Dakota USA 1 REVIEW Aging and energetics' 'Top 40' future research opportunities 2010-2013 [v1; ref status: indexed, Abstract : As part of a coordinated effort to expand our research activity at Background the interface of Aging and Energetics a team of investigators at The University of Alabama at Birmingham systematically assayed and catalogued the top research priorities identified in leading publications in that domain, believing the result would be useful to the scientific community at large. To identify research priorities and opportunities in the domain of Objective: aging and energetics as advocated in the 40 most cited papers related to aging and energetics in the last 4 years. The investigators conducted a search for papers on aging and Design: energetics in Scopus, ranked the resulting papers by number of times they were cited, and selected the ten most-cited papers in each of the four years that include 2010 to 2013, inclusive.