Table 4. Top 10 cited primary research miRNA publications.

Rank	Citations	Title	Author	Journal	Year
1	4,167	Conserved seed pairing, often flanked by adenosines, indicates that thousands of human genes are microRNA targets	Lewis BP, et al.	Cell	2005
2	3,671	The C-Elegans heterochronic gene Lin-4 encodes small RNAs with antisense complementarity to Lin-14	Lee RC, et al.	Cell	1993
3	3,512	MicroRNA expression profiles classify human cancers	Lu J, et al.	Nature	2005
4	2,337	Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq	Mortazavi A, et al.	Nature Methods	2008
5	2,291	A microRNA expression signature of human solid tumors defines cancer gene targets	Volinia S, et al.	PNAS	2006
6	2,168	Microarray analysis shows that some microRNAs downregulate large numbers of target mRNAs	Lim LP, et al.	Nature	2005
7	2,151	Prediction of mammalian microRNA targets	Lewis BP et al.	Cell	2003
8	2,009	Identification of novel genes coding for small expressed RNAs	Lagos-Quintana M et al.	Science	2001
9	1,954	Combinatorial microRNA target predictions	Krek A et al.	Nature Genetics	2005
10	1,851	The nuclear RNase III drosha initiates microRNA processing	Lee Y et al.	Nature	2003