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| 1 | Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D. | 79,700 | -217,700 |
| 2 | Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes | 58,600 | -89,800 |
| 3 | The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism | 48,752 | -38,083 |
| 4 | Nominalism and constructivism in seventeenth-century mathematical philosophy | 45,300 | -99,500 |
| 5 | Ambiversion: Characteristics of Midrange Responders on the Introversion-Extraversion Continuum | 32,500 | -19,800 |
| 6 | Observations of Interstellar Formaldehyde | 26,900 | -47,800 |
| 7 | Stimulated Optical Radiation in Ruby | 24,570 | -41,104 |
| 8 | Enhanced translation of a chloroplast-expressed RbcS gene restores small subunit levels and photosynthesis in nuclear RbcS antisense plants | 21,040 | -66,500 |
| 9 | Spectroscopy of superheavy hydrogen isotopes in stopped-pion absorption by nuclei | 20,500 | -50,900 |
| 10 | Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy | 19,537 | -23,925 |
| 11 | Islam, the Mediterranean and the Rise of Capitalism | 18,333 | -45,933 |
| 12 | Molecular phylogeny of the hominoids: inferences from multiple independent DNA sequence data sets | 14,000 | -15,616 |
| 13 | A comprehensive classification system for lipids | 13,850 | -10,250 |
| 14 | SIMS analyses of the oldest known assemblage of microfossils document their taxon-correlated carbon isotope compositions | 13,550 | -15,750 |
| 15 | World’s oldest Homo sapiens fossils found in Morocco | 13,250 | -15,266 |
| 16 | Molecular and Genomic Data Identify the Closest Living Relative of Primates | 13,250 | -15,266 |
| 17 | The proton shrinks in size | 11,300 | -43,140 |
| 18 | THE ATOM AND THE MOLECULE. | 11,300 | -43,140 |
| 19 | What changed during the axial age: Cognitive styles or reward systems? | 10,600 | -14,816 |
| 20 | Faraday’s electrochemical laws and the determination of equivalent weights | 9,200 | -8,900 |
| 21 | Faraday’s laws in one equation | 9,200 | -8,900 |
| 22 | Is the European "pond" turtle Emys orbicularis strictly aquatic and carnivorous? | 7,833 | -11,667 |
| 23 | Relativistic Effects and the Chemistry of the Heavier Main Group Elements | 7,500 | -10,900 |
| 24 | Language planning and French-English bilingual communication: Montreal field studies from 1977 to 1997 | 6,700 | -7,529 |
| 25 | Bradypus torquatus: Chiarello, A. & Moraes-Barros, N. | 6,450 | -31,650 |
| 26 | Cnn Dynamics Drive Centrosome Size Asymmetry to Ensure Daughter Centriole Retention in Drosophila Neuroblasts | 6,000 | -3,700 |
| 27 | Source regions and timescales for the delivery of water to the Earth | 5,775 | -10,800 |
| 28 | What Terrorists Really Want: Terrorist Motives and Counterterrorism Strategy | 5,630 | -9,780 |
| 29 | Observations on the Tasmanian Devil, Sarcophilus harrisii (Marsupialia : Dasyuridae) II. Reproduction, breeding and growth of pouch young | 5,600 | -14,900 |
| 30 | Gender differences in narcissism: A meta-analytic review. | 5,300 | +800 |
| 31 | Plasticizers | 5,200 | -5,250 |
| 32 | Current Production and Metal Oxide Reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Wild Type and Mutants | 5,125 | -15,625 |
| 33 | Cannabinoid Analgesia as a Potential New Therapeutic Option in the Treatment of Chronic Pain | 5,100 | -1,750 |
| 34 | The Caribou/Wild Reindeer as a Human Resource | 4,100 | -9,050 |
| 35 | Quantification of cloud water interception along the windward slope of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos (Ecuador) | 3,971 | -4,886 |
| 36 | The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine | 3,829 | -3,988 |
| 37 | Web search for a planet: the google cluster architecture | 3,829 | -3,988 |
| 38 | Unfolding orthogonal polyhedra | 3,740 | -4,913 |
| 39 | How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise? | 3,720 | -12,099 |
| 40 | Methamphetamine toxicity and messengers of death | 3,720 | -1,840 |
