# Most-cited Computer Science papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Computer Science research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2163605009) · 108,512 citations
2. [DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2412782625) · 22,617 citations
3. [GAN（Generative Adversarial Nets）](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2099471712) · 21,178 citations · Free PDF
4. [SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1910657905) · 19,896 citations · Free PDF
5. [SwissADME: a free web tool to evaluate pharmacokinetics, drug-likeness and medicinal chemistry friendliness of small molecules](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2593436234) · 18,119 citations · Free PDF
6. [Inception-v4, Inception-ResNet and the Impact of Residual Connections on Learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2964350391) · 12,687 citations
7. [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2493916176) · 9,858 citations · Free PDF
8. [Beyond a Gaussian Denoiser: Residual Learning of Deep CNN for Image Denoising](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2508457857) · 9,186 citations · Free PDF
9. [QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2952481429) · 8,861 citations · Free PDF
10. [DrugBank 5.0: a major update to the DrugBank database for 2018](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2767891136) · 8,424 citations
11. [Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2560647685) · 7,813 citations · Free PDF
12. [Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2120575449) · 6,189 citations · Free PDF
13. [A Survey on Mobile Edge Computing: The Communication Perspective](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2624989916) · 5,699 citations
14. [Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2277195237) · 5,298 citations · Free PDF
15. [Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2533800772) · 4,898 citations · Free PDF
16. [Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Brief Survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3100789280) · 4,751 citations · Free PDF
17. [The atomic simulation environment—a Python library for working with atoms](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2601081289) · 4,514 citations
18. [Efficient Processing of Deep Neural Networks: A Tutorial and Survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2604319603) · 4,241 citations
19. [Places: A 10 Million Image Database for Scene Recognition](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2732026016) · 4,118 citations
20. [Learning without Forgetting](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2473930607) · 4,117 citations
21. [Quantum sensing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3037447387) · 4,038 citations · Free PDF
22. [Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2107743791) · 4,032 citations
23. [Geometric Deep Learning: Going beyond Euclidean data](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2558748708) · 3,702 citations · Free PDF
24. [UpSetR: an R package for the visualization of intersecting sets and their properties](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2952615074) · 3,618 citations · Free PDF
25. [Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification: A Comprehensive Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2622826443) · 3,527 citations

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