Most-cited Computer Science papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Computer Science research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection
   Leland McInnes, John Healy et al. · 2018 · 9,755 citations · Free PDF
2. Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection
   Tsung-Yi Lin, Priya Goyal et al. · 2018 · 9,731 citations
3. Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
   John P. Preskill · 2018 · 8,606 citations · Free PDF
4. The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *
   Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Brigitta Sipőcz et al. · 2018 · 7,692 citations · Free PDF
5. Peeking Inside the Black-Box: A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
   Amina Adadi, Mohammed Berrada · 2018 · 6,250 citations
6. The Mythos of Model Interpretability
   Zachary C. Lipton · 2018 · 5,101 citations · Free PDF
7. Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy
   Tadas Baltrušaitis, Chaitanya Ahuja et al. · 2018 · 4,843 citations
8. Simple Features for R: Standardized Support for Spatial Vector Data
   Edzer J Pebesma · 2018 · 4,744 citations
9. Generative Adversarial Networks: An Overview
   Antonia Creswell, Tom White et al. · 2018 · 4,546 citations · Free PDF
10. Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management
    Sara Saberi, Mahtab Kouhizadeh et al. · 2018 · 4,100 citations
11. A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
    David Silver, Thomas Hubert et al. · 2018 · 3,600 citations · Free PDF
12. Artificial Intelligence in Service
    Ming‐Hui Huang, Roland T. Rust · 2018 · 3,556 citations
13. Mask R-CNN
    Kaiming He, Georgia Gkioxari et al. · 2018 · 3,493 citations
14. SECOND: Sparsely Embedded Convolutional Detection
    Yan Yan, Yuxing Mao et al. · 2018 · 3,411 citations
15. Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Brief Review
    Athanasios S. Voulodimos, Nikolaos D. Doulamis et al. · 2018 · 3,368 citations
16. Blockchain challenges and opportunities: a survey
    Zibin Zheng, Shaoan Xie et al. · 2018 · 3,348 citations
17. PubChem 2019 update: improved access to chemical data
    Sunghwan Kim, Jie Chen et al. · 2018 · 3,266 citations
18. Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning
    Léon Bottou, Frank E. Curtis et al. · 2018 · 3,221 citations · Free PDF
19. ProTox-II: a webserver for the prediction of toxicity of chemicals
    Priyanka Banerjee, Andreas Philipp Eckert et al. · 2018 · 3,216 citations
20. Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-Driven Continuous Representation of Molecules
    Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Jennifer N. Wei et al. · 2018 · 3,099 citations · Free PDF
21. State-of-the-art in artificial neural network applications: A survey
    Oludare Isaac Abiodun, Aman Jantan et al. · 2018 · 3,072 citations
22. Ensemble learning: A survey
    Omer Sagi, Lior Rokach · 2018 · 3,058 citations
23. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Cluster
    Muthu Dayalan · 2018 · 2,956 citations
24. Recent Trends in Deep Learning Based Natural Language Processing [Review Article]
    Tom Young, Devamanyu Hazarika et al. · 2018 · 2,918 citations
25. Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning
    Takeru Miyato, Shin‐ichi Maeda et al. · 2018 · 2,868 citations

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