Field · Environmental Science
Most cited papers in Environmental Science
What are the most cited papers in Environmental Science?
The most cited paper in Environmental Science is "Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4" (Ulrich K. Laemmli, 1970), with 252,153 citations. Next come "DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors" (69,512) and "MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets" (46,273).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 9,345 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4 Ulrich K. Laemmli · Nature | Aug 1970 | 252,153 |
| 2 | DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors Frederick Sanger, S. Nicklen, Alan R. Coulson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Dec 1977 | 69,512 |
| 3 | MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 22 Mar 2016 | 46,273 |
| 4 | QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data J. Gregory Caporaso et al. · Nature Methods | 11 Apr 2010 | 36,341 |
| 5 | The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse, Pelin Yilmaz et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 27 Nov 2012 | 35,094 |
| 6 | Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly · Genetics | Jun 2000 | 34,685 |
| 7 | Detection of specific sequences among DNA fragments separated by gel electrophoresis E.M. Southern · Journal of Molecular Biology | Nov 1975 | 32,849 |
| 8 | The ERA5 global reanalysis Hans Hersbach et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 17 May 2020 | 32,366 |
| 9 | Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities Norman Myers, Russell A. Mittermeier, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier et al. · Nature | Feb 2000 | 31,783 |
| 10 | SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing Anton Bankevich, Sergey Nurk, Dmitry Antipov et al. · Journal of Computational Biology | 16 Apr 2012 | 27,967 |
| 11 | A Closed‐form Equation for Predicting the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils Martinus Th. van Genuchten · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Sep 1980 | 27,905 |
| 12 | The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system Dick P. Dee et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | Apr 2011 | 26,509 |
| 13 | River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles J.E. Nash, John V. Sutcliffe · Journal of Hydrology | Apr 1970 | 24,392 |
| 14 | Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman | 1975 | 23,051 |
| 15 | Comparing the Areas under Two or More Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Nonparametric Approach Elizabeth R. DeLong, David M. DeLong, Daniel L. Clarke‐Pearson · Biometrics | Sep 1988 | 23,031 |
| 16 | The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Nature | May 1997 | 22,491 |
| 17 | Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 3 Oct 2009 | 22,073 |
| 18 | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Nasser M. Nasrabadi · Journal of Electronic Imaging | 2007 | 22,033 |
| 19 | Two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence models for engineering applications Florian R. Menter · AIAA Journal | Aug 1994 | 21,460 |
| 20 | A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters Jennifer E. Murphy, J.P. Riley · Analytica Chimica Acta | 1962 | 21,307 |
| 21 | Naive Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy Qiong Wang, George M Garrity, James M. Tiedje et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 22 Jun 2007 | 20,801 |
| 22 | Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas Robert J. Hijmans, Susan E. Cameron, Juan L. Parra et al. · International Journal of Climatology | 2005 | 20,328 |
| 23 | ORTEP-3 for Windows - a version ofORTEP-III with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Louis J. Farrugia · Journal of Applied Crystallography | Oct 1997 | 19,952 |
| 24 | Conducting Meta-Analyses in R with the metafor Package Wolfgang Viechtbauer · Journal of Statistical Software | 2010 | 19,468 |
| 25 | Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law · Science Advances | 7 Jul 2017 | 18,485 |
| 26 | Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson, Robert E. Schapire · Ecological Modelling | 18 Jul 2005 | 18,119 |
| 27 | WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas Stephen E. Fick, Robert J. Hijmans · International Journal of Climatology | 15 May 2017 | 17,637 |
| 28 | UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads R. C. Edgar · Nature Methods | 18 Aug 2013 | 17,573 |
| 29 | Pseudo-second order model for sorption processes Yuh‐Shan Ho, Gordon McKay · Process Biochemistry | Jul 1999 | 17,540 |
| 30 | XDS Wolfgang Kabsch · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography | 21 Jan 2010 | 17,173 |
| 31 | Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega Fabian Sievers, Andreas Wilm, David Dineen et al. · Molecular Systems Biology | 11 Oct 2011 | 16,563 |
| 32 | FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies Tanja Magoč, Steven L. Salzberg · Bioinformatics | 7 Sep 2011 | 16,123 |
| 33 | Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) Zhang, Kui, Wang, Jun, Ge, Yihao et al. · PubMed | 25 Mar 2022 | 15,805 |
| 34 | UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection R. C. Edgar, Brian J. Haas, José Carlos Clemente et al. · Bioinformatics | 23 Jun 2011 | 15,726 |
| 35 | One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli K-12 using PCR products Kirill A. Datsenko, Barry L. Wanner · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 30 May 2000 | 15,367 |
| 36 | A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Nathan Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1992 | 15,301 |
| 37 | Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors Celeste Yanisch-Perron, Jeffrey Vieira, Joachim W. Messing · Gene | 1985 | 15,189 |
| 38 | Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone Noel Gorelick, M. Hancher, Mike Dixon et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 6 Jul 2017 | 15,009 |
| 39 | Refinement of Macromolecular Structures by the Maximum-Likelihood Method Garib N. Murshudov, Alexey A. Vagin, E. J. Dodson · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography | May 1997 | 15,006 |
| 40 | A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA H. Chaim Birnboim, Janine Doly · Nucleic Acids Research | 24 Nov 1979 | 14,900 |
| 41 | An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design Karl E. Taylor, Ronald J. Stouffer, Gerald A. Meehl · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 7 Oct 2011 | 14,860 |
| 42 | Non‐parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure K.R. Clarke · Australian Journal of Ecology | Mar 1993 | 14,354 |
| 43 | trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, José M. Silla-Martínez, Toni Gabaldón · Bioinformatics | 8 Jun 2009 | 14,201 |
| 44 | UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age Cathie L. M. Sudlow, John Gallacher, Naomi E. Allen et al. · PLoS Medicine | 31 Mar 2015 | 13,925 |
| 45 | Mfold web server for nucleic acid folding and hybridization prediction Michael Zuker · Nucleic Acids Research | 24 Jun 2003 | 13,707 |
| 46 | Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations Daniel N. Moriasi, Jeffery G. Arnold, Mike W. Van Liew et al. · Transactions of the ASABE | 2007 | 13,590 |
| 47 | A new method for non‐parametric multivariate analysis of variance Marti Jane Anderson · Austral Ecology | Feb 2001 | 13,523 |
| 48 | CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes Donovan H. Parks, Michael Imelfort, Connor T. Skennerton et al. · Genome Research | 14 May 2015 | 13,397 |
| 49 | A safe operating space for humanity Johan Rockström et al. · Nature | 23 Sep 2009 | 13,302 |
| 50 | Global Consequences of Land Use Jonathan A. Foley, Ruth DeFries, Gregory P. Asner et al. · Science | 22 Jul 2005 | 13,282 |
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