| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | An introduction to quantum machine learning | Contemporary Physics | 2015 | 592 |
| 2 | Recent developments in biological activities of chalcones: A mini review | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 2014 | 555 |
| 3 | The quest for a Quantum Neural Network | Quantum Information Processing | 2014 | 337 |
| 4 | Dense magnetized plasma associated with a fast radio burst | Nature | 2015 | 297 |
| 5 | Higher-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum-based quantum key distribution with mutually unbiased bases | Physical Review A | 2013 | 264 |
| 6 | Current anti-diabetic agents and their molecular targets: A review | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 2018 | 235 |
| 7 | Characterizing quantum channels with non-separable states of classical light | Nature Physics | 2017 | 218 |
| 8 | Elucidation of photocatalysis, photoluminescence and antibacterial studies of ZnO thin films by spin coating method | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology | 2017 | 218 |
| 9 | Polyhydrido Copper Clusters: Synthetic Advances, Structural Diversity, and Nanocluster-to-Nanoparticle Conversion | Accounts of Chemical Research | 2016 | 217 |
| 10 | Applications of nanocomposite hydrogels for biomedical engineering and environmental protection | Environmental Chemistry Letters | 2018 | 207 |
| 11 | Recent advances (2015–2016) in anticancer hybrids | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 2017 | 205 |
| 12 | Pharmaceutical residues in water and sediment of Msunduzi River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Chemosphere | 2015 | 189 |
| 13 | Prediction by linear regression on a quantum computer | Physical Review A | 2016 | 188 |
| 14 | Occurrence and distribution pattern of acidic pharmaceuticals in surface water, wastewater, and sediment of the Msunduzi River, Kwazulu‐Natal, South Africa | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 2016 | 176 |
| 15 | Pharmaceuticals as emerging organic contaminants in Umgeni River water system, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 2014 | 160 |
| 16 | A review of the current status of graphitic carbon nitride | Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences | 2021 | 160 |
| 17 | Photocatalytic decomposition effect of erbium doped cerium oxide nanostructures driven by visible light irradiation: Investigation of cytotoxicity, antibacterial growth inhibition using catalyst | Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology | 2018 | 155 |
| 18 | Monoliths: A Review of the Basics, Preparation Methods and Their Relevance to Oxidation | Catalysts | 2017 | 152 |
| 19 | A timing constraint on the (total) mass of the Large Magellanic Cloud | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 2015 | 149 |
| 20 | Measuring the nonseparability of vector vortex beams | Physical Review A | 2015 | 146 |
| 21 | The future of quantum biology | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 2018 | 136 |
| 22 | Antiproliferative effects on human lung cell lines A549 activity of cadmium selenide nanoparticles extracted from cytotoxic effects: Investigation of bio-electronic application | Materials Science and Engineering C | 2017 | 133 |
| 23 | Photocatalytic performance and antimicrobial activities of HAp-TiO2 nanocomposite thin films by sol-gel method | Surfaces and Interfaces | 2017 | 128 |
| 24 | Photocatalytic activity of ZrO 2 doped lead dioxide nanocomposites: Investigation of structural and optical microscopy of RhB organic dye | Applied Surface Science | 2017 | 128 |
| 25 | Facile Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Mg–Al Layered Double Hydroxide/Partially Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites for the Effective Removal of Pb2+ from Aqueous Solution | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2017 | 125 |
| 26 | The Current Status of Heterogeneous Palladium Catalysed Heck and Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions | Molecules | 2018 | 123 |
| 27 | The Pharmaceutical Industry in 2019. An Analysis of FDA Drug Approvals from the Perspective of Molecules | Molecules | 2020 | 121 |
| 28 | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: two-season ACTPol spectra and parameters | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2017 | 120 |
| 29 | [Cu32(H)20{S2P(OiPr)2}12]: The Largest Number of Hydrides Recorded in a Molecular Nanocluster by Neutron Diffraction | Chemistry - A European Journal | 2015 | 118 |
| 30 | Shape-Selective Dependence of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism Induced by Hierarchical ZnO Nanostructures | ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | 2014 | 117 |
| 31 | Choosing the Right Coupling Reagent for Peptides: A Twenty-Five-Year Journey | Organic Process Research and Development | 2018 | 108 |
| 32 | Occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals in water and sediment of Umgeni River, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2015 | 107 |
| 33 | Engineering two-photon high-dimensional states through quantum interference | Science Advances | 2016 | 104 |
| 34 | LC-MS/MS determination of antiretroviral drugs in influents and effluents from wastewater treatment plants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Chemosphere | 2018 | 104 |
| 35 | Layered double hydroxide- and graphene-based hierarchical nanocomposites: Synthetic strategies and promising applications in energy conversion and conservation | Nano Research | 2016 | 103 |
| 36 | Photoluminescence of well-aligned ZnO doped CeO2 nanoplatelets by a solvothermal route | Materials Letters | 2016 | 103 |
| 37 | Peptide Therapeutics 2.0 | Molecules | 2020 | 98 |
| 38 | Antiplasmodial natural products: an update | Malaria Journal | 2019 | 97 |
| 39 | Influence of oxidized starch on physicomechanical, thermal properties, and atomic force micrographs of cassava starch bioplastic film | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules | 2019 | 96 |
| 40 | Experimental demonstration of graph-state quantum secret sharing | Nature Communications | 2014 | 95 |
| 41 | A review of cellulose-based substrates for SERS: fundamentals, design principles, applications | Cellulose | 2019 | 95 |
| 42 | The Pharmaceutical Industry in 2018. An Analysis of FDA Drug Approvals from the Perspective of Molecules | Molecules | 2019 | 95 |
| 43 | Adsorption studies of aqueous Pb(II) onto a sugarcane bagasse/multi-walled carbon nanotube composite | Physics and Chemistry of the Earth | 2013 | 94 |
| 44 | Graphene for Thermoelectric Applications: Prospects and Challenges | Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences | 2018 | 94 |
| 45 | The Pharmaceutical Industry in 2017. An Analysis of FDA Drug Approvals from the Perspective of Molecules | Molecules | 2018 | 94 |
| 46 | Effectiveness of carbon nanotube–cobalt ferrite nanocomposites for the adsorption of rhodamine B from aqueous solutions | RSC Advances | 2015 | 92 |
| 47 | Detection and quantification of acidic drug residues in South African surface water using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry | Chemosphere | 2017 | 91 |
| 48 | A search for warm/hot gas filaments between pairs of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2019 | 90 |
| 49 | Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in water and wastewater: a review of treatment processes and use of photocatalyst immobilized on functionalized carbon in AOP degradation | BMC Chemistry | 2020 | 90 |
| 50 | 21 cm limits on decaying dark matter and primordial black holes | Physical Review D | 2018 | 89 |
