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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.

Biofilms: Microbial Life on Surfaces

4863 citations2002Emerging infectious diseases
Rodney M. Donlan

Microorganisms attach to surfaces and develop biofilms. Biofilm-associated cells can be differentiated from their suspended counterparts by generation of an extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) matrix, reduced growth…

Prokaryotes: The unseen majority

4863 citations1998Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
William B. Whitman, David C. Coleman, W. J. Wiebe

The number of prokaryotes and the total amount of their cellular carbon on earth are estimated to be 4-6 x 10(30) cells and 350-550 Pg of C (1 Pg = 10(15) g), respectively. Thus, the total amount of prokaryotic carbon i…

Unrealistic optimism about future life events.

4863 citations1980Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Neil D. Weinstein

Two studies investigated the tendency of people to be unrealistically optimistic about future life events. In Study 1, 258 college students estimated how much their own chances of experiencing 42 events differed from th…

Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR)

4861 citations2003Unknown source
Thomas Clausen, Philippe Jacquet, Adjih, Cédric, Laouiti, Anis, Minet, Pascale

This document describes the Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. The protocol is an optimization of the classical link state algorithm tailored to the requirements of a mobile wireles…

Spectral Analysis and Time Series

4860 citations1983Technometrics
David B. Preston

Preface. Preface to Volume 2. Contents of Volume 2. List of Main Notation. Basic Concepts. Elements of Probability Theory. Stationary Random Processes. Spectral Analysis. Estimation in the Time Domain. Estimation in the…

Human Nature and the Social Order

4859 citations2017Unknown source
Charles Horton Cooley

This work remains a pioneer sociological treatise on American culture. By understanding the individual not as the product of society but as its mirror image, Cooley concludes that the social order cannot be imposed from…

The Hadoop Distributed File System

4859 citations2010Unknown source
Konstantin V. Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, Robert J. Chansler

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is designed to store very large data sets reliably, and to stream those data sets at high bandwidth to user applications. In a large cluster, thousands of servers both host dire…

The Economics of Welfare

4857 citations1933The Economic Journal
A. C. Pigou, Nahid Aslanbeigui

The Economics of Welfare occupies a privileged position in economics. It contributed to the professionalization of economics, a goal aggressively and effectively pursued by Pigou's predecessor and teacher Alfred Marshal…

Principles of geostatistics

4849 citations1963Economic Geology
G. Matheron

Knowledge of ore grades and ore reserves as well as error estimation of these values, is fundamental for mining engineers and mining geologists. Until now no appropriate scientific approach to those estimation problems…

Upper Echelons Theory: An Update

4848 citations2007Academy of Management Review
Donald C. Hambrick

The central premise of upper echelons theory is that executives' experiences, values, and personalities greatly influence their interpretations of the situations they face and, in turn, affect their choices. At the invi…

Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory

4847 citations2011Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Kirk I. Erickson, Michelle W. Voss, Ruchika Shaurya Prakash, Chandramallika Basak, Amanda N. Szabo‐Reed

The hippocampus shrinks in late adulthood, leading to impaired memory and increased risk for dementia. Hippocampal and medial temporal lobe volumes are larger in higher-fit adults, and physical activity training increas…

Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice

4846 citations1985Marketing Science
Richard H. Thaler

A new model of consumer behavior is developed using a hybrid of cognitive psychology and microeconomics. The development of the model starts with the mental coding of combinations of gains and losses using the prospect…

The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)

4845 citations2004International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
Ronald C. Kessler, T. Bedirhan Üstün

This paper presents an overview of the World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative version of the World Health Organization (WHO) Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and a discussion of the methodologica…

Theory of Impulsive Differential Equations

4845 citations1989WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
V. Lakshmikantham, Д. Д. Байнов, Pavel Simeonov

Many evolution processes are characterized by the fact that at certain moments of time they experience a change of state abruptly. These processes are subject to short-term perturbations whose duration is negligible in…

Flavonoids as Antioxidants

4843 citations2000Journal of Natural Products
Piergiorgio Pietta

Flavonoids are phenolic substances isolated from a wide range of vascular plants, with over 8000 individual compounds known. They act in plants as antioxidants, antimicrobials, photoreceptors, visual attractors, feeding…

Research Methods in Education

4840 citations2002Unknown source
Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison

This is a new edition of one of our best-selling textbooks. The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in IC…

IL-17 and Th17 Cells

4837 citations2009Annual Review of Immunology
Thomas Korn, Estelle Bettelli, Mohamed Oukka, Vijay K. Kuchroo

CD4+ T cells, upon activation and expansion, develop into different T helper cell subsets with different cytokine profiles and distinct effector functions. Until recently, T cells were divided into Th1 or Th2 cells, dep…

The tension of metallic films deposited by electrolysis

4837 citations1909Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
G. Stoney

Abstract It is well known that metallic films deposited electrolytically are in many cases liable to peel off if deposited to any considerable thickness. This is the case with nickel which, when deposited over a certain…

Qualitative Content Analysis

4835 citations2008Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin)
Philipp Mayring

The article describes an approach of systematic, rule guided qualitative text analysis, which tries to preserve some methodological strengths of quantitative content analysis and widen them to a concept of qualitative p…

Governing the Market

4835 citations1990Princeton University Press eBooks
Robert Wade

Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy. In it, Wade challenged claims both of those who saw the Ea…