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| 1 | Linking to journal articles in an online teaching environment: The persistent link, DOI, and OpenURL | 11,566 | -4,000 |
| 2 | An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III | 4,375 | +172 |
| 3 | A new look at the ventral nerve centre of Sagitta: implications for the phylogenetic position of Chaetognatha (arrow worms) and the evolution of the b... | 3,300 | -800 |
| 4 | MusicBrainz: a semantic Web service | 2,700 | -450 |
| 5 | AIDS — The First 20 Years | 2,300 | -1,900 |
| 6 | The Evolution of Eyes | 2,200 | +1,300 |
| 7 | A butterfly eye’s view of birds | 2,200 | +1,300 |
| 8 | PubMed Central: The GenBank of the published literature | 1,957 | -314 |
| 9 | UKPMC: a full text article resource for the life sciences | 1,957 | -314 |
| 10 | Neocortical glial cell numbers in human brains | 1,800 | -1,200 |
| 11 | The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism and Formalism | 1,777 | +322 |
| 12 | The Royal Library of the NetherlandsGeschiedenis der Koninklijke Bibliotheek. L. Brummel | 1,733 | +100 |
| 13 | Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land | 1,700 | +334 |
| 14 | Suicide | 1,700 | -200 |
| 15 | New Euthycarcinoids and an Enigmatic Arthropod from the British Coal Measures | 1,700 | +300 |
| 16 | An Approach toward a Rational Classification of Climate | 1,650 | -350 |
| 17 | Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D. | 1,600 | -246 |
| 18 | Report from the Field: PubMed Central, an XML-based Archive of Life Sciences Journal Articles | 1,571 | -1,000 |
| 19 | Applications and societal benefits of plastics | 1,484 | -166 |
| 20 | Prokaryotic photosynthesis and phototrophy illuminated | 1,400 | -800 |
| 21 | The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists | 1,380 | -559 |
| 22 | A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) II: An update and a comparison of two 2015 classifications | 1,279 | -343 |
| 23 | Federalism and Representation in the Theory of the Founding Fathers: A Comparative Study of U.S. and Canadian Constitutional Thought | 1,271 | -236 |
| 24 | Eukaryote kingdoms: Seven or nine? | 1,260 | -570 |
| 25 | An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV | 1,242 | -443 |
| 26 | Green algae and the origin of land plants | 1,216 | -566 |
| 27 | Panthera tigris: Goodrich, J., Lynam, A., Miquelle, D., Wibisono, H., Kawanishi, K., Pattanavibool, A., Htun, S., Tempa, T., Karki, J., Jhala, Y. & Ka... | 1,200 | 0 |
| 28 | Joseph John Thomson, 1856 - 1940 | 1,200 | +500 |
| 29 | The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase | 1,123 | -519 |
| 30 | Enrico Fermi, 1901-1954 | 1,100 | +300 |
| 31 | Erwin Schrödinger, 1887-1961 | 1,100 | 0 |
| 32 | A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae) | 1,087 | -335 |
| 33 | Thermodynamics of black holes | 1,066 | -34 |
| 34 | Misconceptions and Complexities in the Study of China’s Cities: Definitions, Statistics, and Implications | 1,057 | -406 |
| 35 | Integrated Analyses Resolve Conflicts over Squamate Reptile Phylogeny and Reveal Unexpected Placements for Fossil Taxa | 1,000 | -900 |
| 36 | The authorship of higher chordate taxa | 1,000 | +100 |
| 37 | The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution | 1,000 | +600 |
| 38 | The age of the Earth in the twentieth century: a problem (mostly) solved | 990 | -2,146 |
| 39 | How Many Species Are There on Earth? | 990 | -2,146 |
| 40 | Atmospheric pressure as a natural climate regulator for a terrestrial planet with a biosphere | 990 | -2,146 |
| 41 | Time Tree of Rubiaceae: Phylogeny and Dating the Family, Subfamilies, and Tribes | 947 | -68 |
| 42 | Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals | 937 | +631 |
| 43 | A Review of Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Rubiaceae1 | 914 | -67 |
| 44 | Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 66 | 900 | -750 |
| 45 | Amorphophallus titanum: Yuzammi, Hadiah, J.T. | 800 | +500 |
| 46 | Niels Henrik David Bohr, 1885-1962 | 800 | -400 |
| 47 | Curitiba (Myrtaceae): A new genus from the Planalto of southern Brazil | 800 | -400 |
| 48 | Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia | 764 | -106 |
| 49 | Upper mantle structure beneath the Caribbean-South American plate boundary from surface wave tomography | 750 | -850 |
| 50 | Towards a working list of all known plant species | 729 | +125 |
| 51 | The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes | 722 | +211 |
