Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Science is 21. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Safeguarding protein complex assembly3966
Cooling threshold2607
A bouncer for bone marrow2058
Down with leukemia2031
Tough recyclable polyacetals1917
Mediating transcription1880
Senate panel backs funding ban on U.S. researchers in Chinese talent programs1601
American climate migration On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America Abrahm Lustgarten Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. 336 pp.1442
In Other Journals1301
The fern mandolin1129
Theresa Maldonado is newest AAAS president-elect1094
New tech law offers billions for research1088
Gates foundation places bold bet on preprints1039
Is the world 1.3°C or 1.5°C warmer?970
Staving off cell death970
Using DNA to reunify separated migrant families965
A dilute 2D magnet882
Precision blockade of inflammatory IL-6871
Repairing the nuclear pore in ALS825
Chromatin coordinates stemness810
Some light on diazotrophs801
IgG fucosylation predicts dengue severity792
Shielding ultracold molecules789
“The Descent of Man,” 150 years on773
Policy reforms for antibiotic use claims in livestock750
Gliogenesis in the adult mouse brain744
Birds in the bin710
TCR detection of citrullinated epitopes700
I know what I saw694
Keeping warm when small681
Childhood malaria641
CAR-T cells rest to get back in the race641
A three-node quantum network622
The daily rhythms of agriculture621
Stabilizing large pores611
Structural changes in HIV maturation608
Watching a metal filament grow604
Discovering better theories600
Growing up with the twist600
Fire in the flooded forest578
A physician’s legacy On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service Anthony Fauci Viking, 2024. 480 pp.576
Opening up571
News at a glance563
Particle resupply in the lower atmosphere561
Meet the Mississippi The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Boyce Upholt Norton, 2024. 352 pp.556
Data-based tools can prevent crowd crushes551
Einstein’s Oxford years544
Role of protein kinase PLK1 in the epigenetic maintenance of centromeres538
Roots in Brazil’s Amazon mangroves536
Learning from a climate disaster: The catastrophic floods in southern Brazil525
Elephant seals as ecosystem sentinels for the northeast Pacific Ocean twilight zone523
Neuroevolution insights into biological neural computation522
Evolutionary convergence of sensory circuits in the pallium of amniotes507
Time to fix the biodiversity leak506
Breaking the silence499
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US495
Scaled down, martian model habitat rises again in desert493
Polymeric fire-extinguishing coatings483
A brain circuit that drives and gates curiosity480
Gravity-based batteries try to beat their chemical cousins with winches, weights, and mine shafts470
Acceptable algorithms for radiotherapy469
European plan for gigantic new gravitational wave detector passes milestone468
To eat or not to eat467
Would you have your DNA tested to predict how hard COVID-19 would strike? Should you?464
Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements458
Parasite or poisoner456
Enhancing liquid biopsies454
Toward product-based regulation of crops451
How SARS-CoV-2 first adapted in humans450
The material properties of chromatin in vivo446
Congo calling445
Microbiome-based treatment helps ease severe malnutrition441
Cavity-enabled enhancement of ultrafast intramolecular vibrational redistribution over pseudorotation438
Computer-aided key step generation in alkaloid total synthesis438
Predicting pathogenic protein variants436
Plastics treaty text must center ecosystems430
A structural basis for amylin receptor phenotype429
Landmark research integrity survey finds questionable practices are surprisingly common423
Stacking the future of heterogeneous optoelectronics419
Connecting the dots for cooling419
Upslope plant species shifts in Mesoamerican cloud forests driven by climate and land use change419
Ban on renewing senior scientists shakes NIH416
Finally, stars made from only primordial gas?415
New Products409
Plants from the planetary past When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance Riley Black St. Martin’s Press, 2025. 304 p409
Gas trapped in rocks gives snapshots of ancient atmosphere408
Given the same data, ecologists arrive at different conclusions406
Mandrel-free fabrication of giant spring-index and stroke muscles for diverse applications398
Time to count plastics in climate action396
Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century393
Quantum computing requires high-performance software387
Hidden cascades of seismic ice stream deformation386
A neural basis for prosocial behavior toward unresponsive individuals378
Airport plan imperils South Korea’s tidal flat378
Intervention beans375
Adding methyl groups with good timing374
Senate bill gives ‘have-not’ states a gigantic research set-aside373
Quantum interference in atom-exchange reactions371
Prospect of RFK Jr. at HHS alarms biomedical community371
Organic acids and glucose prime late-stage fungal biotrophy in maize369
Citizen seismology helps decipher the 2021 Haiti earthquake368
Securing the global antimony supply chain367
Connectivity in China’s marine protected areas367
Highly enhanced ferroelectricity in HfO 2 -based ferroelectric thin film by light ion bombardment367
Entangling microwaves with light366
Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics356
Quantum walks on a programmable two-dimensional 62-qubit superconducting processor355
Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar layers351
Fiery invasions348
Molecular determinants of ligand efficacy and potency in GPCR signaling347
A solid noncovalent organic double-helix framework catalyzes asymmetric [6 + 4] cycloaddition346
Cell size controlled in plants using DNA content as an internal scale345
Risks of China’s increased forest area345
Fork coupling directs DNA replication elongation and termination344
Science needs affirmative action343
Allylic C–H amination cross-coupling furnishes tertiary amines by electrophilic metal catalysis341
Deploying synthetic coevolution and machine learning to engineer protein-protein interactions341
Baboons inform on human gut microbiota339
Blocking heat in two ways338
Natural plutonium from supernovae336
Imaging cancer cell by cell336
Phagocytosis promotes plaque335
Shear selectivity332
