| Personality traits G Matthews, IJ Deary, MC Whiteman Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 1985 | 2003 |
| Intelligence and educational achievement IJ Deary, S Strand, P Smith, C Fernandes Intelligence 35 (1), 13-21, 2007 | 1501 | 2007 |
| The neuroscience of human intelligence differences IJ Deary, L Penke, W Johnson Nature reviews neuroscience 11 (3), 201, 2010 | 865 | 2010 |
| The impact of childhood intelligence on later life: following up the Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947. IJ Deary, MC Whiteman, JM Starr, LJ Whalley, HC Fox Journal of personality and social psychology 86 (1), 130, 2004 | 821 | 2004 |
| Complement C3 variant and the risk of age-related macular degeneration JRW Yates, T Sepp, BK Matharu, JC Khan, DA Thurlby, H Shahid, ... New England Journal of Medicine 357 (6), 553-561, 2007 | 814 | 2007 |
| Age-associated cognitive decline IJ Deary, J Corley, AJ Gow, SE Harris, LM Houlihan, RE Marioni, L Penke, ... British medical bulletin 92 (1), 135-152, 2009 | 693 | 2009 |
| Effect of continuous positive airway pressure treatment on daytime function in sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome HM Engleman, SE Martin, NJ Douglas, IJ Deary The Lancet 343 (8897), 572-575, 1994 | 684 | 1994 |
| Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment A Okbay, JP Beauchamp, MA Fontana, JJ Lee, TH Pers, CA Rietveld, ... Nature 533 (7604), 539, 2016 | 682 | 2016 |
| Randomized placebo-controlled crossover trial of continuous positive airway pressure for mild sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome HM Engleman, RN Kingshott, PK Wraith, TW Mackay, IJ Deary, ... American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 159 (2), 461-467, 1999 | 637 | 1999 |
| Is type II diabetes associated with an increased risk of cognitive dysfunction?: a critical review of published studies MWJ Strachan, IJ Deary, FME Ewing, BM Frier Diabetes care 20 (3), 438-445, 1997 | 636 | 1997 |
| GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment CA Rietveld, SE Medland, J Derringer, J Yang, T Esko, NW Martin, ... science 340 (6139), 1467-1471, 2013 | 630 | 2013 |
| Retinal image analysis: concepts, applications and potential N Patton, TM Aslam, T MacGillivray, IJ Deary, B Dhillon, RH Eikelboom, ... Progress in retinal and eye research 25 (1), 99-127, 2006 | 611 | 2006 |
| Genome-wide association scan identifies a colorectal cancer susceptibility locus on 11q23 and replicates risk loci at 8q24 and 18q21 A Tenesa, SM Farrington, JGD Prendergast, ME Porteous, M Walker, ... Nature genetics 40 (5), 631, 2008 | 606 | 2008 |
| Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic G Davies, A Tenesa, A Payton, J Yang, SE Harris, D Liewald, X Ke, ... Molecular psychiatry 16 (10), 996, 2011 | 605 | 2011 |
| Intelligence predicts health and longevity, but why? LS Gottfredson, IJ Deary Current Directions in Psychological Science 13 (1), 1-4, 2004 | 592 | 2004 |
| Cognition and diabetes: a lifespan perspective GJ Biessels, IJ Deary, CM Ryan The Lancet Neurology 7 (2), 184-190, 2008 | 588 | 2008 |
| Age and sex differences in reaction time in adulthood: results from the United Kingdom Health and Lifestyle Survey. G Der, IJ Deary Psychology and aging 21 (1), 62, 2006 | 585 | 2006 |
| Looking down on human intelligence: From psychometrics to the brain IJ Deary Oxford University Press, 2000 | 581 | 2000 |
| A longitudinal cohort study of burnout and attrition in nursing students IJ Deary, R Watson, R Hogston Journal of advanced nursing 43 (1), 71-81, 2003 | 568 | 2003 |
| Longitudinal cohort study of childhood IQ and survival up to age 76 LJ Whalley, IJ Deary Bmj 322 (7290), 819, 2001 | 535 | 2001 |