| 41 | Evidence that histidine is an essential amino acid in normal and chronically uremic man. | 3,600 | -4,400 |
| 42 | Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature | 3,576 | -3,308 |
| 43 | Mortality Patterns Suggest Lack of Senescence in Hydra | 3,350 | -10,200 |
| 44 | Declining asexual reproduction is suggestive of senescence in hydra: Comment on Martinez, D., “Mortality patterns suggest lack of senescence in hydra.... | 3,350 | -10,200 |
| 45 | Changes in Serum Levels of Myokines and Wnt-Antagonists after an Ultramarathon Race | 3,088 | -12,856 |
| 46 | The Taiwan Voter | 2,900 | -4,357 |
| 47 | Sleep Paralysis, Sexual Abuse, and Space Alien Abduction | 2,850 | -1,050 |
| 48 | Managing dentin hypersensitivity | 2,800 | -5,900 |
| 49 | Prokaryotic motility structures | 2,789 | -4,523 |
| 50 | Do sex and violence sell? A meta-analytic review of the effects of sexual and violent media and ad content on memory, attitudes, and buying intentions... | 2,757 | -364 |
| 51 | Dietary Fructose Reduces Circulating Insulin and Leptin, Attenuates Postprandial Suppression of Ghrelin, and Increases Triglycerides in Women | 2,714 | -3,628 |
| 52 | The role of fructose in the pathogenesis of NAFLD and the metabolic syndrome | 2,714 | -3,628 |
| 53 | Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study | 2,620 | -1,736 |
| 54 | Using the wayback machine to mine websites in the social sciences: A methodological resource | 2,588 | +1,177 |
| 55 | Preventable Exposures Associated With Human Cancers | 2,500 | 0 |
| 56 | PET bottle use patterns and antimony migration into bottled water and soft drinks: the case of British and Nigerian bottles | 2,380 | -2,180 |
| 57 | Polyethylene Terephthalate May Yield Endocrine Disruptors | 2,380 | -2,180 |
| 58 | Homology-Based Identification of a Mutation in the Coronavirus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase That Confers Resistance to Multiple Mutagens | 2,376 | -5,177 |
| 59 | More Is Different | 2,361 | -5,611 |
| 60 | On Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group | 2,361 | -5,611 |
| 61 | Y Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Variation in Lithuanians | 2,275 | -2,306 |
| 62 | Improved performance of hybrid photovoltaic-trigeneration systems over photovoltaic-cogen systems including effects of battery storage | 2,200 | -1,200 |
| 63 | Simulations of greenhouse gas emission reductions from low-cost hybrid solar photovoltaic and cogeneration systems for new communities | 2,200 | -1,200 |
| 64 | MONTHLY SURVEY OF VITAMIN B12CONCENTRATIONS IN SOME WATERS OF THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT | 2,150 | -1,175 |
| 65 | Vitamin B12 levels in selected insects | 2,150 | -1,175 |
| 66 | Vitamin B12 synthesis by human small intestinal bacteria | 2,150 | -1,175 |
| 67 | Matter-Wave Interferometer for Large Molecules | 2,112 | -7,206 |
| 68 | Lithuania | 2,110 | -20 |
| 69 | Venus as a more Earth-like planet | 2,059 | -5,996 |
| 70 | Management strategies in the treatment of neonatal and pediatric gastroenteritis | 2,026 | -1,760 |
| 71 | Atopic eczema and domestic water hardness | 2,000 | -3,481 |
| 72 | Ecological association of water hardness with prevalence of childhood atopic dermatitis in a Japanese urban area | 2,000 | -3,481 |
| 73 | Dureza del agua de consumo doméstico y prevalencia de eczema atópico en escolares de Castellón, España | 2,000 | -3,481 |
| 74 | Genetic analysis reveals the wild ancestors of the llama and the alpaca | 2,000 | -5,000 |
| 75 | Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions | 2,000 | -2,000 |
| 76 | Phthalic Acid and Derivatives | 1,985 | -357 |
| 77 | Overview of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Systematic Review | 1,980 | -1,120 |
| 78 | Preventing or reducing smoking-related complications in otologic and neurotologic surgery | 1,980 | -1,120 |
