Table 1.

Top 10 most cited literature in TAMs and CRC research.

Rank	Title	DOI	First Author	Year	Journal	Citations (as of August 9, 2024)	Average per Year
1	Cancer-related inflammation	10.1038/nature07205.	Mantovani, Alberto	2008	NATURE	8,468	529.25
2	Inflammation and Cancer: Triggers, Mechanisms, and Consequences	10.1016/j.immuni.2019.06.025.	Greten, Florian R.	2019	IMMUNITY	1,966	393.20
3	PD-1 expression by tumour-associated macrophages inhibits phagocytosis and tumour immunity	10.1038/nature22396.	Gordon, Sydney R.	2017	NATURE	1,424	203.43
4	Roles of the immune system in cancer: from tumor initiation to metastatic progression	10.1101/gad.314617.118.	Gonzalez, Hugo	2018	GENES & DEVELOPMENT	1,204	200.67
5	Bile acid-microbiota crosstalk in gastrointestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis	10.1038/nrgastro.2017.119.	Jia, Wei	2018	NATURE REVIEWS GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY	1,049	174.83
6	Immunotherapy in colorectal cancer: rationale, challenges and potential	10.1038/s41575-019-0126-x.	Ganesh, Karuna	2019	NATURE REVIEWS GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY	995	199.00
7	The immune contexture and Immunoscore in cancer prognosis and therapeutic efficacy	10.1038/s41568-020-0285-7.	Bruni, Daniela	2020	NATURE REVIEWS CANCER	838	209.50
8	Single-Cell Analyses Inform Mechanisms of Myeloid-Targeted Therapies in Colon Cancer	10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.048.	Zhang, Lei	2020	CELL	703	175.75
9	Prognostic Significance of Tumor-Associated Macrophages in Solid Tumor: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature	10.1371/journal.pone.0050946.	Zhang, Qiong-wen	2012	PLOS ONE	676	56.33
10	Colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R) inhibitors in cancer therapy	10.1186/s40425-017-0257-y.	Cannarile, Michael A.	2017	JOURNAL FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER	662	94.57

Table 1 lists the 10 most highly cited publications in the field of TAMs and CRC and shows their links, years, and journals.