Topic · Medical and Biological Sciences
Most cited papers in Medical and Biological Sciences
What are the most cited papers in Medical and Biological Sciences?
The most cited paper in Medical and Biological Sciences is "Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis" (Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence, 1957), with 12,624 citations. Next come "Histochemistry: Theoretical and Applied" (3,065) and "Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee" (2,599).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 313 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiological Assessment of Osteo-Arthrosis Jan Kellgren, John S. Lawrence · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | Dec 1957 | 12,624 |
| 2 | Histochemistry: Theoretical and Applied Leonard Nelson, A. G. E. Pearse · AIBS Bulletin | Jun 1961 | 3,065 |
| 3 | Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee David W. Dempster, Juliet Elizabeth Compston, Marc K. Drezner et al. · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 29 Nov 2012 | 2,599 |
| 4 | The International Classification of Headache Disorders Jes Olesen · Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain | May 2008 | 2,327 |
| 5 | Genetic heterogeneity in osteogenesis imperfecta. David Owen Sillence, A Senn, D. M. Danks · Journal of Medical Genetics | Apr 1979 | 2,261 |
| 6 | Dual coding theory: Retrospect and current status. Allan Paivio · Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie | Sep 1991 | 2,189 |
| 7 | Articular mobility in an African population. Peter Beighton, Louis P. Solomon, Colin Lionel Soskolne · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases | Sep 1973 | 1,744 |
| 8 | The prevalence of neck pain in the world population: a systematic critical review of the literature René Fejer, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Jan Hartvigsen · European Spine Journal | 5 Jul 2005 | 1,215 |
| 9 | Histological and Histochemical Methods - Theory and practice Manuela Malatesta · European Journal of Histochemistry | 29 Feb 2016 | 1,183 |
| 10 | The development of an index of orthodontic treatment priority Peter Brook, William C. Shaw · European Journal of Orthodontics | Aug 1989 | 1,163 |
| 11 | Gyral development of the human brain Je G., Elizabeth C. Dooling, Floyd H. Gilles · Annals of Neurology | 1977 | 1,125 |
| 12 | THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY Jason G. Smith · International Journal of Dermatology | Jul 1979 | 1,050 |
| 13 | The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE Annetine C. Gelijns, Nathan S. Rosenberg, Alan J. Moskowitz · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | Aug 2009 | 1,000 |
| 14 | When is an illustration worth ten thousand words? Richard E. Mayer, Joan K. Gallini · Journal of Educational Psychology | Dec 1990 | 994 |
| 15 | Deformity Planning for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Corrective Osteotomies Dror Paley, John E. Herzenberg, Kevin D. Tetsworth et al. · Orthopedic Clinics of North America | Jul 1994 | 989 |
| 16 | The prediction of curve progression in untreated idiopathic scoliosis during growth. John E. Lonstein, J. Martin Carlson · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery | Sep 1984 | 985 |
| 17 | Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors. Report 12, Part I. Cancer: 1950-1990 Donald A. Pierce, Yukiko Shimizu, Dale L. Preston et al. · Radiation Research | Jul 1996 | 942 |
| 18 | SELF-SPLICING OF GROUP I INTRONS Thomas R. Cech · Annual Review of Biochemistry | Jun 1990 | 878 |
| 19 | The primary role of functional matrices in facial growth Melvin L. Moss, Letty Salentijn · American Journal of Orthodontics | Jun 1969 | 824 |
| 20 | GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS OF DEVELOPMENTAL INSTABILITY: ANALYZING PATTERNS OF FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY WITH PROCRUSTES METHODS Christian Peter Klingenberg, Grant S. McIntyre · Evolution | Oct 1998 | 817 |
| 21 | Receiver operating characteristic rating analysis. Generalization to the population of readers and patients with the jackknife method. Donald D. Dorfman, Kevin S. Berbaum, Charles E. Metz · PubMed | Sep 1992 | 722 |
| 22 | Roentgen stereophotogrammetry. A method for the study of the kinematics of the skeletal system. G. Selvik · PubMed | 1989 | 701 |
| 23 | From catalog to classification: Murray's needs and the five-factor model. Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Aug 1988 | 691 |
