| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2018 | 15,209 |
| 2 | Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008 | International Journal of Cancer | 2010 | 14,479 |
| 3 | Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030 | Diabetes Care | 2004 | 12,778 |
| 4 | Development of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): WHO Collaborative Project on Early Detection of Persons with Harmful Alcohol Consumption-II | Addiction | 1993 | 10,134 |
| 5 | Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030 | PLoS Medicine | 2006 | 8,440 |
| 6 | Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study | Lancet, The | 1997 | 5,906 |
| 7 | Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2007 | 5,825 |
| 8 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries | Lancet, The | 2013 | 5,719 |
| 9 | Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems | Lancet, The | 2019 | 5,421 |
| 10 | Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods | International Journal of Cancer | 2019 | 5,337 |
| 11 | Global Burden of Diabetes, 1995-2025: Prevalence, numerical estimates, and projections | Diabetes Care | 1998 | 4,873 |
| 12 | Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences | Lancet, The | 2008 | 4,719 |
| 13 | Global prevalence of dementia: a Delphi consensus study | Lancet, The | 2005 | 4,496 |
| 14 | Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 4,058 |
| 15 | World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour | British Journal of Sports Medicine | 2020 | 4,050 |
| 16 | Discovery, research, and development of new antibiotics: the WHO priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and tuberculosis | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2018 | 3,672 |
| 17 | Mortality by cause for eight regions of the world: Global Burden of Disease Study | Lancet, The | 1997 | 3,497 |
| 18 | National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants | Lancet, The | 2011 | 3,476 |
| 19 | Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys | Lancet, The | 2007 | 3,162 |
| 20 | The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A Report from the WHOQOL Group | Quality of Life Research | 2004 | 3,091 |
| 21 | Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 3,053 |
| 22 | The diagnosis of osteoporosis | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 1994 | 3,021 |
| 23 | National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants | Lancet, The | 2011 | 3,019 |
| 24 | Global estimates of visual impairment: 2010 | British Journal of Ophthalmology | 2012 | 2,731 |
| 25 | The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet Public Health, The | 2017 | 2,675 |
| 26 | Proposed international clinical diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema disease severity scales | Ophthalmology | 2003 | 2,664 |
| 27 | Global Burden of Tuberculosis | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1999 | 2,526 |
| 28 | Global, regional, and national causes of under-5 mortality in 2000–15: an updated systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals | Lancet, The | 2016 | 2,406 |
| 29 | The Long-Term Health Consequences of Child Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, and Neglect: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | PLoS Medicine | 2012 | 2,365 |
| 30 | Suicide Prevention Strategies | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2005 | 2,352 |
| 31 | Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002 | Bulletin of the World Health Organization | 2004 | 2,336 |
| 32 | The World Health Organization adult ADHD self-report scale (ASRS): a short screening scale for use in the general population | Psychological Medicine | 2005 | 2,316 |
| 33 | Age of onset of mental disorders: a review of recent literature | Current Opinion in Psychiatry | 2007 | 2,304 |
| 34 | Impact of regional climate change on human health | Nature | 2005 | 2,303 |
| 35 | The contributions of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections to cirrhosis and primary liver cancer worldwide | Journal of Hepatology | 2006 | 2,205 |
| 36 | Hepatitis B virus epidemiology, disease burden, treatment, and current and emerging prevention and control measures | Journal of Viral Hepatitis | 2004 | 2,202 |
| 37 | The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 | Nature | 2015 | 2,140 |
| 38 | Global epidemiology of hepatitis C virus infection: New estimates of age-specific antibody to HCV seroprevalence | Hepatology | 2013 | 2,118 |
| 39 | Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates | Lancet, The | 2009 | 2,086 |
| 40 | Global causes of blindness and distance vision impairment 1990–2020: a systematic review and meta-analysis | The Lancet Global Health | 2017 | 2,053 |
| 41 | WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age | Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics | 2006 | 2,040 |
| 42 | The World Oral Health Report 2003: continuous improvement of oral health in the 21st century - the approach of the WHO Global Oral Health Programme | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology | 2003 | 1,926 |
| 43 | Global Prevalence of Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders | Autism Research | 2012 | 1,893 |
| 44 | Association Between Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2020 | 1,855 |
| 45 | Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | British Journal of Psychiatry | 2010 | 1,854 |
| 46 | The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview short-form (CIDI-SF) | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 1998 | 1,806 |
| 47 | Leishmaniasis: current situation and new perspectives | Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 2004 | 1,735 |
| 48 | Worldwide prevalence of anaemia, WHO Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System, 1993–2005 | Public Health Nutrition | 2009 | 1,684 |
| 49 | Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1): Early Findings | Science | 2009 | 1,665 |
| 50 | Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2010 | 1,651 |
