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Collection 31 March 2021
Journal Top 100
This collection highlights our most downloaded* research papers published in 2020. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.
*Data obtained from SN Insights which is based on Digital Science's Dimensions.
Sex is determined by XX/XY sex chromosomes in Australasian side-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae)
- Sofia Mazzoleni
- Barbora Augstenová
- Michail Rovatsos
Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’
- D. M. Howard
- J. Schofield
- S. A. Buckley
Efficacy of masks and face coverings in controlling outward aerosol particle emission from expiratory activities
- Christopher D. Cappa
- William D. Ristenpart
Early pregnancy ultrasound measurements and prediction of first trimester pregnancy loss: A logistic model
- Laura Detti
- Ludwig Francillon
- Robert A. Roman
Characteristic patterns of EEG oscillations in sheep ( Ovis aries) induced by ketamine may explain the psychotropic effects seen in humans
- A. U. Nicol
- A. J. Morton
Emotions and brain function are altered up to one month after a single high dose of psilocybin
- Frederick S. Barrett
- Manoj K. Doss
- Roland R. Griffiths
Long-distance airborne dispersal of SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 wards
- Karolina Nissen
- Janina Krambrich
- Erik Salaneck
The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication
- Tasmin Humphrey
- Leanne Proops
- Karen McComb
Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages
- Chantel S. Prat
- Tara M. Madhyastha
- Chu-Hsuan Kuo
Non-cuttable material created through local resonance and strain rate effects
- Stefan Szyniszewski
- Thomas Hipke
Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills
- Simone Pika
- Miriam Jennifer Sima
- Roger Mundry
Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications
- B. L. Hardy
- M.-H. Moncel
Effect of restricted dissolved oxygen on expression of Clostridium difficile toxin A subunit from E. coli
- Ashish K. Sharma
- Joseph Shiloach
Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C
- Andrew M. T. Moore
- James P. Kennett
Molecular characterization and safety assessment of biofortified provitamin A rice
- Norman Oliva
- Maria Florida Cueto-Reaño
- B. P. Mallikarjuna Swamy
Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure during rat pregnancy leads to symmetrical fetal growth restriction and labyrinth-specific vascular defects in the placenta
- Bryony V. Natale
- Katarina N. Gustin
- Daniel B. Hardy
Gut microbiota plasticity is correlated with sustained weight loss on a low-carb or low-fat dietary intervention
- Jessica A. Grembi
- Lan H. Nguyen
- Julie Parsonnet
Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset for four consecutive weeks induces anticancer serum proteome response and improves metabolic syndrome
- Ayse L. Mindikoglu
- Mustafa M. Abdulsada
- Sung Yun Jung
Nerve damage induced skeletal muscle atrophy is associated with increased accumulation of intramuscular glucose and polyol pathway intermediates
- Henning Tim Langer
- Shoaib Afzal
- Simone Spuler
The COVID-19 social media infodemic
- Matteo Cinelli
- Walter Quattrociocchi
- Antonio Scala
The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces
- Andreja Stajduhar
Memristive synapses connect brain and silicon spiking neurons
- Alexantrou Serb
- Andrea Corna
- Themistoklis Prodromakis
Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century
- Ebru Kirezci
- Ian R. Young
- Jochen Hinkel
Genome-wide analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus strains circulating worldwide implicates heterogeneity
- M. Rafiul Islam
- M. Nazmul Hoque
- M. Anwar Hossain
Acute stress improves the effectivity of cognitive emotion regulation in men
- Katja Langer
- Bianca Hagedorn
- Valerie L. Jentsch
Sofosbuvir as a potential alternative to treat the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic
- Rodrigo Jácome
- José Alberto Campillo-Balderas
- Antonio Lazcano
Chocolate for breakfast prevents circadian desynchrony in experimental models of jet-lag and shift-work
- Carolina Escobar
- Estefania Espitia-Bautista
- Ruud M. Buijs
Fluid dynamics of COVID-19 airborne infection suggests urgent data for a scientific design of social distancing
- M. E. Rosti
- S. Olivieri
Prevalence, comorbidity, and breed differences in canine anxiety in 13,700 Finnish pet dogs
- Milla Salonen
- Sini Sulkama
- Hannes Lohi
Association of relative brain age with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and genetic variants
- Arthur W. Toga
Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms
- Ivan S. Maksymov
- Andrey Pototsky
Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual sugar intake
- Chanmo Park
- Francesco Pagnini
- Ellen Langer
Intensified ambulatory cardiology care: effects on mortality and hospitalisation—a comparative observational study
