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Most cited papers in Mathematics
What are the most cited papers in Mathematics?
The most cited paper in Mathematics is "Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing" (Yoav Benjamini, Yosef Hochberg, 1995), with 112,351 citations. Next come "Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4" (89,183) and "Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error" (71,613).
Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 9,338 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple Testing Yoav Benjamini, Yosef Hochberg · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | 1995 | 112,351 |
| 2 | Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4 Douglas M. Bates, Martin Mächler, Benjamin M. Bolker et al. · Journal of Statistical Software | 2015 | 89,183 |
| 3 | Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error Claes Fornell, David F. Larcker · Journal of Marketing Research | Feb 1981 | 71,613 |
| 4 | Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test Matthias Egger, George Davey Smith, Martin Schneider et al. · BMJ | 13 Sep 1997 | 57,774 |
| 5 | Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso Robert John Tibshirani · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | 1996 | 53,131 |
| 6 | Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization Mandi, Jayanta, Canoy, Rocsildes, Bucarey, Víctor et al. · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) | May 2015 | 50,327 |
| 7 | Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data Via the EM Algorithm A. P. Dempster, N. M. Laird, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | Sep 1977 | 50,034 |
| 8 | Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations Edward L. Kaplan, Paul Meier · Springer series in statistics | 1992 | 45,535 |
| 9 | Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests Lee J. Cronbach · Psychometrika | Sep 1951 | 44,025 |
| 10 | CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP Joseph Felsenstein · Evolution | Jul 1985 | 41,763 |
| 11 | Meta-analysis in clinical trials Rebecca DerSimonian, Nan M. Laird · Controlled Clinical Trials | Sep 1986 | 40,073 |
| 12 | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 18 Aug 2009 | 38,212 |
| 13 | Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Axel Buchner et al. · Behavior Research Methods | Nov 2009 | 37,775 |
| 14 | Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis Julian P. T. Higgins, Simon G. Thompson · Statistics in Medicine | 21 May 2002 | 37,545 |
| 15 | The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects Paul R. Rosenbaum, Donald B. Rubin · Biometrika | 1983 | 31,609 |
| 16 | New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: Revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1) E. A. Eisenhauer, P. Therasse, Jan Bogaerts et al. · European Journal of Cancer | 27 Dec 2008 | 30,125 |
| 17 | Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces Rainer Storn, Kenneth V. Price · Journal of Global Optimization | Dec 1997 | 29,587 |
| 18 | Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Science | 27 Sep 1974 | 28,737 |
| 19 | Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit Michael W. Browne, Robert A. Cudeck · Sociological Methods & Research | Nov 1992 | 25,414 |
| 20 | lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models Alexandra Kuznetsova, Per B. Brockhoff, Rune Haubo Bojesen Christensen · Journal of Statistical Software | 2017 | 24,675 |
| 21 | Comparative fit indexes in structural models. Peter M. Bentler · Psychological Bulletin | 1990 | 24,151 |
| 22 | Compressed sensing David L. Donoho · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | Apr 2006 | 23,533 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Nasser M. Nasrabadi · Journal of Electronic Imaging | 2007 | 22,033 |
| 25 | A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: the wavelet representation Stéphane Mallat · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Jul 1989 | 21,434 |
| 26 | Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow Edward N. Lorenz · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Mar 1963 | 19,616 |
| 27 | Interrater reliability: the kappa statistic Marry L. McHugh · Biochemia Medica | 2012 | 19,382 |
| 28 | Investigation of the freely available easy-to-use software ‘EZR’ for medical statistics Yoshinobu Kanda · Bone Marrow Transplantation | 3 Dec 2012 | 19,316 |
| 29 | Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models Kung‐Yee Liang, Scott L. Zeger · Biometrika | 1986 | 18,362 |
| 30 | Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle Hirotogu Akaike · Springer series in statistics | 1998 | 18,124 |
| 31 | Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | Nov 1984 | 18,093 |
| 32 | Characteristics of and Important Lessons From the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in China Zunyou Wu, Jennifer M. McGoogan · JAMA | 24 Feb 2020 | 18,071 |
| 33 | Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia Qun Li et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 Jan 2020 | 18,005 |
| 34 | PAST: PALEONTOLOGICAL STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR EDUCATION AND DATA ANALYSIS Øyvind Hammer, David A. T. Harper, Paul D. Ryan · Palaeontologia Electronica | 2001 | 17,990 |
| 35 | Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife B. Efron · The Annals of Statistics | 1979 | 17,826 |
| 36 | SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models Kristopher J. Preacher, Andrew F. Hayes · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers | Nov 2004 | 17,445 |
| 37 | Operating Characteristics of a Rank Correlation Test for Publication Bias Colin B. Begg, Madhuchhanda Mazumdar · Biometrics | Dec 1994 | 17,335 |
| 38 | Nearest neighbor pattern classification Thomas M. Cover, Peter E. Hart · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory | 1967 | 16,834 |
| 39 | The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology | Aug 2000 | 15,905 |
| 40 | Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications W. Keith Hastings · Biometrika | Apr 1970 | 15,456 |
| 41 | An Analysis of Transformations George E. P. Box, David Roxbee Cox · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | Jul 1964 | 15,274 |
| 42 | A Practical Guide to Wavelet Analysis Christopher Torrence, Gilbert P. Compo · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 1998 | 15,178 |
| 43 | Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Data From Retrospective Studies of Disease Nathan Mantel, William M. Haenszel · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute | Apr 1959 | 14,868 |
| 44 | Multivariate Data Analysis Xianggui Qu · Technometrics | Feb 2007 | 14,841 |
| 45 | Trim and Fill: A Simple Funnel‐Plot–Based Method of Testing and Adjusting for Publication Bias in Meta‐Analysis Sue Duval, Richard L. Tweedie · Biometrics | Jun 2000 | 14,320 |
| 46 | No free lunch theorems for optimization David H. Wolpert, William G. Macready · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | Apr 1997 | 14,318 |
| 47 | Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models Torsten Hothorn, Frank Bretz, Peter H. Westfall · Biometrical Journal | 15 May 2008 | 14,308 |
| 48 | Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: Algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations Stanley Osher, James A. Sethian · Journal of Computational Physics | Nov 1988 | 14,114 |
| 49 | Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent. Jerome H. Friedman, Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani · PubMed | 2010 | 14,024 |
| 50 | Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods Marie Davidian · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Sep 2003 | 13,916 |
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