Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Safeguarding protein complex assembly3644
Cooling threshold2280
A bouncer for bone marrow2200
Amid criticism of its conservation policies, Brazil joins global biotrade pact1994
Down with leukemia1733
Vascular control of organ aging1686
Tough recyclable polyacetals1561
Mediating transcription1374
Lineage dynamics1334
Senate panel backs funding ban on U.S. researchers in Chinese talent programs1184
A role for cholesterol in Ebola virus1078
A privileged brain1062
American climate migration On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America Abrahm Lustgarten Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. 336 pp.996
In Other Journals945
The fern mandolin926
Theresa Maldonado is newest AAAS president-elect904
Artificial intelligence “sees” split electrons903
New tech law offers billions for research858
Gates foundation places bold bet on preprints853
Staving off cell death847
Is the world 1.3°C or 1.5°C warmer?795
Using mirrors to control molecular dynamics764
Observation of fragmentation of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate752
Using DNA to reunify separated migrant families738
A dilute 2D magnet734
Precision blockade of inflammatory IL-6709
Repairing the nuclear pore in ALS697
Critics slam letter in prestigious journal that downplayed COVID-19 risks to Swedish schoolchildren697
Memories of rejection680
Chromatin coordinates stemness675
Some light on diazotrophs656
Afghan scholars despair after Taliban’s takeover651
IgG fucosylation predicts dengue severity640
Shielding ultracold molecules638
“The Descent of Man,” 150 years on635
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock633
Free trade between species609
Gliogenesis in the adult mouse brain607
Birds in the bin600
TCR detection of citrullinated epitopes594
I know what I saw577
Rapid in silico directed evolution by a protein language model with EVOLVEpro557
Identification of the subventricular tegmental nucleus as brainstem reward center554
AAAS 2025 Annual Meeting Program550
Systematic identification of Y-chromosome gene functions in mouse spermatogenesis539
Erratum for the Research Article “A chiral hydrogen atom abstraction catalyst for the enantioselective epimerization of meso -diols” by A. S. K. Lahdenperä <535
CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments535
Mechanically robust and stretchable organic solar cells plasticized by small-molecule acceptors517
Keeping warm when small515
Childhood malaria508
CAR-T cells rest to get back in the race508
A three-node quantum network501
The daily rhythms of agriculture487
Stabilizing large pores485
Structural changes in HIV maturation483
Watching a metal filament grow477
Growing up with the twist469
Discovering better theories468
Fire in the flooded forest465
A physician’s legacy On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service Anthony Fauci Viking, 2024. 480 pp.464
Opening up463
A quantum-network register assembled with optical tweezers in an optical cavity455
News at a glance453
Particle resupply in the lower atmosphere452
Meet the Mississippi The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Boyce Upholt Norton, 2024. 352 pp.448
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes446
Einstein’s Oxford years435
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres434
Roots in Brazil’s Amazon mangroves430
Learning from a climate disaster: The catastrophic floods in southern Brazil429
Polymeric fire-extinguishing coatings426
Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins with winches, weights, and mine shafts420
A brain circuit that drives and gates curiosity420
Acceptable algorithms for radiotherapy420
Hey buddy! Your cellphone addiction is causing a pedestrian traffic jam417
European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone416
To eat or not to eat414
Would you have your DNA tested to predict how hard COVID-19 would strike? Should you?411
Brain disease and network reorganization402
Gorillas in the wild often adopt young orphaned apes401
Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements399
Medieval ‘birthing girdle’ contains delivery fluid, milk, and honey397
Parasite or poisoner396
Enhancing liquid biopsies394
How fairy circles form in Shanghai’s salt marshes394
Toward product-based regulation of crops386
How SARS-CoV-2 first adapted in humans384
The material properties of chromatin in vivo381
Microbiome-based treatment helps ease severe malnutrition380
Congo calling380
Relocalizing transcriptional kinases to activate apoptosis377
The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe377
Computer-aided key step generation in alkaloid total synthesis374
Possible psychedelic therapeutic mechanism374
Analysis of genetic dominance in the UK Biobank368
Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone368
Microbial-host-isozyme analyses reveal microbial DPP4 as a potential antidiabetic target366
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation366
Nanofluidic computing makes a splash365
Predicting pathogenic protein variants358
Exploiting the Marcus inverted region for first-row transition metal–based photoredox catalysis358
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems357
Structural and functional ramifications of antigenic drift in recent SARS-CoV-2 variants350
A quantum-logic gate between distant quantum-network modules347
NF-κB dynamics determine the stimulus specificity of epigenomic reprogramming in macrophages347
A 35-million-year record of seawater stable Sr isotopes reveals a fluctuating global carbon cycle343
A structural basis for amylin receptor phenotype339
Dilution-induced gel-sol-gel-sol transitions by competitive supramolecular pathways in water338
Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations336
Microfluidic-like fabrication of metal ion–cured bioadhesives by mussels335
Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo335
Cell-specific transcriptional control of mitochondrial metabolism by TIF1γ drives erythropoiesis335
Landmark research integrity survey finds questionable practices are surprisingly common330
Tectonic degassing drove global temperature trends since 20 Ma329
Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry323
The deubiquitinase USP8 targets ESCRT-III to promote incomplete cell division319
Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars319
Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change318
