Subfield · Parasitology
Most cited papers in Parasitology
What are the most cited papers in Parasitology?
The most cited paper in Parasitology is "A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity" (Andrew P. Feinberg, Bert Vogelstein, 1983), with 25,160 citations. Next come "Lounging in a lysosome: the intracellular lifestyle of Coxiella burnetii" (11,768) and "Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture" (8,039).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,231 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity Andrew P. Feinberg, Bert Vogelstein · Analytical Biochemistry | Jul 1983 | 25,160 |
| 2 | Lounging in a lysosome: the intracellular lifestyle of Coxiella burnetii Daniel E. Voth, Robert A. Heinzen · Cellular Microbiology | 16 Feb 2007 | 11,768 |
| 3 | Human Malaria Parasites in Continuous Culture William F. Trager, James B. Jensen · Science | 20 Aug 1976 | 8,039 |
| 4 | A human homologue of the Drosophila Toll protein signals activation of adaptive immunity Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Paula Preston‐Hurlburt, Charles A. Janeway · Nature | 24 Jul 1997 | 5,620 |
| 5 | Leishmaniasis Worldwide and Global Estimates of Its Incidence Jorge Alvar, Iván Darío Vélez, Caryn Bern et al. · PLoS ONE | 31 May 2012 | 5,260 |
| 6 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy Daniel J. Klionsky et al. · Autophagy | Apr 2012 | 4,068 |
| 7 | Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites? William D. O. Hamilton, Marlene Zuk · Science | 22 Oct 1982 | 3,797 |
| 8 | Toxoplasma gondii: from animals to humans Astrid Margareta Tenter, Anja R. Heckeroth, Louis M. Weiss · International Journal for Parasitology | Nov 2000 | 3,749 |
| 9 | Autophagy as a Regulated Pathway of Cellular Degradation Daniel J. Klionsky, Scott D. Emr · Science | Dec 2000 | 3,633 |
| 10 | Toxoplasmosis José Gilberto Montoya, Oliver Liesenfeld · The Lancet | Jun 2004 | 3,305 |
| 11 | Autophagy in immunity and inflammation Beth Levine, Noboru Mizushima, Herbert W. Virgin · Nature | 18 Jan 2011 | 3,303 |
| 12 | The Role of Atg Proteins in Autophagosome Formation Noboru Mizushima, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Yoshinori Ohsumi · Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology | 2 Mar 2011 | 3,008 |
| 13 | Biological Functions of Autophagy Genes: A Disease Perspective Beth Levine, Guido Kroemer · Cell | 2019 | 2,917 |
| 14 | Pore-forming activity and structural autoinhibition of the gasdermin family Jingjin Ding, Kun Wang, Wang Liu et al. · Nature | 7 Jun 2016 | 2,855 |
| 15 | Alternative Activation of Macrophages: An Immunologic Functional Perspective Fernando O. Martínez, Laura Helming, Siamon Gordon · Annual Review of Immunology | 23 Dec 2008 | 2,768 |
| 16 | The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malaria Robert William Snow, Carlos A. Guerra, Abdisalan Mohamed Noor et al. · Nature | Mar 2005 | 2,751 |
| 17 | New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings David T. Durack, Andrea S. Lukes, David K. Bright et al. · The American Journal of Medicine | Mar 1994 | 2,591 |
| 18 | The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium Claire M. Fraser et al. · Science | 20 Oct 1995 | 2,551 |
| 19 | Soil-transmitted helminth infections: ascariasis, trichuriasis, and hookworm Jeffrey Michael Bethony, SIMON J. BROOKER, Marco Albonico et al. · The Lancet | May 2006 | 2,542 |
| 20 | Leptospirosis: a zoonotic disease of global importance Ajay Bharti, Jarlath E. Nally, Jessica N. Ricaldi et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases | Dec 2003 | 2,492 |
| 21 | Human schistosomiasis Daniel G Colley, Amaya L Bustinduy, W Evan Secor et al. · The Lancet | 31 Mar 2014 | 2,419 |
| 22 | Clinical Presentation, Etiology, and Outcome of Infective Endocarditis in the 21st Century David Murdoch · Archives of Internal Medicine | 9 Mar 2009 | 2,390 |
| 23 | Leptospirosis Paul N. Levett · Clinical Microbiology Reviews | Apr 2001 | 2,384 |
| 24 | Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in Atg7 -deficient mice Masaaki Komatsu, Satoshi Waguri, Takashi Ueno et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology | 2 May 2005 | 2,346 |
