We also listed the 50 most cited papers in our field. That exercise produced lists of authors and papers dominated by ''big epi'' work: papers mainly establishing the contribution of tobacco use to disease. Such papers are often published in high impact factor journals and tend to be cited in the introductory sections of other papers.
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Simon Chapman (2005) studied this question.
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