| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. | Genetics | 1989 | 11,867 |
| 2 | Toll-like receptor signalling | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2004 | 7,318 |
| 3 | Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence | Nature | 2012 | 6,030 |
| 4 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 5 | Diarylethenes for Memories and Switches | Chemical Reviews | 2000 | 3,921 |
| 6 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 7 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy | Autophagy | 2012 | 3,122 |
| 8 | Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program | Briefings in Bioinformatics | 2008 | 3,115 |
| 9 | Toll-like receptors in innate immunity | International Immunology | 2004 | 2,786 |
| 10 | MCP-1 contributes to macrophage infiltration into adipose tissue, insulin resistance, and hepatic steatosis in obesity | Journal of Clinical Investigation | 2006 | 2,190 |
| 11 | Molecular cloning and expression of human hepatocyte growth factor | Nature | 1989 | 2,144 |
| 12 | Efficient blue organic light-emitting diodes employing thermally activated delayed fluorescence | Nature Photonics | 2014 | 2,064 |
| 13 | International consensus guidelines 2012 for the management of IPMN and MCN of the pancreas | Pancreatology | 2012 | 2,043 |
| 14 | Postnatal microbial colonization programs the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system for stress response in mice | Journal of Physiology | 2004 | 2,024 |
| 15 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 16 | Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Lancet, The | 2001 | 1,835 |
| 17 | International Consensus Guidelines for Management of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms and Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas | Pancreatology | 2006 | 1,805 |
| 18 | A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs and social networks | Nature | 2006 | 1,763 |
| 19 | BDNF from microglia causes the shift in neuronal anion gradient underlying neuropathic pain | Nature | 2005 | 1,690 |
| 20 | Principle of equal-channel angular pressing for the processing of ultra-fine grained materials | Scripta Materialia | 1996 | 1,683 |
| 21 | Evidence for osteocyte regulation of bone homeostasis through RANKL expression | Nature Medicine | 2011 | 1,593 |
| 22 | New approaches for improving semiconductor gas sensors | Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | 1991 | 1,570 |
| 23 | Development of series of gateway binary vectors, pGWBs, for realizing efficient construction of fusion genes for plant transformation | Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering | 2007 | 1,492 |
| 24 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 25 | P2X4 receptors induced in spinal microglia gate tactile allodynia after nerve injury | Nature | 2003 | 1,397 |
| 26 | Design of Efficient Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Pure Blue Organic Light Emitting Diodes | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2012 | 1,370 |
| 27 | Organic light-emitting diodes employing efficient reverse intersystem crossing for triplet-to-singlet state conversion | Nature Photonics | 2012 | 1,355 |
| 28 | Producing bulk ultrafine-grained materials by severe plastic deformation | Jom | 2006 | 1,350 |
| 29 | Catalytic Functionalization of Arenes and Alkanes via C−H Bond Activation | Accounts of Chemical Research | 2001 | 1,345 |
| 30 | SOCS proteins, cytokine signalling and immune regulation | Nature Reviews Immunology | 2007 | 1,328 |
| 31 | An Asian emission inventory of anthropogenic emission sources for the period 1980–2020 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2007 | 1,304 |
| 32 | Grain size effects on gas sensitivity of porous SnO2-based elements | Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical | 1991 | 1,299 |
| 33 | Novel Cavity Design Using Calix[n]arene Skeletons: Toward Molecular Recognition and Metal Binding | Chemical Reviews | 1997 | 1,294 |
| 34 | Comprehensive diagnostic criteria for IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), 2011 | Modern Rheumatology | 2012 | 1,294 |
| 35 | Ubiquitin ligases: cell-cycle control and cancer | Nature Reviews Cancer | 2006 | 1,259 |
| 36 | Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal blue phases | Nature Materials | 2002 | 1,234 |
| 37 | Coding facial expressions with Gabor wavelets | | 0 | 1,230 |
| 38 | Microbiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infection | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 1,224 |
| 39 | The effect of change in population size on DNA polymorphism. | Genetics | 1989 | 1,223 |
| 40 | Cell Type-Specific Involvement of RIG-I in Antiviral Response | Immunity | 2005 | 1,221 |
| 41 | Revisions of international consensus Fukuoka guidelines for the management of IPMN of the pancreas | Pancreatology | 2017 | 1,208 |
| 42 | Long Noncoding RNA HOTAIR Regulates Polycomb-Dependent Chromatin Modification and Is Associated with Poor Prognosis in Colorectal Cancers | Cancer Research | 2011 | 1,191 |
| 43 | Complete Genome Sequence of Enterohemorrhagic Eschelichia coli O157:H7 and Genomic Comparison with a Laboratory Strain K-12 | DNA Research | 2001 | 1,190 |
| 44 | Cofilin phosphorylation by LIM-kinase 1 and its role in Rac-mediated actin reorganization | Nature | 1998 | 1,183 |
| 45 | An Expanded Palette of Genetically Encoded Ca 2+ Indicators | Science | 2011 | 1,178 |
| 46 | One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks | IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | 2019 | 1,174 |
| 47 | Identification of a fibroblast-derived epithelial morphogen as hepatocyte growth factor | Cell | 1991 | 1,172 |
| 48 | The process of grain refinement in equal-channel angular pressing | Acta Materialia | 1998 | 1,166 |
| 49 | Multiple Alignment of DNA Sequences with MAFFT | Methods in Molecular Biology | 2009 | 1,145 |
| 50 | Emergence of cooperation and evolutionary stability in finite populations | Nature | 2004 | 1,134 |
