| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 2 | New evidences on the altered gut microbiota in autism spectrum disorders | Microbiome | 2017 | 668 |
| 3 | Ecological role and services of tropical mangrove ecosystems: a reassessment | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2014 | 555 |
| 4 | The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe | Nature | 2018 | 503 |
| 5 | Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests | Nature | 2020 | 439 |
| 6 | Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus | Nature | 2017 | 398 |
| 7 | MeDuSa: a multi-draft based scaffolder | Bioinformatics | 2015 | 359 |
| 8 | Force generation by skeletal muscle is controlled by mechanosensing in myosin filaments | Nature | 2015 | 249 |
| 9 | Comparative genome-scale modelling of Staphylococcus aureus strains identifies strain-specific metabolic capabilities linked to pathogenicity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 229 |
| 10 | Tracking the invasion of the alien fruit pest Drosophila suzukii in Europe | Journal of Pest Science | 2014 | 188 |
| 11 | Characterization of cervico-vaginal microbiota in women developing persistent high-risk Human Papillomavirus infection | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 188 |
| 12 | Age and Gender Affect the Composition of Fungal Population of the Human Gastrointestinal Tract | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2016 | 170 |
| 13 | Guidelines and recommendations on yeast cell death nomenclature | Microbial Cell | 2018 | 158 |
| 14 | The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2022 | 138 |
| 15 | Red Listing plants under full national responsibility: Extinction risk and threats in the vascular flora endemic to Italy | Biological Conservation | 2018 | 131 |
| 16 | Impact of microplastics on growth, photosynthesis and essential elements in Cucurbita pepo L. | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2022 | 131 |
| 17 | Mangroves give cause for conservation optimism, for now | Current Biology | 2020 | 127 |
| 18 | Multi -omics and metabolic modelling pipelines: Challenges and tools for systems microbiology | Microbiological Research | 2015 | 125 |
| 19 | Taxonomy of Rhizobiaceae revisited: proposal of a new framework for genus delimitation | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2022 | 125 |
| 20 | An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 115 |
| 21 | The genome of the vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) | Genome Research | 2015 | 114 |
| 22 | Invasive non‐native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 110 |
| 23 | Cell Cycle Control by the Master Regulator CtrA in Sinorhizobium meliloti | PLoS Genetics | 2015 | 105 |
| 24 | Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 102 |
| 25 | Longitudinal Survey of Fungi in the Human Gut: ITS Profiling, Phenotyping, and Colonization | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2019 | 101 |
| 26 | Antibiotics from Deep-Sea Microorganisms: Current Discoveries and Perspectives | Marine Drugs | 2018 | 98 |
| 27 | Ancient genomes reveal a high diversity of Mycobacterium leprae in medieval Europe | PLoS Pathogens | 2018 | 98 |
| 28 | Exploring the evolutionary foundations of empathy: consolation in monkeys | Evolution and Human Behavior | 2014 | 96 |
| 29 | Contemporaneity of Australopithecus , Paranthropus , and early Homo erectus in South Africa | Science | 2020 | 96 |
| 30 | Optical mapping of neuronal activity during seizures in zebrafish | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 95 |
| 31 | Plant microRNAs as novel immunomodulatory agents | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 93 |
| 32 | How ecosystems change following invasion by Robinia pseudoacacia: Insights from soil chemical properties and soil microbial, nematode, microarthropod and plant communities | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 93 |
| 33 | An evaluation for the standardization of theAllium cepatest as cytotoxicity and genotoxicity assay | Caryologia | 2018 | 93 |
| 34 | Preliminary Comparison of Oral and Intestinal Human Microbiota in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Pilot Study | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2017 | 93 |
| 35 | Metagenomic Approaches to Investigate the Contribution of the Vineyard Environment to the Quality of Wine Fermentation: Potentials and Difficulties | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2018 | 90 |
| 36 | Soil Bacterial Community Response to Differences in Agricultural Management along with Seasonal Changes in a Mediterranean Region | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 89 |
| 37 | Worldwide impact of alien parrots (Aves Psittaciformes) on native biodiversity and environment: a review | Ethology Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 88 |
| 38 | Sexual selection and the evolution of behavior, morphology, neuroanatomy and genes in humans and other primates | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2014 | 87 |
| 39 | Ingested microplastic as a two-way transporter for PBDEs in Talitrus saltator | Environmental Research | 2018 | 87 |
| 40 | The number of tree species on Earth | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2022 | 86 |
| 41 | Metabolic modelling reveals the specialization of secondary replicons for niche adaptation in Sinorhizobium meliloti | Nature Communications | 2016 | 85 |
| 42 | Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2022 | 82 |
| 43 | The fast and the flexible: cognitive style drives individual variation in cognition in a small mammal | Animal Behaviour | 2018 | 81 |
| 44 | Soil and plant changing after invasion: The case of Acacia dealbata in a Mediterranean ecosystem | Science of the Total Environment | 2014 | 80 |
| 45 | A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions | Science of the Total Environment | 2021 | 80 |
| 46 | Giant tortoise genomes provide insights into longevity and age-related disease | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 79 |
| 47 | Acquisition and Evolution of SXT-R391 Integrative Conjugative Elements in the Seventh-Pandemic Vibrio cholerae Lineage | MBio | 2014 | 78 |
| 48 | Impact of invasive alien plants on native plant communities and Natura 2000 habitats: State of the art, gap analysis and perspectives in Italy | Journal of Environmental Management | 2020 | 78 |
| 49 | Multidisciplinary approaches for studying rhizobium–legume symbioses | Canadian Journal of Microbiology | 2019 | 77 |
| 50 | A ZZ/ZW microchromosome system in the spiny softshell turtle, Apalone spinifera, reveals an intriguing sex chromosome conservation in Trionychidae | Chromosome Research | 2013 | 75 |
