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Most cited papers in Diffusion and Search Dynamics
What are the most cited papers in Diffusion and Search Dynamics?
The most cited paper in Diffusion and Search Dynamics is "Cuckoo Search via Lévy flights" (Xin‐She Yang, Suash Deb, 2009), with 6,178 citations. Next come "Understanding individual human mobility patterns" (6,165) and "Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem" (5,460).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 554 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuckoo Search via Lévy flights Xin‐She Yang, Suash Deb | 2009 | 6,178 |
| 2 | Understanding individual human mobility patterns Marta Claudia González, César A. Hidalgo, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási · Nature | 4 Jun 2008 | 6,165 |
| 3 | Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem Eric L. Charnov · Theoretical Population Biology | Apr 1976 | 5,460 |
| 4 | Equilibria and kinetics of lac repressor-operator interactions by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis Michael Gregory Fried, Donald M. Crothers · Nucleic Acids Research | 1981 | 2,859 |
| 5 | Random Walks on Lattices. II Elliott W. Montroll, George H. Weiss · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Feb 1965 | 2,799 |
| 6 | REGULATORY SEQUENCES INVOLVED IN THE PROMOTION AND TERMINATION OF RNA TRANSCRIPTION Martin J. Rosenberg, Donald Court · Annual Review of Genetics | Dec 1979 | 2,726 |
| 7 | The new stereological tools: Disector, fractionator, nucleator and point sampled intercepts and their use in pathological research and diagnosis H.J.G. Gundersen, Peter Valdemar Bagger, Thomas Fichtner Bendtsen et al. · Apmis | Jul 1988 | 2,506 |
| 8 | Marine Predators Algorithm: A nature-inspired metaheuristic Afshin Faramarzi, Mohammad Heidarinejad, Seyedali Mirjalili et al. · Expert Systems with Applications | 13 Mar 2020 | 2,419 |
| 9 | The scaling laws of human travel Dirk Brockmann, Lars Hufnagel, Theo Geisel · Nature | 2006 | 2,270 |
| 10 | Collective Memory and Spatial Sorting in Animal Groups Iain D. Couzin, Jens Krause, Richard William James et al. · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Sep 2002 | 2,216 |
| 11 | Robust single-particle tracking in live-cell time-lapse sequences Khuloud Jaqaman, Dinah Loerke, Marcel Mettlen et al. · Nature Methods | 20 Jul 2008 | 2,165 |
| 12 | DNAase footprinting a simple method for the detection of protein-DNA binding specificity David J. Galas, Albert Schmitz · Nucleic Acids Research | 1978 | 2,125 |
| 13 | Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew L. Maas, James Andrew Bagnell et al. | 2018 | 2,046 |
| 14 | Emergent Behavior in Flocks Felipe Cucker, Steve Smale · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | May 2007 | 1,854 |
| 15 | Anomalous diffusion models and their properties: non-stationarity, non-ergodicity, and ageing at the centenary of single particle tracking Ralf Metzler, Jae‐Hyung Jeon, Andrey G. Cherstvy et al. · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics | 2014 | 1,842 |
| 16 | Flocks, herds, and schools: A quantitative theory of flocking John Toner, Yuhai Tu · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics | Oct 1998 | 1,644 |
| 17 | Population structure and particle swarm performance James C. Kennedy, Rui Mendes | 25 Jun 2003 | 1,590 |
| 18 | Real-Time Kinetics of Gene Activity in Individual Bacteria Ido Golding, Johan Paulsson, Scott M. Zawilski et al. · Cell | Dec 2005 | 1,575 |
| 19 | Optimizing the success of random searches G. M. Viswanathan, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin et al. · Nature | Oct 1999 | 1,564 |
| 20 | Random walk models in biology Edward A. Codling, Michael John Plank, Simon Benhamou · Journal of The Royal Society Interface | 15 Apr 2008 | 1,549 |
| 21 | A field guide to bacterial swarming motility Daniel B. Kearns · Nature Reviews Microbiology | 9 Aug 2010 | 1,531 |
| 22 | Simulation of biological cell sorting using a two-dimensional extended Potts model François Graner, James A. Glazier · Physical Review Letters | 28 Sep 1992 | 1,475 |
| 23 | The effect of change in population size on DNA polymorphism. Fumio Tajima · Genetics | Nov 1989 | 1,464 |
