| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents | IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics | 1996 | 8,864 |
| 2 | GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 6,413 |
| 3 | Gaia Data Release 2 | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2018 | 6,364 |
| 4 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 6,362 |
| 5 | Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 1997 | 6,166 |
| 6 | Cetuximab Monotherapy and Cetuximab plus Irinotecan in Irinotecan-Refractory Metastatic Colorectal Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 4,721 |
| 7 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 8 | Trastuzumab after Adjuvant Chemotherapy in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 4,601 |
| 9 | Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome | Nature | 2002 | 3,938 |
| 10 | Functional Characterization of the S. cerevisiae Genome by Gene Deletion and Parallel Analysis | Science | 1999 | 3,761 |
| 11 | The Immune Landscape of Cancer | Immunity | 2018 | 3,706 |
| 12 | An iterative thresholding algorithm for linear inverse problems with a sparsity constraint | Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics | 2004 | 3,540 |
| 13 | Ant colony optimization | IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine | 2006 | 3,284 |
| 14 | spagedi: a versatile computer program to analyse spatial genetic structure at the individual or population levels | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2002 | 3,239 |
| 15 | The HITRAN 2008 molecular spectroscopic database | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | 2009 | 3,129 |
| 16 | Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus | Science | 2009 | 2,998 |
| 17 | Resistance to HIV-1 infection in Caucasian individuals bearing mutant alleles of the CCR-5 chemokine receptor gene | Nature | 1996 | 2,782 |
| 18 | Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons | Physical Review Letters | 1964 | 2,698 |
| 19 | International Study of the Prevalence and Outcomes of Infection in Intensive Care Units | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2009 | 2,682 |
| 20 | Detecting outliers: Do not use standard deviation around the mean, use absolute deviation around the median | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | 2013 | 2,533 |
| 21 | Everolimus in Postmenopausal Hormone-Receptor–Positive Advanced Breast Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2012 | 2,474 |
| 22 | Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization | ACM Computing Surveys | 2003 | 2,445 |
| 23 | – Ant System | Future Generation Computer Systems | 2000 | 2,353 |
| 24 | Ant Algorithms for Discrete Optimization | Artificial Life | 1999 | 2,264 |
| 25 | Unresponsiveness to Cannabinoids and Reduced Addictive Effects of Opiates in CB1 Receptor Knockout Mice | Science | 1999 | 2,225 |
| 26 | Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure Is a Distinct Syndrome That Develops in Patients With Acute Decompensation of Cirrhosis | Gastroenterology | 2013 | 2,211 |
| 27 | The evaluation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer: recommendations by an International TILs Working Group 2014 | Annals of Oncology | 2015 | 2,122 |
| 28 | Self-consistent mean-field models for nuclear structure | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2003 | 1,994 |
| 29 | GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 1,987 |
| 30 | A Dual-Tropic Primary HIV-1 Isolate That Uses Fusin and the β-Chemokine Receptors CKR-5, CKR-3, and CKR-2b as Fusion Cofactors | Cell | 1996 | 1,967 |
| 31 | Weaning from mechanical ventilation | European Respiratory Journal | 2007 | 1,962 |
| 32 | Olfactory and gustatory dysfunctions as a clinical presentation of mild-to-moderate forms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a multicenter European study | European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | 2020 | 1,962 |
| 33 | A compilation of charged-particle induced thermonuclear reaction rates | Nuclear Physics A | 1999 | 1,887 |
| 34 | Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years | Science | 2007 | 1,880 |
| 35 | ESPEN guidelines on nutrition in cancer patients | Clinical Nutrition | 2017 | 1,855 |
| 36 | Ant colony optimization theory: A survey | Theoretical Computer Science | 2005 | 1,830 |
| 37 | Gene Expression Profiling in Breast Cancer: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Histologic Grade To Improve Prognosis | Journal of the National Cancer Institute | 2006 | 1,824 |
| 38 | Bell nonlocality | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2014 | 1,792 |
| 39 | EMT Transition States during Tumor Progression and Metastasis | Trends in Cell Biology | 2019 | 1,764 |
| 40 | Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences | Nature | 2016 | 1,760 |
| 41 | Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19 | Science | 2020 | 1,749 |
| 42 | The transferable belief model | Artificial Intelligence | 1994 | 1,742 |
| 43 | Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans | Science | 2010 | 1,725 |
| 44 | The measurement of effort–reward imbalance at work: European comparisons | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 1,704 |
| 45 | ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit | Clinical Nutrition | 2019 | 1,610 |
| 46 | An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting | Review of Economic Studies | 1992 | 1,605 |
| 47 | GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 1,600 |
| 48 | Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem | BioSystems | 1997 | 1,595 |
| 49 | Scale for the assessment and rating of ataxia: Development of a new clinical scale | Neurology | 2006 | 1,579 |
| 50 | The landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer | Nature | 2012 | 1,535 |
