| 1 | Hemicellulose bioconversion | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2003 | 1,299 |
| 2 | Microalgae as a raw material for biofuels production | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 857 |
| 3 | Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass: biochemical and molecular perspectives | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2008 | 805 |
| 4 | Natural product discovery: past, present, and future | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2016 | 803 |
| 5 | Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2006 | 546 |
| 6 | Bacterial cell attachment, the beginning of a biofilm | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2007 | 510 |
| 7 | Diversity of halophilic microorganisms: Environments, phylogeny, physiology, and applications | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2002 | 485 |
| 8 | Wine flavor and aroma | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2011 | 466 |
| 9 | Biodiesel production—current state of the art and challenges | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2008 | 459 |
| 10 | Harmful algal blooms: causes, impacts and detection | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2003 | 451 |
| 11 | Biodiesel production from various feedstocks and their effects on the fuel properties | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2008 | 416 |
| 12 | Reviving the carbohydrate economy via multi-product lignocellulose biorefineries | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2008 | 398 |
| 13 | Biofilm material properties as related to shear-induced deformation and detachment phenomena | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2002 | 370 |
| 14 | Diatomaceous earth as a protective vehicle for bacteria applied for self-healing concrete | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2012 | 362 |
| 15 | A bacterial view of the periodic table: genes and proteins for toxic inorganic ions | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2005 | 325 |
| 16 | Perspective of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) containing ACC deaminase in stress agriculture | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2007 | 309 |
| 17 | Adaptive response of yeasts to furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and new chemical evidence for HMF conversion to 2,5-bis-hydroxymethylfuran | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2004 | 308 |
| 18 | Composition of sugar cane, energy cane, and sweet sorghum suitable for ethanol production at Louisiana sugar mills | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2011 | 296 |
| 19 | Effects of acetic acid and lactic acid on the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a minimal medium | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2001 | 290 |
| 20 | Importance of microbial natural products and the need to revitalize their discovery | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2014 | 290 |
| 21 | Industrial production of recombinant therapeutics in Escherichia coli and its recent advancements | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2012 | 282 |
| 22 | Strain improvement of Sporosarcina pasteurii for enhanced urease and calcite production | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 275 |
| 23 | Lactose mother liquor as an alternative nutrient source for microbial concrete production by Sporosarcina pasteurii | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 258 |
| 24 | Factors affecting the yield and properties of bacterial cellulose | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2002 | 256 |
| 25 | Fungal metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: past, present and future applications in bioremediation | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1997 | 255 |
| 26 | Monascus secondary metabolites: production and biological activity | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2013 | 247 |
| 27 | Lactic acid bacteria and yeasts in kefir grains and kefir made from them | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2002 | 231 |
| 28 | Carotenoids from Rhodotorula and Phaffia: yeasts of biotechnological importance | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 229 |
| 29 | Strategies for improving fermentation medium performance: a review | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1999 | 224 |
| 30 | Fermentation of glycerol by Clostridium pasteurianum -- batch and continuous culture studies | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2001 | 213 |
| 31 | Microbial lipids from renewable resources: production and characterization | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2010 | 203 |
| 32 | Problems with the microbial production of butanol | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 201 |
| 33 | Gifted microbes for genome mining and natural product discovery | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2017 | 201 |
| 34 | Ethanol production from seaweed extract | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2000 | 197 |
| 35 | Production of the secondary metabolites γ-aminobutyric acid and monacolin K by Monascus | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2003 | 197 |
| 36 | Microbial genome mining for accelerated natural products discovery: is a renaissance in the making? | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2014 | 193 |
| 37 | Screening and isolation of halophilic bacteria producing extracellular hydrolyses from Howz Soltan Lake, Iran | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 178 |
| 38 | Isolation and characterization of ethanol-tolerant mutants of Escherichia coli KO11 for fuel ethanol production | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1998 | 177 |
| 39 | Minimizing acetate formation in E. coli fermentations | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2007 | 172 |
| 40 | Mass transfer limitation of microbial growth and pollutant degradation | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1997 | 171 |
| 41 | Marcel Faber Roundtable: Is our antibiotic pipeline unproductive because of starvation, constipation or lack of inspiration? | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2006 | 171 |
| 42 | Neochloris oleabundans UTEX #1185: a suitable renewable lipid source for biofuel production | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 171 |
| 43 | Are antibiotics naturally antibiotics? | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2006 | 170 |
| 44 | The many roles of glutamate in metabolism | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2016 | 169 |
| 45 | Start-up and inhibition analysis of the Anammox process seeded with anaerobic granular sludge | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2009 | 167 |
| 46 | Engineering microbial factories for synthesis of value-added products | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2011 | 167 |
| 47 | Linkages of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes populations to methanogenic process performance | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2016 | 165 |
| 48 | Streptomyces and Saccharopolyspora hosts for heterologous expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2010 | 164 |
| 49 | Heterotrophic nitrification–aerobic denitrification by novel isolated bacteria | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2011 | 163 |
| 50 | Lactobacillus casei combats acid stress by maintaining cell membrane functionality | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2012 | 163 |