| 79 | An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 80 | Turtles as diapsid reptiles | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 81 | Molecular Evidence for a Clade of Turtles | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 82 | Complete mitochondrial genome suggests diapsid affinities of turtles | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 83 | Sister Group Relationship of Turtles to the Bird-Crocodilian Clade Revealed by Nuclear DNA–Coded Proteins | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 84 | Extended mitogenomic phylogenetic analyses yield new insight into crocodylian evolution and their survival of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 85 | From Reptilian Phylogenomics to Reptilian Genomes: Analyses of c-Jun and DJ-1 Proto-Oncogenes | 1,935 | -5,929 |
| 86 | The nuclear envelopathies and human diseases | 1,900 | -4,100 |
| 87 | Restriction Endonuclease | 1,900 | -1,800 |
| 88 | Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing | 1,880 | -200 |
| 89 | Recent Advances in Methamphetamine Neurotoxicity Mechanisms and Its Molecular Pathophysiology | 1,860 | -920 |
| 90 | Bacterial Wall as Target for Attack: Past, Present, and Future Research | 1,859 | -3,015 |
| 91 | LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS | 1,859 | -3,015 |
| 92 | THINKING ABOUT BACTERIAL POPULATIONS AS MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS | 1,859 | -3,015 |
| 93 | Microbial Biofilms | 1,859 | -3,015 |
| 94 | Quantities and units in clinical chemistry: Nebulizer and flame properties in flame emission and absorption spectrometry (Recommendations 1986) | 1,833 | -1,867 |
| 95 | The relation between age, sex, comorbidity, and pharmacotherapy and the risk of syncope: a Danish nationwide study | 1,833 | -1,133 |
| 96 | Characteristics and Admission Patterns of Patients Presenting with Syncope to U.S. Emergency Departments, 1992-2000 | 1,833 | -1,133 |
| 97 | The Powerful Placebo in Cough Studies? | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 98 | Sham device v inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 99 | Placebo and Opioid Analgesia-- Imaging a Shared Neuronal Network | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 100 | Placebos in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and other Rheumatic Conditions | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 101 | Consistency of the placebo effect | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 102 | Is the Placebo Powerless? | 1,809 | -1,227 |
| 103 | International Migration Outlook | 1,800 | +1,800 |
| 104 | Improved Determination of the Neutron Lifetime | 1,800 | -8,900 |
| 105 | Frigatebirds ride high on thermals | 1,800 | +1,400 |
| 106 | Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: The species and its viruses – a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group | 1,747 | -1,157 |
| 107 | The continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China | 1,747 | -1,157 |
| 108 | Ammonium Compounds | 1,733 | -4,033 |
| 109 | Noctilucent clouds as possible indicators of global change in the mesosphere | 1,666 | +783 |
| 110 | Sorbic Acid | 1,658 | -642 |
| 111 | Phylogenetic relationships of the Suidae (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla): new insights on the relationships within Suoidea | 1,611 | -4,333 |
| 112 | Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis ... | 1,603 | -2,070 |
| 113 | Alkali Metal Cyanides | 1,600 | -2,800 |
| 114 | The Ehrlich Pathway for Fusel Alcohol Production: a Century of Research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolism | 1,600 | -900 |
| 115 | Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex | 1,600 | -350 |
| 116 | Neocognitron: A self-organizing neural network model for a mechanism of pattern recognition unaffected by shift in position | 1,600 | -350 |
| 117 | Care for Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 | 1,585 | -1,599 |
