| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain | Journal of Systems and Software | 2007 | 1,528 |
| 2 | Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe | Nature Genetics | 2007 | 1,375 |
| 3 | The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans | Science | 2009 | 1,267 |
| 4 | Valuing nature’s contributions to people: the IPBES approach | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2017 | 1,007 |
| 5 | Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations | Nature Genetics | 2000 | 935 |
| 6 | How much land‐based greenhouse gas mitigation can be achieved without compromising food security and environmental goals? | Global Change Biology | 2013 | 454 |
| 7 | Resistance to cancer chemotherapy: failure in drug response from ADME to P-gp | Cancer Cell International | 2015 | 451 |
| 8 | Overexpression of monodehydroascorbate reductase in transgenic tobacco confers enhanced tolerance to ozone, salt and polyethylene glycol stresses | Planta | 2007 | 391 |
| 9 | Distinct, Specific IL-17- and IL-22-Producing CD4+ T Cell Subsets Contribute to the Human Anti-Mycobacterial Immune Response | Journal of Immunology | 2008 | 378 |
| 10 | Genome-wide and fine-resolution association analysis of malaria in West Africa | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 345 |
| 11 | Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis | Forest Ecology and Management | 2020 | 327 |
| 12 | Genetic heterogeneity of ribosomal internal transcribed spacer in clinical samples of Leishmania donovani spotted on filter paper as revealed by single-strand conformation polymorphisms and sequencing | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2000 | 319 |
| 13 | Differentiation of Phylogenetically Related Slowly Growing Mycobacteria Based on 16S-23S rRNA Gene Internal Transcribed Spacer Sequences | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1998 | 314 |
| 14 | The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3 | Nature | 2009 | 311 |
| 15 | A step by step guide for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis with simulation data | Tropical Medicine and Health | 2019 | 308 |
| 16 | Kinetic parameters of nitrogen mineralization rates of leguminous crops incorporated into soil | Plant and Soil | 1985 | 244 |
| 17 | Lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 in nine sub-Saharan African countries | BMJ Global Health | 2020 | 237 |
| 18 | Mycetoma: a unique neglected tropical disease | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2016 | 236 |
| 19 | Mycetoma: a thorn in the flesh | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2004 | 229 |
| 20 | Mycetoma caused by Madurella mycetomatis : a neglected infectious burden | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2004 | 219 |
| 21 | Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2: clinical, biological and genotype/phenotype correlation study of a cohort of 90 patients | Brain | 2009 | 218 |
| 22 | On the Theory of Induced Invention | Economic Journal | 1966 | 215 |
| 23 | Autoclaved Leishmania major vaccine for prevention of visceral leishmaniasis: a randomised, double-blind, BCG-controlled trial in Sudan | Lancet, The | 2000 | 213 |
| 24 | The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle | Genome Biology | 2017 | 211 |
| 25 | C-terminal titin deletions cause a novel early-onset myopathy with fatal cardiomyopathy | Annals of Neurology | 2007 | 209 |
| 26 | Neglected endemic mycoses | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2017 | 199 |
| 27 | Enhanced tolerance to ozone and drought stresses in transgenic tobacco overexpressing dehydroascorbate reductase in cytosol | Physiologia Plantarum | 2006 | 198 |
| 28 | Glycolysis, tumor metabolism, cancer growth and dissemination. A new pH-based etiopathogenic perspective and therapeutic approach to an old cancer question | Oncoscience | 2014 | 198 |
| 29 | 3. Visceral leishmaniasis | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2001 | 197 |
| 30 | Compositional changes during guava fruit ripening | Food Chemistry | 2003 | 196 |
| 31 | Experimental Design for Binary Data | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1983 | 195 |
| 32 | Peritoneal Dialysis for Acute Kidney Injury | Peritoneal Dialysis International | 2014 | 191 |
| 33 | Implications of insecticide resistance for malaria vector control with long-lasting insecticidal nets: a WHO-coordinated, prospective, international, observational cohort study | Lancet Infectious Diseases, The | 2018 | 188 |
| 34 | Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage | Nature Microbiology | 2019 | 184 |
| 35 | Primary aspergilloma of paranasal sinuses in the Sudan. A review of seventeen cases | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 177 |
| 36 | Characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in Africa: a multicountry observational study from the Africa Liver Cancer Consortium | The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2017 | 177 |
| 37 | Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2014 | 174 |
| 38 | Detection of Very Low Level Plasmodium falciparum Infections using the Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction and a Reassessment of the Epidemiology of Unstable Malaria in Sudan | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1996 | 172 |
| 39 | Multiple Origins and Regional Dispersal of Resistant dhps in African Plasmodium falciparum Malaria | PLoS Medicine | 2009 | 168 |
| 40 | Fractionation, solubility and functional properties of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) proteins as affected by pH and/or salt concentration | Food Chemistry | 2004 | 164 |
| 41 | Isolation and characterization of an antimalarial agent of the neem tree Azadirachta indica | Journal of Natural Products | 1989 | 159 |
| 42 | Chemical composition and quality attributes of goat meat and lamb | Meat Science | 1990 | 157 |
| 43 | Diagnostic tests for kala-azar: a multi-centre study of the freeze-dried DAT, rK39 strip test and KAtex in East Africa and the Indian subcontinent | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2008 | 154 |
| 44 | First generation leishmaniasis vaccines: A review of field efficacy trials | Vaccine | 2008 | 153 |
| 45 | Diagnosing visceral leishmaniasis with the recombinant K39 strip test: experience from the Sudan | Tropical Medicine and International Health | 2001 | 150 |
| 46 | Is Africa prepared for tackling the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic. Lessons from past outbreaks, ongoing pan-African public health efforts, and implications for the future | International Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2020 | 150 |
| 47 | What if cancer survival in Britain were the same as in Europe: how many deaths are avoidable? | British Journal of Cancer | 2009 | 148 |
| 48 | Primary infertility after genital mutilation in girlhood in Sudan: a case-control study | Lancet, The | 2005 | 147 |
| 49 | Influence of Density on Plant Variation in Fiber Flax, Linum usitatissimum L. 1 | Crop Science | 1967 | 145 |
| 50 | Entomogenous fungi as promising biopesticides for tick control | | 2000 | 144 |
