| A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis | Annals of Botany | 2009 | 267 |
| Quartz as a natural luminescence dosimeter | Earth-Science Reviews | 2009 | 230 |
| Pharmacokinetics and dosage adjustment in patients with renal dysfunction | European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | 2009 | 191 |
| Contrasted patterns of hyperdiversification in Mediterranean hotspots | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 175 |
| MeerKAT—The South African Array With Composite Dishes and Wide-Band Single Pixel Feeds | Proceedings of the IEEE | 2009 | 138 |
| Early Permian seafloor to continental arc magmatism in the eastern Paleo-Tethys: U–Pb age and Nd–Sr isotope data from the southern Lancangjiang zone, Yunnan, China | Lithos | 2009 | 122 |
| The ataxia protein sacsin is a functional co-chaperone that protects against polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-1 | Human Molecular Genetics | 2009 | 114 |
| Carbon nanotubes, phthalocyanines and porphyrins: attractive hybrid materials for electrocatalysis and electroanalysis | Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | 2009 | 106 |
| Monitoring in adaptive co-management: Toward a learning based approach | Journal of Environmental Management | 2009 | 98 |
| Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of the snake superfamily Elapoidea: a rapid radiation in the late Eocene | Cladistics | 2009 | 93 |
| Cancer stem cells in breast cancer and metastasis | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2009 | 92 |
| Phylogeny of the tribe Indigofereae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae): Geographically structured more in succulent-rich and temperate settings than in grass-rich environments | American Journal of Botany | 2009 | 83 |
| Unambiguous determination of gravitational waveforms from binary black hole mergers | Physical Review Letters | 2009 | 75 |
| Bioreduction of platinum salts into nanoparticles: a mechanistic perspective | Biotechnology Letters | 2009 | 73 |
| Southern African topography and erosion history: plumes or plate tectonics? | Terra Nova | 2009 | 73 |
| Topographic thresholds in gully development on the hillslopes of communal areas in Ngqushwa Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa | Geomorphology | 2009 | 73 |
| Theorising institutional change: post‐1994 South African higher education | Studies in Higher Education | 2009 | 71 |
| Soil erosion and risk-assessment for on- and off-farm impacts: a test case using the Midhurst area, West Sussex, UK | Journal of Environmental Management | 2009 | 71 |
| Two different hydrogenase enzymes from sulphate-reducing bacteria are responsible for the bioreductive mechanism of platinum into nanoparticles | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | 2009 | 66 |
| The synthesis and photophysicochemical behaviour of novel water-soluble cationic indium(III) phthalocyanine | Dyes and Pigments | 2009 | 65 |
| The synthesis, cyclic voltammetry and spectroelectrochemical studies of Co(II) phthalocyanines tetra-substituted at the α and β positions with phenylthio groups | Dyes and Pigments | 2009 | 64 |
| The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce | Human Resources for Health | 2009 | 63 |
| No evidence for thermogenic methane release in coal from the Karoo-Ferrar large igneous province | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2009 | 60 |
| Ancient copper and lead pollution records from a raised bog complex in Central Wales, UK | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2009 | 59 |
| Reticulation, data combination, and inferring evolutionary history: an example from Danthonioideae (Poaceae) | Systematic Biology | 2009 | 58 |
