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Most cited papers in Neuroscience
What are the most cited papers in Neuroscience?
The most cited paper in Neuroscience is "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" (Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al., 2015), with 31,206 citations. Next come "EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis" (25,692) and "A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve" (23,507).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 7,550 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al. · Nature | 24 Feb 2015 | 31,206 |
| 2 | EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis Arnaud Delorme, Scott Makeig · Journal of Neuroscience Methods | 5 Feb 2004 | 25,692 |
| 3 | A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, A. F. Huxley · The Journal of Physiology | 28 Aug 1952 | 23,507 |
| 4 | The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for Schizophrenia Stanley R. Kay, Abraham Fiszbein, Lewis A. Opler · Schizophrenia Bulletin | 1987 | 21,651 |
| 5 | [Japanese version of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory--a scoring system for neuropsychiatric disturbance in dementia patients]. Nobutsugu Hirono, Etsuro Mori, Yoshitaka Ikejiri et al. · PubMed | Mar 1997 | 20,864 |
| 6 | Relationship of Childhood Abuse and Household Dysfunction to Many of the Leading Causes of Death in Adults Vincent J. Felitti, Robert F. Anda, Dale F. Nordenberg et al. · American Journal of Preventive Medicine | May 1998 | 18,997 |
| 7 | Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches Owen P. Hamill, Alain Marty, Erwin Neher et al. · Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology | Aug 1981 | 18,543 |
| 8 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review | Mar 1956 | 17,806 |
| 9 | A New Method for Measuring Daytime Sleepiness: The Epworth Sleepiness Scale Murray W. Johns · SLEEP | Nov 1991 | 17,509 |
| 10 | Automated Anatomical Labeling of Activations in SPM Using a Macroscopic Anatomical Parcellation of the MNI MRI Single-Subject Brain N. Tzourio-Mazoyer, Brigitte Landeau, Dimitri Papathanassiou et al. · NeuroImage | 2002 | 17,037 |
| 11 | Neuropathological stageing of Alzheimer-related changes Heiko Braak, Eva Braak · Acta Neuropathologica | Sep 1991 | 16,612 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest Rahul S. Desikan, Florent Ségonne, Bruce R. Fischl et al. · NeuroImage | 14 Mar 2006 | 14,405 |
| 14 | Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL Stephen M. Smith, Mark Jenkinson, Mark W. Woolrich et al. · NeuroImage | 2004 | 14,361 |
| 15 | Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization Daniel D. Lee, H. Sebastian Seung · Nature | Oct 1999 | 14,302 |
| 16 | A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change Stuart Montgomery, Marie Åsberg · The British Journal of Psychiatry | Apr 1979 | 14,132 |
| 17 | Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex David Hunter Hubel, T. N. Wiesel · The Journal of Physiology | 1962 | 13,971 |
| 18 | Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | Mar 2002 | 13,238 |
| 19 | An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function Earl K. Miller, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 2001 | 13,094 |
| 20 | A default mode of brain function Marcus E. Raichle, Ann Mary MacLeod, Abraham Z. Snyder et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Jan 2001 | 12,560 |
| 21 | A feature-integration theory of attention Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology | 1980 | 12,545 |
| 22 | Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment. Harold P. Adams, Birgitte H. Bendixen, L. Jaap Kappelle et al. · Stroke | 1993 | 12,468 |
| 23 | Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems Edward Thomas Bullmore, Olaf Sporns · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 4 Feb 2009 | 12,340 |
| 24 | Complex network measures of brain connectivity: Uses and interpretations Mikail Rubinov, Olaf Sporns · NeuroImage | 10 Oct 2009 | 12,245 |
| 25 | Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome Curtis Huttenhower et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 12,195 |