| 118 | Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres | 1,566 | -567 |
| 119 | Why so many clustering algorithms | 1,517 | -635 |
| 120 | Hallucinogens and dissociative agents naturally growing in the United States | 1,514 | -157 |
| 121 | Ergoline Alkaloidal Constituents of Hawaiian Baby Wood Rose, Argyreia nervosa (Burm. f.) Bojer | 1,514 | -157 |
| 122 | Argyroside from Argyreia nervosa Seeds. | 1,514 | -157 |
| 123 | Gastroprotective effect of standardized leaf extract from Argyreia speciosa on experimental gastric ulcers in rats | 1,514 | -157 |
| 124 | VILNIAUS TAPATUMO SLUOKSNIAI BRAUNO IR HOGENBERGO ATLASE | 1,510 | +200 |
| 125 | Crystal structure of human chorionic gonadotropin | 1,500 | -100 |
| 126 | Randomized Controlled Trial of Topical Aspirin in the Treatment of Bee and Wasp Stings | 1,462 | -1,144 |
| 127 | Espiritismo in the Puerto Rican Community | 1,450 | +1,450 |
| 128 | Genistin (an Isoflavone Glucoside) and its Aglucone, Genistein, from Soybeans | 1,445 | -106 |
| 129 | Religiousness and depression: Evidence for a main effect and the moderating influence of stressful life events. | 1,438 | -3,085 |
| 130 | Religiosity and Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Recent Studies | 1,438 | -3,085 |
| 131 | Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study | 1,438 | -3,085 |
| 132 | Sexual Orientation and Adolescents | 1,427 | -880 |
| 133 | Estimation of occupational and nonoccupational nitrogen dioxide exposure for Korean taxi drivers using a microenvironmental model | 1,418 | -3,891 |
| 134 | Clonazepam | 1,417 | +12 |
| 135 | Effectiveness and safety of treatments for degenerative ataxias: A systematic review | 1,417 | +12 |
| 136 | Intensive coordinative training improves motor performance in degenerative cerebellar disease | 1,417 | +12 |
| 137 | The structure of Venus’ middle atmosphere and ionosphere | 1,416 | -4,121 |
| 138 | Why can’t planets be like stars? | 1,400 | -2,100 |
| 139 | Survival from rare cancer in adults: a population-based study | 1,391 | -1,528 |
| 140 | Stronger European medical research | 1,391 | -1,528 |
| 141 | How Much Health Insurance Is Enough? Revisiting the Concept of Underinsurance | 1,391 | -1,528 |
| 142 | Firearm-related deaths in the United States and 35 other high- and upper-middle-income countries | 1,391 | -1,528 |
| 143 | Preemptive Defensive Self‐Sacrifice by Ant Workers | 1,390 | -946 |
| 144 | Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-War Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence | 1,380 | -1,070 |
| 145 | The term stromatolite: towards an essential definition | 1,375 | +1,375 |
| 146 | The frustrated science student behind Sci-Hub | 1,348 | -895 |
| 147 | Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone | 1,348 | -895 |
| 148 | Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful | 1,333 | -1,133 |
| 149 | The Stability of a Unipolar World | 1,333 | -1,133 |
| 150 | Dragon’s Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of the Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae) | 1,311 | -3,133 |
| 151 | Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary Nebula | 1,300 | -1,358 |
| 152 | Wave energy in Europe: current status and perspectives | 1,300 | -5,500 |
| 153 | Generation of Optical Harmonics | 1,250 | -775 |
| 154 | Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? Taking Stock in Creativity Research | 1,233 | -1,333 |
| 155 | The Relationship Between Distal and Proximal Colonic Neoplasia: A Meta-Analysis | 1,200 | +367 |
| 156 | Primary gastrointestinal lymphoma | 1,200 | +367 |
| 157 | Phylogeny of the carnivora: Basal relationships among the carnivoramorphans, and assessment of the position of ‘miacoidea’ relative to carnivora | 1,200 | +800 |
| 158 | Assessment of metal contaminations leaching out from recycling plastic bottles upon treatments | 1,190 | -1,090 |
| 159 | Elevated antimony concentrations in commercial juices | 1,190 | -1,090 |