Ancient Australian ‘superhighways’ suggested by massive supercomputing study331
No shared language? No problem! People across cultures understand clues from ‘vocal charades’331
Biden wants $6.5 billion for new health agency to speed treatments330
Biden’s nominee for science chief issues apology, defends character at confirmation hearing330
Giant tsunami from dino-killing asteroid impact revealed in fossilized ‘megaripples’328
Tiny symmetric swimmer evades basic rule of fluid dynamics325
Scientists rally around misconduct consultant facing legal threat after challenging COVID-19 drug researcher321
What makes familiar faces so special?321
Control of condensates dictates nucleolar architecture320
Black hole spin–orbit misalignment in the x-ray binary MAXI J1820+070318
Mutations help genes emerge from aimless DNA316
Humans are biocultural, science should be too316
ALT-ering neuroblastoma chemoresistance314
Viral vulnerability in hepatocytes314
Simulating quantum walkers313
Really cool mirrors313
Fast spin flips for entangled atoms312
Tusk records312
Urban socioeconomics and mortality311
The Slovakian test case310
Stabilized by protein interactions309
A role for vacancies309
The value of dirty DNA309
Reversible fiber fusion and fission309
Plastic dust in the wind307
Human impact on landscapes in early Africa304
Brazil and Russia face off over vaccine contamination charge304
A distinctive ancestor303
Cells feel the strain300
Visibly controlling bond breaking297
Searching for solutions to our soil woes A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet Jo Handelsman Ya296
Giving heart295
Moving past my stutter293
Researchers tackle vexing side effects of potent cancer drugs292
Glacial pace for U.S. Long Covid grants292
India's services-driven growth excludes women290
Sequencing projects will screen 200,000 newborns for disease287
In Science Journals286
The scientific importance of the lunar environment286
Into the valley285
Persistent seeds predict invasiveness283
Better bathymetry282
Brakes off cyclin drives memory282
Seeds of success282
Localizing gene expression280
Pandemic haiku280
Stacking a ferroelectric279
Learning the language of life with AI278
Erratum for the Review “Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance” by J.-S. Kim et al .278
NextGen Voices: Research Safeguards277
News at a glance276
In Science Journals275
Trump gender order upends federal surveys274
Viewing Asilomar from the Global South274
‘Safe harbor’ gene therapy approach may have first success273
Multiplex generation and single-cell analysis of structural variants in mammalian genomes273
Banished from CERN, Russian physicists regroup273
In Other Journals272
Identification of the subventricular tegmental nucleus as brainstem reward center271
Global increase in the occurrence and impact of multiyear droughts271
AAAS 2025 Annual Meeting Program270
Systematic identification of Y-chromosome gene functions in mouse spermatogenesis269
Erratum for the Research Article “A chiral hydrogen atom abstraction catalyst for the enantioselective epimerization of meso -diols” by A. S. K. Lahdenperä <267
Comment on “Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals”265
Pushing a pressure standard265
Fungal symbiosis with early land plants264
A boost for brain–computer interfaces263
Two more coronaviruses can infect people, studies suggest263
Replay supports planning262
DNA repair within neurons262
An archaeology society hosted a talk against returning Indigenous remains. Some want a new society261
ROS-mediated lung protection261
U.S. undersea mapping is a boon for science260
Academia is often a family business. That’s a barrier for increasing diversity260
COVID-19 affects men and women differently. So why don’t clinical trials report gender data?260
Ancient DNA ties modern diseases to ancestry259
This Week in Science258
Editors' Choice257
Editors' Choice256
Alvin , the iconic submersible, plunges deeper than ever254
Institutions’ role in trainee success254
Unusual suspects in flower color evolution253
Multiple lenses253
Astronomers find long-missing dwarf galaxies—too many of them253
Prethermal time crystal252
Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition252
China overhauls its public health bureaucracy252
Collateral impacts of organic farming252
Identifying the origin of cancer251
Harnessing the dark to store light250
Competing signal peptides hold the key248
Coronavirus, adenovirus, or both? Hepatitis poses mystery247
Reconstructing CO 2 fixation from the past247
X-rays from giant radio pulses244
Three strikes to knock cancer out244
Once reluctant, new NIH chief Monica Bertagnolli embraces role243
Response to Comment on “Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem”242
What are farm animals thinking?242
Mining threatens health of Panama’s environment241
Achieving cognitive liberty The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology Nita A. Farahany St. Martin’s241
Nitriles for the production of various amines240
Understanding the limits of AI coding240
Did black volcanic rock help spark early life?239
The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium237
Startling new variant raises urgent questions237
Using genomics to fight extinction237
Could a popular antiviral supercharge the pandemic?237
Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA237
Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”237
The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake236
Losing fat through the skin235
Noise pollution disrupts freshwater cetaceans234
Deadly bird flu establishes a foothold in North America233
Terahertz light–driven coupling of antiferromagnetic spins to lattice233
Protect Brazil’s overlooked Pampa biome233
New Omicron strains may portend big COVID-19 waves232
Exclusion and exploitation: The incarceration of Black Americans from slavery to the present232
Observation of Pauli blocking in light scattering from quantum degenerate fermions231
Psychedelics without hallucinations?231
Authors move to retract discredited Alzheimer’s study231
Pauli blocking of atom-light scattering231
Prescription for controversy230
Using antidepressants to fight cancer230
A far-ultraviolet–driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk230
What makes things twist?229
A complete PIC-Mediator structure229
Touched by a plasmacytoid dendritic cell229
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