| 26 | FSL Mark Jenkinson, Christian F. Beckmann, Timothy E.J. Behrens et al. · NeuroImage | 16 Sep 2011 | 12,165 |
| 27 | Analysis of nitrate, nitrite, and [15N]nitrate in biological fluids Laura C. Green, David A. Wagner, Joseph A. Glogowski et al. · Analytical Biochemistry | Oct 1982 | 12,147 |
| 28 | The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine Robert F. Furchgott, John V. Zawadzki · Nature | Nov 1980 | 12,123 |
| 29 | The missing memristor found Dmitri B. Strukov, Gregory S. Snider, Duncan R. Stewart et al. · Nature | 30 Apr 2008 | 11,715 |
| 30 | AFNI: Software for Analysis and Visualization of Functional Magnetic Resonance Neuroimages Robert W. Cox · Computers and Biomedical Research | Jun 1996 | 11,706 |
| 31 | A synaptic model of memory: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus T.V.P. Bliss, Graham L. Collingridge · Nature | 1993 | 11,655 |
| 32 | Cortical Surface-Based Analysis Anders Martin Dale, Bruce R. Fischl, Martin I. Sereno · NeuroImage | Feb 1999 | 11,631 |
| 33 | FieldTrip: Open Source Software for Advanced Analysis of MEG, EEG, and Invasive Electrophysiological Data Robert Oostenveld, Pascal Henry Fries, Eric Maris et al. · Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience | 23 Dec 2010 | 11,541 |
| 34 | A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, Ernst Niebur · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 1998 | 11,422 |
| 35 | Pharmacological interventions for somatoform disorders in adults Maria Kleinstäuber, Michael Witthöft, Andrés Steffanowski et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 7 Nov 2014 | 11,357 |
| 36 | Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease Heiko Braak, Kelly Del Tredici, Udo Rüb et al. · Neurobiology of Aging | 28 Dec 2002 | 10,980 |
| 37 | Hydrogen Peroxide is Scavenged by Ascorbate-specific Peroxidase in Spinach Chloroplasts Yoshiyuki Nakano, Kozi Asada · Plant and Cell Physiology | Aug 1981 | 10,779 |
| 38 | Deviations from michaelis-menten behaviour of plant glutamate dehydrogenase with ammonium as variable substrate Edwin Pahlich, Chr. Gerlitz · Phytochemistry | 1980 | 10,703 |
| 39 | Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease: a clinico-pathological study of 100 cases. Andrew Jerome Hughes, S. E. Daniel, Linda Kilford et al. · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry | Mar 1992 | 10,504 |
| 40 | The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease Marilyn S. Albert, Steven T. DeKosky, Dennis W. Dickson et al. · Alzheimer s & Dementia | 22 Apr 2011 | 10,419 |
| 41 | FreeSurfer Bruce R. Fischl · NeuroImage | 10 Jan 2012 | 10,317 |
| 42 | The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults Terry B Young, Mari Palta, Jerome A. Dempsey et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 29 Apr 1993 | 10,268 |
| 43 | Functional connectivity in the motor cortex of resting human brain using echo‐planar mri Bharat B. Biswal, F. Zerrin Yetkin, Victor M. Haughton et al. · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | Oct 1995 | 10,242 |
| 44 | Determining optical flow Berthold K. P. Horn, Brian G. Schunck · Artificial Intelligence | Aug 1981 | 10,151 |
| 45 | Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences Gary Benson · Nucleic Acids Research | 1999 | 10,129 |
| 46 | The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity B.T. Thomas Yeo, Fenna M. Krienen, Jorge Sepulcre et al. · Journal of Neurophysiology | 9 Jun 2011 | 10,128 |
| 47 | The Brain's Default Network Randy Lee Buckner, Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna, Daniel L. Schacter · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | Mar 2008 | 10,047 |
| 48 | Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach Karl John Friston, Andrew P. Holmes, Keith J. Worsley et al. · Human Brain Mapping | 1994 | 9,877 |
| 49 | The Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver, Norbert Wiener · Physics Today | Sep 1950 | 9,856 |
| 50 | A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan, P. Read Montague · Science | 14 Mar 1997 | 9,810 |
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