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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.

CRITICAL QUESTIONS FOR BIG DATA

5406 citations2012Information Communication & Society
danah boyd, Kate Crawford

The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and other scholars are clamoring for access to the massive quantities o…

Global prevalence of age-related macular degeneration and disease burden projection for 2020 and 2040: a systematic review and meta-analysis

5405 citations2014The Lancet Global Health
Wan Ling Wong, Xinyi Su, Xiang Li, Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, Ronald Klein

BACKGROUND: Numerous population-based studies of age-related macular degeneration have been reported around the world, with the results of some studies suggesting racial or ethnic differences in disease prevalence. Inte…

Fundamentals of Power Electronics

5404 citations2020Unknown source
Robert W. Erickson, Dragan Maksimović

This textbook is intended for use in introductory power electronics courses and related fields for both senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in converter circuits and electronics, control sy…

Controlling chaos

5404 citations1990Physical Review Letters
Edward Ott, Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke

It is shown that one can convert a chaotic attractor to any one of a large number of possible attracting time-periodic motions by making only small time-dependent perturbations of an available system parameter. The meth…

Semiconducting Tin and Lead Iodide Perovskites with Organic Cations: Phase Transitions, High Mobilities, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescent Properties

5403 citations2013Inorganic Chemistry
Constantinos C. Stoumpos, Christos D. Malliakas, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

A broad organic-inorganic series of hybrid metal iodide perovskites with the general formulation AMI3, where A is the methylammonium (CH3NH3(+)) or formamidinium (HC(NH2)2(+)) cation and M is Sn (1 and 2) or Pb (3 and 4…

Toward a Theory of Social Practices

5403 citations2002European Journal of Social Theory
Andreas Reckwitz

This article works out the main characteristics of `practice theory', a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others. Practice theory is presented…

The quickhull algorithm for convex hulls

5403 citations1996ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
C. Bradford Barber, David Dobkin, Hannu Huhdanpaa

The convex hull of a set of points is the smallest convex set that contains the points. This article presents a practical convex hull algorithm that combines the two-dimensional Quickhull algorithm with the general-dime…

Cellular Solids

5402 citations1997Cambridge University Press eBooks
Lorna J. Gibson, Michael F. Ashby

In this new edition of their classic work on Cellular Solids, the authors have brought the book completely up to date, including new work on processing of metallic and ceramic foams and on the mechanical, electrical and…

Prions

5399 citations1998Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Stanley B. Prusiner

Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present as genetic, infectious, or sporadic disorders, a…

Economic Forces and the Stock Market

5399 citations1986The Journal of Business
Nai‐Fu Chen, Richard Roll, Stephen A. Ross

This paper tests whether innovations in macroeconomic variables are risks that are rewarded in the stock market. Financial theory suggests that the following macroeconomic variables should systematically affect stock ma…

Attosecond physics

5396 citations2009Reviews of Modern Physics
Ferenc Krausz, Misha Ivanov

Intense ultrashort light pulses comprising merely a few wave cycles became routinely available by the turn of the millennium. The technologies underlying their production and measurement as well as relevant theoretical…

PD-1 and Its Ligands in Tolerance and Immunity

5395 citations2008Annual Review of Immunology
Mary Keir, Manish J. Butte, Gordon J. Freeman, Arlene H. Sharpe

Programmed death 1 (PD-1) and its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, deliver inhibitory signals that regulate the balance between T cell activation, tolerance, and immunopathology. Immune responses to foreign and self-antigens r…

STABLE ISOTOPES IN ECOSYSTEM STUDIES

5391 citations1987Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
Bruce J. Peterson, Brian Fry

▪ Abstract The literature on effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity is huge. It is also very diverse, with different authors measuring fragmentation in different ways and, as a consequence, drawing different c…

Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control.

5388 citations1978Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician)
O. D. Anderson, George E. P. Box, Gwilym M. Jenkins

Oliver D. Anderson, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 27, No. 3/4, Partial Proceedings of the 1978 I.O.S. Annual Conference on Time Series Analysis (and Forecasting) (Sep. - Dec…

Stochastic resonance

5386 citations1998Reviews of Modern Physics
L. Gammaitoni, Peter Hänggi, Peter Jung, Fabio Marchesoni

Over the last two decades, stochastic resonance has continuously attracted considerable attention. The term is given to a phenomenon that is manifest in nonlinear systems whereby generally feeble input information (such…

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

5381 citations2008Cladistics
Pablo A. Goloboff, James S. Farris, Kevin C. Nixon

Abstract The main features of the phylogeny program TNT are discussed. Windows versions have a menu interface, while Macintosh and Linux versions are command‐driven. The program can analyze data sets with discrete (addi…

A mechanism of magnetic hysteresis in heterogeneous alloys

5378 citations1948Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Edmund C. Stoner, E.P. Wohlfarth

Abstract The Becker-Kersten treatment of domain boundary movements is widely applicable in the interpretation of magnetization curves, but it does not account satisfactorily for the higher coercivities obtained, for exa…

Labor and Monopoly Capital

5376 citations1974Monthly Review
Harry Braverman

This book first took shape in my mind as little more than a study of occupational shifts in the United States. I was interested in the structure of the working class, and the manner in which it had changed. That portion…

Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras

5375 citations1990Cambridge University Press eBooks
Victor G. Kač

This is the third, substantially revised edition of this important monograph. The book is concerned with Kac–Moody algebras, a particular class of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and their representations. It is base…

Cognitive Reflection and Decision Making

5374 citations2005The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Shane Frederick

This paper introduces a three-item “Cognitive Reflection Test” (CRT) as a simple measure of one type of cognitive ability—the ability or disposition to reflect on a question and resist reporting the first response that…

Statistical Inference

5371 citations1993Biometrics
George Casella, Roger L. Berger

This classic textbook builds theoretical statistics from the first principles of probability theory. Starting from the basics of probability, the authors develop the theory of statistical inference using techniques, def…

Continuous control with deep reinforcement learning

5370 citations2015arXiv (Cornell University)
Timothy Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Heess, Tom Erez

We adapt the ideas underlying the success of Deep Q-Learning to the continuous action domain. We present an actor-critic, model-free algorithm based on the deterministic policy gradient that can operate over continuous…

States and Social Revolutions

5369 citations1979Cambridge University Press eBooks
Theda Skocpol

State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. From France in the 1790s to Viet…

Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

5368 citations20212021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Mathilde Caron, Hugo Touvron, Ishan Misra, Hervé Jeǵou, Julien Mairal

In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) [16] that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets). Beyond the fact that adapting self-supervised…

Feature Selection with the Boruta Package

5366 citations2010Journal of Statistical Software
Miron B. Kursa, Witold R. Rudnicki

This article describes a R package Boruta, implementing a novel feature selection algorithm for finding emph{all relevant variables}. The algorithm is designed as a wrapper around a Random Forest classification algorith…

Creating Capabilities

5365 citations2011Harvard University Press eBooks
Martha C. Nussbaum

If a country’s Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely o…