| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030 | Diabetes Care | 2004 | 12,778 |
| 2 | Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines | Journal of Extracellular Vesicles | 2018 | 6,961 |
| 3 | Intensive Blood Glucose Control and Vascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2008 | 6,447 |
| 4 | Natural RNA circles function as efficient microRNA sponges | Nature | 2013 | 6,415 |
| 5 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 6 | BoltzTraP. A code for calculating band-structure dependent quantities | Computer Physics Communications | 2006 | 4,184 |
| 7 | Luminescence dating of quartz using an improved single-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol | Radiation Measurements | 2000 | 3,988 |
| 8 | Multifactorial Intervention and Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 3,894 |
| 9 | Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2005 | 3,840 |
| 10 | The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) | Radiocarbon | 2020 | 3,502 |
| 11 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 12 | Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab versus Sunitinib in Advanced Renal-Cell Carcinoma | New England Journal of Medicine | 2018 | 3,334 |
| 13 | The Danish Civil Registration System | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | 2011 | 3,315 |
| 14 | Imatinib Compared with Interferon and Low-Dose Cytarabine for Newly Diagnosed Chronic-Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 3,227 |
| 15 | Five-Year Follow-up of Patients Receiving Imatinib for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 3,212 |
| 16 | The efficiency of systematic sampling in stereology and its prediction* | Journal of Microscopy | 1987 | 3,128 |
| 17 | The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement | PLoS Medicine | 2015 | 2,892 |
| 18 | Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results | Science | 2010 | 2,848 |
| 19 | The biogenesis, biology and characterization of circular RNAs | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2019 | 2,832 |
| 20 | Unbiased stereological estimation of the total number of neurons in the subdivisions of the rat hippocampus using the optical fractionator | The Anatomical Record | 1991 | 2,797 |
| 21 | Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Lancet Neurology, The | 2015 | 2,776 |
| 22 | Some new, simple and efficient stereological methods and their use in pathological research and diagnosis | Apmis | 1988 | 2,680 |
| 23 | De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing | Genome Research | 2010 | 2,516 |
| 24 | DNA damage response as a candidate anti-cancer barrier in early human tumorigenesis | Nature | 2005 | 2,491 |
| 25 | Randomised study of screening for colorectal cancer with faecal-occult-blood test | Lancet, The | 1996 | 2,327 |
| 26 | Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite | Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems | 2014 | 2,300 |
| 27 | Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 2,224 |
| 28 | Basis-set convergence of correlated calculations on water | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1997 | 2,197 |
| 29 | The new stereological tools: Disector, fractionator, nucleator and point sampled intercepts and their use in pathological research and diagnosis | Apmis | 1988 | 2,194 |
| 30 | A Trial of Darbepoetin Alfa in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease | New England Journal of Medicine | 2009 | 2,110 |
| 31 | The influence of some cations on an adenosine triphosphatase from peripheral nerves | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta | 1957 | 2,084 |
| 32 | Codon-Substitution Models for Heterogeneous Selection Pressure at Amino Acid Sites | Genetics | 2000 | 2,064 |
| 33 | U. S. Householder survey of functional gastrointestinal disorders | Digestive Diseases and Sciences | 1993 | 1,995 |
| 34 | Basis-set convergence in correlated calculations on Ne, N2, and H2O | Chemical Physics Letters | 1998 | 1,989 |
| 35 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,982 |
| 36 | Characterizing dissolved organic matter fluorescence with parallel factor analysis: a tutorial | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2008 | 1,969 |
| 37 | Quantum information with Rydberg atoms | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2010 | 1,968 |
| 38 | Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study | Lancet, The | 2012 | 1,937 |
| 39 | The atomic simulation environment—a Python library for working with atoms | Journal of Physics Condensed Matter | 2017 | 1,933 |
| 40 | Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk | Nature | 2012 | 1,880 |
| 41 | The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises | Pain | 2020 | 1,880 |
| 42 | THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2015 | 1,877 |
| 43 | INFOGEST static in vitro simulation of gastrointestinal food digestion | Nature Protocols | 2019 | 1,873 |
| 44 | Consensus Nomenclature for in vivo Imaging of Reversibly Binding Radioligands | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | 2007 | 1,840 |
| 45 | Asymmetric 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactions | Chemical Reviews | 1998 | 1,822 |
| 46 | Rosuvastatin and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis | New England Journal of Medicine | 2009 | 1,781 |
| 47 | Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models | Diversity and Distributions | 2008 | 1,771 |
| 48 | The modularity of pollination networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,728 |
| 49 | A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 | Pain | 2015 | 1,701 |
| 50 | Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 1,683 |
