| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Selforganization of matter and the evolution of biological macromolecules | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1971 | 3,379 |
| 2 | A principle of natural self-organization | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1977 | 1,562 |
| 3 | Prediction of chain flexibility in proteins | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1985 | 1,112 |
| 4 | Energiewanderung und Fluoreszenz | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1946 | 971 |
| 5 | Climate change and temperature-dependent biogeography: oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance in animals | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 951 |
| 6 | The 'Terra Preta' phenomenon: a model for sustainable agriculture in the humid tropics | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 818 |
| 7 | Hydrogen storage methods | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2004 | 803 |
| 8 | Self-organized shortcuts in the Argentine ant | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1989 | 743 |
| 9 | The continuing conundrum of the LEA proteins | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2007 | 629 |
| 10 | Life history evolution: successes, limitations, and prospects | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2000 | 606 |
| 11 | Homing by path integration in a mammal | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1980 | 576 |
| 12 | Flower Constancy, Insect Psychology, and Plant Evolution | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1999 | 543 |
| 13 | The Hypercycle | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1978 | 529 |
| 14 | The number of queens: An important trait in ant evolution | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1977 | 528 |
| 15 | The Hypercycle | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1978 | 523 |
| 16 | Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2006 | 487 |
| 17 | A new solution to the problem of the subjective vertical | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1983 | 479 |
| 18 | ?-Glucosidase inhibitors | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1977 | 425 |
| 19 | Approaches to semi-synthetic minimal cells: a review | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2006 | 415 |
| 20 | Glucosidase inhibition | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1977 | 413 |
| 21 | Relevance of mangroves for the production and deposition of organic matter along tropical continental margins | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2002 | 396 |
| 22 | Formation and diagenesis of inorganic Ca?Mg carbonates in the lacustrine environment | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1972 | 390 |
| 23 | Fluid Mechanics of Biological Surfaces and their Technological Application | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2000 | 381 |
| 24 | Pesticide exposure in honey bees results in increased levels of the gut pathogen Nosema | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2012 | 368 |
| 25 | The Significance of Lichens and Their Metabolites | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1999 | 364 |
| 26 | Regeneration of whole plants from isolated mesophyll protoplasts of tobacco | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1971 | 352 |
| 27 | Forensic entomology | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2004 | 342 |
| 28 | “You are what you eat”: Diet modifies cuticular hydrocarbons and nestmate recognition in the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2000 | 319 |
| 29 | Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2012 | 315 |
| 30 | A review on usnic acid, an interesting natural compound | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2002 | 303 |
| 31 | On the success of a swindle: pollination by deception in orchids | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2005 | 303 |
| 32 | Direct Behavioral Evidence for Hydrocarbons as Ant Recognition Discriminators | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1999 | 292 |
| 33 | A state of the art structural concept for humic substances | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1993 | 289 |
| 34 | The effect of queen pheromones on worker honey bee ovary development | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2003 | 288 |
| 35 | Dihydrorhodamine 123: a new flow cytometric indicator for respiratory burst activity in neutrophil granulocytes | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1988 | 279 |
| 36 | (−)-Menthol biosynthesis and molecular genetics | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2005 | 266 |
| 37 | How important are direct fitness benefits of sexual selection? | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 257 |
| 38 | Industrial age anthropogenic inputs of heavy metals into the pedosphere | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2002 | 254 |
| 39 | Gluconic acid production and phosphate solubilization by the plant growth-promoting bacterium Azospirillum spp. | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2004 | 254 |
| 40 | Biological Information Transfer Beyond the Genetic Code: The Sugar Code | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2000 | 252 |
| 41 | Ecology and ecophysiology of tree stems: corticular and wood photosynthesis | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2002 | 247 |
| 42 | Phase relations between a circadian rhythm and its zeitgeber within the range of entrainment | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1978 | 241 |
| 43 | Autopoiesis: a review and a reappraisal | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2003 | 237 |
| 44 | Transfer-RNA, an early gene? | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1981 | 229 |
| 45 | Molecular structures and associations of humic substances in the terrestrial environment | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2002 | 229 |
| 46 | Generality of the functional structure of the neocortex | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1977 | 228 |
| 47 | Abiotic synthesis of amino acids under hydrothermal conditions and the origin of life: A perpetual phenomenon? | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1992 | 225 |
| 48 | A pear-derived kairomone with pheromonal potency that attracts male and female codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.) | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 222 |
| 49 | Changes in element composition along the spinning duct in a Nephila spider | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2001 | 217 |
| 50 | Fine colour discrimination requires differential conditioning in bumblebees | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2004 | 215 |