| 52 | NET NEWS: Calling All Taxonomists | 716 | -17 |
| 53 | Species list reaches half-million mark | 716 | -17 |
| 54 | Time for a change | 703 | -20 |
| 55 | The Depth of the Surface Zone of a Liquid | 700 | -25 |
| 56 | The origin and early evolution of birds: discoveries, disputes, and perspectives from fossil evidence | 700 | -750 |
| 57 | The history of early bee diversification based on five genes plus morphology | 700 | -800 |
| 58 | On The Nomenclature Of Domestic Animals | 700 | -400 |
| 59 | Development and Application of Piezoelectric Materials for Ultrasound Generation and Detection | 700 | -1,000 |
| 60 | The divisions and classes of plants | 683 | -67 |
| 61 | THE TAXA OF THE HIGHER PLANTS ABOVE THE RANK OF ORDER | 683 | -67 |
| 62 | Reorganization of the western Himalayan river system after five million years ago | 600 | -66 |
| 63 | Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the Western Himalaya and Karakoram | 600 | -66 |
| 64 | Crustal reworking at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan: Metamorphic consequences of thermal-mechanical coupling facilitated by erosion | 600 | -66 |
| 65 | Science, Systems, and Society | 600 | -325 |
| 66 | Micropholis casiquiarensis: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 600 | +400 |
| 67 | Barrier Function of the Skin: “La Raison d’Être” of the Epidermis | 575 | -100 |
| 68 | SNAC: The Social Networks and Archival Context project - Towards an archival authority cooperative | 571 | -114 |
| 69 | “This Hemisphere” | 566 | +216 |
| 70 | Synthesis of the Elements in Stars | 550 | -175 |
| 71 | Maxwell’s grand unification | 550 | +125 |
| 72 | What’s in a Name? A Survey of Roman Onomastic Practice from c. 700 B.C. to A.D. 700 | 550 | -100 |
| 73 | A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns | 545 | +29 |
| 74 | Plant names for the 21st century: the International Plant Names Index, a distributed data source of general accessibility | 541 | +50 |
| 75 | Phylogenetic relationships within the Gentianales based on NDHF and RBCL sequences, with particular reference to the Loganiaceae | 533 | +433 |
| 76 | A revised six-kingdom system of life | 511 | +67 |
| 77 | Meiofaunal deuterostomes from the basal Cambrian of Shaanxi (China) | 500 | +300 |
| 78 | The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records | 500 | +50 |
| 79 | Vatica coriacea: Ashton, P. | 500 | +300 |
| 80 | The Monarchy and the Constitution | 466 | +33 |
| 81 | IGU regional conference on environment and quality of life in central Europe | 462 | +194 |
| 82 | Primate evolution at the DNA level and a classification of hominoids | 456 | -37 |
| 83 | Understanding the symptoms of the common cold and influenza | 450 | 0 |
| 84 | Phylogenomics reveals a new ‘megagroup’ including most photosynthetic eukaryotes | 450 | +150 |
| 85 | Cross-border externalities and cooperation among representative democracies | 450 | -200 |
| 86 | THE ZOLLVEREIN | 438 | -66 |
| 87 | A classification for extant ferns | 436 | +54 |
| 88 | Felsic highland crust on Venus suggested by Galileo Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer data | 425 | -275 |
| 89 | Where Is the Middle East? | 420 | -114 |
| 90 | USDA’s National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program: Food Sampling | 420 | -39 |
| 91 | Willi Henning’s Impact on Taxonomic Thought | 420 | -20 |
| 92 | The Three Types of Evolutionary Process | 420 | -20 |
| 93 | Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive And Mixed Authority Patterns | 409 | -31 |
| 94 | Chanos chanos: Freyhof, J., Sparks, J.S., Kaymaram, F., Feary, D., Bishop, J., Al-Husaini, M., Almukhtar, M., Hartmann, S., Alam, S. & Al-Khalaf, K. | 400 | -100 |
| 95 | Biography: Leonhard Euler | 400 | +25 |
| 96 | Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 1858-1947 | 400 | -200 |
| 97 | David Hilbert 1862-1943 | 400 | +40 |
| 98 | Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the Mid-Holocene | 400 | -120 |
| 99 | Magnetostratigraphy and geochronology of the Hell Creek and basal Fort Union Formations of southwestern North Dakota and a recalibration of the age of... | 400 | +250 |
| 100 | Phylogenetics and reticulate evolution inPistacia(Anacardiaceae) | 400 | +200 |
| 101 | Homo sapiens: Global Mammal Assessment Team | 400 | +67 |
| 102 | Campomanesia aromatica: Pires O’Brien, J. | 400 | +300 |
| 103 | Campomanesia phaea: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 400 | +100 |
