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PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: 10 Highly Cited Articles

Published March 30, 2017 Curated Collections

PLOS provides a range of Article-Level Metrics to assess the impact of its articles. Among these, citation number remains the gold standard by which scientists can explicitly reference the relevance of each other’s work. Though citation levels vary dramatically by field, and numerous other factors, these PLOS ONE articles from the past 10 years stand out for garnering extraordinary numbers of citations. In the accompanying EveryONE blog, PLOS ONE Senior Editor Eric Martens discusses the journals' history of letting the community determine impact.

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10 Highly Cited Articles

10 Highly Cited Articles

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10.1371/journal.pone.0000119

PLOS ONE Designer Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds for Adult Mouse Neural Stem Cell 3-Dimensional Cultures
December 27, 2006 Fabrizio Gelain, Daniele Bottai, Angleo Vescovi, Shuguang Zhang
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10.1371/journal.pone.0000711

PLOS ONE Regional Decline of Coral Cover in the Indo-Pacific: Timing, Extent, and Subregional Comparisons
August 8, 2007 John F. Bruno, Elizabeth R. Selig
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10.1371/journal.pone.0009085

PLOS ONE Gut Microbiota in Human Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Differs from Non-Diabetic Adults
February 5, 2010 Nadja Larsen, Finn K. Vogensen, Frans W. J. van den Berg, Dennis Sandris Nielsen, Anne Sofie Andreasen, Bente K. Pedersen, Waleed Abu Al-Soud, Søren J. Sørensen, Lars H. Hansen, Mogens Jakobsen
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10.1371/journal.pone.0005738

PLOS ONE How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data
May 29, 2009 Daniele Fanelli
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10.1371/journal.pone.0009490

PLOS ONE FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments
March 10, 2010 Morgan N. Price, Paramvir S. Dehal, Adam P. Arkin
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10.1371/journal.pone.0016957

PLOS ONE The Human Serum Metabolome
February 16, 2011 Nikolaos Psychogios, David D. Hau, Jun Peng, An Chi Guo, Rupasri Mandal, Souhaila Bouatra, Igor Sinelnikov, Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy, Roman Eisner, Bijaya Gautam, Nelson Young, Jianguo Xia, Craig Knox, Edison Dong, Paul Huang, Zsuzsanna Hollander, Theresa L. Pedersen, Steven R. Smith, Fiona Bamforth, Russ Greiner, Bruce McManus, John W. Newman, Theodore Goodfriend, David S. Wishart
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031302

PLOS ONE Trans-Synaptic Spread of Tau Pathology In Vivo
February 1, 2012 Li Liu, Valerie Drouet, Jessica W. Wu, Menno P. Witter, Scott A. Small, Catherine Clelland, Karen Duff
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10.1371/journal.pone.0068910

PLOS ONE BrainNet Viewer: A Network Visualization Tool for Human Brain Connectomics
July 4, 2013 Mingrui Xia, Jinhui Wang, Yong He
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10.1371/journal.pone.0111913

PLOS ONE Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea
December 10, 2014 Marcus Eriksen, Laurent C. M. Lebreton, Henry S. Carson, Martin Thiel, Charles J. Moore, Jose C. Borerro, Francois Galgani, Peter G. Ryan, Julia Reisser
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10.1371/journal.pone.0124653

PLOS ONE Proton Pump Inhibitor Usage and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction in the General Population
June 10, 2015 Nigam H. Shah, Paea LePendu, Anna Bauer-Mehren, Yohannes T. Ghebremariam, Srinivasan V. Iyer, Jake Marcus, Kevin T. Nead, John P. Cooke, Nicholas J. Leeper

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