Most cited papers from Stanford University

Stanford University

What are the most cited papers from Stanford University?

The most cited paper from Stanford University is "Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology" (Michael Ashburner, Catherine A. Ball, Judith A. Blake et al., 2000), with 45,425 citations. Next come "ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" (40,843) and "DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data" (37,958).

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Showing 50 of 59 papers. Every paper with more than 11,121 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology Michael Ashburner, Catherine A. Ball, Judith A. Blake et al. · Nature Genetics Open access	May 2000	45,425
2	ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge Olga Russakovsky, Jia Hao Deng, Hao Su et al. · International Journal of Computer Vision	10 Apr 2015	40,843
3	DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data Benjamin J. Callahan, Paul J. McMurdie, Michael Rosen et al. · Nature Methods Open access	23 May 2016	37,958
4	The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields Paul DiMaggio, Walter W. Powell · American Sociological Review	Apr 1983	37,882
5	Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Albert Bandura · Psychological Review	1977	35,570
6	Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher, Christopher D. Manning Conference paper	2014	34,197
7	Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	25 Mar 1988	32,957
8	Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. Jerome H. Friedman · The Annals of Statistics	Oct 2001	30,593
9	Latent dirichlet allocation David M. Blei, Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan · Journal of Machine Learning Research	Mar 2003	27,026
10	Social Learning Theory. Jackson Kytle, Albert Bandura · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	1978	25,666
11	Geant4—a simulation toolkit Stefano Agostinelli et al. · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment Open access127 authors	21 Jun 2003	25,572
12	Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 Evan K Bolyen et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access112 authors	24 Jul 2019	25,165
13	Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome Eric S. Lander et al. · Nature Open access252 authors	Feb 2001	24,745
14	Compressed sensing David L. Donoho · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory	Apr 2006	23,533
15	phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data Paul J. McMurdie, Susan Holmes · PLoS ONE Open access	22 Apr 2013	23,323
16	Building Theories from Case Study Research Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · Academy of Management Review Open access	Oct 1989	23,256
17	Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning James G. March · Organization Science	Feb 1991	21,902
18	Regularization and Variable Selection Via the Elastic Net Hui Jun Zou, Trevor Hastie · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Open access	9 Mar 2005	21,757
19	Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS) Yong Zhang, Tao Liu, Clifford A. Meyer et al. · Genome biology Open access	17 Sep 2008	20,527
20	A global reference for human genetic variation Corresponding authors et al. · Nature Open access815 authors	29 Sep 2015	20,444
21	The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis Frank C. Arnett, Steven M. Edworthy, Daniel A. Bloch et al. · Arthritis & Rheumatism	Mar 1988	19,994
22	An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome Ian Dunham et al. · Nature Open access442 authors	Sep 2012	19,751
23	Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching Lee S. Shulman · Educational Researcher Open access	Feb 1986	18,456
24	Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae S. Perlmutter et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access	Jun 1999	18,225
25	Bootstrap Methods: Another Look at the Jackknife B. Efron · The Annals of Statistics Open access	1979	17,826
26	The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Science	30 Jan 1981	17,591
27	Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data Yuhan Hao et al. · Cell Open access	31 May 2021	16,879
28	Nearest neighbor pattern classification Thomas M. Cover, Peter E. Hart · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory	1967	16,834
29	Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype Daehwan Kim, Joseph M. Paggi, Chanhee Park et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access	Aug 2019	16,558
30	Molecular portraits of human breast tumours Charles M. Perou, Thérese Sørlie, Michael B. Eisen et al. · Nature	17 Aug 2000	16,552
31	Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Melissa E. Graebner · Academy of Management Journal	Feb 2007	16,535
32	Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access	8 Dec 1998	16,479
33	Distributed Optimization and Statistical Learning via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Stephen Boyd, Neal Parikh, Eric Chu et al. · Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning	26 Jul 2011	16,474
34	The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine Sergey Brin, Lawrence M. Page · Computer Networks and ISDN Systems	Apr 1998	16,170
35	Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3 Josh Abramson et al. · Nature Open access	8 May 2024	15,959
36	Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	Oct 1992	15,858
37	Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. Albert Bandura · American Psychologist	Feb 1982	15,425
38	Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective Albert Bandura · Annual Review of Psychology Review	Feb 2001	15,325
39	Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report Jerome Albert Yesavage, T. L. Brink, Terence L. Rose et al. · Journal of Psychiatric Research Open access	1982	15,217
40	Dynamic capabilities: what are they? Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Jeffrey A. Martin · Strategic Management Journal Open access	2000	14,792
41	The 1982 revised criteria for the classification of systemic lupus erythematosus Eng M. Tan, Alan S. Cohen, James F. Fries et al. · Arthritis & Rheumatism	Nov 1982	14,664
42	Topological insulators and superconductors Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access	14 Oct 2011	14,641
43	Atomic Force Microscope Gerd K. Binnig, C. F. Quate, Ch. Gerber · Physical Review Letters Open access	3 Mar 1986	14,628
44	New directions in cryptography Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory	Nov 1976	14,610
45	Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,011 authors	11 Feb 2016	14,545
46	Robust enumeration of cell subsets from tissue expression profiles Aaron M. Newman, Chih Long Liu, Michael Richard Green et al. · Nature Methods Open access	30 Mar 2015	14,493
47	Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel, Roberto A. Novoa et al. · Nature Open access	25 Jan 2017	14,423
48	Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent. Jerome H. Friedman, Trevor Hastie, Rob Tibshirani · PubMed Open access	2010	14,024
49	A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Vin de Silva, John C. Langford · Science	22 Dec 2000	13,882
50	Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review	15 May 1957	13,114

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