Citation: Richard Van Noorden, Brendan Maher, Regina Nuzzo (2014/10/30) The top 100 papers. Nature 514 (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1038/514550a
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1038/514550a
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Summary

The top 100 contains a few famous discoveries, but mostly papers introducing methods which have become standard
Confounding factors:
- Important discoveries become common knowledge (textbooks) and not cited.
- Older papers have had more time to accrue citations.
- Some fields has more citations.
- Some fields have more publications.
Many papers have no citations.

The top 100 papers