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| The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution | Nature | 2013 | 488 |
| “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2013 | 452 |
| High-Loading Cobalt Oxide Coupled with Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for Oxygen Reduction in Anion-Exchange-Membrane Alkaline Fuel Cells | Journal of Physical Chemistry C | 2013 | 221 |
| A meta-analytic review on treatment dropout in child and adolescent outpatient mental health care | Clinical Psychology Review | 2013 | 205 |
| Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 187 |
| Standard methods for maintaining adult Apis mellifera in cages under in vitro laboratory conditions | Journal of Apicultural Research | 2013 | 157 |
| The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2013 | 153 |
| Evaluating social and ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climate change | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 146 |
| High-precision temporal calibration of Late Permian vertebrate biostratigraphy: U-Pb zircon constraints from the Karoo Supergroup, South Africa | Geology | 2013 | 127 |
| The Fossil Record of Plant-Insect Dynamics | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2013 | 121 |
| Food processing waste: Problems, current management and prospects for utilisation of the lignocellulose component through enzyme synergistic degradation | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2013 | 119 |
| A red fluorescent turn-on probe for hydrogen sulfide and its application in living cells | Chemical Communications | 2013 | 111 |
| Two stages of immiscible liquid separation in the formation of Panzhihua-type Fe-Ti-V oxide deposits, SW China | Geoscience Frontiers | 2013 | 110 |
| How Does Subjective Well-Being Evolve with Age? A Literature Review | Journal of Population Ageing | 2013 | 102 |
| Synchronous x-ray and radio mode switches: a rapid global transformation of the pulsar magnetosphere | Science | 2013 | 100 |
| A coastal seawater temperature dataset for biogeographical studies: large biases between in situ and remotely-sensed data sets around the Coast of South Africa | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 93 |
| Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2013 | 82 |
| Towards resilient recreational fisheries on a global scale through improved understanding of fish and fisher behaviour | Fisheries Management and Ecology | 2013 | 69 |
| A paleobiologic perspective on plant-insect interactions | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2013 | 65 |
| Studying Galactic interstellar turbulence through fluctuations in synchrotron emission | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2013 | 64 |
| Synthesis and evaluation of coumarin derivatives as potential dual-action HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry | 2013 | 63 |
| Radio Continuum Surveys with Square Kilometre Array Pathfinders | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia | 2013 | 63 |
| Heterosexual Men and Parenthood Decision Making in South Africa: Attending to the Invisible Norm | Journal of Family Issues | 2013 | 63 |
| Perceptions and use of public green space is influenced by its relative abundance in two small towns in South Africa | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2013 | 61 |
