| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030 | Lancet, The | 2016 | 1,220 |
| 2 | The state of hypertension care in 44 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative individual-level data from 1·1 million adults | Lancet, The | 2019 | 319 |
| 3 | Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Framing the Questions | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 285 |
| 4 | Community engagement for COVID-19 prevention and control: a rapid evidence synthesis | BMJ Global Health | 2020 | 243 |
| 5 | Effectiveness of an integrated intimate partner violence and HIV prevention intervention in Rakai, Uganda: analysis of an intervention in an existing cluster randomised cohort | The Lancet Global Health | 2015 | 234 |
| 6 | Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Social Science Matters | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 233 |
| 7 | Barriers to male involvement in contraceptive uptake and reproductive health services: a qualitative study of men and women’s perceptions in two rural districts in Uganda | Reproductive Health | 2014 | 220 |
| 8 | Biomedical interventions to prevent HIV infection: evidence, challenges, and way forward | Lancet, The | 2008 | 219 |
| 9 | The Effects of Circumcision on the Penis Microbiome | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 216 |
| 10 | Hypertension awareness, treatment and control in Africa: a systematic review | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders | 2013 | 208 |
| 11 | The effects of male circumcision on female partners' genital tract symptoms and vaginal infections in a randomized trial in Rakai, Uganda | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2009 | 207 |
| 12 | Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities | Human Resources for Health | 2009 | 193 |
| 13 | Access to and utilisation of health services for the poor in Uganda: a systematic review of available evidence | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2008 | 191 |
| 14 | Health system performance for people with diabetes in 28 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative surveys | PLoS Medicine | 2019 | 179 |
| 15 | The costs and effectiveness of four HIV counseling and testing strategies in Uganda | Aids | 2009 | 173 |
| 16 | Guidelines for Reporting Trial Protocols and Completed Trials Modified Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Extenuating Circumstances | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2021 | 168 |
| 17 | Male partner attendance of skilled antenatal care in peri-urban Gulu district, Northern Uganda | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | 2010 | 134 |
| 18 | Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among Women in Rural Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study | PLoS ONE | 2016 | 127 |
| 19 | Artemether-Lumefantrine versus Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for Treating Uncomplicated Malaria: A Randomized Trial to Guide Policy in Uganda | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 120 |
| 20 | Microbial translocation, the innate cytokine response, and HIV-1 disease progression in Africa | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 117 |
| 21 | Utilization of public or private health care providers by febrile children after user fee removal in Uganda | Malaria Journal | 2009 | 115 |
| 22 | Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: An Agenda for Action | PLoS Medicine | 2011 | 114 |
| 23 | Prevalence of cerebral palsy in Uganda: a population-based study | The Lancet Global Health | 2017 | 113 |
| 24 | The effect of payment and incentives on motivation and focus of community health workers: five case studies from low- and middle-income countries | Human Resources for Health | 2015 | 112 |
| 25 | HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kampala, Uganda–A Respondent Driven Sampling Survey | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 111 |
| 26 | The state of diabetes treatment coverage in 55 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 680 102 adults | The Lancet Healthy Longevity | 2021 | 108 |
| 27 | Prevalence and correlates of diabetes mellitus in Uganda: a population‐based national survey | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2016 | 107 |
| 28 | Why performance-based contracting failed in Uganda – An “open-box” evaluation of a complex health system intervention | Social Science and Medicine | 2012 | 106 |
| 29 | Prevalence, Awareness and Control of Hypertension in Uganda | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 105 |
| 30 | Facilitators and barriers to uptake and adherence to lifelong antiretroviral therapy among HIV infected pregnant women in Uganda: a qualitative study | BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | 2017 | 99 |
| 31 | Private and public health care in rural areas of Uganda | BMC International Health and Human Rights | 2010 | 98 |
| 32 | Opening the ‘black box’ of performance-based financing in low- and lower middle-income countries: a review of the literature | Health Policy and Planning | 2016 | 98 |
| 33 | THE REAL McCOIL: A method for the concurrent estimation of the complexity of infection and SNP allele frequency for malaria parasites | PLoS Computational Biology | 2017 | 93 |
| 34 | Global research challenges and opportunities for mental health and substance-use disorders | Nature | 2015 | 90 |
| 35 | HIV-1 Transmitting Couples Have Similar Viral Load Set-Points in Rakai, Uganda | PLoS Pathogens | 2010 | 88 |
| 36 | Adolescent and adult first time mothers' health seeking practices during pregnancy and early motherhood in Wakiso district, central Uganda | Reproductive Health | 2008 | 87 |
| 37 | Diabetes Prevalence and Its Relationship With Education, Wealth, and BMI in 29 Low- and Middle-Income Countries | Diabetes Care | 2020 | 86 |
| 38 | HIV-1 subtypes and differences in heterosexual HIV transmission among HIV-discordant couples in Rakai, Uganda | Aids | 2009 | 85 |
| 39 | New filovirus disease classification and nomenclature | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2019 | 84 |
| 40 | Measuring Agreement between Egos and Alters | Field Methods | 2014 | 83 |
| 41 | Changes in Glomerular Kidney Function Among HIV-1–Uninfected Men and Women Receiving Emtricitabine–Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Preexposure Prophylaxis | JAMA Internal Medicine | 2015 | 83 |
| 42 | The Safety of Adult Male Circumcision in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Men in Rakai, Uganda | PLoS Medicine | 2008 | 82 |
| 43 | Influence of efavirenz pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics on neuropsychological disorders in Ugandan HIV-positive patients with or without tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 79 |
| 44 | Knowledge and attitudes towards use of long acting reversible contraceptives among women of reproductive age in Lubaga division, Kampala district, Uganda | BMC Research Notes | 2014 | 78 |
| 45 | Evaluation of circulating cathodic antigen (CCA) urine-cassette assay as a survey tool for Schistosoma mansoni in different transmission settings within Bugiri District, Uganda | Acta Tropica | 2014 | 78 |
| 46 | Awareness of cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms: cross‐sectional community survey in post‐conflict northern Uganda | Health Expectations | 2016 | 77 |
| 47 | Body-mass index and diabetes risk in 57 low-income and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 685 616 adults | Lancet, The | 2021 | 77 |
| 48 | Occupational Health Hazards among Healthcare Workers in Kampala, Uganda | Journal of Environmental and Public Health | 2015 | 76 |
| 49 | Women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer prevention: a cross sectional study in Eastern Uganda | BMC Women's Health | 2017 | 75 |
| 50 | Effect of the Uganda Newborn Study on care-seeking and care practices: a cluster-randomised controlled trial | Global Health Action | 2015 | 74 |
