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The most-cited new papers of the last two years, today's biggest citation gains, and the most-cited papers of all time.

📄 Most-cited new papers · last 2 years

#PaperJournalYearCitations
1Cancer statistics, 2025CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians20253,120
2MEGA12: Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis Version 12 for Adaptive and Green ComputingMolecular Biology and Evolution20242,523
3A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open QuestionsACM Transactions on Information Systems20242,488
4Let's Take the Con out of EconometricsJournal of Business Cycle Research20262,202
5A Survey of Large Language ModelsFrontiers of Computer Science20262,075
6Definition and diagnostic criteria of clinical obesityThe Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology20251,782
7World Stroke Organization: Global Stroke Fact Sheet 2025International Journal of Stroke20241,475
8PubChem 2025 updateNucleic Acids Research20241,405
92. Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes: Standards of Care in Diabetes—2025Diabetes Care20241,378
10A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language ModelsACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology20251,250

🏆 Most-cited papers of all time

#PaperJournalYearCitations
1PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENTJournal of Biological Chemistry1951317,577
2A Rapid and Sensitive Method for the Quantitation of Microgram Quantities of Protein Utilizing the Principle of Protein-Dye BindingAnalytical Biochemistry1976255,240
3Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4Nature1970249,951
4Generalized Gradient Approximation Made SimplePhysical Review Letters1996215,194
5Using thematic analysis in psychologyQualitative Research in Psychology2006193,594
6Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT MethodMethods2001180,716
7Random ForestsMachine Learning2001132,660
8Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis setPhysical review. B, Condensed matter1996123,426
9ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networksCommunications of the ACM2017112,136
10Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach to Multiple TestingJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)1995109,135