| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship | Scientific Data | 2016 | 8,670 |
| 2 | MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database | Scientific Data | 2016 | 4,097 |
| 3 | The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes | Scientific Data | 2015 | 3,074 |
| 4 | Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution | Scientific Data | 2018 | 3,005 |
| 5 | Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas | Scientific Data | 2017 | 2,247 |
| 6 | Version 4 of the CRU TS monthly high-resolution gridded multivariate climate dataset | Scientific Data | 2020 | 2,064 |
| 7 | Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features | Scientific Data | 2017 | 1,555 |
| 8 | The HAM10000 dataset, a large collection of multi-source dermatoscopic images of common pigmented skin lesions | Scientific Data | 2018 | 1,426 |
| 9 | TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015 | Scientific Data | 2018 | 1,300 |
| 10 | The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments | Scientific Data | 2016 | 1,038 |
| 11 | Quantum chemistry structures and properties of 134 kilo molecules | Scientific Data | 2014 | 887 |
| 12 | The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe | Scientific Data | 2020 | 830 |
| 13 | China CO2 emission accounts 1997–2015 | Scientific Data | 2018 | 824 |
| 14 | The first high-resolution meteorological forcing dataset for land process studies over China | Scientific Data | 2020 | 712 |
| 15 | The eICU Collaborative Research Database, a freely available multi-center database for critical care research | Scientific Data | 2018 | 677 |
| 16 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 646 |
| 17 | Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds | Scientific Data | 2015 | 642 |
| 18 | Surface energies of elemental crystals | Scientific Data | 2016 | 583 |
| 19 | Extensive sequencing of seven human genomes to characterize benchmark reference materials | Scientific Data | 2016 | 575 |
| 20 | ImmPort, toward repurposing of open access immunological assay data for translational and clinical research | Scientific Data | 2018 | 529 |
| 21 | China CO2 emission accounts 2016–2017 | Scientific Data | 2020 | 527 |
| 22 | The UK-DALE dataset, domestic appliance-level electricity demand and whole-house demand from five UK homes | Scientific Data | 2015 | 522 |
| 23 | WorldPop, open data for spatial demography | Scientific Data | 2017 | 521 |
| 24 | Global terrestrial Human Footprint maps for 1993 and 2009 | Scientific Data | 2016 | 490 |
| 25 | Electromyography data for non-invasive naturally-controlled robotic hand prostheses | Scientific Data | 2014 | 482 |
| 26 | MIMIC-CXR, a de-identified publicly available database of chest radiographs with free-text reports | Scientific Data | 2019 | 477 |
| 27 | The reconstruction of 2,631 draft metagenome-assembled genomes from the global oceans | Scientific Data | 2018 | 449 |
| 28 | The mPower study, Parkinson disease mobile data collected using ResearchKit | Scientific Data | 2016 | 439 |
| 29 | County-level CO2 emissions and sequestration in China during 1997–2017 | Scientific Data | 2020 | 430 |
| 30 | Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II | Scientific Data | 2017 | 422 |
| 31 | A cross-country database of COVID-19 testing | Scientific Data | 2020 | 400 |
| 32 | A suite of global, cross-scale topographic variables for environmental and biodiversity modeling | Scientific Data | 2018 | 394 |
| 33 | Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system | Scientific Data | 2014 | 383 |
| 34 | A curated mammography data set for use in computer-aided detection and diagnosis research | Scientific Data | 2017 | 377 |
| 35 | An open resource for transdiagnostic research in pediatric mental health and learning disorders | Scientific Data | 2017 | 375 |
| 36 | A repository of assays to quantify 10,000 human proteins by SWATH-MS | Scientific Data | 2014 | 370 |
| 37 | Human whole genome genotype and transcriptome data for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases | Scientific Data | 2016 | 361 |
| 38 | Multitask learning and benchmarking with clinical time series data | Scientific Data | 2019 | 360 |
| 39 | A multi-omic atlas of the human frontal cortex for aging and Alzheimer’s disease research | Scientific Data | 2018 | 357 |
| 40 | An open science resource for establishing reliability and reproducibility in functional connectomics | Scientific Data | 2014 | 349 |
| 41 | Global distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010 | Scientific Data | 2018 | 342 |
| 42 | Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index over 1990–2015 | Scientific Data | 2018 | 337 |
| 43 | The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes | Scientific Data | 2019 | 337 |
| 44 | PTB-XL, a large publicly available electrocardiography dataset | Scientific Data | 2020 | 337 |
| 45 | A global moderate resolution dataset of gross primary production of vegetation for 2000–2016 | Scientific Data | 2017 | 335 |
| 46 | Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data | Scientific Data | 2015 | 330 |
| 47 | Parallel genome-scale loss of function screens in 216 cancer cell lines for the identification of context-specific genetic dependencies | Scientific Data | 2014 | 328 |
| 48 | The Mount Sinai cohort of large-scale genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data in Alzheimer's disease | Scientific Data | 2018 | 320 |
| 49 | Brain Genomics Superstruct Project initial data release with structural, functional, and behavioral measures | Scientific Data | 2015 | 318 |
| 50 | Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna | Scientific Data | 2015 | 318 |
