Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

2025/04/15 by Helen Pearson, Heidi Ledford, Matthew Hutson +1 · 1 voice · 4 citations
Environmental Science · #Science and Climate Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01125-9

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Citations

• Using thematic analysis in psychology
• Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.
• ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks
• Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
• Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
• The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
• Exploiting Generative AI to Scale up Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Cited by

• Who invented deep residual learning?
• Experiences of Commercial Supercomputing in Radio Astronomy Data Processing
• Reflections on the I-squared index for measuring inconsistency in meta-analysis
• LLM-BT-Terms: Back-Translation as a Framework for Terminology Standardization and Dynamic Semantic Embedding

Discussions

• "But the most highly cited papers generally aren’t the most famous scientific discoveries. Rather, these works tend to describe scientific methods or software, the workhorses on which scientists depen [bsky, 5 points, 0 comments]