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Table 3 The top 10 cited tobacco-related articles from the 13 MEA countries in Scopus

From: A Scopus-based examination of tobacco use publications in Middle Eastern Arab countries during the period 2003–2012

SCR

Authors with year of publication

Title

Journal name

Times cited

1st

Teo et al. 2006

Tobacco use and risk of myocardial infarction in 52 countries in the INTERHEART study: a case-control study

Lancet

337

2nd

Maziak et al. 2004

Tobacco smoking using a waterpipe: a re-emerging strain in a global epidemic

Tobacco Control

179

3rd

Shihadeh 2003

Investigation of mainstream smoke aerosol of the argileh water pipe

Food and Chemical Toxicology

155

4th

Degenhardt et al. 2008

Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: findings from the WHO world mental health surveys

PLoS Medicine

150

5th

Shihadeh and Saleh 2005

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, “tar”, and nicotine in the mainstream smoke aerosolof the narghile water pipe

Food and Chemical Toxicology

134

6th

Tamim et al. 2003

Tobacco use by university students, Lebanon, 2001

Addiction

100

7th

Eissenberg et al. 2008

Waterpipe tobacco smoking on a U.S. college campus: prevalence and correlates

Journal of Adolescent Health

80

8th

Smith-Simone et al. 2008

Waterpipe tobacco smoking: knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior in two U.S. samples

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

77

9th

Akl et al. 2010

The effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking on health outcomes: a systematic review

International Journal of Epidemiology

76

10th

Maziak et al. 2004

Prevalence and characteristics of narghile smoking among university students in Syria

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

73

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