| Revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine classification of endometriosis: 1996 | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 2K |
| Peritoneal endometriosis, ovarian endometriosis, and adenomyotic nodules of the rectovaginal septum are three different entities | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 864 |
| Detection of deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation in human sperm: correlation with fertilization in vitro | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 593 |
| Reproductive impact of congenital Müllerian anomalies | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 514 |
| Oxygen and placental villous development: origins of fetal hypoxia | Placenta | 1997 | 470 |
| The developmental potential of the human oocyte is related to the dissolved oxygen content of follicular fluid: association with vascular endothelial growth factor levels and perifollicular blood flow characteristics | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 427 |
| Increased oxidative deoxyribonucleic acid damage in the spermatozoa of infertile male patients | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 407 |
| Physiological consequences of testicular sperm extraction | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 397 |
| Antoine van Leeuwenhoek and the discovery of sperm | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 386 |
| A conserved Hox axis in the mouse and human female reproductive system: late establishment and persistent adult expression of the Hoxa cluster genes | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 371 |
| Culture and selection of viable blastocysts: a feasible proposition for human IVF? | Human Reproduction Update | 1997 | 362 |
| Placental cytokines and the pathogenesis of preeclampsia | American Journal of Reproductive Immunology | 1997 | 359 |
| Birth of a healthy female after intracytoplasmic sperm injection of cryopreserved human oocytes | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 355 |
| Embryo morphology or cleavage stage: how to select the best embryos for transfer after in-vitro fertilization | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 346 |
| Preliminary observations on polar body extrusion and pronuclear formation in human oocytes using time-lapse video cinematography | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 337 |
| Biology and action of colony--stimulating factor-1 | Molecular Reproduction and Development | 1997 | 334 |
| Regulation of protein tyrosine phosphorylation during bovine sperm capacitation by a cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate-dependent pathway | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 327 |
| Apoptosis during mouse blastocyst formation: evidence for a role for survival factors including transforming growth factor alpha | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 327 |
| Capacitation as a regulatory event that primes spermatozoa for the acrosome reaction and fertilization | Molecular Human Reproduction | 1997 | 312 |
| Synchronization of meiosis in porcine oocytes by exposure to dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate improves developmental competence following in vitro fertilization | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 309 |
| Matrix metalloproteinases as mediators of reproductive function | Molecular Human Reproduction | 1997 | 301 |
| Energy balance and ovarian follicle development prior to the first ovulation postpartum in dairy cows receiving three levels of dietary fat | Biology of Reproduction | 1997 | 284 |
| Incidence of Müllerian defects in fertile and infertile women | Human Reproduction | 1997 | 281 |
| Age at natural menopause in a population-based screening cohort: the role of menarche, fecundity, and lifestyle factors | Fertility and Sterility | 1997 | 278 |
| Differential regulation of mouse embryo development and viability by amino acids | Reproduction | 1997 | 274 |
