Most-cited public health articles of scientific journals from Brazil.

Objective: To describe the most-cited articles in public health scientific journals edited in Brazil.

Methods: Articles published between 2008 and 2010 by public health journals edited in Brazil and indexed in the Scopus database were included, and citations received up to five years after publication were ranked. We studied a total of 105 articles, as the last seven articles shared the same number of citations and so were given the same rank.