| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Review and re-analysis of domain-specific 16S primers | Journal of Microbiological Methods | 2003 | 1,591 |
| 2 | THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | 2006 | 1,555 |
| 3 | Coronavirus envelope protein: current knowledge | Virology Journal | 2019 | 1,449 |
| 4 | Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study | Lancet, The | 2015 | 1,295 |
| 5 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 6 | Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution | Nature Genetics | 2006 | 1,201 |
| 7 | The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,091 |
| 8 | The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges | Lancet, The | 2009 | 939 |
| 9 | Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 2017 | 841 |
| 10 | A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) | Taxon | 2017 | 803 |
| 11 | High temperature (HT) polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) – A review | Journal of Power Sources | 2013 | 756 |
| 12 | The Coronavirus Nucleocapsid Is a Multifunctional Protein | Viruses | 2014 | 741 |
| 13 | Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers | Lancet, The | 2007 | 734 |
| 14 | Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma | American Journal of Surgical Pathology | 2005 | 698 |
| 15 | Cardiovascular Risk and Events in 17 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries | New England Journal of Medicine | 2014 | 679 |
| 16 | The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2009 | 676 |
| 17 | The future of biocuration | Nature | 2008 | 648 |
| 18 | Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases | The Cochrane Library | 2010 | 641 |
| 19 | The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution | Nature | 2013 | 612 |
| 20 | A future for the world's children? A WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission | Lancet, The | 2020 | 551 |
| 21 | New “USD” Hamiltonians for thesdshell | Physical Review C | 2006 | 521 |
| 22 | Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data | Nature | 2018 | 513 |
| 23 | On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2010 | 505 |
| 24 | Some like it cold: understanding the survival strategies of psychrophiles | EMBO Reports | 2014 | 501 |
| 25 | Application of hydrides in hydrogen storage and compression: Achievements, outlook and perspectives | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2019 | 486 |
| 26 | THE COS-HALOS SURVEY: PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND BARYONIC MASS IN THE LOW-REDSHIFT CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM | Astrophysical Journal | 2014 | 464 |
| 27 | Staffing remote rural areas in middle- and low-income countries: A literature review of attraction and retention | BMC Health Services Research | 2008 | 443 |
| 28 | Current status of hybrid, battery and fuel cell electric vehicles: From electrochemistry to market prospects | Electrochimica Acta | 2012 | 439 |
| 29 | INFORMAS (International Network for Food and Obesity/non‐communicable diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support): overview and key principles | Obesity Reviews | 2013 | 415 |
| 30 | Risk Factors for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Death in a Population Cohort Study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2021 | 405 |
| 31 | The State of the World's Mangrove Forests: Past, Present, and Future | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 2019 | 386 |
| 32 | A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women: Prevalence and Risk Factors | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 380 |
| 33 | Hydrochemical characteristics of aquifers near Sutherland in the Western Karoo, South Africa | Journal of Hydrology | 2001 | 379 |
| 34 | Metal hydride hydrogen compressors: A review | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2014 | 361 |
| 35 | Quantitating the Multiplicity of Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype C Reveals a Non-Poisson Distribution of Transmitted Variants | Journal of Virology | 2009 | 354 |
| 36 | Lay health workers in primary and community health care | | 2005 | 346 |
| 37 | Socioeconomic status and risk of cardiovascular disease in 20 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study | The Lancet Global Health | 2019 | 340 |
| 38 | Genomic Anatomy of the Hippocampus | Neuron | 2008 | 337 |
| 39 | Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study | The Lancet Global Health | 2020 | 332 |
| 40 | Pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, personal care products, nanomaterials and perfluorinated pollutants: a review | Environmental Chemistry Letters | 2016 | 329 |
| 41 | New Regimens to Prevent Tuberculosis in Adults with HIV Infection | New England Journal of Medicine | 2011 | 320 |
| 42 | Cumulative effect of multiple trauma on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression in adolescents | Comprehensive Psychiatry | 2009 | 311 |
| 43 | SLPA: Uncovering Overlapping Communities in Social Networks via a Speaker-Listener Interaction Dynamic Process | | 2011 | 308 |
| 44 | New effective interactions for the 0f1p shell | Nuclear Physics A | 1991 | 305 |
| 45 | Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species–rich clades | Taxon | 2013 | 305 |
| 46 | The ESAT-6 gene cluster of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other high G+C Gram-positive bacteria | Genome Biology | 2001 | 302 |
| 47 | Genome-wide analysis of cancer/testis gene expression | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 295 |
| 48 | Enhancing the functional properties of thermophilic enzymes by chemical modification and immobilization | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | 2011 | 295 |
| 49 | Association of dairy intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 21 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 2018 | 295 |
| 50 | Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 290 |
