| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Electric Field Effect in Atomically Thin Carbon Films | Science | 2004 | 57,819 |
| 2 | Optimization by Simulated Annealing | Science | 1983 | 36,141 |
| 3 | Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases | Science | 1974 | 24,586 |
| 4 | Multilineage Potential of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells | Science | 1999 | 19,054 |
| 5 | Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene | Science | 2008 | 18,011 |
| 6 | Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks | Science | 2006 | 15,300 |
| 7 | Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts | Science | 1998 | 13,726 |
| 8 | A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity | Science | 2012 | 13,436 |
| 9 | The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks | Science | 2013 | 12,743 |
| 10 | The Sequence of the Human Genome | Science | 2001 | 12,739 |
| 11 | Understanding the Warburg Effect: The Metabolic Requirements of Cell Proliferation | Science | 2009 | 12,686 |
| 12 | Graphene: Status and Prospects | Science | 2009 | 12,381 |
| 13 | The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics | Science | 2002 | 12,318 |
| 14 | Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding | Science | 2000 | 12,290 |
| 15 | Electrical Energy Storage for the Grid: A Battery of Choices | Science | 2011 | 12,275 |
| 16 | Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxides | Science | 2001 | 11,546 |
| 17 | Tissue-based map of the human proteome | Science | 2015 | 11,537 |
| 18 | Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores | Science | 1998 | 11,076 |
| 19 | Bacterial Biofilms: A Common Cause of Persistent Infections | Science | 1999 | 10,517 |
| 20 | Spintronics: A Spin-Based Electronics Vision for the Future | Science | 2001 | 10,356 |
| 21 | Global Consequences of Land Use | Science | 2005 | 9,820 |
| 22 | Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory | Science | 1965 | 9,680 |
| 23 | Probing Single Molecules and Single Nanoparticles by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering | Science | 1997 | 9,677 |
| 24 | Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells | Science | 2007 | 9,587 |
| 25 | Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications | Science | 2002 | 9,541 |
| 26 | Mussel-Inspired Surface Chemistry for Multifunctional Coatings | Science | 2007 | 9,331 |
| 27 | EGFR Mutations in Lung Cancer: Correlation with Clinical Response to Gefitinib Therapy | Science | 2004 | 9,112 |
| 28 | Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People | Science | 2010 | 8,933 |
| 29 | Translating the Histone Code | Science | 2001 | 8,775 |
| 30 | Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present | Science | 2001 | 8,638 |
| 31 | Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers | Science | 2001 | 8,606 |
| 32 | Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design | Science | 2017 | 8,484 |
| 33 | The Fluid Mosaic Model of the Structure of Cell Membranes | Science | 1972 | 8,389 |
| 34 | Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria | Science | 2004 | 8,170 |
| 35 | Toxic Potential of Materials at the Nanolevel | Science | 2006 | 8,085 |
| 36 | Mitochondria and Apoptosis | Science | 1998 | 8,046 |
| 37 | Semiconductor Nanocrystals as Fluorescent Biological Labels | Science | 1998 | 8,002 |
| 38 | Imaging Intracellular Fluorescent Proteins at Nanometer Resolution | Science | 2006 | 7,786 |
| 39 | Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs | Science | 1978 | 7,762 |
| 40 | Controlling Electromagnetic Fields | Science | 2006 | 7,758 |
| 41 | Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction | Science | 2011 | 7,701 |
| 42 | Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet | Science | 2015 | 7,650 |
| 43 | Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics | Science | 2005 | 7,435 |
| 44 | Control of Regulatory T Cell Development by the Transcription Factor Foxp3 | Science | 2003 | 7,419 |
| 45 | Zener Model Description of Ferromagnetism in Zinc-Blende Magnetic Semiconductors | Science | 2000 | 7,393 |
| 46 | Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 | Science | 2000 | 7,276 |
| 47 | The Protein Kinase Complement of the Human Genome | Science | 2002 | 7,272 |
| 48 | Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene | Science | 2003 | 7,234 |
| 49 | The Complete Genome Sequence of Escherichia coli K-12 | Science | 1997 | 7,214 |
| 50 | Defective LPS Signaling in C3H/HeJ and C57BL/10ScCr Mice: Mutations in Tlr4 Gene | Science | 1998 | 6,832 |
