| The microbial engines that drive Earth's biogeochemical cycles | Science | 2008 | 1.6K |
| Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 620 |
| Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within Earth | Science | 2008 | 344 |
| The nano-mechanical signature of Ultra High Performance Concrete by statistical nanoindentation techniques | Cement and Concrete Research | 2008 | 323 |
| Laboratory Investigation of Mean Drag in a Random Array of Rigid, Emergent Cylinders | Journal of Hydraulic Engineering | 2008 | 294 |
| Nanomechanics of collagen fibrils under varying cross-link densities: atomistic and continuum studies | Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials | 2008 | 269 |
| Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 267 |
| Flow and transport in channels with submerged vegetation | Acta Geophysica | 2008 | 206 |
| Geometric confinement governs the rupture strength of H-bond assemblies at a critical length scale | Nano Letters | 2008 | 183 |
| Vegetation-hydrology dynamics in complex terrain of semiarid areas: 1. A mechanistic approach to modeling dynamic feedbacks | Water Resources Research | 2008 | 162 |
| Photosynthetic control of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide during the growing season | Science | 2008 | 151 |
| Conservation of the chitin utilization pathway in the Vibrionaceae | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 149 |
| Theoretical and computational hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Deformation and fracture | Progress in Materials Science | 2008 | 144 |
| Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination | Operations Research | 2008 | 140 |
| Lateral dispersion in random cylinder arrays at high Reynolds number | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 2008 | 123 |
| A vortex-based model of velocity and shear stress in a partially vegetated shallow channel | Water Resources Research | 2008 | 118 |
| The challenge of regulation in a minimal photoautotroph: non-coding RNAs in Prochlorococcus | PLoS Genetics | 2008 | 112 |
| History matching with an ensemble Kalman filter and discrete cosine parameterization | Computational Geosciences | 2008 | 108 |
| Investigation of the strain transfer for surface-attached optical fiber strain sensors | Smart Materials and Structures | 2008 | 94 |
| Genomic patterns of recombination, clonal divergence and environment in marine microbial populations | ISME Journal | 2008 | 92 |
| Phylogenetic analyses of ribosomal DNA-containing bacterioplankton genome fragments from a 4000 m vertical profile in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 91 |
| Pore pressure penetrometers document high overpressure near the seafloor where multiple submarine landslides have occurred on the continental slope, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 91 |
| Portal protein diversity and phage ecology | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 87 |
| The genome of the versatile nitrogen fixer Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 | BMC Genomics | 2008 | 87 |
| Experimental verification of the behavioral foundation of bacterial transport parameters using microfluidics | Biophysical Journal | 2008 | 74 |