| 24 | Immunohistochemical localization of TGF beta 1, TGF beta 2, and TGF beta 3 in the mouse embryo: expression patterns suggest multiple roles during embryonic development. Ron W. Pelton, Brij B. Saxena, Michael Owen Jones et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology | 15 Nov 1991 | 671 |
| 25 | The role of the right hemisphere in the interpretation of figurative aspects of language A positron emission tomography activation study Gabriella Bottini, Rhiannon Corcoran, Roberto Sterzi et al. · Brain | 1994 | 669 |
| 26 | Where Have all the Adjectives Gone?* Robert M. W. Dixon · Studies in Language | 1977 | 638 |
| 27 | Homology Walter M. Fitch, Walter M. Fitch · Trends in Genetics | May 2000 | 613 |
| 28 | Prevalence of mandibular dysfunction in young adults William K. Solberg, Mae W. Woo, John B. Houston · The Journal of the American Dental Association | 1979 | 609 |
| 29 | THE NORMAL VASCULAR ANATOMY OF THE HUMAN FEMORAL HEAD DURING GROWTH Joseph Trueta · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume | May 1957 | 599 |
| 30 | Cranial Variation in Man. A Study by Multivariate Analysis of Patterns of Difference Among Recent Human Populations Peabody Museum Papers · Journal of Human Evolution | Jul 1977 | 593 |
| 31 | Viscosupplementation: a new concept in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Endre A. Balazs, Jason Denlinger · PubMed | Aug 1993 | 593 |
| 32 | Schizophrenia as an Anomaly of Development of Cerebral Asymmetry Timothy J. Crow · Archives of General Psychiatry | Dec 1989 | 592 |
| 33 | Microstructure and Mineralization of Vertebrate Skeletal Tissues Hélène Francillon‐Vieillot, Vivian de Buffrénil, J. Castanet et al. · Short course in geology | 2 Sep 2011 | 590 |
| 34 | The description of facial expressions in terms of two dimensions. Harold Schlosberg · Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1952 | 586 |
| 35 | Semiconstrained arthroplasty for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow. B.F. Morrey, Robert Adams · Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery | Apr 1992 | 572 |
| 36 | Genetical studies on the skeleton of the mouse Hans Grüneberg · Journal of Genetics | May 1954 | 558 |
| 37 | Model predictive control of three-axis gimbal system mounted on UAV for real-time target tracking under external disturbances Aytaç Altan, Rıfat Hacıoğlu · Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing | 5 Jan 2020 | 554 |
| 38 | Low Back Pain: A Twentieth Century Health Care Enigma Gordon Waddell · Spine | Dec 1996 | 553 |
| 39 | Osteoarthritis year in review 2019: epidemiology and therapy M. Kloppenburg, Françis Berenbaum · Osteoarthritis and Cartilage | 13 Jan 2020 | 549 |
| 40 | A novel transforming growth factor beta response element controls the expression of the connective tissue growth factor gene. Gary R. Grotendorst, Hitoshi Okochi, Nobukazu Hayashi · PubMed | Apr 1996 | 528 |
| 41 | A Treatment-Based Classification Approach to Low Back Syndrome: Identifying and Staging Patients for Conservative Treatment Anthony Delitto, Richard E. Erhard, Richard W Bowling · Physical Therapy | Jun 1995 | 515 |
| 42 | Human handedness: A meta-analysis. Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Eleni Ntolka, Judith Schmitz et al. · Psychological Bulletin | 2 Apr 2020 | 514 |
| 43 | The graphic analysis of labor Emanuel A. Friedman · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | Dec 1954 | 503 |
| 44 | Limb bone bilateral asymmetry: variability and commonality among modern humans Benjamin Miller Auerbach, Christopher B. Ruff · Journal of Human Evolution | 29 Nov 2005 | 502 |
| 45 | EPIDEMIOLOGY OF OSTEOPOROSIS E. M. C. Lau · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | May 2005 | 501 |
| 46 | Suppression of bone formation by osteoclastic expression of semaphorin 4D Takako Negishi‐Koga, Masahiro Shinohara, Noriko Komatsu et al. · Nature Medicine | 23 Oct 2011 | 501 |
| 47 | Maxillary transverse deficiency James A. McNamaraa · American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics | May 2000 | 499 |
| 48 | A unifying aetiological explanation for anomalies of human tooth number and size Alan Henry Brook · Archives of Oral Biology | 1984 | 491 |
| 49 | The human cadaver in the age of biomedical informatics M. Ashraf Aziz, James C. McKenzie, James S. Wilson et al. · The Anatomical Record | 15 Feb 2002 | 483 |
| 50 | Implications for Psychiatry of Left and Right Cerebral Specialization David Galin · Archives of General Psychiatry | Oct 1974 | 482 |
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