Programming memristor arrays with arbitrarily high precision for analog computing317
Oxygen imaging of hypoxic pockets in the mouse cerebral cortex314
Intervention beans313
In vivo editing of lung stem cells for durable gene correction in mice313
Machine learning for medicine310
Robust water-repellant fabrics309
Adding methyl groups with good timing307
Traces of psychedelics make you feel good, but so does placebo, finds unusual ‘self-blinding’ study306
Senate bill gives ‘have-not’ states a gigantic research set-aside304
A processive RNA replicator304
Genomic analyses reveal poaching hotspots and illegal trade in pangolins from Africa to Asia302
Fiery invasions302
Researchers’ responsibility to uphold Indigenous rights302
In a warming world, it’s better to be a small mammal than a bird302
Surprising superconductivity of graphene302
Baboons inform on human gut microbiota301
Blocking heat in two ways300
Brazil’s first homemade satellite will put an extra eye on dwindling Amazon forests298
Remains of impact that created the Moon may lie deep within Earth297
Natural plutonium from supernovae296
The many faces of tau295
Imaging cancer cell by cell295
Phagocytosis promotes plaque292
Shear selectivity291
Halting transmission291
No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’290
Separating microbes and cancers288
Illicit centipede raises thorny question: Should journals have refused to publish a paper about it?286
Ancient Australian ‘superhighways’ suggested by massive supercomputing study285
Joint strategy for surface chemistry285
Biden’s nominee for science chief issues apology, defends character at confirmation hearing283
Biden wants $6.5 billion for new health agency to speed treatments282
Hopes evaporate for the superheavy element flerovium having a long life282
Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ‘megaripples’281
What makes familiar faces so special?281
Tiny symmetric swimmer evades basic rule of fluid dynamics281
Scientists rally around misconduct consultant facing legal threat after challenging COVID-19 drug researcher280
Waiting for earthquakes to call279
Atmospheric goals for sustainable development278
Control of condensates dictates nucleolar architecture273
Resistance to inflammation underlies enhanced fitness in clonal hematopoiesis272
Black hole spin–orbit misalignment in the x-ray binary MAXI J1820+070272
Observing the quantum topology of light272
Humans are biocultural, science should be too271
Pathogen-sugar interactions revealed by universal saturation transfer analysis270
A master regulator of opioid reward in the ventral prefrontal cortex267
Mutations help genes emerge from aimless DNA267
Mitochondrial disease: Replace or edit?266
India's services-driven growth excludes women265
Highly stretchable van der Waals thin films for adaptable and breathable electronic membranes265
Sequencing projects will screen 200,000 newborns for disease263
The scientific importance of the lunar environment263
In Science Journals262
How to navigate authorship of scientific manuscripts261
This sea slug cut off its own head—and lived to tell the tale261
Octopuses, like humans, sleep in two stages260
Into the valley260
No waters left untouched260
Social justice meets STEM education258
Persistent seeds predict invasiveness256
Better bathymetry255
Brakes off cyclin drives memory252
Seeds of success252
Localizing gene expression251
Stacking a ferroelectric250
Pandemic haiku250
A boost for brain–computer interfaces246
Pushing a pressure standard246
Fungal symbiosis with early land plants246
Topology in the open246
A twisty trilayer246
A lipid-protein autoimmunity target246
Flipping the switch in T cells244
Identifying PAHs in space244
Fly-eyed lens array captures dim objects missed by giant telescopes244
Two more coronaviruses can infect people, studies suggest243
Former Senator Bill Nelson nominated to lead NASA243
A recipe for new genes243
Getting more pumped242
Replay supports planning242
A-sites join the band edge242
DNA repair within neurons242
Age-specific contact241
Arctic response to a warming world241
ROS-mediated lung protection240
Aquariums hatch unusual plan to save endangered zebra shark240
A lethal combination239
An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society238
Academia is often a family business. That’s a barrier for increasing diversity237
COVID-19 affects men and women differently. So why don’t clinical trials report gender data?236
U.S. undersea mapping is a boon for science236
Ancient DNA ties modern diseases to ancestry236
This Week in Science235
This Week in Science235
Editors' Choice234
Editors' Choice234
Science needs affirmative action233
Institutions’ role in trainee success232
Alvin , the iconic submersible, plunges deeper than ever232
Multiple lenses231
Unusual suspects in flower color evolution230
Astronomers find long-missing dwarf galaxies—too many of them230
Magnetoelectric transfer of a domain pattern230
U.S. needs solar geoengineering research program, National Academies says229
Chromatin plasticity predetermines neuronal eligibility for memory trace formation229
Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition228
Collateral impacts of organic farming228
China overhauls its public health bureaucracy227
Prethermal time crystal227
Identifying the origin of cancer226
Ionic liquids assist in vacuum226
Harnessing the dark to store light226
Faster than expected225
Ancient Earth was a water world224
Competing signal peptides hold the key224
The histone H3.1 variant regulates TONSOKU-mediated DNA repair during replication223
Coronavirus, adenovirus, or both? Hepatitis poses mystery223
Watch dolphins ‘talk’ to each other to synchronize their behaviors223
Reconstructing CO 2 fixation from the past223
Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out their competitors221
Three strikes to knock cancer out220
Many people who die of COVID-19 have the virus in their hearts220
X-rays from giant radio pulses219
A way to shrink RAM217
Designing smarter anticancer T cells217
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role216
What are farm animals thinking?215
Photoinduced receptor confinement drives ligand-independent GPCR signaling214
Response to Comment on “Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem”214
Strengthen scientific integrity under the Biden administration213
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment213
Promising drug for Huntington disease fails in major trial212
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