- Olga A. Sawicki
- Angelina Mueller
- Martin Beyer
Humans judge faces in incomplete photographs as physically more attractive
- Diana Orghian
- César A. Hidalgo
Anti-biofilm efficacy of a medieval treatment for bacterial infection requires the combination of multiple ingredients
- Jessica Furner-Pardoe
- Blessing O. Anonye
- Freya Harrison
Azlocillin can be the potential drug candidate against drug-tolerant Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto JLB31
- Venkata Raveendra Pothineni
- Hari-Hara S. K. Potula
- Jayakumar Rajadas
Dietary flavanols improve cerebral cortical oxygenation and cognition in healthy adults
- Gabriele Gratton
- Samuel R. Weaver
- Catarina Rendeiro
Station and train surface microbiomes of Mexico City’s metro (subway/underground)
- Apolinar Misael Hernández
- Daniela Vargas-Robles
- Mariana Peimbert
Salamanders and other amphibians are aglow with biofluorescence
- Jennifer Y. Lamb
- Matthew P. Davis
Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 elevation without evidence of malignant or pancreatobiliary diseases
- Sunyoung Kim
- Byung Kyu Park
- Dong Wook Kim
Active control of broadband sound through the open aperture of a full-sized domestic window
- Dongyuan Shi
- Masaharu Nishimura
Accelerated ethanol elimination via the lungs
- Jesse M. Klostranec
- Diana Vucevic
- Joseph A. Fisher
Snapshots of human anatomy, locomotion, and behavior from Late Pleistocene footprints at Engare Sero, Tanzania
- Kevin G. Hatala
- William E. H. Harcourt-Smith
- Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce
Precision Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: A Pilot Study on Deep Learning for Hypoglycemic Events Detection based on ECG
- Mihaela Porumb
- Saverio Stranges
- Leandro Pecchia
Discovery of carbon nanotubes in sixth century BC potteries from Keeladi, India
- Manivannan Kokarneswaran
- Prakash Selvaraj
- Vijayanand Chandrasekaran
SARS-CoV-2 failure to infect or replicate in mosquitoes: an extreme challenge
- Yan-Jang S. Huang
- Dana L. Vanlandingham
- Stephen Higgs
Vitamin D supplementation does not prevent the recurrence of Graves’ disease
- Yoon Young Cho
- Yun Jae Chung
Effects of ayahuasca on mental health and quality of life in naïve users: A longitudinal and cross-sectional study combination
- Daniel F. Jiménez-Garrido
- María Gómez-Sousa
- José Carlos Bouso
Brew temperature, at fixed brew strength and extraction, has little impact on the sensory profile of drip brew coffee
- Mackenzie E. Batali
- Jean-Xavier Guinard
Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure of Western Honey Bees
- Arno Thielens
- Mark K. Greco
- Wout Joseph
Evolutionary and structural analyses of SARS-CoV-2 D614G spike protein mutation now documented worldwide
- Sandra Isabel
- Lucía Graña-Miraglia
- Susan M. Poutanen
Implications for megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis from seismic gaps south of Java Indonesia
- S. Widiyantoro
- H. E. Putra
A cognitive profile of multi-sensory imagery, memory and dreaming in aphantasia
- Alexei J. Dawes
- Rebecca Keogh
- Joel Pearson
Dogs can sense weak thermal radiation
- Anna Bálint
- Attila Andics
- Ronald H. H. Kröger
Design and characterization of an acoustic composite lens with high-intensity and directionally controllable focusing
A high biodiversity mitigates the impact of ocean acidification on hard-bottom ecosystems
- Eugenio Rastelli
- Bruna Petani
- Roberto Danovaro
Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road
- A. F. Haruda
- A. R. Ventresca Miller
- I. Arzhantseva
Exploratory study on the role of emotion regulation in perceived valence, humour, and beneficial use of depressive internet memes in depression
- Umair Akram
- Jennifer Drabble
- Jason G. Ellis
A randomised controlled study shows supplementation of overweight and obese adults with lactobacilli and bifidobacteria reduces bodyweight and improves well-being
- D. R. Michael
- S. F. Plummer
The molecular basis of thioalcohol production in human body odour
- Michelle Rudden
- Reyme Herman
- Gavin H. Thomas
Recurrence of positive SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA in recovered COVID-19 patients during medical isolation observation
- Han-Qing Liu
First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia
- Thomas Mörs
- Marcelo Reguero
- Davit Vasilyan
Climatic and societal impacts of a “forgotten” cluster of volcanic eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
- Sébastien Guillet
- Christophe Corona
- Markus Stoffel
First trimester PAPP-A serum levels and long-term metabolic outcome of mothers and their offspring
- Arrigo Fruscalzo
- Adriana Cividino
- Lorenza Driul
Effect of manual approaches with osteopathic modality on brain correlates of interoception: an fMRI study
- Francesco Cerritelli
- Piero Chiacchiaretta
- Antonio Ferretti
