These tables show the primary research papers on reproductive biology published between 2005 and 2007 that have the highest number of citations in the literature. To create them, we queried the Scopus database (http://www.scopus.com/) for articles that included terms related to reproductive biology in the title, abstract or keywords. After selecting the papers with the most citations, we removed reviews and articles not directly relevant to reproductive biology. We then sorted the papers depending on whether they were experimental studies or clinical or epidemiological reports. The number of citations is accurate as of 17 October 2008. The tables include every paper that has been cited at least 70, 60 and 25 times (2005, 2006 and 2007 tables, respectively).
By contrast to what we found in previous analyses, this time we needed to be slightly more arbitrary in terms of what papers to include. So we left out some papers that were strictly developmental or that focused on aspects of reproduction such as menopause. We are nevertheless confident that the papers that ended up in the tables provide a reliable picture of the current landscape of reproductive biomedicine.
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