Topic · Birth, Development, and Health
Most cited papers in Birth, Development, and Health
What are the most cited papers in Birth, Development, and Health?
The most cited paper in Birth, Development, and Health is "Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey" (Tim James Cole, 2000), with 16,616 citations. Next come "Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance" (11,477) and "AIN-93 Purified Diets for Laboratory Rodents: Final Report of the American Institute of Nutrition Ad Hoc Writing Committee on the Reformulation of the AIN-76A Rodent Diet" (8,763).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,836 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey Tim James Cole · BMJ | 6 May 2000 | 16,616 |
| 2 | Developing and evaluating complex interventions: the new Medical Research Council guidance Peter Craig, Paul A Dieppe, Sally MacIntyre et al. · BMJ | 29 Sep 2008 | 11,477 |
| 3 | AIN-93 Purified Diets for Laboratory Rodents: Final Report of the American Institute of Nutrition Ad Hoc Writing Committee on the Reformulation of the AIN-76A Rodent Diet Philip G. Reeves, Forrest Harold Nielsen, George C Fahey Jr · Journal of Nutrition | Nov 1993 | 8,763 |
| 4 | Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries Robert E. Black, Cesar Gomes Victora, Susan P. Walker et al. · The Lancet | 5 Jun 2013 | 8,670 |
| 5 | Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults Leandra Abarca-Gómez et al. · The Lancet | 13 Oct 2017 | 7,739 |
| 6 | ‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?* George Davey Smith, Shah B J Ebrahim · International Journal of Epidemiology | Feb 2003 | 6,495 |
| 7 | Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition SONIA J. LUPIEN, Bruce S. McEwen, Megan R. Gunnar et al. · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 29 Apr 2009 | 6,297 |
| 8 | Cohort Profile: The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) Yaohui Zhao, Yisong Hu, James Patrick Smith et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology | 12 Dec 2012 | 5,486 |
| 9 | Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load Bruce S. McEwen · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | May 1998 | 5,076 |
| 10 | Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span David Furman, Judith Campisi, Eric M. Verdin et al. · Nature Medicine | Dec 2019 | 4,935 |
| 11 | Obesity as a medical problem Peter G Kopelman · Nature | Apr 2000 | 4,838 |
| 12 | National, regional, and worldwide estimates of preterm birth rates in the year 2010 with time trends since 1990 for selected countries: a systematic analysis and implications Hannah K. Blencowe, Simon Cousens, Mikkel Z. Oestergaard et al. · The Lancet | Jun 2012 | 4,710 |
| 13 | Genome-wide Methylation Profiles Reveal Quantitative Views of Human Aging Rates Gregory Hannum, Justin Guinney, Ling Zhao et al. · Molecular Cell | 21 Nov 2012 | 4,654 |
| 14 | A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity Timothy Mark Frayling et al. · Science | 12 Apr 2007 | 4,513 |
| 15 | Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity Robert C. Whitaker, Jeffrey A. Wright, MARGARET SULLIVAN PEPE et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 25 Sep 1997 | 4,434 |
| 16 | Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries Barry M. Popkin, Linda S. Adair, Shu Wen Ng · Nutrition Reviews | 2012 | 4,371 |
| 17 | Excess placental soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1) may contribute to endothelial dysfunction, hypertension, and proteinuria in preeclampsia Sharon E. Maynard, Jiang-Yong Min, Jaime Rafael Merchan et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation | Mar 2003 | 4,020 |
| 18 | Maternal and child undernutrition: consequences for adult health and human capital Cesar Gomes Victora, Linda S. Adair, Caroline H. D. Fall et al. · The Lancet | 2008 | 4,015 |
| 19 | Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in Body Mass Index Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2010 Cynthia L. Ogden, Margaret Deutsch Carroll, Brian K. Kit et al. · JAMA | 18 Jan 2012 | 3,965 |
| 20 | Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease Peter David Gluckman, Mark A. Hanson, Cyrus Cooper et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 2 Jul 2008 | 3,957 |
| 21 | Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health Tim Lobstein, Louise Alison Baur, Ricardo Uauy · Obesity Reviews | 16 Apr 2004 | 3,833 |
| 22 | An epigenetic biomarker of aging for lifespan and healthspan Morgan E. Levine, Ake Tzu-Hui Lu, Austin Quach et al. · Aging | 18 Apr 2018 | 3,821 |
