christopher wrote:

There is no comprehensive, up-to-date, cross-disciplinary, open-source list of the top cited research papers from peer-reviewed journals.

It would be an interesting exercise to devise such a list by mining search queries from Google Scholar, which return the number of citations for each result.

We could grow our own list organically by sending out a brief survey (which could also serve as a subtle announcement/advertisement for AcaWiki).

We could also rely on a list of most-cited authors, which is a little easier to come by.

Below I have included some possible reference material:

• What papers should everyone read? - Theoretical Computer Science

http://j.mp/9u43c4

• The five most cited papers

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/09/1065676090723.html

Most Cited Computer Science Articles

• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/articles

• List of important publications in computer science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_computer_science

• The 100 Most-Cited Scientists

http://in-cites.com/nobel/index.html

• ISIHighlyCited.com

http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/
http://isihighlycited.com/

• Most cited authors of books in the humanities, 2007

http://archive.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2003/sw_sept-oct2003_page2.htm

• Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002

http://archive.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2003/sw_sept-oct2003_page2.htm

• Research Papers in Economics

http://repec.org/

• Google Scholar - a new data source for citation analysis

http://www.harzing.com/pp_gs.htm

• Journal Citation Reports

http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/analytical/jcr/

• Google Scholar: The New Generation of Citation Indexes

http://www.librijournal.org/pdf/2005-4pp170-180.pdf

• International Journal of Libraries and Information Services

http://www.librijournal.org/

christopher wrote:

• SciVerse ScienceDirect Top 25 Articles

http://top25.sciencedirect.com/

jon wrote:

Here are the top 20 domains from acawiki. We need a page to list the top 5 paper targets for each domain, and then start assigning them!

What should that page be?

Anthropology
Arts and Literarure
Astronomy
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Clinical Research
Computer Science
Economics
Education
Engineering
Geosciences
Health
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics
Psychology
Sociology

christopher wrote:

All moved to http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:Top_100_Papers