| Surface Spin Disorder in NiFe2O4 Nanoparticles | Physical Review Letters | 1996 | 1.4K |
| Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago | Nature | 1996 | 961 |
| Ultraviolet light and osmotic stress: activation of the JNK cascade through multiple growth factor and cytokine receptors | Science | 1996 | 954 |
| Pituitary lineage determination by the Prophet of Pit-1 homeodomain factor defective in Ames dwarfism | Nature | 1996 | 687 |
| Mitochondrial dysfunction is a primary event in glutamate neurotoxicity | Journal of Neuroscience | 1996 | 680 |
| Birth outcomes in pregnant women taking fluoxetine | New England Journal of Medicine | 1996 | 615 |
| Representation of spatial orientation by the intrinsic dynamics of the head-direction cell ensemble: a theory | Journal of Neuroscience | 1996 | 614 |
| An Antarctic circumpolar wave in surface pressure, wind, temperature and sea-ice extent | Nature | 1996 | 572 |
| A complex of NuMA and cytoplasmic dynein is essential for mitotic spindle assembly | Cell | 1996 | 487 |
| An 8-year follow-up of 450 sons of alcoholic and control subjects | Archives of General Psychiatry | 1996 | 472 |
| Extensive polymorphisms observed in HIV-1 clade B protease gene using high-density oligonucleotide arrays | Nature Medicine | 1996 | 471 |
| Diffusive dynamics of the reaction coordinate for protein folding funnels | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1996 | 451 |
| Positive exchange bias in FeF2-Fe bilayers | Physical Review Letters | 1996 | 448 |
| From quantum cellular automata to quantum lattice gases | Journal of Statistical Physics | 1996 | 436 |
| The determinants of pKas in proteins | Biochemistry | 1996 | 424 |
| Control of spatiotemporal coherence of a thalamic oscillation by corticothalamic feedback | Science | 1996 | 412 |
| Stock market volatility and the business cycle | Journal of Applied Econometrics | 1996 | 403 |
| The role of DNA mismatch repair in platinum drug resistance | Cancer Research | 1996 | 401 |
| Chemical nature of the light emitter of the Aequorea green fluorescent protein | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1996 | 394 |
| Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1996 | 375 |
| Formalin-evoked activity in identified primary afferent fibers: systemic lidocaine suppresses phase-2 activity | Pain | 1996 | 373 |
| Deficient glutamate transport is associated with neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease | Annals of Neurology | 1996 | 355 |
| Basic concepts in RNA virus evolution | FASEB Journal | 1996 | 352 |
| Comparison of neurodegenerative pathology in transgenic mice overexpressing V717F beta-amyloid precursor protein and Alzheimer's disease | Journal of Neuroscience | 1996 | 350 |
| Loss of DNA mismatch repair in acquired resistance to cisplatin | Cancer Research | 1996 | 326 |
