| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness | Nature | 1998 | 1,190 |
| 2 | RECOMBINANT HUMAN BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN-2 FOR TREATMENT OF OPEN TIBIAL FRACTURES | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A | 2002 | 1,092 |
| 3 | HIV evolution: CTL escape mutation and reversion after transmission | Nature Medicine | 2004 | 769 |
| 4 | Labile Organic Matter Fractions as Central Components of the Quality of Agricultural Soils: An Overview | Advances in Agronomy | 2005 | 710 |
| 5 | Effects of irrigation-induced salinity and sodicity on soil microbial activity | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2003 | 696 |
| 6 | Generalization versus specialization in plant pollination systems | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2000 | 685 |
| 7 | Synthetic potential of the tertiary-amine-catalysed reaction of activated vinyl carbanions with aldehydes | Tetrahedron | 1988 | 674 |
| 8 | Comparison of first-line antiretroviral therapy with regimens including nevirapine, efavirenz, or both drugs, plus stavudine and lamivudine: a randomised open-label trial, the 2NN Study | Lancet, The | 2004 | 665 |
| 9 | Dynamics of shrub encroachment in an African savanna: relative influences of fire, herbivory, rainfall and density dependence | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2001 | 617 |
| 10 | Factors affecting the distribution of juvenile estuarine and inshore fish | Journal of Fish Biology | 1980 | 606 |
| 11 | Identification of a gene, ABCG5, important in the regulation of dietary cholesterol absorption | Nature Genetics | 2001 | 539 |
| 12 | The Differential Geometry of Finsler Spaces | Nature Genetics | 1959 | 530 |
| 13 | Influence of infant-feeding patterns on early mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in Durban, South Africa: a prospective cohort study | Lancet, The | 1999 | 496 |
| 14 | Relative Risk Analysis of Factors Associated with Difficult Intubation in Obstetric Anesthesia | Anesthesiology | 1992 | 474 |
| 15 | ON THE RELEVANCE OF NONEQUILIBRIUM CONCEPTS TO ARID AND SEMIARID GRAZING SYSTEMS | Anesthesiology | 1999 | 449 |
| 16 | (null) | Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems | 2001 | 438 |
| 17 | A mathematical and statistical analysis of the curves illustrating vulnerability of xylem to cavitation | Tree Physiology | 1998 | 425 |
| 18 | The effects of organic acids, phytates and polyphenols on the absorption of iron from vegetables | British Journal of Nutrition | 1983 | 423 |
| 19 | Fitness Cost of Escape Mutations in p24 Gag in Association with Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 | Journal of Virology | 2006 | 408 |
| 20 | Displacing place-identity: A discursive approach to locating self and other | British Journal of Social Psychology | 2000 | 384 |
| 21 | The 2nd:4th digit ratio, sexual dimorphism, population differences, and reproductive success | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2000 | 383 |
| 22 | The Zoogeography of Mammalian Basal Metabolic Rate | American Naturalist | 2000 | 381 |
| 23 | A review of recalcitrant seed physiology in relation to desiccation-tolerance mechanisms | Seed Science Research | 1999 | 355 |
| 24 | Method of feeding and transmission of HIV-1 from mothers to children by 15 months of age: prospective cohort study from Durban, South Africa | Aids | 2001 | 342 |
| 25 | A Reevaluation of the Role of Crystalloid Preload in the Prevention of Hypotension Associated with Spinal Anesthesia for Elective Cesarean Section | Anesthesiology | 1993 | 338 |
| 26 | POLLINATION SUCCESS IN A DECEPTIVE ORCHID IS ENHANCED BY CO-OCCURRING REWARDING MAGNET PLANTS | Ecology | 2003 | 326 |
| 27 | The use of computer games as an educational tool: identification of appropriate game types and game elements | British Journal of Educational Technology | 1999 | 307 |
| 28 | Research Priorities for Conservation of Metallophyte Biodiversity and their Potential for Restoration and Site Remediation | Restoration Ecology | 2004 | 304 |
| 29 | The General Theory of Alternating Current Machines | Restoration Ecology | 1975 | 303 |
| 30 | Market forces predict grooming reciprocity in female baboons | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1999 | 298 |
| 31 | The influence of climate on the basal metabolic rate of small mammals: a slow-fast metabolic continuum | Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology | 2003 | 289 |
| 32 | Of boys and men: masculinity and gender in Southern African studies | Journal of Southern African Studies | 1998 | 287 |
| 33 | Three Phase Partitioning: Concentration and Purification of Proteins | Protein Expression and Purification | 1997 | 280 |
| 34 | New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa | Lancet, The | 2003 | 276 |
| 35 | Endolysosomal proteolysis and its regulation | Biochemical Journal | 2002 | 275 |
| 36 | A dispersion function for plasmas containing superthermal particles | Physics of Plasmas | 1995 | 268 |
| 37 | New developments in the Peterson olefination reaction | Chemical Society Reviews | 2002 | 267 |
| 38 | Immune Selection for Altered Antigen Processing Leads to Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Escape in Chronic HIV-1 Infection | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2004 | 266 |
| 39 | The influence of climate change on the distribution of indigenous forest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Journal of Biogeography | 1999 | 262 |
| 40 | The mound-building termite Macrotermes michaelseni as an ecosystem engineer | Journal of Tropical Ecology | 1998 | 259 |
| 41 | Mining subsidence and its effect on the environment: some differing examples | Environmental Geology | 2000 | 259 |
| 42 | Transactional Sex and the Pursuit of Modernity | Social Dynamics | 2003 | 259 |
| 43 | Time constraints and multiple choice criteria in the sampling behaviour and mate choice of the fiddler crab, Uca annulipes | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 1996 | 252 |
| 44 | Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | 2004 | 252 |
| 45 | Who infects whom? HIV-1 concordance and discordance among migrant and non-migrant couples in South Africa | Aids | 2003 | 249 |
| 46 | Environmental impacts associated with an abandoned mine in the Witbank Coalfield, South Africa | International Journal of Coal Geology | 2001 | 248 |
| 47 | Thoracic Epidural Anesthesia Via Caudal Route in Infants | Anesthesiology | 1988 | 243 |
| 48 | 25 years of the WHO essential medicines lists: progress and challenges | Lancet, The | 2003 | 243 |
| 49 | Effects of iron supplementation and anthelmintic treatment on motor and language development of preschool children in Zanzibar: double blind, placebo controlled study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2001 | 241 |
| 50 | Trichomonas vaginalis Is Associated with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Women Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 238 |
