This week, 'Medisch Contact' releases an article on 'the best of clinical science: superior studies'. MC presents an overview of the most frequently quoted clinical scientific studies involving Dutch researchers. Co-author of the most frequently quoted publication for 2006 is Ale Algra, researcher at the Julius Centre: Aspirin plus dipyridamole versus aspirin alone after cerebral ischaemia of arterial origin (ESPRIT): randomised controlled trial.Julius researcher Michiel Bots appears as co-author in the list of 'hot papers 2007, ranking number 5 on the list of most frequently quoted publications: Effect of torcetrapib on carotid atherosclerosis in familial hypercholesterolemia.