| 24 | Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses G. M. Viswanathan, Vsevolod Afanasyev, Sergey V. Buldyrev et al. · Nature | May 1996 | 1,444 |
| 25 | A study of particle swarm optimization particle trajectories F VANDENBERGH, Andries Petrus Engelbrecht · Information Sciences | 8 Mar 2005 | 1,405 |
| 26 | Neuronal Spike Trains and Stochastic Point Processes Donald H. Perkel, George L. Gerstein, George Moore · Biophysical Journal | Jul 1967 | 1,331 |
| 27 | Modelling the scaling properties of human mobility Chaoming Song, Tal Koren, Pu Wang et al. · Nature Physics | 12 Sep 2010 | 1,319 |
| 28 | Anomalous transport in the crowded world of biological cells Felix Höfling, Thomas Franosch · Reports on Progress in Physics | 12 Mar 2013 | 1,273 |
| 29 | Single particle tracking. Analysis of diffusion and flow in two-dimensional systems Hong Qian, Michael P. Sheetz, E L Elson · Biophysical Journal | Oct 1991 | 1,210 |
| 30 | Dynamical Clustering and Phase Separation in Suspensions of Self-Propelled Colloidal Particles Ivo Buttinoni, Julian Bialké, Felix Kümmel et al. · Physical Review Letters | 5 Jun 2013 | 1,195 |
| 31 | Differential equations driven by rough signals Terry Lyons · Revista Matemática Iberoamericana | 31 Aug 1998 | 1,146 |
| 32 | Insulin receptors are widely distributed in the central nervous system of the rat Jana Havránková, Jesse Roth, Michael Brownstein · Nature | Apr 1978 | 1,112 |
| 33 | Random walk with persistence and external bias Clifford S. Patlak · Bulletin of Mathematical Biology | Sep 1953 | 1,061 |
| 34 | Facilitated Target Location in Biological Systems Peter H. von Hippel, Otto G. Berg · Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1989 | 1,058 |
| 35 | Big data and its technical challenges H. V. Jagadish, Johannes E. Gehrke, Alexandros Labrinidis et al. · Communications of the ACM | Jul 2014 | 1,052 |
| 36 | Stochastic resonance and sensory information processing: a tutorial and review of application Frank Moss, Lawrence M. Ward, Walter G. Sannita · Clinical Neurophysiology | 20 Nov 2003 | 1,021 |
| 37 | Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour DAVID W. SIMS, Emily J. Southall, Nicolas E. Humphries et al. · Nature | Feb 2008 | 982 |
| 38 | Hydrodynamic Fluctuations and Instabilities in Ordered Suspensions of Self-Propelled Particles Robert Simha, Sriraṁ Ramaswamy · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jul 2002 | 974 |
| 39 | Firefly Algorithm, Lévy Flights and Global Optimization Xin‐She Yang | 19 Oct 2009 | 970 |
| 40 | Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators Nicolas E. Humphries, Nuno C. Queiroz, Jennifer R. M. Dyer et al. · Nature | Jun 2010 | 964 |
| 41 | Onset of Collective and Cohesive Motion Guillaume Grégoire, Hugues Chaté · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jan 2004 | 951 |
| 42 | A Convexity Principle for Interacting Gases Robert J. McCann · Advances in Mathematics | Jun 1997 | 945 |
| 43 | State–space models of individual animal movement Trista M. Patterson, Len Thomas, Christopher Stuart Wilcox et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 14 Jan 2008 | 944 |
| 44 | Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer Andrew M. Edwards, Richard A. Phillips, N. W. Watkins et al. · Nature | Oct 2007 | 938 |
| 45 | Physical Nature of Bacterial Cytoplasm Ido Golding, Edward C. Cox · Physical Review Letters | 10 Mar 2006 | 929 |
| 46 | How do site-specific DNA-binding proteins find their targets? Stephen E. Halford · Nucleic Acids Research | 2 Jun 2004 | 927 |
| 47 | Self-Exciting Point Process Modeling of Crime George Mohler, Martin B. Short, Paul Jeffrey Brantingham et al. · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Mar 2011 | 914 |
| 48 | Particle Diffusion in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Bacterial Bath Xiao-Lun Wu, Albert J. Libchaber · Physical Review Letters | 27 Mar 2000 | 910 |
| 49 | Models of dispersal in biological systems Hans G. Othmer, Steven R. Dunbar, Wolfgang Alt · Journal of Mathematical Biology | Jun 1988 | 907 |
| 50 | Simulation of nonhomogeneous poisson processes by thinning Peter Lewis, Gerald S. Shedler · Naval Research Logistics Quarterly | Sep 1979 | 876 |
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