| Cyclosporin A initially as the only immunosuppressant in 34 recipients of cadaveric organs: 32 kidneys, 2 pancreases, and 2 livers | Lancet, The | 1979 | 779 |
| The Roaring of Red Deer and the Evolution of Honest Advertisement | Behaviour | 1979 | 600 |
| Theoretical plasticity of textured aggregates | Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 1979 | 516 |
| The structure and evolution of the two nonallelic rat preproinsulin genes | Cell | 1979 | 501 |
| The versatility and absolute efficiency of detecting mirror symmetry in random dot displays | Vision Research | 1979 | 431 |
| Seismic waves in a stratified half space | Geophysical Journal International | 1979 | 414 |
| Classification of Gravitational Instanton symmetries | Communications in Mathematical Physics | 1979 | 391 |
| How do sensitive periods arise and what are they for? | Animal Behaviour | 1979 | 345 |
| The use of a priori data to resolve non-uniqueness in linear inversion | Geophysical Journal International | 1979 | 328 |
| Monstrous Moonshine | Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society | 1979 | 324 |
| The laminar horseshoe vortex | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1979 | 301 |
| The dynamics of the head of a gravity current advancing over a horizontal surface | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1979 | 285 |
| Topological charges for N = 4 supersymmetric gauge theories and monopoles of spin 1 | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 1979 | 265 |
| Analysis of gametophytic development in the moss, Physcomitrella patens, using auxin and cytokinin resistant mutants | Planta | 1979 | 246 |
| Paleocirculation of the deep north atlantic: 150,000-year record of benthic foraminifera and oxygen-18 | Science | 1979 | 243 |
| Reduced thermogenesis in obesity | Nature | 1979 | 236 |
| A New Approach to Animal Flight Mechanics | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1979 | 224 |
| Overview no. 5 | Acta Metallurgica | 1979 | 222 |
| A cartilage catabolic factor from synovium | Biochemical Journal | 1979 | 215 |
| Hesitation and the production of verbal paraphasias and neologisms in jargon aphasia | Brain and Language | 1979 | 212 |
| 5' and 3' terminal nucleotide sequences of the RNA genome segments of influenza virus | Nucleic Acids Research | 1979 | 211 |
| An analysis of factors influencing measurements of dopamine, noradrenaline, glutamate decarboxylase and choline acetylase in human post-mortem brain tissue | Brain | 1979 | 209 |
| Molecular beam studies of benzene dimer, hexafluorobenzene dimer, and benzene–hexafluorobenzene | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1979 | 207 |
| Patterns of ecological diversity in fossil and modern mammalian faunas | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1979 | 206 |
| The Positive Action conjecture and asymptotically Euclidean metrics in quantum gravity | Communications in Mathematical Physics | 1979 | 192 |
