| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1986 | 12,130 |
| 2 | Fuzzy sets as a basis for a theory of possibility | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1978 | 7,654 |
| 3 | Fuzzy programming and linear programming with several objective functions | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1978 | 3,042 |
| 4 | Extensions of the TOPSIS for group decision-making under fuzzy environment | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2000 | 2,874 |
| 5 | Fuzzy hierarchical analysis | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1985 | 2,497 |
| 6 | Interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1989 | 2,492 |
| 7 | Toward a theory of fuzzy information granulation and its centrality in human reasoning and fuzzy logic | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1997 | 2,465 |
| 8 | Fuzzy sets as a basis for a theory of possibility | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1999 | 2,355 |
| 9 | Structure identification of fuzzy model | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1988 | 2,283 |
| 10 | A fuzzy extension of Saaty's priority theory | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1983 | 2,136 |
| 11 | Stability analysis and design of fuzzy control systems | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1992 | 2,030 |
| 12 | Linguistic decision analysis: steps for solving decision problems under linguistic information | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2000 | 1,342 |
| 13 | Fuzzy differential equations | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1987 | 1,341 |
| 14 | Distances between intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2000 | 1,333 |
| 15 | The role of fuzzy logic in the management of uncertainty in expert systems | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1983 | 1,260 |
| 16 | More on intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1989 | 1,183 |
| 17 | Decision-making with a fuzzy preference relation | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1978 | 1,130 |
| 18 | Elementary fuzzy calculus | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1986 | 1,059 |
| 19 | Fuzzy preference orderings in group decision making | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1984 | 1,044 |
| 20 | Families of OWA operators | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1993 | 1,038 |
| 21 | A model of consensus in group decision making under linguistic assessments | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1996 | 1,010 |
| 22 | Handling multicriteria fuzzy decision-making problems based on vague set theory | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1994 | 991 |
| 23 | Forecasting enrollments with fuzzy time series — Part I | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1993 | 972 |
| 24 | Ranking fuzzy numbers with integral value | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1992 | 955 |
| 25 | Forecasting enrollments based on fuzzy time series | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1996 | 947 |
| 26 | On some results in fuzzy metric spaces | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1994 | 934 |
| 27 | Fuzzy time series and its models | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1993 | 926 |
| 28 | A method of inference in approximate reasoning based on interval-valued fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1987 | 899 |
| 29 | Multicriteria fuzzy decision-making problems based on vague set theory | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2000 | 890 |
| 30 | Interval valued fuzzy sets based on normal forms | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1986 | 874 |
| 31 | A comparative study of fuzzy rough sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2002 | 860 |
| 32 | Latent connectives in human decision making | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1980 | 840 |
| 33 | A review of some methods for ranking fuzzy subsets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1985 | 830 |
| 34 | Generalizations of the differentiability of fuzzy-number-valued functions with applications to fuzzy differential equations | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2005 | 806 |
| 35 | Entropy for intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2001 | 786 |
| 36 | Uninorm aggregation operators | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1996 | 782 |
| 37 | An application of intuitionistic fuzzy sets in medical diagnosis | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2001 | 771 |
| 38 | Vague sets are intuitionistic fuzzy sets | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1996 | 764 |
| 39 | Ranking fuzzy numbers with maximizing set and minimizing set | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1985 | 757 |
| 40 | k-order additive discrete fuzzy measures and their representation | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1997 | 755 |
| 41 | Induction of fuzzy decision trees | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1995 | 742 |
| 42 | On a general class of fuzzy connectives | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1980 | 739 |
| 43 | Monoidal t-norm based logictowards a logic for left-continuous t-norms | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2001 | 738 |
| 44 | A fusion approach for managing multi-granularity linguistic term sets in decision making | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2000 | 716 |
| 45 | Ten years of genetic fuzzy systems: current framework and new trends | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 2004 | 705 |
| 46 | Fuzzy sets in approximate reasoning, Part 1: Inference with possibility distributions | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1991 | 703 |
| 47 | Why triangular membership functions? | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1994 | 699 |
| 48 | Forecasting enrollments with fuzzy time series — part II | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1994 | 690 |
| 49 | Integrating three representation models in fuzzy multipurpose decision making based on fuzzy preference relations | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1998 | 689 |
| 50 | On the fuzzy initial value problem | Fuzzy Sets and Systems | 1987 | 669 |
