| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple | Physical Review Letters | 1996 | 157,044 |
| 2 | Accurate and simple analytic representation of the electron-gas correlation energy | Physical Review B | 1992 | 22,081 |
| 3 | Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation | Physical Review B | 1992 | 19,217 |
| 4 | Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systems | Physical Review B | 1981 | 18,412 |
| 5 | Density-functional approximation for the correlation energy of the inhomogeneous electron gas | Physical Review B | 1986 | 16,966 |
| 6 | Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces | Physical Review Letters | 2008 | 8,139 |
| 7 | Global burden of hypertension: analysis of worldwide data | Lancet, The | 2005 | 6,235 |
| 8 | Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids | Physical Review Letters | 2003 | 5,673 |
| 9 | Generalized gradient approximation for the exchange-correlation hole of a many-electron system | Physical Review B | 1996 | 5,433 |
| 10 | Rationale for mixing exact exchange with density functional approximations | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1996 | 4,987 |
| 11 | A Randomized Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control | New England Journal of Medicine | 2015 | 4,880 |
| 12 | Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019 | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2020 | 4,468 |
| 13 | Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survival | Nature Medicine | 2004 | 4,442 |
| 14 | The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine | 2020 | 3,871 |
| 15 | Accurate and simple density functional for the electronic exchange energy: Generalized gradient approximation | Physical Review B | 1986 | 3,693 |
| 16 | Prednisone plus cabazitaxel or mitoxantrone for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer progressing after docetaxel treatment: a randomised open-label trial | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,857 |
| 17 | Mycotoxins | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2003 | 2,772 |
| 18 | Density-Functional Theory for Fractional Particle Number: Derivative Discontinuities of the Energy | Physical Review Letters | 1982 | 2,573 |
| 19 | Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis | Lancet, The | 2010 | 2,498 |
| 20 | Global burden of obesity in 2005 and projections to 2030 | International Journal of Obesity | 2008 | 2,490 |
| 21 | Classification of chronic hepatitis: Diagnosis, grading and staging | Hepatology | 1994 | 2,456 |
| 22 | Tree allometry and improved estimation of carbon stocks and balance in tropical forests | Oecologia | 2005 | 2,346 |
| 23 | Global Disparities of Hypertension Prevalence and Control | Circulation | 2016 | 2,345 |
| 24 | Prevalence and Control of Diabetes in Chinese Adults | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2013 | 2,335 |
| 25 | The surface and materials science of tin oxide | Progress in Surface Science | 2005 | 2,173 |
| 26 | Comparative assessment of a new nonempirical density functional: Molecules and hydrogen-bonded complexes | Journal of Chemical Physics | 2003 | 2,157 |
| 27 | The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 | Nature | 2015 | 2,140 |
| 28 | Physical Content of the Exact Kohn-Sham Orbital Energies: Band Gaps and Derivative Discontinuities | Physical Review Letters | 1983 | 2,105 |
| 29 | The Role of Emotions in Marketing | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | 1999 | 2,063 |
| 30 | The Relation of Overweight to Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Children and Adolescents: The Bogalusa Heart Study | Pediatrics | 1999 | 1,962 |
| 31 | Application of chitosan-based polysaccharide biomaterials in cartilage tissue engineering: a review | Biomaterials | 2000 | 1,831 |
| 32 | Spin-dependent tunneling conductance ofFe|MgO|Fesandwiches | Physical Review B | 2001 | 1,791 |
| 33 | Mortality prediction with a single general self-rated health question | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2006 | 1,744 |
| 34 | Prophylaxis versus Episodic Treatment to Prevent Joint Disease in Boys with Severe Hemophilia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 1,681 |
| 35 | Universal variational functionals of electron densities, first-order density matrices, and natural spin-orbitals and solution of the v-representability problem | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1979 | 1,678 |
| 36 | Chimpanzees: Self-Recognition | Science | 1970 | 1,567 |
| 37 | The global epidemiology of hypertension | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2020 | 1,530 |
| 38 | Validation of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome | Sleep Medicine | 2003 | 1,488 |
| 39 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 40 | Fungal secondary metabolism — from biochemistry to genomics | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2005 | 1,425 |
| 41 | THE CORE SELF-EVALUATIONS SCALE: DEVELOPMENT OF A MEASURE | Personnel Psychology | 2003 | 1,397 |
| 42 | Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Blood Pressure | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2002 | 1,374 |
| 43 | A systematic analysis of global anemia burden from 1990 to 2010 | Blood | 2014 | 1,371 |
| 44 | Prednisone, Azathioprine, andN-Acetylcysteine for Pulmonary Fibrosis | New England Journal of Medicine | 2012 | 1,353 |
| 45 | Olaparib for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 2020 | 1,327 |
| 46 | Correlation hole of the spin-polarized electron gas, with exact small-wave-vector and high-density scaling | Physical Review B | 1991 | 1,315 |
| 47 | Zidovudine in Asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection | New England Journal of Medicine | 1990 | 1,312 |
| 48 | Ownership structure and voting on antitakeover amendments | Journal of Financial Economics | 1988 | 1,278 |
| 49 | Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus | Nature | 2005 | 1,272 |
| 50 | Do Brokerage Analysts' Recommendations Have Investment Value? | Journal of Finance | 1996 | 1,261 |
