TABLE 3.
Ranking of the top 20 highest cited references.
| Rank | Title | Journal | Total citations | Publication year | First author |
| 1 | The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis | Physiological Reviews | 918 | 2019 | John F. Cryan |
| 2 | Regulation of prefrontal cortex myelination by the microbiota | Translational Psychiatry | 307 | 2016 | A E Hoban |
| 3 | The gut microbiome from patients with schizophrenia modulates the glutamate-glutamine-GABA cycle and schizophrenia-relevant behaviors in mice | Science Advances | 223 | 2019 | Peng Zheng |
| 4 | Analysis of microbiota in first episode psychosis identifies preliminary associations with symptom severity and treatment response | Schizophrenia Research | 155 | 2018 | Emanuel Schwarz |
| 5 | Discordant patterns of bacterial translocation markers and implications for innate immune imbalances in schizophrenia | Schizophrenia Research | 147 | 2013 | Emily G Severance |
| 6 | The microbiome, immunity, and schizophrenia and bipolar disorder | Brain Behavior and Immunity | 132 | 2017 | Faith Dickerson |
| 7 | Cross Talk: The Microbiota and Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Frontiers In Neuroscience | 129 | 2017 | John R Kelly |
| 8 | Analysis of gut microbiota diversity and auxiliary diagnosis as a biomarker in patients with schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study | Schizophrenia Research | 127 | 2018 | Yang Shen |
| 9 | Autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal disorders and the microbiome in schizophrenia: more than a gut feeling | Schizophrenia Research | 124 | 2016 | Emily G Severance |
| 10 | Brain-Gut-Microbiota Axis and Mental Health | Psychosomatic Medicine | 122 | 2017 | Timothy G Dinan |
| 11 | Genomics of schizophrenia: time to consider the gut microbiome? | Molecular Psychiatry | 113 | 2014 | Timothy G Dinan |
| 12 | Microbiome, inflammation, epigenetic alterations, and mental diseases | American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics | 106 | 2017 | Reza Alam |
| 13 | The Antipsychotic Olanzapine Interacts with the Gut Microbiome to Cause Weight Gain in Mouse | Plos One | 98 | 2014 | Andrew P Morgan |
| 14 | Overview and systematic review of studies of microbiome in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder | Journal Of Psychiatric Research | 97 | 2018 | Tanya T Nguyen |
| 15 | Gastroenterology Issues in Schizophrenia: Why the Gut Matters | Current Psychiatry Reports | 96 | 2015 | Emily G Severance |
| 16 | The role of microbes and autoimmunity in the pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric illness | Current Opinion in Rheumatology | 92 | 2013 | Mady Hornig |
| 17 | Programming Bugs: Microbiota and the Developmental Origins of Brain Health and Disease | Biological Psychiatry | 88 | 2019 | Martin G Codagnone |
| 18 | Differences in gut microbiome composition between persons with chronic schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects | Schizophrenia Research | 85 | 2019 | Tanya T Nguyen |
| 19 | Metagenome-wide association of gut microbiome features for schizophrenia | Nature Communications | 84 | 2020 | Feng Zhu |
| 20 | Transplantation of microbiota from drug-free patients with schizophrenia causes schizophrenia-like abnormal behaviors and dysregulated kynurenine metabolism in mice | Molecular Psychiatry | 80 | 2020 | Feng Zhu |