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Most cited papers from Santa Fe Institute
What are the most cited papers from Santa Fe Institute?
The most cited paper from Santa Fe Institute is "The Structure and Function of Complex Networks" (Michael E. Newman, 2003), with 18,932 citations. Next come "Community structure in social and biological networks" (15,819) and "No free lunch theorems for optimization" (14,318).
Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 1,275 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Structure and Function of Complex Networks Michael E. Newman · SIAM Review | 2003 | 18,932 |
| 2 | Community structure in social and biological networks Michelle Girvan, Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Jun 2002 | 15,819 |
| 3 | No free lunch theorems for optimization David H. Wolpert, William G. Macready · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation | Apr 1997 | 14,318 |
| 4 | Finding and evaluating community structure in networks Michelle Gayle Newman, Michelle Girvan · Physical Review E | 26 Feb 2004 | 14,307 |
| 5 | TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Andrew P. Allen et al. · Ecology | Jul 2004 | 7,970 |
| 6 | MITOS: Improved de novo metazoan mitochondrial genome annotation Matthias Bernt, Alexander Donath, Frank Jühling et al. · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 6 Sep 2012 | 5,583 |
| 7 | Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project Ewan Birney et al. · Nature | Jun 2007 | 5,310 |
| 8 | Assortative Mixing in Networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review Letters | 28 Oct 2002 | 5,121 |
| 9 | A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian Joseph Enquist · Science | 4 Apr 1997 | 5,083 |
| 10 | Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure Martin Rosvall, Carl T. Bergstrom · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 Jan 2008 | 4,772 |
| 11 | The structure of scientific collaboration networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Jan 2001 | 4,550 |
| 12 | Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate James F. Gillooly, James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West et al. · Science | 21 Sep 2001 | 3,887 |
| 13 | Testing for nonlinearity in time series: the method of surrogate data James P. Theiler, Stephen Eubank, André Longtin et al. · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Sep 1992 | 3,820 |
| 14 | Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications Mark E. J. Newman, Steven H. Strogatz, Duncan J. Watts · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 24 Jul 2001 | 3,743 |
| 15 | Spread of epidemic disease on networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 26 Jul 2002 | 3,323 |
| 16 | Mixing patterns in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 27 Feb 2003 | 3,188 |
| 17 | Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Apr 2007 | 2,733 |
| 18 | Scientific collaboration networks. II. Shortest paths, weighted networks, and centrality Mark E. J. Newman · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 28 Jun 2001 | 2,664 |
| 19 | Analysis of weighted networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical Review E | 24 Nov 2004 | 2,536 |
| 20 | Network Robustness and Fragility: Percolation on Random Graphs Duncan S. Callaway, Mark E. J. Newman, Steven H. Strogatz et al. · Physical Review Letters | 18 Dec 2000 | 2,517 |
| 21 | Net-zero emissions energy systems Steven J. Davis et al. · Science | 28 Jun 2018 | 2,396 |
| 22 | Fast folding and comparison of RNA secondary structures Ivo L. Hofacker, Walter Fontana, Peter Florian Stadler et al. · Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly | Feb 1994 | 2,364 |
| 23 | A Significant Upward Shift in Plant Species Optimum Elevation During the 20th Century Jonathan Lenoir, Jean‐Claude Gégout, Pablo A. Marquet et al. · Science | 26 Jun 2008 | 2,325 |
| 24 | Anticipating Critical Transitions Marten Scheffer, Stephen R. Carpenter, Timothy M. Lenton et al. · Science | 18 Oct 2012 | 2,275 |
| 25 | Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein network of de novo mutations Brian J. O’Roak et al. · Nature | 3 Apr 2012 | 2,249 |
| 26 | Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market Matthew Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan J. Watts · Science | 9 Feb 2006 | 2,230 |
| 27 | Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks Aaron J. Clauset, Cristopher Moore, Mark E. J. Newman · Nature | 30 Apr 2008 | 2,213 |
| 28 | Clustering and preferential attachment in growing networks Mark E. J. Newman · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 26 Jul 2001 | 2,127 |
| 29 | Scientific collaboration networks. I. Network construction and fundamental results Mark E. J. Newman · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | 28 Jun 2001 | 2,116 |
| 30 | Embedology TIMOTHY D. SAUER, James A. Yorke, Martin Casdagli · Journal of Statistical Physics | Nov 1991 | 2,046 |
| 31 | Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere Anthony D. Barnosky et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 1,978 |
| 32 | Identification and characterization of transmitted and early founder virus envelopes in primary HIV-1 infection Brandon F. Keele et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 May 2008 | 1,967 |
| 33 | “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies Joseph Henrich, Robert T. Boyd, Samuel Bowles et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Dec 2005 | 1,943 |
| 34 | The Knowledge Economy Walter W. Powell, Kaisa Snellman · Annual Review of Sociology | 13 Jul 2004 | 1,929 |
| 35 | Inferring friendship network structure by using mobile phone data Nathan Eagle, Alex Pentland, David M. J. Lazer · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Aug 2009 | 1,892 |
| 36 | Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance Jennifer A. Dunne, Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez · Ecology Letters | Jul 2002 | 1,847 |
| 37 | The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology Cyrille Violle, Brian Joseph Enquist, Brian J. McGill et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 14 Jan 2012 | 1,798 |
| 38 | The evolution of altruistic punishment Robert T. Boyd, Herbert M. Gintis, Samuel Bowles et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Mar 2003 | 1,778 |
| 39 | Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network Gueorgi Kossinets, Duncan J. Watts · Science | 5 Jan 2006 | 1,752 |
| 40 | The Fourth Dimension of Life: Fractal Geometry and Allometric Scaling of Organisms Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian Joseph Enquist · Science | 4 Jun 1999 | 1,751 |
| 41 | The Lack of A Priori Distinctions Between Learning Algorithms David H. Wolpert · Neural Computation | Oct 1996 | 1,688 |
| 42 | Networks, Dynamics, and the Small‐World Phenomenon Duncan J. Watts · American Journal of Sociology | Sep 1999 | 1,556 |
| 43 | Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size Jennifer A. Dunne, Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Sep 2002 | 1,553 |
| 44 | Ecological networks and their fragility José M. Montoya, Stuart L. Pimm, Ricard V. Solé · Nature | Jul 2006 | 1,526 |
| 45 | The Origins of Scaling in Cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt · Science | 20 Jun 2013 | 1,515 |
| 46 | Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions Nils Haug, Lukas Geyrhofer, Alessandro Londei et al. · Nature Human Behaviour | 16 Nov 2020 | 1,481 |
| 47 | A general model for the structure and allometry of plant vascular systems Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian Joseph Enquist · Nature | Aug 1999 | 1,472 |
| 48 | Renormalization group analysis of the small-world network model Mark E. J. Newman, Duncan J. Watts · Physics Letters A | Dec 1999 | 1,469 |
| 49 | Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities Max Wolf, G. Sander van Doorn, Olof Leimar et al. · Nature | May 2007 | 1,455 |
| 50 | A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution Samuel Bowles, Herbert M. Gintis · Economics Books | 31 May 2011 | 1,452 |
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