| The fourth age of research J Adams Nature 497 (7451), 557-560, 2013 | 630 | 2013 |
| The rise of research networks J Adams Nature 490 (7420), 335-336, 2012 | 501 | 2012 |
| Web of Science as a data source for research on scientific and scholarly activity C Birkle, DA Pendlebury, J Schnell, J Adams Quantitative Science Studies 1 (1), 363-376, 2020 | 325 | 2020 |
| Global Research Report Africa: April 2010 J Adams, C King, D Hook Thomson, 2010 | 212 | 2010 |
| International collaboration in science: The global map and the network L Leydesdorff, C Wagner, HW Park, J Adams arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0801, 2013 | 191 | 2013 |
| Early citation counts correlate with accumulated impact J Adams Scientometrics 63 (3), 567-581, 2005 | 183 | 2005 |
| International collaboration clusters in Africa J Adams, K Gurney, D Hook, L Leydesdorff Scientometrics 98 (1), 547-556, 2014 | 145 | 2014 |
| Global Research Report—Research and Collaboration in the New Geography of Science J Adams, C King, N Ma, V Singh Science Focus 5 (3), 1-13, 2010 | 132 | 2010 |
| Why are males bigger than females in pre-copula pairs of Gammarus pulex? J Adams, PJ Greenwood Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 13 (4), 239-241, 1983 | 128 | 1983 |
| Benchmarking international research J Adams Nature 396 (6712), 615-618, 1998 | 125 | 1998 |
| The definition and interpretation of guild structure in ecological communities J Adams The Journal of Animal Ecology, 43-59, 1985 | 120 | 1985 |
| Do altmetrics assess societal impact in a comparable way to case studies? An empirical test of the convergent validity of altmetrics based on data from the UK research … L Bornmann, R Haunschild, J Adams Journal of informetrics 13 (1), 325-340, 2019 | 110 | 2019 |
| Patterns of international collaboration for the UK and leading partners J Adams, K Gurney, S Marshall Science Focus 2 (6), 1-19, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
| The habitat and feeding ecology of woodland harvestmen (Opiliones) in England J Adams Oikos, 361-370, 1984 | 86 | 1984 |
| Academics or executives? Continuity and change in the roles of pro‐vice‐chancellors1 D Smith, J Adams Higher Education Quarterly 62 (4), 340-357, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
| Transovarial transmission and sex ratio distortion by a microsporidian parasite in a shrimp AM Dunn, J Adams, JE Smith Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 61 (3), 248-252, 1993 | 81 | 1993 |
| Bibliometric analysis of interdisciplinary research J Adams, L Jackson, S Marshall Report to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2007 | 80 | 2007 |
| Evolutionary aspects of environmental sex determination J Adams, P Greenwood, C Naylor International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 11 (2 …, 1987 | 78 | 1987 |
| Variation in sex determination in natural populations of a shrimp C Naylor, J Adams, PJ Greenwood Journal of Evolutionary Biology 1 (4), 355-368, 1988 | 75 | 1988 |
| Global research report J Adams, C King, N Ma Africa. Leeds, UK: Evidence, a Thomson Reuters business, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
