Most cited papers in Computational Physics and Python Applications
What are the most cited papers in Computational Physics and Python Applications?
The most cited paper in Computational Physics and Python Applications is "Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python" (Fabián Pedregosa, Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort et al., 2012), with 64,016 citations. Next come "Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment" (41,156) and "SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python" (40,161).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,000 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python Fabián Pedregosa, Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort et al. · ORBi (University of Liège) | 2 Jan 2012 | 64,016 |
| 2 | Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment John D. Hunter · Computing in Science & Engineering | 2007 | 41,156 |
| 3 | SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python Pauli Virtanen et al. · Nature Methods | 3 Feb 2020 | 40,161 |
| 4 | The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools Julie Thompson · Nucleic Acids Research | 15 Dec 1997 | 39,325 |
| 5 | Array programming with NumPy Charles R. Harris et al. · Nature | 16 Sep 2020 | 23,885 |
| 6 | Generative adversarial networks Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza et al. · Communications of the ACM | 22 Oct 2020 | 14,417 |
| 7 | Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python Wes McKinney · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 2010 | 11,788 |
| 8 | The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation Stéfan van der Walt, Steven C. Colbert, Gaël Varoquaux · Computing in Science & Engineering | Mar 2011 | 11,189 |
| 9 | TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning Martı́n Abadi et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 27 May 2016 | 8,828 |
| 10 | The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package * Adrian M. Price-Whelan et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 23 Aug 2018 | 7,690 |
| 11 | Simulating physics with computers Richard P. Feynman · International Journal of Theoretical Physics | Jun 1982 | 7,675 |
| 12 | Statsmodels: Econometric and Statistical Modeling with Python Skipper Seabold, Josef Perktold · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 2010 | 6,915 |
| 13 | Review of Particle Physics Particle Data Group et al. · Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Aug 2022 | 6,346 |
| 14 | Review of Particle Physics J. Beringer et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 20 Jul 2012 | 6,020 |
| 15 | NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER RESULTS G. Hinshaw et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 20 Sep 2013 | 5,171 |
| 16 | Review of Particle Physics C. Amsler et al. · Physics Letters B | 5 Aug 2008 | 5,093 |
| 17 | Backpropagation through time: what it does and how to do it Paul J. Werbos · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1990 | 4,998 |
| 18 | ROOT — An object oriented data analysis framework René Brun, Fons Rademakers · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | Apr 1997 | 4,977 |
| 19 | Topology of cosmic domains and strings T. W. B. Kibble · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General | Aug 1976 | 4,620 |
| 20 | New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis Jonathan Pumplin, Daniel Robert Stump, Joey Huston et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 4 Jul 2002 | 4,237 |
| 21 | IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing Fernando Evier López Pérez, Brian Granger · Computing in Science & Engineering | 2007 | 4,209 |
| 22 | Free software helps map and display data Paul Wessel, Walter H. F. Smith · Eos | 8 Oct 1991 | 4,159 |
| 23 | REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS Particle Data Group Keith A. Olive et al. · BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) | 2014 | 3,662 |
| 24 | Review of Particle Physics Sergio Navas et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. | Aug 2024 | 3,524 |
| 25 | Chaos in Dynamical Systems Edward Ott, Kurt A. Wiesenfeld · Physics Today | 1994 | 3,494 |
| 26 | Python for Scientific Computing Travis E. Oliphant · Computing in Science & Engineering | 2007 | 3,405 |
| 27 | OpenMP: an industry standard API for shared-memory programming Leonardo Dagum, Ramesh G. Menon · IEEE Computational Science and Engineering | 1998 | 3,386 |
| 28 | Particle-Imaging Techniques for Experimental Fluid Mechanics Ronald J. Adrian · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 1991 | 3,261 |
| 29 | Open source clustering software Michiel de Hoon, Seiya Imoto, John P. Nolan et al. · Bioinformatics | 10 Feb 2004 | 3,213 |
| 30 | Python: a programming language for software integration and development. M F Sanner · PubMed | Feb 1999 | 3,121 |
| 31 | librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python Brian McFee, Colin Raffel, Dawen Liang et al. · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences | 2015 | 3,077 |
| 32 | The Einstein Tensor and Its Generalizations David Lovelock · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Mar 1971 | 2,987 |
| 33 | The Feynman Lectures on Physics Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands et al. · Physics Today | Aug 1964 | 2,961 |
| 34 | Distilling Free-Form Natural Laws from Experimental Data Michael H. Schmidt, Hod Lipson · Science | 2 Apr 2009 | 2,958 |
| 35 | On anomalous electroweak baryon-number non-conservation in the early universe V.A. Kuzmin, V. A. Rubakov, Mikhail Shaposhnikov · Physics Letters B | May 1985 | 2,919 |
| 36 | INTRODUCTION TO MODIFIED GRAVITY AND GRAVITATIONAL ALTERNATIVE FOR DARK ENERGY SHIN'ICHI NOJIRI, SERGEI D. ODINTSOV · International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics | Feb 2007 | 2,851 |
| 37 | Searching for intellectual turning points: Progressive knowledge domain visualization Chaomei Chen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Apr 2004 | 2,805 |
| 38 | The CORDIC Trigonometric Computing Technique Jack E. Volder · IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers | Sep 1959 | 2,649 |
| 39 | A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: On the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence Michael Haenlein, Andreas Kaplan · California Management Review | 17 Jul 2019 | 2,616 |
| 40 | MadGraph 5: going beyond Johan Alwall, Michel Herquet, Fabio Maltoni et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Jun 2011 | 2,609 |
| 41 | Probabilistic programming in Python using PyMC3 John Salvatier, Thomas V. Wiecki, Christopher Fonnesbeck · PeerJ Computer Science | 6 Apr 2016 | 2,578 |
| 42 | NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: FINAL MAPS AND RESULTS C. L. Bennett et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 20 Sep 2013 | 2,432 |
| 43 | GPT-3: Its Nature, Scope, Limits, and Consequences Luciano Floridi, Massimo Chiriatti · Minds and Machines | Nov 2020 | 2,384 |
| 44 | Longformer: The Long-Document Transformer Iz Beltagy, Matthew E. Peters, Arman Cohan · arXiv (Cornell University) | 10 Apr 2020 | 2,206 |
| 45 | Quantum phase transitions Subir Sachdev · Physics World | Apr 1999 | 2,119 |
| 46 | Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: a Survey Atılım Güneş Baydin, Barak A. Pearlmutter, Alexey Radul et al. · Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) | 2015 | 2,093 |
| 47 | Efficient subpixel image registration algorithms Manuel Guizar‐Sicairos, Samuel T. Thurman, James R. Fienup · Optics Letters | 10 Jan 2008 | 2,028 |
| 48 | Numerical recipes in C++: The art of scientific computing Frederick Crimins · Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology | 2003 | 2,016 |
| 49 | Concepts of Synchronous Machine Stability as Affected by Excitation Control F. P. deMello, Charles Concordia · IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems | Apr 1969 | 1,964 |
| 50 | Feynman diagrams for the Yang-Mills field L. D. Faddeev, Victor Nikolaevich Popov · Physics Letters B | Jul 1967 | 1,954 |
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