Most cited papers from Acton Institute

Acton Institute

What are the most cited papers from Acton Institute?

The most cited paper from Acton Institute is "Man-Computer Symbiosis" (J. C. R. Licklider, 1960), with 1,866 citations. Next come "Random Process Model of Rough Surfaces" (903) and "Damping of Flexural Waves by a Constrained Viscoelastic Layer" (746).

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Showing 50 of 59 papers. Every paper with more than 72 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Man-Computer Symbiosis J. C. R. Licklider · IRE transactions on human factors in electronics	Mar 1960	1,866
2	Random Process Model of Rough Surfaces Priyambada Nayak · Journal of Lubrication Technology	Jul 1971	903
3	Damping of Flexural Waves by a Constrained Viscoelastic Layer Edward Kerwin · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Jul 1959	746
4	Taking different perspectives on a story. James W. Pichert, Richard C. Anderson · Journal of Educational Psychology Open access	Aug 1977	582
5	Situation Awareness and the Cognitive Management of Complex Systems Marilyn Jager Adams, Yvette J. Tenney, Richard W. Pew · Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society	Mar 1995	534
6	Articulation-Testing Methods: Consonantal Differentiation with a Closed-Response Set Arthur S. House, Carl E. Williams, Michael H. L. Hecker et al. · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	1965	408
7	Methods for the Calculation and Use of the Articulation Index Karl D. Kryter · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Nov 1962	370
8	Systems Theory Gail G. Whitchurch, Larry L. Constantine Book chapter	18 Nov 2008	310
9	Measurement of Power Flow in Uniform Beams and Plates D. U. Noiseux · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	1970	286
10	Recall of thematically relevant material by adolescent good and poor readers as a function of written versus oral presentation. Sandra S. Smiley, Drew Daulph Oakley, David M. Worthen et al. · Journal of Educational Psychology Open access	Aug 1977	245
11	Progress in natural language understanding-An application to lunar geology William A. Woods · Managing Requirements Knowledge, International Workshop on Conference paper	Dec 1973	220
12	Metaphor: Theoretical and empirical research. Andrew Ortony, Ralph E. Reynolds, Judith A. Arter · Psychological Bulletin Open access	Sep 1978	207
13	Assessment of Diagnostic Technologies John A. Swets, Ronald M. Pickett, Susan F. Whitehead et al. · Science	24 Aug 1979	196
14	Statistical Analysis of Power Injection and Response in Structures and Rooms R. H. Lyon · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Mar 1969	196
15	Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges Alejandro Vazquez Martinez et al. · Géotechnique Open access	26 Apr 2021	178
16	Sound attenuation by barriers U. J. Kurze, Grant S. Anderson · Applied Acoustics	1971	174
17	Binary-classification reaction time: A review of some studies of human information-processing capabilities. Raymond S. Nickerson Review	1972	170
18	Training Self-checking Routines for Estimating Test Readiness: Generalization from List Learning to Prose Recall Ann L. Brown, Joseph C. Campione, Craig R. Barclay · Child Development Open access	Jun 1979	167
19	A panel data analysis of the impact of trade on human development Antony N. Davies, Gary Quinlivan · The Journal of Socio-Economics	27 Jan 2006	161
20	Programming-languages as a conceptual framework for teaching mathematics Wallace Feurzeig, Seymour A. Papert, Bob Lawler · Interactive Learning Environments	12 Feb 2010	160
21	REASONING FROM INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE Allan Collins, Eleanor H. Warnock, Nelleke Aiello et al. · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter	1975	159
22	New Wall Design for High Transmission Loss or High Damping Gunther Kurtze, B. G. Watters · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Jun 1959	156
23	Effectiveness of information retrieval methods John A. Swets · American Documentation	1969	152
24	Investigation of Acoustic Effects of Leading-Edge Serrations on Airfoils Alan S. Hersh, Paul T. Soderman, Richard E. Hayden · Journal of Aircraft	Apr 1974	152
25	Semantics and Quantification in Natural Language Question Answering William A. Woods · Advances in computers Book chapter	1978	151
26	Influence of questions on the allocation of attention during reading. Ralph E. Reynolds, Richard C. E. Anderson · Journal of Educational Psychology Open access	1982	150
27	Suppression of Pain by Sound Wallace J. Gardner, J. C. R. Licklider, Alexander Z. Weisz · Science	Jul 1960	146
28	Factors affecting the slope of empirical ROC curves: Comparison of binary and rating responses Joseph Markowitz, John A. Swets · Perception & Psychophysics Open access	Mar 1967	127
29	Ultrasound in Medicine-A Review K. R. Erikson, F. J. Fry, Joie Pierce Jones · IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics	Jul 1974	123
30	Semantic grammar Richard R. Burton · ACM SIGART Bulletin Open access	Feb 1977	123
31	The Mach wave field radiated by supersonic turbulent shear flows John E. Ffowcs Williams, G. Maidanik · Journal of Fluid Mechanics	Apr 1965	120
32	Examining the feasibility of converting New York State’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one using wind, water, and sunlight Mark Z. Jacobson, Robert Warren Howarth, Mark A. Delucchi et al. · Energy Policy	13 Mar 2013	116
33	NCATS launches drug repurposing program Malorye Allison · Nature Biotechnology	Jul 2012	115
34	Random Vibration of Connected Structures Richard H. Lyon, Ewald Eichler · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Jul 1964	115
35	Drifting asteroid fragments around WD 1145+017 S. Rappaport, B. L. Gary, Thomas G. Kaye et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access	15 Mar 2016	114
36	Ontology Gloria L. Zúñiga Conference paper	17 Oct 2001	112
37	Validation of the Articulation Index Karl D. Kryter · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Nov 1962	110
38	Noise Radiated from an Edge in Turbulent Flow David M. Chase · AIAA Journal	Aug 1975	110
39	Some Effects of Spectral Content and Duration on Perceived Noise Level Karl D. Kryter, Karl S. Pearsons · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Open access	Jun 1963	110
40	Sums of independent lognormally distributed random variables Richard G. Barakat · Journal of the Optical Society of America	Mar 1976	109
41	Manifestations of Task-Induced Stress in the Acoustic Speech Signal Michael H. L. Hecker, Kenneth Noble Stevens, Gottfried von Bismarck et al. · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Oct 1968	108
42	The goal structure of a socratic tutor Albert L. Stevens, Allan Collins Conference paperOpen access	1977	108
43	Special report of the Massachusetts weight‐of‐evidence workgroup A weight‐of‐evidence approach for evaluating ecological risks Charles A. Menzie, Miranda H. Henning, Jerome J. Cura et al. · Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal	Jun 1996	108
44	Loss Factors of Viscoelastically Damped Beam Structures Eric E. Ungar · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Aug 1962	107
45	Focusing for interpretation of pronouns Candace L. Sidner	Oct 1981	105
46	Genzyme backs Osiris, despite Prochymal flop Malorye Allison · Nature Biotechnology	Nov 2009	104
47	Statistics of Sound Propagation in the Ocean Ira Dyer · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Jul 1970	104
48	Comparative performance of selected variability detection techniques in photometric time series data K. V. Sokolovsky et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access	8 Sep 2016	101
49	Scaling Human Reactions to the Sound from Aircraft Karl D. Kryter · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America	Nov 1959	98
50	Cascaded ATN grammars William A. Woods	1980	96

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