| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation | Science | 2006 | 4,472 |
| 2 | Evolution of indirect reciprocity | Nature | 2005 | 2,220 |
| 3 | Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer | Nature | 2010 | 2,184 |
| 4 | Representations of Coxeter groups and Hecke algebras | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1979 | 1,166 |
| 5 | The evolution of eusociality | Nature | 2010 | 1,083 |
| 6 | Human cooperation | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2013 | 994 |
| 7 | Invariants of 3-manifolds via link polynomials and quantum groups | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1991 | 940 |
| 8 | Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games | Science | 2004 | 912 |
| 9 | Commutative Algebra | Graduate Texts in Mathematics | 1960 | 829 |
| 10 | Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukaemia | Nature | 2005 | 795 |
| 11 | Accumulation of driver and passenger mutations during tumor progression | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 742 |
| 12 | Winners don’t punish | Nature | 2008 | 653 |
| 13 | Via Freedom to Coercion: The Emergence of Costly Punishment | Science | 2007 | 628 |
| 14 | On the heat equation and the index theorem | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1973 | 620 |
| 15 | Proof of the Ergodic Theorem | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1931 | 601 |
| 16 | Real homotopy theory of K�hler manifolds | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1975 | 594 |
| 17 | Recovering three-dimensional shape around a corner using ultrafast time-of-flight imaging | Nature Communications | 2012 | 510 |
| 18 | Rational isogenies of prime degree | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1978 | 509 |
| 19 | Algebraic Geometry | Graduate Texts in Mathematics | 1992 | 507 |
| 20 | On the modularity of elliptic curves over $\mathbf {Q}$: Wild $3$-adic exercises | Journal of the American Mathematical Society | 2001 | 475 |
| 21 | Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Surface Mapping | IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging | 2004 | 457 |
| 22 | Critical Phenomena on Fractal Lattices | Physical Review Letters | 1980 | 408 |
| 23 | p-adic Numbers, p-adic Analysis, and Zeta-Functions | Graduate Texts in Mathematics | 1977 | 405 |
| 24 | Evolutionary dynamics in structured populations | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 392 |
| 25 | Class fields of abelian extensions of Q | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1984 | 373 |
| 26 | Conformally flat manifolds, Kleinian groups and scalar curvature | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1988 | 357 |
| 27 | Multiparameter quantum groups and twisted quasitriangular Hopf algebras | Letters in Mathematical Physics | 1990 | 354 |
| 28 | Rational points of abelian varieties with values in towers of number fields | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1972 | 342 |
| 29 | Relations between K2 and Galois cohomology | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1976 | 341 |
| 30 | Stringy cosmic strings and noncompact Calabi-Yau manifolds | Nuclear Physics B | 1990 | 334 |
| 31 | Imitation dynamics of vaccination behaviour on social networks | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2011 | 326 |
| 32 | Only three driver gene mutations are required for the development of lung and colorectal cancers | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 325 |
| 33 | Evolutionary dynamics on any population structure | Nature | 2017 | 324 |
| 34 | Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for costly punishment | Nature | 2009 | 320 |
| 35 | Proof of the Deligne-Langlands conjecture for Hecke algebras | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1987 | 313 |
| 36 | Onp-adic analogues of the conjectures of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1986 | 305 |
| 37 | The Hausdorff dimension of general Sierpiński carpets | Nagoya Mathematical Journal | 1984 | 303 |
| 38 | Intersection theory on algebraic stacks and on their moduli spaces | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1989 | 288 |
| 39 | Clonal evolution in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia developing resistance to BTK inhibition | Nature Communications | 2016 | 285 |
| 40 | Mirror symmetry, mirror map and applications to Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces | Communications in Mathematical Physics | 1995 | 278 |
| 41 | Synergy and discounting of cooperation in social dilemmas | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2006 | 273 |
| 42 | On a theorem of Castelnuovo, and the equations defining space curves | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1983 | 267 |
| 43 | A rigorous theory of finite-size scaling at first-order phase transitions | Journal of Statistical Physics | 1990 | 260 |
| 44 | On the equations defining abelian varieties. I | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1966 | 257 |
| 45 | The arithmetic of elliptic curves | Inventiones Mathematicae | 1974 | 256 |
| 46 | Emotions as infectious diseases in a large social network: the SISa model | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2010 | 253 |
| 47 | Predicting the outcomes of treatment to eradicate the latent reservoir for HIV-1 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 249 |
| 48 | On Witten's proof of the positive energy theorem | Communications in Mathematical Physics | 1982 | 245 |
| 49 | Generic nonsinusoidal phase error correction for three-dimensional shape measurement using a digital video projector | Applied Optics | 2007 | 243 |
| 50 | Families of rationally connected varieties | Journal of the American Mathematical Society | 2002 | 242 |