| 104 | New Drugs of Abuse | 400 | +200 |
| 105 | From Kratom to mitragynine and its derivatives: Physiological and behavioural effects related to use, abuse, and addiction | 400 | +200 |
| 106 | Neomitranthes langsdorfii: Pires O’Brien, J. | 400 | +400 |
| 107 | Few fishy facts found in climate report | 396 | -114 |
| 108 | Tracing back EFL gene evolution in the cryptomonads–haptophytes assemblage: Separate origins of EFL genes in haptophytes, photosynthetic cryptomonads,... | 388 | +222 |
| 109 | Prokaryotes: The unseen majority | 388 | +222 |
| 110 | The microfossil record of early land plants: advances in understanding of early terrestrialization, 1970-1984 | 381 | -28 |
| 111 | Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana) | 381 | -28 |
| 112 | Embryopsida , a new name for the class of land plants | 381 | -28 |
| 113 | ON THE HIGHER TAXA OF EMBRYOBIONTA | 381 | -28 |
| 114 | New Concepts of Kingdoms of Organisms | 381 | -28 |
| 115 | Whittaker’s Five Kingdoms of Organisms: Minor Revisions Suggested by Considerations of the Origin of Mitosis | 381 | -28 |
| 116 | Gaps and opportunities for the World Heritage Convention to contribute to global wilderness conservation | 377 | -289 |
| 117 | New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins | 375 | -310 |
| 118 | The Disease of Addiction: Origins, Treatment, and Recovery | 375 | -175 |
| 119 | The Definition of Alcoholism | 375 | -175 |
| 120 | Addictive Behaviors: Etiology and Treatment | 375 | -175 |
| 121 | Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae) | 374 | -17 |
| 122 | Alan Mathison Turing, 1912-1954 | 366 | -300 |
| 123 | Dipterocarpus alatus: Ly, V., Nanthavong, K., Pooma, R., Barstow, M., Luu, H.T., Khou, E. & Newman, M. | 360 | +320 |
| 124 | An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II | 353 | -81 |
| 125 | Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups" | 350 | +150 |
| 126 | Meteoromyrtus wynaadensis: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 350 | +350 |
| 127 | Low host specificity of herbivorous insects in a tropical forest | 333 | -17 |
| 128 | Beneficial Effects of Green Tea—A Review | 325 | -300 |
| 129 | Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks | 315 | +53 |
| 130 | Guidelines for nonsexist use of language. | 314 | +157 |
| 131 | Guidelines for nonsexist language in APA journals. | 314 | +157 |
| 132 | Multilingualism and Nation Building: Language and Education in Eritrea | 312 | -238 |
| 133 | Ipomoea aquatica: Gupta, A.K. | 300 | -300 |
| 134 | Two empires or three? | 300 | -50 |
| 135 | Protists push animals aside in rule revamp | 300 | 0 |
| 136 | Genetic divergence in four species of the genus Raphanus: Implications for the ancestry of the domestic radish R. sativus | 300 | -500 |
| 137 | Jean Baptiste Perrin, 1870 - 1942 | 300 | +100 |
| 138 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | 300 | +100 |
| 139 | Mercury and methylmercury contents in mine-waste calcine, water, and sediment collected from the Palawan Quicksilver Mine, Philippines | 300 | +225 |
| 140 | Palaquium philippense: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 300 | +200 |
| 141 | Calycorectes schottianus: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | +200 |
| 142 | Brachyotum confertum: Cotton, E. & Pitman, N. | 300 | +200 |
| 143 | Brachyotum gracilescens: Cotton, E. & Pitman, N. | 300 | +200 |
| 144 | Miconia castrensis: Cotton, E. & Pitman, N. | 300 | +200 |
| 145 | Mimusops acutifolia: Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. | 300 | +200 |
| 146 | Myrceugenia franciscensis: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | -300 |
| 147 | Myrceugenia scutellata: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | -400 |
| 148 | Eugenia singampattiana: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 300 | -100 |
| 149 | Myrciaria pliniodes: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | +300 |
| 150 | Myrciaria silveirana: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | +300 |
| 151 | Neomitranthes cordifolia: Pires O’Brien, J. | 300 | +300 |
| 152 | Rooting the Domain Archaea by Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Foundation of the New Kingdom Proteoarchaeota | 283 | 0 |
| 153 | The Neomuran Revolution and Phagotrophic Origin of Eukaryotes and Cilia in the Light of Intracellular Coevolution and a Revised Tree of Life | 283 | 0 |
| 154 | Overcoming Deep Roots, Fast Rates, and Short Internodes to Resolve the Ancient Rapid Radiation of Eupolypod II Ferns | 282 | +6 |
