| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 5,072 |
| 2 | Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 3,471 |
| 3 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 4 | Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 2,833 |
| 5 | Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon | Nature | 2005 | 2,489 |
| 6 | The advantages and disadvantages of being polyploid | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2005 | 1,950 |
| 7 | The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi – recent updates and future perspectives | New Phytologist | 2010 | 1,563 |
| 8 | A framework for community interactions under climate change | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 1,076 |
| 9 | Predicting organismal vulnerability to climate warming: roles of behaviour, physiology and adaptation | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2012 | 1,049 |
| 10 | The aerodynamics of insect flight | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2003 | 1,012 |
| 11 | Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish | ISME Journal | 2011 | 990 |
| 12 | Reproduction and Resistance to Stress: When and How | Journal of Neuroendocrinology | 2003 | 959 |
| 13 | Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 906 |
| 14 | Stress tolerance in plants via habitat-adapted symbiosis | ISME Journal | 2008 | 887 |
| 15 | The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 885 |
| 16 | The Selaginella Genome Identifies Genetic Changes Associated with the Evolution of Vascular Plants | Science | 2011 | 794 |
| 17 | Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals | Science | 2008 | 788 |
| 18 | Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate | Science | 2018 | 764 |
| 19 | Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 747 |
| 20 | Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming | Nature | 2010 | 729 |
| 21 | Actions of glucocorticoids at a seasonal baseline as compared to stress-related levels in the regulation of periodic life processes | General and Comparative Endocrinology | 2006 | 707 |
| 22 | Science of science | Science | 2018 | 701 |
| 23 | Allele substitution at a flower colour locus produces a pollinator shift in monkeyflowers | Nature | 2003 | 700 |
| 24 | Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 700 |
| 25 | Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology | Science | 2011 | 673 |
| 26 | RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis | Bioinformatics | 2006 | 652 |
| 27 | Normal table of postembryonic zebrafish development: Staging by externally visible anatomy of the living fish | Developmental Dynamics | 2009 | 651 |
| 28 | The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity | Nature | 2009 | 642 |
| 29 | Behavioral Drive versus Behavioral Inertia in Evolution: A Null Model Approach | American Naturalist | 2003 | 617 |
| 30 | An information-theoretic framework for resolving community structure in complex networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 611 |
| 31 | The map equation | European Physical Journal: Special Topics | 2009 | 593 |
| 32 | Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and math | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 591 |
| 33 | Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa | American Journal of Botany | 2011 | 590 |
| 34 | Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 587 |
| 35 | Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Adaptation to Serpentine Soils | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2005 | 580 |
| 36 | The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 562 |
| 37 | Stomatal Patterning and Differentiation by Synergistic Interactions of Receptor Kinases | Science | 2005 | 554 |
| 38 | Climate change tightens a metabolic constraint on marine habitats | Science | 2015 | 547 |
| 39 | The utility of single nucleotide polymorphisms in inferences of population history | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 544 |
| 40 | Genomewide Nonadditive Gene Regulation in Arabidopsis Allotetraploids | Genetics | 2006 | 527 |
| 41 | Spectrum of Chemically Induced Mutations From a Large-Scale Reverse-Genetic Screen in Arabidopsis | Genetics | 2003 | 512 |
| 42 | Photoperiodic Flowering: Time Measurement Mechanisms in Leaves | Annual Review of Plant Biology | 2015 | 499 |
| 43 | Flexural stiffness in insect wings I. Scaling and the influence of wing venation | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2003 | 491 |
| 44 | Termination of asymmetric cell division and differentiation of stomata | Nature | 2007 | 490 |
| 45 | Flowering time regulation: photoperiod- and temperature-sensing in leaves | Trends in Plant Science | 2013 | 490 |
| 46 | Zebrafish in The Wild: A Review of Natural History And New Notes from The Field | Zebrafish | 2007 | 478 |
| 47 | Insights into the molecular basis of the hormonal control of molting and metamorphosis from Manduca sexta and Drosophila melanogaster | Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2003 | 474 |
| 48 | Mapping Change in Large Networks | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 474 |
| 49 | The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases | Nature | 2003 | 473 |
| 50 | Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness | Science | 2011 | 463 |
