| Why do we think we know what we know? A metaknowledge analysis of the salt controversy L Trinquart, DM Johns, S Galea International Journal of Epidemiology 45 (1), 251-260, 2016 | 101 | 2016 |
| When open data is a Trojan Horse: The weaponization of transparency in science and governance KEC Levy, DM Johns Big Data & Society 3 (1), 2053951715621568, 2016 | 74 | 2016 |
| Salt and public health: contested science and the challenge of evidence-based decision making R Bayer, DM Johns, S Galea Health Affairs 31 (12), 2738-2746, 2012 | 54 | 2012 |
| Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”? DM Johns, GM Oppenheimer Science 359 (6377), 747-750, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Evidence and the politics of deimplementation: the rise and decline of the “counseling and testing” paradigm for HIV prevention at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention DM Johns, R Bayer, AL Fairchild The Milbank Quarterly 94 (1), 126-162, 2016 | 37 | 2016 |
| Dietary sodium and cardiovascular disease risk DM Johns New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 | 29* | 2016 |
| The Crimes of Saddam Hussein D Johns FRONTLINE/World, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| The FDA and graphic cigarette-pack warnings—thwarted by the courts R Bayer, D Johns, J Colgrove New England Journal of Medicine 369 (3), 206-208, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Beyond bioethics: reckoning with the public health paradigm AL Fairchild, DM Johns American journal of public health 102 (8), 1447-1450, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Screening for social determinants of health R Bayer, DM Johns Jama 316 (23), 2551-2552, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| The Crimes of Saddam Hussein: 1988 The Anfal Campaign D Johns Frontline–World 24, 200-203, 2006 | 12 | 2006 |
| Everything is Contagious D Johns Slate.com, 2010 | 9* | 2010 |
| The paradox of authority—transformation of the USPSTF under the Affordable Care Act DM Johns, R Bayer New England Journal of Medicine 375 (18), 1710-1712, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Controversial salt report peppered with uncertainty DM Johns, R Bayer, S Galea Science 341 (6150), 1063-1064, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Don’t Panic! The “excited and terrified” public mind from yellow fever to bioterrorism AL Fairchild, DM Johns Empires of panic, 155-180, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| Fatal misconception: The struggle to control world population D Johns, A Fairchild Global Public Health 6 (1), 98-101, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| Disconnected DM Johns Slate, 2011 | 3 | 2011 |
| Comment on Sodium-Intake Reduction and the Food Industry DM Johns, R Bayer, S Galea The New England Journal of Medicine 381 (18), 1787, 2019 | 2* | 2019 |
| How Trump’s war on science is borrowing from the tobacco industry playbook’ DM Johns, K Levy Washington Post, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Ethics and public health surveillance AL Fairchild, DM Johns Infectious disease surveillance, 596-606, 2013 | 2 | 2013 |