| 160 | The surface of Venus | 1,158 | -3,373 |
| 161 | South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole | 1,158 | -3,373 |
| 162 | A warm layer in Venus’ cryosphere and high-altitude measurements of HF, HCl, H2O and HDO | 1,158 | -3,373 |
| 163 | The Evolutionary Origin And Diversification Of Feathers | 1,107 | -4,069 |
| 164 | Phylogenetic Context for the Origin of Feathers | 1,107 | -4,069 |
| 165 | Perineal swelling, intermenstrual cycle, and female sexual behavior in bonobos (Pan paniscus) | 1,100 | -50 |
| 166 | Mustela sibirica: Abramov, A.V., Duckworth, J.W., Choudhury, A., Chutipong, W., Timmins, R.J., Ghimirey, Y., Chan, B. & Dinets, V. | 1,100 | +100 |
| 167 | The Absent-Minded Founder: Norway and the Establishment of the United Nations | 1,087 | -2,025 |
| 168 | The genomic history of southeastern Europe | 1,085 | -10,470 |
| 169 | Behavioral Study of obedience. | 1,050 | -450 |
| 170 | The Milgram Paradigm After 35 Years: Some Things We Now Know About Obedience to Authority1 | 1,050 | -450 |
| 171 | The University of New South Wales Extrasolar Planet Search: methods and first results from a field centred on NGC 6633 | 1,050 | -1,066 |
| 172 | Rejecting Astrophysical False Positives from the TrES Transiting Planet Survey: The Example of GSC 03885−00829 | 1,050 | -1,066 |
| 173 | Potassium sorbate reduces gastric colonization in patients receiving mechanical ventilation | 1,050 | -150 |
| 174 | A giant Palaeoproterozoic deposit of shungite in NW Russia: genesis and practical applications | 1,040 | +200 |
| 175 | Deficiency in glutamine but not glucose induces MYC-dependent apoptosis in human cells | 1,000 | -909 |
| 176 | South Africa: Language Situation | 1,000 | -200 |
| 177 | The Uncultured Microbial Majority | 988 | -1,466 |
| 178 | Monotreme Cell-Cycles and the Evolution of Homeothermy | 960 | -2,540 |
| 179 | Standard Metabolism of Monotremes and the Evolution of Homeothermy. | 960 | -2,540 |
| 180 | Identification and Functional Characterization of a Novel Monotreme- Specific Antibacterial Protein Expressed during Lactation | 960 | -2,540 |
| 181 | Thomas A. Edison and the Founding of Science: 1880 | 960 | +960 |
| 182 | Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach | 943 | -1,569 |
| 183 | Geomicrobiology of High-Level Nuclear Waste-Contaminated Vadose Sediments at the Hanford Site, Washington State | 929 | -1,508 |
| 184 | Prokaryotes: The unseen majority | 929 | -1,508 |
| 185 | A dynamic partnership: Celebrating our gut flora | 929 | -1,508 |
| 186 | Whole organism biocatalysis | 929 | -1,508 |
| 187 | Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. | 929 | -1,508 |
| 188 | Disparate rates, differing fates: tempo and mode of evolution changed from the Precambrian to the Phanerozoic. | 929 | -1,508 |
| 189 | Environmental Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea | 929 | -1,508 |
| 190 | The Universal Ancestor and the Ancestor of Bacteria Were Hyperthermophiles | 929 | -1,508 |
| 191 | A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land | 929 | -1,508 |
| 192 | Polyhedral organelles compartmenting bacterial metabolic processes | 929 | -1,508 |
| 193 | Protein-based organelles in bacteria: carboxysomes and related microcompartments | 929 | -1,508 |
| 194 | Protein Structures Forming the Shell of Primitive Bacterial Organelles | 929 | -1,508 |
| 195 | The New Bacterial Cell Biology: Moving Parts and Subcellular Architecture | 929 | -1,508 |
| 196 | The Bacterial Cytoskeleton | 929 | -1,508 |
| 197 | Functional Taxonomy of Bacterial Hyperstructures | 929 | -1,508 |
| 198 | Prokaryotic photosynthesis and phototrophy illuminated | 929 | -1,508 |
| 199 | Lamellar Organization of Pigments in Chlorosomes, the Light Harvesting Complexes of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria | 929 | -1,508 |
| 200 | The bacterial nucleoid: A highly organized and dynamic structure | 929 | -1,508 |