Most cited papers from Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

What are the most cited papers from Smithsonian Institution?

The most cited paper from Smithsonian Institution is "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields" (Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell, 1983), with 37,882 citations. Next come "The worldwide leaf economics spectrum" (9,121) and "Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers" (7,502).

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Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 1,834 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell · American Sociological Review	Apr 1983	37,882
2	The worldwide leaf economics spectrum Ian J. Wright et al. · Nature Open access	Apr 2004	9,121
3	Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers Dakota E. McCoy, Teresa J. Feo, Todd Alan Harvey et al. · Nature Communications Open access	27 Dec 2017	7,502
4	Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Michael Xavier Kirby, Wolfgang Berger et al. · Science	27 Jul 2001	6,683
5	NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN Stephen R. Carpenter, N. F. Caraco, David L. Correll et al. · Ecological Applications	Aug 1998	5,882
6	PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses Robert Lanfear, Paul B. Frandsen, April Marie Wright et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access	28 Nov 2016	5,469
7	Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics Daniel J. Kahneman · American Economic Review	Nov 2003	5,465
8	Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi Conrad L. Schoch et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access156 authors	27 Mar 2012	5,240
9	Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking Mingxun Wang et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access127 authors	Aug 2016	4,812
10	Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation Robert K. Colwell, Jonathan A. Coddington · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	29 Jul 1994	4,610
11	Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont et al. · Science	2 Nov 2006	4,566
12	Species Concepts and Species Delimitation Kevin de Queiroz · Systematic Biology	16 Nov 2007	4,135
13	Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs Terry P. Hughes, Andrew H. Baird, David R. Bellwood et al. · Science	14 Aug 2003	3,973
14	Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk Gabriele Paolacci, Jesse Chandler, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis · Judgment and Decision Making Open access	Aug 2010	3,836
15	The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications Rolf Henrik Nilsson, Karl-Henrik Larsson, Andy F. S. Taylor et al. · Nucleic Acids Research Open access	12 Oct 2018	3,746
16	Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator Paul D. N. Hebert, Erin H. Penton, John M. Burns et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	Oct 2004	3,532
17	The global spectrum of plant form and function Sandra Díaz et al. · Nature Open access	23 Dec 2015	3,468
18	A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method Daniel J. Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David A Schkade et al. · Science	2 Dec 2004	3,464
19	Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas Heike K. Lotze, Hunter S. Lenihan, Bruce J. Bourque et al. · Science	22 Jun 2006	3,407
20	Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters Denise L. Breitburg et al. · Science Open access	5 Jan 2018	3,320
21	Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species Arang Rhie et al. · Nature Open access129 authors	28 Apr 2021	3,311
22	Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees Jérôme Chave et al. · Global Change Biology Open access	10 May 2014	3,146
23	Quantifying Threats to Imperiled Species in the United States David S. Wilcove, David E. Rothstein, Jason Dubow et al. · BioScience Open access	Aug 1998	3,127
24	Forecasting Using Principal Components From a Large Number of Predictors James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson · Journal of the American Statistical Association	Dec 2002	3,122
25	Managing nitrogen for sustainable development Xin Zhang, Eric A. Davidson, Denise L. Mauzerall et al. · Nature Open access	23 Nov 2015	3,050
26	THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS OF EVOLUTION Egbert Giles Leigh · Evolution	Dec 1995	3,004
27	Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar B. Shafir et al. · Science	29 Aug 2013	2,990
28	A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity Luke Thompson et al. · Nature Open access303 authors	30 Oct 2017	2,968
29	A DNA barcode for land plants CBOL Plant Working Group1 et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	4 Aug 2009	2,867
30	Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century Anne C. Case, Angus Deaton · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	2 Nov 2015	2,798
31	Affect, Not Ideology Shanto Iyengar, Gaurav Sood, Yphtach Lelkes · Public Opinion Quarterly	Sep 2012	2,718
32	TRY – a global database of plant traits Jens Kattge et al. · Global Change Biology Open access135 authors	26 Apr 2011	2,699
33	Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity of mice show asbestos-like pathogenicity in a pilot study Craig A. Poland, Rodger Duffin, Ian A. Kinloch et al. · Nature Nanotechnology	20 May 2008	2,641
34	No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide Hanno Seebens et al. · Nature Communications Open access	15 Feb 2017	2,632
35	Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility Daniel J. Kahneman, Peter P. Wakker, Rakesh Kumar Sarin · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access	May 1997	2,563
36	Conditions for intuitive expertise: A failure to disagree. Daniel J. Kahneman, Gary A. Klein · American Psychologist	2009	2,453
37	Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity Carina Hoorn, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hans ter Steege et al. · Science Open access	11 Nov 2010	2,430
38	CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY Norman A. Grogin et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access107 authors	Dec 2011	2,197
39	A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History Shannon J. Hackett, Rebecca T. Kimball, Sushma Reddy et al. · Science	26 Jun 2008	2,183
40	Coral reefs in the Anthropocene Terry P. Hughes, Michele L. Barnes, David R. Bellwood et al. · Nature Open access	30 May 2017	2,179
41	TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access Jens Kattge et al. · Global Change Biology Open access729 authors	31 Dec 2019	2,168
42	Decline of the North American avifauna Kenneth V. Rosenberg, Adriaan M. Dokter, Peter J. Blancher et al. · Science	19 Sep 2019	2,144
43	Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials: elements of a screening strategy Günter Oberdörster, Andrew David Maynard, Ken Donaldson et al. · Particle and Fibre Toxicology Open access	6 Oct 2005	2,136
44	The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific Douglas B. Rusch et al. · PLoS Biology Open access	8 Mar 2007	2,118
45	Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL Mark W. Chase et al. · Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden	1993	2,101
46	CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY—THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS, IMAGING DATA PRODUCTS, AND MOSAICS Anton M. Koekemoer et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Open access124 authors	Dec 2011	2,094
47	Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds Erich D. Jarvis et al. · Science Open access105 authors	11 Dec 2014	2,061
48	The Molecular Genetics of Crop Domestication John Doebley, Brandon S. Gaut, Bruce D. Smith · Cell Open access	Dec 2006	2,050
49	Global Trajectories of the Long-Term Decline of Coral Reef Ecosystems John M. Pandolfi, Roger Bradbury, Enric Sala et al. · Science	14 Aug 2003	2,025
50	The Regime Complex for Climate Change Robert O. Keohane, David G. Victor · Perspectives on Politics	Mar 2011	1,992

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