Evidence of protective role of Ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation in reducing COVID-19 deaths
- Rahul Kalippurayil Moozhipurath
- Lennart Kraft
- Bernd Skiera
The effect of social media on well-being differs from adolescent to adolescent
- J. Loes Pouwels
- Patti M. Valkenburg
Endometrial preparation for frozen-thawed embryo transfer in an artificial cycle: transdermal versus vaginal estrogen
- Romain Corroenne
- Hady El Hachem
- Pierre-Emmanuel Bouet
Electrophysiological evidence of preserved hearing at the end of life
- Elizabeth G. Blundon
- Romayne E. Gallagher
- Lawrence M. Ward
The Effect of Corrected Inflammation, Oxidative Stress and Endothelial Dysfunction on Fmd Levels in Patients with Selected Chronic Diseases: A Quasi-Experimental Study
- Mahmut Ilker Yilmaz
- Micol Romano
- Erkan Demirkaya
First evidence of a palaeo-nursery area of the great white shark
- Jaime A. Villafaña
- Sebastian Hernandez
- Jürgen Kriwet
Finding Plastic Patches in Coastal Waters using Optical Satellite Data
- Lauren Biermann
- Daniel Clewley
- Konstantinos Topouzelis
Asymmetric and Spiraled Genitalia Coevolve with Unique Lateralized Mating Behavior
- Dara N. Orbach
- Patricia L. R. Brennan
- Sarah L. Mesnick
Cooperative rescue of a juvenile capuchin ( Cebus imitator ) from a Boa constrictor
- Katharine M. Jack
- Michaela R. Brown
- Sophie E. Lieber
Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period
- G. Margaritelli
State-specific projection of COVID-19 infection in the United States and evaluation of three major control measures
Sea-level rise exponentially increases coastal flood frequency
- Mohsen Taherkhani
- Sean Vitousek
- Charles H. Fletcher
Hydrogen-rich water reduces inflammatory responses and prevents apoptosis of peripheral blood cells in healthy adults: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial
- Chong-Su Kim
- Dong-Mi Shin
Alcohol pretreatment of stools effect on culturomics
- Pamela Afouda
- Marie Hocquart
- Didier Raoult
Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea
- Kyung Soo Kim
- Martin G. Lockley
- Anthony Romilio
Ultrastructural analysis of SARS-CoV-2 interactions with the host cell via high resolution scanning electron microscopy
- Lucio Ayres Caldas
- Fabiana Avila Carneiro
- Wanderley de Souza
‘Alexandrian’ glass confirmed by hafnium isotopes
- Gry H. Barfod
- Ian C. Freestone
- Rubina Raja
Zeolite water purification at Tikal, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala
- Kenneth Barnett Tankersley
- Nicholas P. Dunning
- Vernon L. Scarborough
Nebulized ivermectin for COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases, a proof of concept, dose-ranging study in rats
- Carlos Chaccour
- Gloria Abizanda
- Ana Gloria Gil
New Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from New Mexico and Biodiversity of Dromaeosaurids at the end of the Cretaceous
- Steven E. Jasinski
- Robert M. Sullivan
- Peter Dodson
Iridophoroma associated with the Lemon Frost colour morph of the leopard gecko ( Eublepharis macularius )
- Paweł Szydłowski
- Jan Paweł Madej
- Przemysław Duda
Deep Learning Models for Histopathological Classification of Gastric and Colonic Epithelial Tumours
- Osamu Iizuka
- Fahdi Kanavati
- Masayuki Tsuneki
Metacognitive Therapy versus Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Adults with Major Depression: A Parallel Single-Blind Randomised Trial
- Pia Callesen
- David Reeves
- Adrian Wells
Genome Diversity and the Origin of the Arabian Horse
- Elissa J. Cosgrove
- Raheleh Sadeghi
- Samantha A. Brooks
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein predicted to form complexes with host receptor protein orthologues from a broad range of mammals
- C. A. Orengo
Effects of Chlorhexidine mouthwash on the oral microbiome
- Raul Bescos
- Ann Ashworth
- Mary Hickson
A comparison of methods for the isolation and separation of extracellular vesicles from protein and lipid particles in human serum
- M. M. Mc Gee
Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton
- Lyndsey Fox
- Stephen Stukins
- C. Giles Miller
Profile of circulating microRNAs in myalgic encephalomyelitis and their relation to symptom severity, and disease pathophysiology
- Evguenia Nepotchatykh
- Wesam Elremaly
- Alain Moreau
Swarm Hunting and Cluster Ejections in Chemically Communicating Active Mixtures
- Jens Grauer
- Hartmut Löwen
- Benno Liebchen
Suggested Case of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in a Cretaceous dinosaur
- Bruce M. Rothschild
- Darren Tanke
Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
- Matthew D. Keller
- Bryan J. Norton
- Arty Makagon
Multilevel fMRI adaptation for spoken word processing in the awake dog brain
- Márta Gácsi
Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans , P. minor , and P. armillatus
- Denise C. McGregor
- Amanda Padovan
- Kara N. Youngentob
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