Subfield · Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Most cited papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
What are the most cited papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics?
The most cited paper in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics is "Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks" (Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz, 1998), with 43,707 citations. Next come "The Strength of Weak Ties" (39,087) and "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" (37,517).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 5,853 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks Duncan J. Watts, Steven H. Strogatz · Nature | Jun 1998 | 43,707 |
| 2 | The Strength of Weak Ties Mark S. Granovetter · American Journal of Sociology | May 1973 | 39,087 |
| 3 | Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Jun 1953 | 37,517 |
| 4 | Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, Réka Albert · Science | 15 Oct 1999 | 36,811 |
| 5 | Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath Herman J. C. Berendsen, Johan P. M. Postma, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Oct 1984 | 31,502 |
| 6 | Particle mesh Ewald: An N ⋅log( N ) method for Ewald sums in large systems Tom Darden, Darrin M. York, Lee G. Pedersen · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Jun 1993 | 31,396 |
| 7 | Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine. Jerome H. Friedman · The Annals of Statistics | Oct 2001 | 30,593 |
| 8 | Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions William Graham Hoover · Physical Review A | Mar 1985 | 23,918 |
| 9 | Fast unfolding of communities in large networks Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment | Oct 2008 | 21,858 |
| 10 | Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes Jean-Paul Ryckaert, Giovanni Ciccotti, Herman J. C. Berendsen · Journal of Computational Physics | Mar 1977 | 21,804 |
| 11 | Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators Kurt Hornik, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, Halbert White · Neural Networks | 1989 | 21,792 |
| 12 | Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ruslan Salakhutdinov · Science | 27 Jul 2006 | 21,368 |
| 13 | Software survey: VOSviewer, a computer program for bibliometric mapping Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · Scientometrics | 30 Dec 2009 | 21,265 |
| 14 | Statistical mechanics of complex networks Réka Albert, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Reviews of Modern Physics | 30 Jan 2002 | 20,746 |
| 15 | Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations Maziar Raissi, Paris Perdikaris, George Em Karniadakis · Journal of Computational Physics | 3 Nov 2018 | 19,776 |
| 16 | The Structure and Function of Complex Networks Michael E. Newman · SIAM Review | 2003 | 18,932 |
| 17 | Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications Stanley S. Wasserman, Katherine A. Faust | 1994 | 18,166 |
| 18 | Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle Hirotogu Akaike · Springer series in statistics | 1998 | 18,124 |
| 19 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification Linton C. Freeman · Social Networks | 1978 | 17,222 |
| 20 | The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Jul 1964 | 15,968 |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications W. Keith Hastings · Biometrika | Apr 1970 | 15,456 |
| 23 | Refinement of Macromolecular Structures by the Maximum-Likelihood Method Garib N. Murshudov, Alexey A. Vagin, E. J. Dodson · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography | May 1997 | 15,006 |
| 24 | Finding and evaluating community structure in networks Michelle Gayle Newman, Michelle Girvan · Physical Review E | 26 Feb 2004 | 14,307 |
| 25 | The Properties of Gases and Liquids Robert Cortas Reid, THOMAS K. SHERWOOD, Robert E. Street · Physics Today | Apr 1959 | 14,172 |
| 26 | Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: Algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations Stanley Osher, James A. Sethian · Journal of Computational Physics | Nov 1988 | 14,114 |
| 27 | Anti de Sitter space and holography Edward H. Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 13,441 |
| 28 | Methods of Theoretical Physics Philip Μ. Morse, Herman Feshbach, Edward L. Hill · American Journal of Physics | Sep 1954 | 13,258 |
| 29 | Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review | 15 May 1957 | 13,114 |
| 30 | Modularity and community structure in networks Mark E. J. Newman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 May 2006 | 12,522 |
| 31 | On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox James S. Bell · Physics Physique Fizika | Nov 1964 | 12,389 |
| 32 | emcee : The MCMC Hammer Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Mar 2013 | 12,323 |
| 33 | Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks Mathieu Bastian, Sébastien Heymann, Mathieu Jacomy · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media | 19 Mar 2009 | 11,573 |
| 34 | Community detection in graphs Santo Fortunato · Physics Reports | 18 Nov 2009 | 11,474 |
| 35 | Complex networks: Structure and dynamics Stefano Boccaletti, Vito Latora, Yamir Moreno et al. · Physics Reports | 11 Jan 2006 | 11,156 |
| 36 | The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity Juan M. Maldacena | 1998 | 10,713 |
| 37 | Synchronization in chaotic systems Louis M. Pecora, Thomas L. Carroll · Physical Review Letters | 19 Feb 1990 | 10,638 |
| 38 | Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems Reza Olfati‐Saber, J.A. Fax, Richard M. Murray · Proceedings of the IEEE | 2007 | 10,551 |
| 39 | Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes Leslie Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw et al. · Physical Review A | Jun 1992 | 10,522 |
| 40 | A tutorial on spectral clustering Ulrike von Luxburg · Statistics and Computing | 21 Aug 2007 | 10,505 |
| 41 | Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Feb 1958 | 10,487 |
| 42 | A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble Shūichi Nosé · Molecular Physics | 10 Jun 1984 | 10,260 |
| 43 | Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics Constantino Tsallis · Journal of Statistical Physics | Jul 1988 | 9,702 |
| 44 | Determining Lyapunov exponents from a time series Alan Wolf, Jack B. Swift, Harry L. Swinney et al. · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Jul 1985 | 9,535 |
| 45 | Computer "Experiments" on Classical Fluids. I. Thermodynamical Properties of Lennard-Jones Molecules Loup Verlet · Physical Review | 5 Jul 1967 | 9,534 |
| 46 | Statistical-Mechanical Theory of Irreversible Processes. I. General Theory and Simple Applications to Magnetic and Conduction Problems Ryogo Kubo · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | Jun 1957 | 9,526 |
| 47 | Data clustering: 50 years beyond K-means Anil Kumar Jain · Pattern Recognition Letters | 10 Sep 2009 | 9,458 |
| 48 | Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 25 Oct 1999 | 9,373 |
| 49 | Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes Michael Berry · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 8 Mar 1984 | 9,285 |
| 50 | The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach Ralf Metzler, J. Klafter · Physics Reports | Dec 2000 | 9,129 |
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