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Top cited papers, continuously indexable.

This page pulls one slice of the highest-cited DOI-backed works from OpenAlex and links every result to its branded resea.org DOI page. It exists to create crawl paths, not just a single vanity landing.

Cancer statistics, 2016

16177 citations2016CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Rebecca L. Siegel, Kimberly D. Miller, Ahmedin Jemal

Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and…

Binary Alloy Phase Diagrams

16141 citations2016ASM International eBooks
Massalski, Tadeusz B. 1926-

Abstract This article provides a discussion on binary alloy phase diagrams published in this handbook. All diagrams presented are for stable equilibrium conditions, except where metastable conditions are indicated.

The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology

16134 citations1993JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
N.K. Aaronson, Sam H. Ahmedzai, Bengt Bergman, Monika Bullinger, A. Cull

BACKGROUND: In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach for evaluating the quality of life of patients particip…

Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

16115 citations2012American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Jørgen Vestbo, Suzanne S. Hurd, Àlvar Agustí, Paul Jones, Claus Vogelmeier

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a global health problem, and since 2001, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published its strategy document for the diagnosis and manage…

"Why Should I Trust You?"

16016 citations2016Unknown source
Marco Túlio Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, Carlos Guestrin

Despite widespread adoption, machine learning models remain mostly black boxes. Understanding the reasons behind predictions is, however, quite important in assessing trust, which is fundamental if one plans to take act…

A Ladder Of Citizen Participation

15991 citations1969Journal of the American Institute of Planners
Sherry R. Arnstein

The heated controversy over “citizen participation,” “citizen control”, and “maximum feasible involvement of the poor,” has been waged largely in terms of exacerbated rhetoric and misleading euphemisms. To encourage a m…

Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts

15966 citations1998Science
James A. Thomson, Joseph Itskovitz‐Eldor, Sander S. Shapiro, Michelle Waknitz, Jennifer J. Swiergiel

Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but…

Development as Freedom

15959 citations2009Unknown source
Amartya Sen

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they ar…

The Art of Case Study Research

15932 citations1996Modern Language Journal
Karen E. Johnson, Robert E. Stake

Introduction An Intensive Study of Case Study Research Methods The Unique Case Research Questions The Nature of Qualitative Research Data Gathering Analysis and Interpretation Case Researcher Roles Triangulation Writing…

Self—Consistent Molecular Orbital Methods. XII. Further Extensions of Gaussian—Type Basis Sets for Use in Molecular Orbital Studies of Organic Molecules

15911 citations1972The Journal of Chemical Physics
Warren J. Hehre, R. Ditchfield, John A. Pople

Two extended basis sets (termed 5–31G and 6–31G) consisting of atomic orbitals expressed as fixed linear combinations of Gaussian functions are presented for the first row atoms carbon to fluorine. These basis functions…

Least squares quantization in PCM

15840 citations1982IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Sheelagh Lloyd

It has long been realized that in pulse-code modulation (PCM), with a given ensemble of signals to handle, the quantum values should be spaced more closely in the voltage regions where the signal amplitude is more likel…

Pyramid Scene Parsing Network

15813 citations2017Unknown source
Hengshuang Zhao, Jianping Shi, Xiaojuan Qi, Xiaogang Wang, Jiaya Jia

Scene parsing is challenging for unrestricted open vocabulary and diverse scenes. In this paper, we exploit the capability of global context information by different-region-based context aggregation through our pyramid…

Sensemaking in Organizations

15791 citations1996Academy of Management Review
Dennis A. Gioia, Ajay Mehra, Karl E. Weick

The Nature of Sensemaking Seven Properties of Sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sensemaking Belief-Driven Processes of Sensemaking Action-Driven Processes of Sensemaking…

Standardisation of spirometry

15780 citations2005European Respiratory Journal
Martin R. Miller, J. Hankinson, Vito Brusasco, Felip Burgos, Richard Casaburi

This is a document produced by a joint ATS-ERS Task Force on lung function testing to provide new combined standards for Spirometry. It walks the reader through all the important elements of the test, from instrument to…

Reassembling the Social

15767 citations2005Unknown source
Bruno Latour

Abstract Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world’s leading social theorists to how we understand society and the ‘social ‘. Bruno Latour’s contention is that the word ‘social’, as used b…

Normalized cuts and image segmentation

15758 citations2000IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Jianbo Shi, Jitendra Malik

We propose a novel approach for solving the perceptual grouping problem in vision. Rather than focusing on local features and their consistencies in the image data, our approach aims at extracting the global impression…

Job Market Signaling

15747 citations1973The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Michael Spence

1. Introduction, 355. — 2. Hiring as investment under uncertainty, 356. — 3. Applicant signaling, 358. — 4. Informational feedback and the definition of equilibrium, 359. — 5. Properties of informational equilibria: an…

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

15705 citations2020New England Journal of Medicine
Fernando P. Polack, Stephen J. Thomas, Nicholas Kitchin, Judith Absalon, Alejandra Gurtman

BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have afflicted tens of millions of people in a worldwide pandemic. Safe and effect…

Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

15580 citations2013UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Diederik P. Kingma, Max Welling

How can we perform efficient inference and learning in directed probabilistic models, in the presence of continuous latent variables with intractable posterior distributions, and large datasets? We introduce a stochasti…

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

15526 citations1997Foreign Affairs
Francis Fukuyama, Joseph A. Schumpeter

Introduction. Part I: The Marxian Doctrine. Prologue. I. Marx the Prophet. II. Marx the Sociologist. III. Marx the Economist. IV Marx the Teacher. Part II: Can Capitalism Survive? Prologue. V. The Rate of Increase of To…

A BEHAVIORAL MODEL OF RATIONAL CHOICE

15491 citations1955The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Herbert A. Simon

Introduction, 99. — I. Some general features of rational choice, 100.— II. The essential simplifications, 103. — III. Existence and uniqueness of solutions, 111. — IV. Further comments on dynamics, 113. — V. Conclusion,…

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

15456 citations1996Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
Sharon Zukin, Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the…

Structure validation in chemical crystallography

15420 citations2009Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography
Anthony L. Spek

Automated structure validation was introduced in chemical crystallography about 12 years ago as a tool to assist practitioners with the exponential growth in crystal structure analyses. Validation has since evolved into…

Parallel Distributed Processing

15403 citations1986The MIT Press eBooks
David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, AU

What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition…

Global Prevalence of Diabetes

15358 citations2004Diabetes Care
Sarah H. Wild, Gojka Roglić, Anders Green, Richard Sicree, Hilary King

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people of all ages with diabetes for years 2000 and 2030. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on diabetes prevalence by age an…