction and Health Behaviors in Adolescent Females and Males | Journal of Adolescent Health | 2006 | 801 |
| 39 | Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Presence or Absence of Plaque Improves Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2010 | 794 |
| 40 | Vegetables, fruit, and cancer. II. Mechanisms | Cancer Causes and Control | 1991 | 792 |
| 41 | DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death | Aging | 2016 | 786 |
| 42 | Outcomes of a Field Trial to Improve Children's Dietary Patterns and Physical Activity | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1996 | 784 |
| 43 | A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 762 |
| 44 | Assessment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity | Pediatrics | 2007 | 755 |
| 45 | Comparison of Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and Waist/Hip Ratio in Predicting Incident Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis | Epidemiologic Reviews | 2007 | 754 |
| 46 | Obesity, Disordered Eating, and Eating Disorders in a Longitudinal Study of Adolescents: How Do Dieters Fare 5 Years Later? | Journal of the American Dietetic Association | 2006 | 751 |
| 47 | Serum cholesterol response to changes in the diet | Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental | 1965 | 745 |
| 48 | Dietary Intake and the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome | Circulation | 2008 | 739 |
| 49 | Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in two cohorts: the longitudinal investigation of thromboembolism etiology | American Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 737 |
| 50 | Colorectal Cancer Mortality: Effectiveness of Biennial Screening for Fecal Occult Blood | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 1999 | 728 |
