| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Optimization by Simulated Annealing | Science | 1983 | 35,496 |
| 2 | Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 3,738 |
| 3 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 4 | Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 951 |
| 5 | Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora | Science | 2013 | 873 |
| 6 | Global maize production, utilization, and consumption | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2014 | 750 |
| 7 | The microbiome of uncontacted Amerindians | Science Advances | 2015 | 721 |
| 8 | Productivity and carbon fluxes of tropical savannas | Journal of Biogeography | 2006 | 506 |
| 9 | Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents | Science | 2014 | 500 |
| 10 | Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests | Biogeochemistry | 1999 | 490 |
| 11 | Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications | Science | 2016 | 490 |
| 12 | Specific chemotherapy of Chagas disease: controversies and advances | Trends in Parasitology | 2003 | 487 |
| 13 | Basin-wide variations in Amazon forest structure and function are mediated by both soils and climate | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 487 |
| 14 | The canopy effect, carbon isotope ratios and foodwebs in amazonia | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1991 | 482 |
| 15 | One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity | Conservation Biology | 2009 | 468 |
| 16 | EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF NUTRIENT LIMITATION OF FOREST GROWTH ON WET TROPICAL MOUNTAINS | Ecology | 1998 | 450 |
| 17 | Specific chemotherapy of Chagas disease: Relevance, current limitations and new approaches | Acta Tropica | 2010 | 391 |
| 18 | Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 383 |
| 19 | Presynaptic calcium stores underlie large-amplitude miniature IPSCs and spontaneous calcium transients | Nature Neuroscience | 2000 | 363 |
| 20 | Nutrient dynamics within amazonian forests | Oecologia | 1988 | 352 |
| 21 | Chemotherapy of trypanosomiases and leishmaniasis | Trends in Parasitology | 2005 | 347 |
| 22 | Amazon Rain-Forest Fires | Science | 1985 | 345 |
| 23 | ECOLOGY: The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target | Science | 2005 | 344 |
| 24 | The application of predictive modelling of species distribution to biodiversity conservation | Diversity and Distributions | 2007 | 325 |
| 25 | Phylogenetic analysis reveals a high level of speciation in the Paracoccidioides genus | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2009 | 325 |
| 26 | Insecticidal toxin in root exudates from Bt corn | Nature | 1999 | 317 |
| 27 | Cryptic Speciation and Recombination in the Fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis as Revealed by Gene Genealogies | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2006 | 312 |
| 28 | Energy Density Functional Theory of Many-Electron Systems | | 1990 | 305 |
| 29 | Reconstructing the Population Genetic History of the Caribbean | PLoS Genetics | 2013 | 296 |
| 30 | Stratification of ?13C values of leaves in Amazonian rain forests | Oecologia | 1980 | 295 |
| 31 | Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 265 |
| 32 | Preparation and characterization of activated carbons from coconut shell impregnated with phosphoric acid | Carbon | 1989 | 260 |
| 33 | Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 251 |
| 34 | Research Priorities for Neotropical Dry Forests1 | Biotropica | 2005 | 248 |
| 35 | Molecular Recognition and Molecular Mechanics of Micelles of Some Model Asphaltenes and Resins | Energy & Fuels | 1996 | 247 |
| 36 | A land cover map of South America | Global Change Biology | 2004 | 247 |
| 37 | Trade-Offs between female food acquisition and child care among hiwi and ache foragers | Human Nature | 1992 | 239 |
| 38 | The Future of Small Farms | World Development | 2010 | 239 |
| 39 | Snapshot of Moving and Expanding Clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Their Global Distribution Assessed by Spoligotyping in an International Study | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2003 | 233 |
| 40 | Role of changes in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in the interaction with the human ACE2 receptor: An analysis | EXCLI Journal | 2020 | 231 |
| 41 | Photosynthesis and ratios in Amazonian rain forests | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1989 | 226 |
| 42 | Molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes in the presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol: a comparative study using 2H-, 13C- and 31P-NMR spectroscopy | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes | 1995 | 224 |
| 43 | High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction | Nature Plants | 2015 | 224 |
| 44 | The Interaction of Lipids and Lipoproteins with the Intercellular Matrix of Arterial Tissue: Its Possible Role in Atherogenesis | Advances in Lipid Research | 1982 | 218 |
| 45 | Molecular Recognition in Aggregates Formed by Asphaltene and Resin Molecules from the Athabasca Oil Sand | Energy & Fuels | 1999 | 216 |
| 46 | Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests | Biogeochemistry | 1999 | 207 |
| 47 | A monkey's tale: The origin of Plasmodium vivax as a human malaria parasite | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 202 |
| 48 | Paracoccidioides brasiliensisand paracoccidioidomycosis: Molecular approaches to morphogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology, taxonomy and genetics | Medical Mycology | 2002 | 198 |
| 49 | Nutrient dynamics within amazonian forest ecosystems | Oecologia | 1986 | 196 |
| 50 | Processing maize flour and corn meal food products | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2014 | 195 |
