| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 1991 | 1,872 |
| 2 | Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature | Natural Product Reports | 2013 | 1,692 |
| 3 | Dietary phenolics: chemistry, bioavailability and effects on health | Natural Product Reports | 2009 | 1,610 |
| 4 | Polyketide biosynthesis: a millennium review | Natural Product Reports | 2001 | 1,454 |
| 5 | Endophytes: a rich source of functional metabolites (1987 to 2000) | Natural Product Reports | 2001 | 1,344 |
| 6 | Chemistry and biology of siderophores | Natural Product Reports | 2010 | 1,330 |
| 7 | Pyrrole, pyrrolidine, pyridine, piperidine and tropane alkaloids (1998 to 1999) | Natural Product Reports | 2000 | 1,123 |
| 8 | The discovery of a mevalonate-independent pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis in bacteria, algae and higher plants† | Natural Product Reports | 1999 | 1,062 |
| 9 | Quinoline, quinazoline and acridonealkaloids | Natural Product Reports | 2008 | 1,039 |
| 10 | The influence of natural products upon drug discovery (Antiquity to late 1999) | Natural Product Reports | 2000 | 1,038 |
| 11 | The chalcone synthase superfamily of type III polyketide synthases | Natural Product Reports | 2003 | 882 |
| 12 | Chemistry and biology of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 861 |
| 13 | Biology and chemistry of endophytes | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 827 |
| 14 | Pathways for degradation of lignin in bacteria and fungi | Natural Product Reports | 2011 | 781 |
| 15 | Natural products to drugs: natural product-derived compounds in clinical trials | Natural Product Reports | 2008 | 780 |
| 16 | Bacterial volatiles: the smell of small organisms | Natural Product Reports | 2007 | 771 |
| 17 | Indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloids | Natural Product Reports | 2008 | 764 |
| 18 | Heparin and heparan sulfate: structure and function | Natural Product Reports | 2002 | 761 |
| 19 | Marine natural products (1999) | Natural Product Reports | 2001 | 687 |
| 20 | Marine-derived fungi: a chemically and biologically diverse group of microorganisms | Natural Product Reports | 2004 | 646 |
| 21 | Genomic basis for natural product biosynthetic diversity in the actinomycetes | Natural Product Reports | 2009 | 645 |
| 22 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 2018 | 626 |
| 23 | The Lycopodium alkaloids | Natural Product Reports | 2004 | 611 |
| 24 | Tannins: classification and definition | Natural Product Reports | 2001 | 607 |
| 25 | Pharmacological activities of natural triterpenoids and their therapeutic implications | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 587 |
| 26 | Phytocannabinoids: a unified critical inventory | Natural Product Reports | 2016 | 585 |
| 27 | Quinoline, quinazoline and acridone alkaloids | Natural Product Reports | 2005 | 570 |
| 28 | Organic compounds in carbonaceous meteorites | Natural Product Reports | 2002 | 564 |
| 29 | Secondary metabolites of fungi from marine habitats | Natural Product Reports | 2011 | 563 |
| 30 | The evolution of genome mining in microbes – a review | Natural Product Reports | 2016 | 538 |
| 31 | Multitargeting by curcumin as revealed by molecular interaction studies | Natural Product Reports | 2011 | 531 |
| 32 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 2015 | 531 |
| 33 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 2009 | 530 |
| 34 | Nitrile-containing natural products | Natural Product Reports | 1999 | 529 |
| 35 | Genomics of secondary metabolite production by Pseudomonas spp. | Natural Product Reports | 2009 | 524 |
| 36 | Natural products of filamentous fungi: enzymes, genes, and their regulation | Natural Product Reports | 2007 | 519 |
| 37 | The role of carbohydrates in biologically active natural products | Natural Product Reports | 1997 | 517 |
| 38 | Cucurbitacins and cucurbitane glycosides: structures and biological activities | Natural Product Reports | 2005 | 515 |
| 39 | Type II polyketide synthases: gaining a deeper insight into enzymatic teamwork | Natural Product Reports | 2007 | 513 |
| 40 | Acetogenins from Annonaceae: recent progress in isolation, synthesis and mechanisms of action | Natural Product Reports | 2005 | 507 |
| 41 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 2013 | 506 |
| 42 | Nonribosomal peptides: from genes to products | Natural Product Reports | 2003 | 503 |
| 43 | Simple indole alkaloids and those with a non-rearranged monoterpenoid unit | Natural Product Reports | 2005 | 500 |
| 44 | Diterpenoids from Isodon species and their biological activities | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 493 |
| 45 | Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors from plants and fungi | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 489 |
| 46 | Natural products to drugs: natural product derived compounds in clinical trials | Natural Product Reports | 2005 | 488 |
| 47 | Phloroglucinol compounds of natural origin | Natural Product Reports | 2006 | 486 |
| 48 | Marine natural products | Natural Product Reports | 2002 | 475 |
| 49 | Carotenoids and their cleavage products: Biosynthesis and functions | Natural Product Reports | 2011 | 472 |
| 50 | Natural product and natural product derived drugs in clinical trials | Natural Product Reports | 2014 | 471 |
