Los "top" de Nature 2012

La prestigiosa revista "Nature" ofrece una lista de 30 publicaciones significativas de 2012 y su impacto en los lectores. Algunos de dichos asuntos se han reseñado en codondesastre
pero la aparición de los "top" tiene por objetivo ofrecer una visión global de lo más trendy en ciencia.

1. The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly(2,142 people tweeting; 9 on blogs; 3 reddit posts; 131 Facebook posts and 9 G+ direct DOI links).
2. Association of coffee drinking with total and cause-specific mortality (1,620; 4; 11; 40; 18)
3. Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women (a 1996 paper) (1,594; 6; 1; 90; 2)
4. Food for thought. What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions (a 2009 paper) (1,606; 0; 0; 0; 0)
5. Bright minds and dark attitudes: lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice through right-wing ideology and low intergroup contact
   (1,411; 11; 4; 38; 25)
6. Unilateral dermatoheliosis (1,124; 6; 1; 102; 57)
7. Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (1,218; 3; 9; 7; 12)
8. Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students (1,029; 8; 21; 89; 32)
9. Measuring the evolution of contemporary western popular music (908; 2; 5; 98; 23)
10. Classic Nintendo games are (NP-)hard (904; 9; 4; 10; 62).
11. An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome (730 readers)
12. A whole-cell computational model predicts phenotype from genotype (569)
13. Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks [protocols paper] (492)
14. Is cancer a metabolic rebellion against host aging? In the quest for immortality, tumor cells try to save themselves by boosting mitochondrial metabolism [perspective] (477)
15. Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere [review] (426)
16. Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall (410)
17. Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity [review] (389)
18. Landscape of transcription in human cells (377)
19. Combined search for the Standard Model Higgs boson using up to 4.9 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC  (140 citations).
20. Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV (128)
21. Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay (104)
22. Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing (94)
23. The Pfam protein families database (90)
24. Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency (81)
25. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) (71)
26. Observation of reactor electron antineutrinos disappearance in the RENO experiment (66)
27. Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis (67)
28. Tandem polymer solar cells featuring a spectrally matched low-bandgap polymer (64)
29. The origin of extracellular fields and currents — EEG, ECoG, LFP and spikes  [review] (333)
30. Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data (330)