| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python | Nature Methods | 2020 | 17,539 |
| 2 | Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 9,122 |
| 3 | Raman spectroscopy in graphene | Physics Reports | 2009 | 4,853 |
| 4 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 5 | Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2020 | 4,468 |
| 6 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015 | JAMA Oncology | 2017 | 4,254 |
| 7 | Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) 2008* | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2008 | 3,827 |
| 8 | Studying disorder in graphite-based systems by Raman spectroscopy | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 2007 | 3,775 |
| 9 | Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes | Physics Reports | 2005 | 3,709 |
| 10 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 11 | Quantifying Defects in Graphene via Raman Spectroscopy at Different Excitation Energies | Nano Letters | 2011 | 2,807 |
| 12 | Global, Regional, and National Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases for 10 Causes, 1990 to 2015 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2017 | 2,705 |
| 13 | Regulation of inflammatory responses by gut microbiota and chemoattractant receptor GPR43 | Nature | 2009 | 2,534 |
| 14 | General equation for the determination of the crystallite size La of nanographite by Raman spectroscopy | Applied Physics Letters | 2006 | 2,071 |
| 15 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017 | JAMA Oncology | 2019 | 1,691 |
| 16 | Angiotensin-(1–7) is an endogenous ligand for the G protein-coupled receptor Mas | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 1,555 |
| 17 | ESPEN guidelines on definitions and terminology of clinical nutrition | Clinical Nutrition | 2017 | 1,451 |
| 18 | Quantifying ion-induced defects and Raman relaxation length in graphene | Carbon | 2010 | 1,443 |
| 19 | The impact of malnutrition on morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs evaluated through a multivariate model analysis | Clinical Nutrition | 2003 | 1,405 |
| 20 | GLIM criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition – A consensus report from the global clinical nutrition community | Clinical Nutrition | 2019 | 1,395 |
| 21 | The Genome Sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi , Etiologic Agent of Chagas Disease | Science | 2005 | 1,273 |
| 22 | Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2016 | JAMA Oncology | 2018 | 1,260 |
| 23 | FTIR spectroscopy characterization of poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogel with different hydrolysis degree and chemically crosslinked with glutaraldehyde | Materials Science and Engineering C | 2008 | 1,249 |
| 24 | Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,230 |
| 25 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 26 | Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media | 2010 | 1,211 |
| 27 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 28 | Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil | Science | 2021 | 1,125 |
| 29 | Experimental design and analysis and their reporting II: updated and simplified guidance for authors and peer reviewers | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2018 | 1,122 |
| 30 | Constructing Scientific Knowledge in the Classroom | Educational Researcher | 1994 | 1,043 |
| 31 | Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 1,032 |
| 32 | Modelling conservation in the Amazon basin | Nature | 2006 | 1,023 |
| 33 | Alzheimer's disease: Targeting the Cholinergic System | Current Neuropharmacology | 2016 | 988 |
| 34 | Metabolite-sensing receptors GPR43 and GPR109A facilitate dietary fibre-induced gut homeostasis through regulation of the inflammasome | Nature Communications | 2015 | 983 |
| 35 | Chronic non-communicable diseases in Brazil: burden and current challenges | Lancet, The | 2011 | 979 |
| 36 | The Amazon basin in transition | Nature | 2012 | 922 |
| 37 | A Space–Time Permutation Scan Statistic for Disease Outbreak Detection | PLoS Medicine | 2005 | 882 |
| 38 | A new consensus for Trypanosoma cruzi intraspecific nomenclature: second revision meeting recommends TcI to TcVI | Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 2009 | 846 |
| 39 | Global epidemiology of HTLV-I infection and associated diseases | Oncogene | 2005 | 839 |
| 40 | Color and genomic ancestry in Brazilians | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 796 |
| 41 | The Impact of mHealth Interventions: Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews | JMIR MHealth and UHealth | 2018 | 776 |
| 42 | Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990–2015 | New England Journal of Medicine | 2017 | 771 |
| 43 | Cracking Brazil's Forest Code | Science | 2014 | 767 |
| 44 | The ACE2/Angiotensin-(1–7)/MAS Axis of the Renin-Angiotensin System: Focus on Angiotensin-(1–7) | Physiological Reviews | 2018 | 756 |
| 45 | Defect engineering of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides | 2D Materials | 2016 | 736 |
| 46 | Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics | Nature Microbiology | 2016 | 735 |
| 47 | The revised Trypanosoma cruzi subspecific nomenclature: Rationale, epidemiological relevance and research applications | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 2012 | 728 |
| 48 | Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019 | JAMA Oncology | 2022 | 719 |
| 49 | Modified therapy with 5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and methotrexate in advanced gastric cancer | Cancer | 1993 | 705 |
| 50 | Wet periods in northeastern Brazil over the past 210 kyr linked to distant climate anomalies | Nature | 2004 | 698 |