| 155 | Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution | 275 | 0 |
| 156 | Rising Gender Inequality in Vietnam Since Reunification | 273 | -116 |
| 157 | A revised evolutionary history of Poales: origins and diversification | 271 | +57 |
| 158 | Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth’s earliest forest stumps at Gilboa | 266 | -34 |
| 159 | Towards Resolving the Complete Fern Tree of Life | 265 | -9 |
| 160 | Timor-Leste: Divided Leadership in a Semi-Presidential System | 260 | -6 |
| 161 | Monophyly of Rhizaria and Multigene Phylogeny of Unicellular Bikonts | 258 | -67 |
| 162 | The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments | 257 | -214 |
| 163 | The Taming of the Cat | 255 | -145 |
| 164 | Vocalizing in the House-Cat; A Phonetic and Functional Study | 255 | -145 |
| 165 | Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland | 255 | +33 |
| 166 | Further investigations of random models of Uranus and Neptune | 253 | -98 |
| 167 | Benemar v. Embassy of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria; AND Socalist Peoples’ Libyan Jama Hiriya v. Rossbeton S.R.L. 72 | 250 | -75 |
| 168 | Rediscovering an Ancient Poem to Save a Tidal Flat | 250 | -116 |
| 169 | Pinus kesiya: Farjon, A. | 250 | +184 |
| 170 | Mystery Solved: The Identification of the Two Missing Romanov Children Using DNA Analysis | 250 | +50 |
| 171 | Higher level phylogenetic relationships within the bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) based on five plastid markers | 250 | -150 |
| 172 | Does Biology Need an Organism Concept? | 246 | -30 |
| 173 | Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution | 242 | +36 |
| 174 | Rainfall variability in Northern Tanzania in the March-May season (long rains) and its links to large-scale climate forcing | 234 | -161 |
| 175 | Guglielmo Marconi - The father of long distance radio communication - An engineer’s tribute | 233 | +33 |
| 176 | Sir J.C. Bose diode detector received Marconi’s first transatlantic wireless signal of December 1901 (the "Italian Navy Coherer" Scandal Revisited) | 233 | +33 |
| 177 | Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, 8 August 1902 - 20 October 1984 | 233 | -133 |
| 178 | OSL dating of quaternary deposits associated with the parietal art of the Tassili-n-Ajjer plateau (Central Sahara) | 231 | -45 |
| 179 | Rosid radiation and the rapid rise of angiosperm-dominated forests | 221 | -322 |
| 180 | Highest Treeline in the Northern Hemisphere Found in Southern Tibet | 216 | +16 |
| 181 | Subtropical mountain- and highland-glaciation as ice age triggers and the waning of the glacial periods in the pleistocene | 216 | +16 |
| 182 | The Maximum Ice Age (Würmian, Last Ice Age, LGM) Glaciation of the Himalaya – A Glaciogeomorphological Investigation of Glacier Trim-lines, Ice Thickn... | 216 | +16 |
| 183 | The dynamics of linguistic diversity: egalitarian multilingualism and power imbalance among northern Vanuatu languages | 216 | -50 |
| 184 | How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean? | 216 | -167 |
| 185 | The biology of Canadian weeds. 142. Camelina alyssum (Mill.) Thell.; C. microcarpa Andrz. ex DC.; C. sativa (L.) Crantz. | 216 | -17 |
| 186 | Proposal for a unified nomenclature for target-site mutations associated with resistance to fungicides | 216 | -17 |
| 187 | An Oceanic Origin for Äiwoo, the Language of the Reef Islands? | 213 | +90 |
| 188 | Contesting Isan‐ness: discourses of politics and identity in Northeast Thailand | 210 | -7 |
| 189 | The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) | 210 | +100 |
| 190 | On the companions of argon | 210 | +100 |
| 191 | Comparative models of Uranus and Neptune | 208 | -78 |
| 192 | FIVE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION | 200 | -60 |
| 193 | New constraints on variations of the fine structure constant from CMB anisotropies | 200 | -60 |
| 194 | A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification | 200 | -100 |
| 195 | The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa. | 200 | +100 |
| 196 | Japan and the Asian Development Bank | 200 | -80 |
| 197 | Shorea polysperma: Ashton, P. | 200 | -100 |
| 198 | 10.2305/iucn.uk.1998.rlts.t33108a9756631.en | 200 | +100 |
| 199 | Mangifera foetida: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 200 | 0 |
| 200 | Mangifera hiemalis: World Conservation Monitoring Centre | 200 | +100 |