Population Health Metrics: the next phase

Table 1 Population Health Metrics’ most cited papers

Article title	Corresponding author	Year	DOI	Number of citations
Projection of the year 2050 burden of diabetes in the US adult population: dynamic modeling of incidence, mortality, and prediabetes prevalence	James P Boyle	2010	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-29	746
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences	Gretchen A Stevens	2012	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-10-22	449
Accuracy and completeness of mortality data in the Department of Veterans Affairs	Min-Woong Sohn	2006	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-4-2	280
A generic model for the assessment of disease epidemiology: the computational basis of DisMod II	Jan J Barendregt	2003	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-1-4	211
Comparative quantification of health risks: conceptual framework and methodological issues	Christopher JL Murray	2003	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-1-1	209
The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003	Mohsen Naghavi	2009	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-7-9	192
Mortality registration and surveillance in China: history, current situation and challenges	Gonghuan Yang	2005	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-3-3	167
Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease	Rabab Z Jafri	2013	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-11-17	166
Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data	Mohsen Naghavi	2010	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-8-9	163
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm	Kyle J Foreman	2012	https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-10-1	162

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