| 25 | Leptospira and leptospirosis Ben Adler, Alejandro de la Peña Moctezuma · Veterinary Microbiology | 14 Mar 2009 | 2,335 |
| 26 | The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro Leon Caly, Julian D Druce, Mike G Catton et al. · Antiviral Research | 3 Apr 2020 | 2,278 |
| 27 | Apoptosis, Pyroptosis, and Necrosis: Mechanistic Description of Dead and Dying Eukaryotic Cells Susan L. Fink, Brad T. Cookson · Infection and Immunity | 21 Mar 2005 | 2,238 |
| 28 | Schistosomiasis and water resources development: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimates of people at risk Peter Steinmann, Jennifer Keiser, Robert J. Bos et al. · The Lancet Infectious Diseases | 20 Jun 2006 | 2,233 |
| 29 | A molecular marker of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria Frédéric Ariey et al. · Nature | 18 Dec 2013 | 2,218 |
| 30 | Autophagosome formation: core machinery and adaptations Zhiping Xie, Daniel J. Klionsky · Nature Cell Biology | Oct 2007 | 2,182 |
| 31 | The global importance of ticks Frans Jongejan, Gerrit Uilenberg · Parasitology | Oct 2004 | 2,151 |
| 32 | Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi Claire M. Fraser et al. · Nature | Dec 1997 | 2,146 |
| 33 | Human schistosomiasis Bruno Gryseels, Katja Polman, Jan Clerinx et al. · The Lancet | Sep 2006 | 2,134 |
| 34 | The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America Gary P. Wormser, Raymond J. Dattwyler, Eugene D. Shapiro et al. · Clinical Infectious Diseases | 6 Oct 2006 | 2,115 |
| 35 | Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila. John Stephen Dumler, Anthony F. Barbet, Cornelis P. J. Bekker et al. · INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY | Nov 2001 | 2,098 |
| 36 | Surveillance for waterborne-disease outbreaks--United States, 1993-1994. Michael H. Kramer, Barbara L. Herwaldt, Gunther F. Craun et al. · PubMed | 12 Apr 1996 | 2,055 |
| 37 | Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review Federico Costa, José E. Hagan, Juan Ignácio Calcagno et al. · PLoS neglected tropical diseases | 17 Sep 2015 | 2,027 |
| 38 | Fever with Thrombocytopenia Associated with a Novel Bunyavirus in China Xue‐jie Yu et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 16 Mar 2011 | 1,993 |
| 39 | No evidence that carotenoid pigments boost either immune or antioxidant defenses in a songbird Rebecca E. Koch, Andreas N. Kavazis, Dennis Hasselquist et al. · Nature Communications | 30 Jan 2018 | 1,955 |
| 40 | Epidemiology of and Diagnostic Strategies for Toxoplasmosis Florence Robert-Gangneux, Marie‐Laure Dardé · Clinical Microbiology Reviews | Apr 2012 | 1,836 |
| 41 | The ubiquitin-proteasome proteolytic pathway Aaron J. Ciechanover · Cell | Oct 1994 | 1,811 |
| 42 | Diclofenac residues as the cause of vulture population decline in Pakistan J. Lindsay Oaks, Martin Gilbert, Munir Z. Virani et al. · Nature | 26 Jan 2004 | 1,791 |
| 43 | Advances in leishmaniasis Henry W. Murray, Jonathan D. Berman, Clive R. Davies et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2005 | 1,786 |
| 44 | Q Fever Max Maurin, Didier Raoult · Clinical Microbiology Reviews | Oct 1999 | 1,777 |
| 45 | The New Higher Level Classification of Eukaryotes with Emphasis on the Taxonomy of Protists Sina M. Adl et al. · Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | Oct 2005 | 1,745 |
| 46 | A Massive Outbreak in Milwaukee of Cryptosporidium Infection Transmitted through the Public Water Supply Mac Kenzie Wr, Hoxie Nj, Proctor Me et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 21 Jul 1994 | 1,734 |
| 47 | Insecticide-treated bed nets and curtains for preventing malaria Christian Lengeler · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 19 Apr 2004 | 1,730 |
| 48 | The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria Siv G. E. Andersson, Alireza Zomorodipour, Jan Otto Andersson et al. · Nature | Nov 1998 | 1,711 |
| 49 | cGAS produces a 2′-5′-linked cyclic dinucleotide second messenger that activates STING Andrea Ablasser, Marion Goldeck, Taner Cavlar et al. · Nature | 30 May 2013 | 1,705 |
| 50 | The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei Matthew Berriman et al. · Science | 14 Jul 2005 | 1,699 |
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