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| Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: The Photometric Data Set for Cosmology | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2018 | 150 |
| Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: redshift distributions of the weak-lensing source galaxies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 118 |
| Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications | PLoS ONE | 2018 | 97 |
| CaSiO perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle | Nature | 2018 | 82 |
| Pore Wall-Functionalized Luminescent Cd(II) Framework for Selective CO2 Adsorption, Highly Specific 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol Detection, and Colorimetric Sensing of Cu2+ Ions | ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering | 2018 | 73 |
| Investigation of molecular mechanism of recognition between citral and MARK4: A newer therapeutic approach to attenuate cancer cell progression | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 2018 | 64 |
| Extreme Variability Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey | Astrophysical Journal | 2018 | 59 |
| LOFAR/H-ATLAS: the low-frequency radio luminosity–star formation rate relation | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 52 |
| State of Science: ergonomics and global issues | Ergonomics | 2018 | 52 |
| Design and characterization of the Large-aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA) radiometer systems | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 52 |
| Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey | Astronomical Journal | 2018 | 50 |
| Allosteric Modulation of Human Hsp90α Conformational Dynamics | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | 2018 | 49 |
| Beneficial effects of medicinal plants in fish diseases | Aquaculture International | 2018 | 45 |
| Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: curved-sky weak lensing mass map | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 44 |
| How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Data Sets? | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2018 | 42 |
| Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors | Land | 2018 | 41 |
| Unequivocal determination of caulamidines A and B: application and validation of new tools in the structure elucidation tool box | Chemical Science | 2018 | 38 |
| Contribution of the KSHV and EBV lytic cycles to tumourigenesis | Current Opinion in Virology | 2018 | 38 |
| Extended and Continuous Decline in Effective Population Size Results in Low Genomic Diversity in the World's Rarest Hyena Species, the Brown Hyena | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2018 | 37 |
| Future land cover change scenarios in South African grasslands - implications of altered biophysical drivers on land management | Heliyon | 2018 | 34 |
| Heat shock proteins as modulators and therapeutic targets of chronic disease: an integrated perspective | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2018 | 34 |
| Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: calibration of redMaGiC redshift distributions in DES and SDSS from cross-correlations | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 34 |
| cubical – fast radio interferometric calibration suite exploiting complex optimization | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 33 |
| From universal to local: perspectives on cultural landscape heritage in South Africa | International Journal of Heritage Studies | 2018 | 32 |
