| Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation1 | Journal of Linguistics | 1985 | 495 |
| Epidermal-growth-factor receptors in human bladder cancer: comparison of invasive and superficial tumours | Lancet, The | 1985 | 450 |
| The influence of surgical operations on components of the human immune system | British Journal of Surgery | 1985 | 290 |
| A Kernel Method for Smoothing Point Process Data | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics | 1985 | 266 |
| Clinical significance of esterases in man | Clinical Pharmacokinetics | 1985 | 170 |
| An evaluation of length and end-phrase of visual analogue scales in dental pain | Pain | 1985 | 149 |
| An investigation into post-operative pain after third molar surgery under local analgesia | British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 1985 | 146 |
| The effects of phenytoin and sodium valproate on the periodontal health of adult epileptic patients | Journal of Clinical Periodontology | 1985 | 141 |
| The effect of pregnancy on kidney function in renal allograft recipients | Kidney International | 1985 | 114 |
| The transition to wavy Taylor vortices | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1985 | 105 |
| The motion of rigid ellipsoidal particles in slow flows | Tectonophysics | 1985 | 103 |
| Measurement of free insulin concentrations: the influence of the timing of extraction of insulin antibodies | Diabetologia | 1985 | 88 |
| Adherent and soluble mucus in the stomach and duodenum | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | 1985 | 86 |
| New form for the coincidence limit of the Feynman propagator, or heat kernel, in curved spacetime | Physical Review D | 1985 | 76 |
| Cure performance of light-activated composites by differential thermal analysis (DTA) | Dental Materials | 1985 | 73 |
| Epidermal growth factor receptors on human breast cancers | British Journal of Surgery | 1985 | 69 |
| Explicit curvature dependence of coupling constants | Physical Review D | 1985 | 68 |
| The World of the Panhellenion I. Athens and Eleusis* | Journal of Roman Studies | 1985 | 67 |
| The influence of iron on the preparation of silicon nitride from silica | Journal of Materials Science | 1985 | 65 |
| Thymic epithelium and the induction of transplantation tolerance in nude mice | Nature | 1985 | 61 |
| Increase in cerebral palsy in normal birthweight babies | Archives of Disease in Childhood | 1985 | 60 |
| Symmetry sets | Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics | 1985 | 58 |
| Spelling ability in congenital dysarthria: Evidence against articulatory coding in translating between phonemes and graphemes | Cognitive Neuropsychology | 1985 | 58 |
| Resolution and reconstitution of bovine kidney branched-chain 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase complex | Biochemical Journal | 1985 | 57 |
| Maslach Burnout Inventory: factor structure and norms for British nursing staff | Psychological Reports | 1985 | 54 |
