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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.

A Simple Model of Herd Behavior

6539 citations1992The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abhijit Banerjee

We analyze a sequential decision model in which each decision maker looks at the decisions made by previous decision makers in taking her own decision. This is rational for her because these other decision makers may ha…

Physical Activity and Public Health

6536 citations2007Circulation
William L. Haskell, I‐Min Lee, Russell R. Pate, Kenneth E. Powell, S. N. Blair

SUMMARY: In 1995 the American College of Sports Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published national guidelines on Physical Activity and Public Health. The Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Reh…

A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

6530 citations2010Diversity and Distributions
Jane Elith, Steven J. Phillips, Trevor Hastie, Miroslav Dudı́k, Yung En Chee

MaxEnt is a program for modelling species distributions from presence-only species records. This paper is written for ecologists and describes the MaxEnt model from a statistical perspective, making explicit links betwe…

Digital communications

6529 citations1994Unknown source
L. A. A. Warnes

THERE IS effectively an infinite range of values available for the encoded signal in analogue modulation methods like AM and FM. The same can be said for the analogue pulse-modulation techniques, PAM, PWM and PPM. Digit…

Linear methods in band theory

6524 citations1975Physical review. B, Solid state
OK Andersen

Two approximate methods for solving the band-structure problem in an efficient and physically transparent way are presented and discussed in detail. The variational principle for the one-electron Hamiltonian is used in…

Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

6522 citations2017The Lancet
Aaron J. Cohen, Michael Bräuer, Richard Burnett, H Ross Anderson, Joseph Frostad

BackgroundExposure to ambient air pollution increases morbidity and mortality, and is a leading contributor to global disease burden. We explored spatial and temporal trends in mortality and burden of disease attributab…

THF EARLY STAGES OF ABSORPTION OF INJECTED HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE IN THE PROXIMAL TUBULES OF MOUSE KIDNEY: ULTRASTRUCTURAL CYTOCHEMISTRY BY A NEW TECHNIQUE

6510 citations1966Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
Richard C. Graham, Morris J. Karnovsky

The early stages of absorption of intravenously injected horseradish peroxidase in proximal tubules of mouse kidney were studied with a new ultrastructural cytochemical technique. In animals killed as early as 90 sec af…

Pfam: the protein families database

6509 citations2013Nucleic Acids Research
ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman, Jody Clements, Penelope Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt

Pfam, available via servers in the UK (http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/) and the USA (http://pfam.janelia.org/), is a widely used database of protein families, containing 14 831 manually curated entries in the current release,…

Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election

6509 citations2017The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow

Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. We discuss the economics of fake news and present new d…

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

6501 citations1996Cambridge University Press eBooks
B. D. Ripley

This 1996 book is a reliable account of the statistical framework for pattern recognition and machine learning. With unparalleled coverage and a wealth of case-studies this book gives valuable insight into both the theo…

The Authoritarian Personality

6500 citations2001Unknown source
T. W. Adorno, E. Frenkel-Brunswick, David Levinson, Robert Sandford

A new edition of this classic study of the origins of anti-Semitism Bringing together the findings of psychoanalysis and social science, this book grew out of an urgent commitment to study the origins of anti-Semitism i…

Modern Methods for Business Research

6499 citations1998Psychology Press eBooks
George A. Marcoulides

This volume introduces the latest popular methods for conducting business research. The goal of each chapter author--a leading authority in a particular subject area--is to provide an understanding of each method with a…

Classification And Regression Trees

6499 citations2017Unknown source
Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman, Richard A. Olshen, Charles J. Stone

The methodology used to construct tree structured rules is the focus of this monograph. Unlike many other statistical procedures, which moved from pencil and paper to calculators, this text's use of trees was unthinkabl…

Mesenchymal stem cells

6490 citations1991Journal of Orthopaedic Research®
Arnold I. Caplan

Bone and cartilage formation in the embryo and repair and turnover in the adult involve the progeny of a small number of cells called mesenchymal stem cells. These cells divide, and their progeny become committed to a s…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

6489 citations2007Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
Amy Branum

Objectives. We evaluated whether the decline of the racial disparity in preterm birth during the last decade was commensurate with a decline in the contribution of preterm birth to the infant mortality gap. Methods. We…

Enumerative Combinatorics

6486 citations1997Cambridge University Press eBooks
Richard P. Stanley, Gian‐Carlo Rota

This book is the first of a two-volume basic introduction to enumerative combinatorics at a level suitable for graduate students and research mathematicians. It concentrates on the theory and application of generating f…

Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

6471 citations2001IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Frank R. Kschischang, Brendan J. Frey, Hans‐Andrea Loeliger

Algorithms that must deal with complicated global functions of many variables often exploit the manner in which the given functions factor as a product of "local" functions, each of which depends on a subset of the vari…

The Eighth Edition <scp>AJCC</scp> Cancer Staging Manual: Continuing to build a bridge from a population‐based to a more “personalized” approach to cancer staging

6465 citations2017CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Mahul B. Amin, Frederick L. Greene, Stephen B. Edge, Carolyn C. Compton, Jeffrey E. Gershenwald

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging manual has become the benchmark for classifying patients with cancer, defining prognosis, and determining the best treatment approaches. Many view the primary role o…

Nano based drug delivery systems: recent developments and future prospects

6462 citations2018Journal of Nanobiotechnology
Jayanta Kumar Patra, Gitishree Das, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto, Estefânia Vangelie Ramos Campos, María del Pilar Rodríguez-Torres

Nanomedicine and nano delivery systems are a relatively new but rapidly developing science where materials in the nanoscale range are employed to serve as means of diagnostic tools or to deliver therapeutic agents to sp…