| Amazonia 1492: pristine forest or cultural parkland? | Science | 2003 | 345 |
| Medical applications of shape memory alloys | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research | 2003 | 314 |
| Characterization of a bovine collagen-hydroxyapatite composite scaffold for bone tissue engineering | Biomaterials | 2003 | 248 |
| Phylogeography of the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum | Molecular Ecology | 2003 | 248 |
| Identification of bitmap compression history: JPEG detection and quantizer estimation | IEEE Transactions on Image Processing | 2003 | 226 |
| Outcome predictors of 84 patients with hematologic malignancies and Fusarium infection | Cancer | 2003 | 214 |
| Constraints on the generalized Chaplygin gas from supernovae observations | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 2003 | 199 |
| Olympic ranking based on a zero sum gains DEA model | European Journal of Operational Research | 2003 | 191 |
| Microcystins (cyanobacteria hepatotoxins) bioaccumulation in fish and crustaceans from Sepetiba Bay (Brasil, RJ) | Toxicon | 2003 | 184 |
| Antileishmanial activity of a linalool-rich essential oil from Croton cajucara | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2003 | 182 |
| In vitro activity of Brazilian medicinal plants, naturally occurring naphthoquinones and their analogues, against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2003 | 175 |
| Dissociation of amyloid fibrils of alpha-synuclein and transthyretin by pressure reveals their reversible nature and the formation of water-excluded cavities | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 162 |
| Antiplatelet properties of novel N-substituted-phenyl-1,2,3-triazole-4-acylhydrazone derivatives | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry | 2003 | 155 |
| Inner-Shell Excitation Spectroscopy of the Peptide Bond: Comparison of the C 1s, N 1s, and O 1s Spectra of Glycine, Glycyl-Glycine, and Glycyl-Glycyl-Glycine | Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 2003 | 153 |
| Influence of particle shape on the packing and on the segregation of spherocylinders via Monte Carlo simulations | Powder Technology | 2003 | 147 |
| A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of sibutramine in the treatment of binge-eating disorder | Archives of General Psychiatry | 2003 | 143 |
| Yield of sputum induction in the diagnosis of pleural tuberculosis | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 139 |
| Brazilian Network for HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance (HIV-BResNet): a survey of chronically infected individuals | Aids | 2003 | 138 |
| Fibrillar aggregates of the tumor suppressor p53 core domain | Biochemistry | 2003 | 136 |
| Timing the origin of New World monkeys | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2003 | 124 |
| Engraftment syndrome following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: definition of diagnostic criteria | Bone Marrow Transplantation | 2003 | 122 |
| Bayesian inference for non-stationary spatial covariance structure via spatial deformations | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology | 2003 | 120 |
| Cortical radial glial cells in human fetuses: depth-correlated transformation into astrocytes | Journal of Neurobiology | 2003 | 114 |
| Characterization of novel human ovarian cancer-specific transcripts (HOSTs) identified by serial analysis of gene expression | Oncogene | 2003 | 111 |
| Antimicrobial activity in vitro of plumbagin isolated from Plumbago species | Memorias Do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 2003 | 108 |