| 23 | WEIGHT IN INFANCY AND DEATH FROM ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE David J.P. Barker, Clive Osmond, Paul D Winter et al. · The Lancet | Sep 1989 | 3,586 |
| 24 | Fetal origins of coronary heart disease D.J.P. Barker · BMJ | 15 Jul 1995 | 3,568 |
| 25 | DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing Steve Horvath, Kenneth Raj · Nature Reviews Genetics | 11 Apr 2018 | 3,349 |
| 26 | Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus: the thrifty phenotype hypothesis Charles Nicholas Hales, David J.P. Barker · Diabetologia | Jul 1992 | 3,333 |
| 27 | Cohort Profile: The ‘Children of the 90s’—the index offspring of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children Andy Boyd, Jean Golding, John Macleod et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology | 16 Apr 2012 | 3,321 |
| 28 | The concept of allostasis in biology and biomedicine Bruce S. McEwen, John C. Wingfield · Hormones and Behavior | 2003 | 3,310 |
| 29 | Stress and disorders of the stress system George Panagiotis Chrousos · Nature Reviews Endocrinology | 2 Jun 2009 | 3,226 |
| 30 | Extended international ( IOTF ) body mass index cut‐offs for thinness, overweight and obesity Tim James Cole, Tim Lobstein · Pediatric Obesity | 19 Jun 2012 | 3,204 |
| 31 | Persistent epigenetic differences associated with prenatal exposure to famine in humans Bastiaan T. Heijmans, Elmar W. Tobi, Aryeh D. Stein et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 27 Oct 2008 | 3,092 |
| 32 | The origins of the developmental origins theory David J.P. Barker · Journal of Internal Medicine | 10 Apr 2007 | 3,008 |
| 33 | Perceptions of epigenetics Adrian Peter Bird · Nature | 23 May 2007 | 3,006 |
| 34 | INFANT MORTALITY, CHILDHOOD NUTRITION, AND ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE IN ENGLAND AND WALES David J.P. Barker · The Lancet | May 1986 | 2,911 |
| 35 | The Global Impact of Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia Lelia Duley · Seminars in Perinatology | 22 May 2009 | 2,910 |
| 36 | A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology: conceptual models, empirical challenges and interdisciplinary perspectives Yoav Ben‐Shlomo · International Journal of Epidemiology | Apr 2002 | 2,904 |
| 37 | Critical periods of vulnerability for the developing nervous system: evidence from humans and animal models. Deborah C. Rice, Stanley Barone · Environmental Health Perspectives | Jun 2000 | 2,897 |
| 38 | Naturally occurring p16Ink4a-positive cells shorten healthy lifespan Darren J. Baker, Bennett G. Childs, Matej Durik et al. · Nature | Feb 2016 | 2,869 |
| 39 | Pre-eclampsia Eric A.P. Steegers, Peter von Dadelszen, Johannes J. Duvekot et al. · The Lancet | 3 Jul 2010 | 2,823 |
| 40 | Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort Abigail Fraser, Corrie Macdonald‐Wallis, Kate M. Tilling et al. · International Journal of Epidemiology | 16 Apr 2012 | 2,797 |
| 41 | Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life David J.P. Barker, Keith M. Godfrey, Peter David Gluckman et al. · The Lancet | Apr 1993 | 2,790 |
| 42 | DNA methylation GrimAge strongly predicts lifespan and healthspan Ake Tzu-Hui Lu, Austin Quach, James Grant Wilson et al. · Aging | 21 Jan 2019 | 2,763 |
| 43 | The thrifty phenotype hypothesis C. Nicholas Hales, David J. Barker · British Medical Bulletin | Nov 2001 | 2,761 |
| 44 | Fetal and infant growth and impaired glucose tolerance at age 64. Charles Nicholas Hales, David J. Barker, Patricia M. Clark et al. · BMJ | 26 Oct 1991 | 2,746 |
| 45 | Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth: Childhood Predictors of Adult Disease William H. Dietz · PEDIATRICS | Mar 1998 | 2,725 |
| 46 | Estimation of fetal weight with the use of head, body, and femur measurements—A prospective study Frank P. Hadlock, Ronald B. Harrist, Ralph S. Sharman et al. · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | Feb 1985 | 2,705 |
| 47 | Adolescence: a foundation for future health Susan Margaret Sawyer, Rima Afifi, Linda H. Bearinger et al. · The Lancet | Apr 2012 | 2,691 |
| 48 | Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey Tim James Cole, Katherine M. Flegal, Dasha Nicholls et al. · BMJ | 25 Jun 2007 | 2,630 |
| 49 | Physiological actions of taurine Ryan J. Huxtable · Physiological Reviews | 1992 | 2,617 |
| 50 | Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition Robert‐Paul Juster, Bruce S. McEwen, SONIA J. LUPIEN · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews | 13 Oct 2009 | 2,576 |
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