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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.

Introduction to Statistical Quality Control

7908 citations1992Technometrics
Roger Sauter, Douglas C. Montgomery

Quality Improvement in the Modern Business Environment.STAISTICAL METHODS USEFUL IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.Modeling Process Quality.Inferences About Process Quality.BASIC METHODS OF STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL AND CAPABILI…

Surface energy and the contact of elastic solids

7904 citations1971Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Kenneth L. Johnson, Kevin Kendall, A. D. Roberts

Abstract This paper discusses the influence of surface energy on the contact between elastic solids. Equations are derived for its effect upon the contact size and the force of adhesion between two lightly loaded spheri…

Metal–organic framework materials as catalysts

7902 citations2009Chemical Society Reviews
Jeong‐Yong Lee, Omar K. Farha, John M. Roberts, Karl A. Scheidt, SonBinh T. Nguyen

A critical review of the emerging field of MOF-based catalysis is presented. Discussed are examples of: (a) opportunistic catalysis with metal nodes, (b) designed catalysis with framework nodes, (c) catalysis by homogen…

Social Choice and Individual Values.

7896 citations1951Economica
G. L. S. Shackle, Kenneth J. Arrow

Originally published in 1951, Social Choice and Individual Values introduced Impossibility Theorem and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new fore…

Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000:  A National Reconnaissance

7896 citations2002Environmental Science & Technology
Dana W. Kolpin, Edward T. Furlong, Michael T. Meyer, E. Michael Thurman, Steven D. Zaugg

To provide the first nationwide reconnaissance of the occurrence of pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants (OWCs) in water resources, the U.S. Geological Survey used five newly developed an…

The Physiology of Reproduction

7881 citations1988Annals of Internal Medicine
Marc Legendre, Bernard Jalabert

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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

7872 citations2008Nature
Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady, Tanya Yatsunenko, Brandi L. Cantarel, Alexis E. Duncan

The many 'friendly' microbes that inhabit the human gut have been implicated in numerous health-related issues, in particular those involving digestion and susceptibility to infection. A study of the faecal microbial co…

Effects of Intensive Glucose Lowering in Type 2 Diabetes

7871 citations2008New England Journal of Medicine
Hertzel C Gerstein, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Michael E. Miller, Robert P. Byington, David C. Goff

BACKGROUND: Epidemiologic studies have shown a relationship between glycated hemoglobin levels and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether intensive therapy to target normal glyca…

The Attention System of the Human Brain

7865 citations1990Annual Review of Neuroscience
Michael I. Posner, Steven E. Petersen

The brain's default mode network consists of discrete, bilateral and symmetrical cortical areas, in the medial and lateral parietal, medial prefrontal, and medial and lateral temporal cortices of the human, nonhuman pri…

Network information flow

7860 citations2000IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai, Shuo Li, Raymond W. Yeung

We introduce a new class of problems called network information flow which is inspired by computer network applications. Consider a point-to-point communication network on which a number of information sources are to be…

Reporting results of cancer treatment

7859 citations1981Cancer
A. B. Miller, Barth Hoogstraten, M. Staquet, Ashley E. Winkler

On the initiative of the World Health Organization, two meetings on the Standardization of Reporting Results of Cancer Treatment have been held with representatives and members of several organizations. Recommendations…

Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics

7855 citations2000Unknown source
Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar

Abstract This book presents the statistical methods that are useful in the study of molecular evolution and illustrates how to use them in actual data analysis. Molecular evolution has been developing at a great pace ov…

Social Capital: Prospects for a New Concept

7853 citations2002Academy of Management Review
Paul S. Adler, Seok‐Woo Kwon

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for answers to a broadening range of questions being confronted i…

Central Problems in Social Theory

7852 citations1979Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks
Anthony Giddens

<JATS1:p>In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interp…

Human gut microbiome viewed across age and geography

7842 citations2012Nature
Tanya Yatsunenko, Federico E. Rey, Mark Manary, Indi Trehan, Maria Gloria Domínguez-Bello

Gut microbial communities represent one source of human genetic and metabolic diversity. To examine how gut microbiomes differ among human populations, here we characterize bacterial species in fecal samples from 531 in…

The Bargaining Problem

7838 citations1950Econometrica
John F. Nash

A new treatment is presented of a classical economic problem, one which occurs in many forms, as bargaining, bilateral monopoly, etc. It may also be regarded as a nonzero-sum two-person game. In this treatment a few gen…

Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O<sub>1-</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i>F<i><sub>x</sub></i>]FeAs (<i>x</i> = 0.05−0.12) with <i>T</i><sub>c</sub> = 26 K

7837 citations2008Journal of the American Chemical Society
Yoichi Kamihara, Takumi Watanabe, Masahiro Hirano, Hideo Hosono

We report that a layered iron-based compound LaOFeAs undergoes superconducting transition under doping with F- ions at the O2- site. The transition temperature (Tc) exhibits a trapezoid shape dependence on the F- conten…

The Mathematical Theory Of Plasticity

7823 citations1998Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
R. Hill

Abstract First published in 1950, this important book details the mathematical theory underlying the behaviour of plastic materials, especially metals. ‘the author has done his work so well that it is difficult to see h…

A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice

7818 citations1972Administrative Science Quarterly
Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen

Organized anarchies are organizations characterized by problematic preferences, unclear technology, and fluid participation. Recent studies of universities, a familiar form of organized anarchy, suggest that such organi…

Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora

7810 citations2005Science
Paul B. Eckburg, Elisabeth M. Bik, Çharles N. Bernstein, Elizabeth Purdom, Les Dethlefsen

The human endogenous intestinal microflora is an essential "organ" in providing nourishment, regulating epithelial development, and instructing innate immunity; yet, surprisingly, basic features remain poorly described.…

Physical Properties of Crystals

7810 citations2007Materials Today
Nye, John F

First published in 1957, this classic study has been reissued in a paperback version that includes an additional chapter bringing the material up to date. The author formulates the physical properties of crystals system…

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

7807 citations2013Unknown source
Popper, Karl Raimund

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism'…

The Cultural Politics of Emotion

7802 citations2014Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Sara Ahmed

A bold take on the crucial role of emotion in politics GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN: 9780748691135','ISBN: 9780748691442']); What do emotions do? How do emotions move us or get us stuck? In developing a theory of…

Pattern formation outside of equilibrium

7791 citations1993Reviews of Modern Physics
M. C. Cross, P. C. Hohenberg

A comprehensive review of spatiotemporal pattern formation in systems driven away from equilibrium is presented, with emphasis on comparisons between theory and quantitative experiments. Examples include patterns in hyd…

Methods of Seawater Analysis

7786 citations1999Unknown source

Sampling and Sampling Techniques. Filtration and Storage. Determination of Salinity. Determination of Oxygen. Determination of Hydrogen Sulphide. Determination of Thiosulphate and Sulfur. Determination of pH. Determinat…

Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice

7786 citations1995Unknown source
Walter R. Gilks, Sylvia Richardson, David J. Spiegelhalter

In a family study of breast cancer, epidemiologists in Southern California increase the power for detecting a gene-environment interaction. In Gambia, a study helps a vaccination program reduce the incidence of Hepatiti…

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

7781 citations2016The Lancet
Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Ashkan Afshin, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national an…

Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges

7775 citations2016IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Weisong Shi, Jie Cao, Quan Zhang, Youhuizi Li, Lanyu Xu

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) and the success of rich cloud services have pushed the horizon of a new computing paradigm, edge computing, which calls for processing the data at the edge of the network. E…