# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2889326414) · 9,755 citations · Free PDF
2. [Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2884561390) · 9,731 citations
3. [Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2781738013) · 8,606 citations · Free PDF
4. [The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2888532099) · 7,692 citations · Free PDF
5. [Peeking Inside the Black-Box: A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2891503716) · 6,250 citations
6. [The Mythos of Model Interpretability](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2439568532) · 5,101 citations · Free PDF
7. [Multimodal Machine Learning: A Survey and Taxonomy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2619383789) · 4,843 citations
8. [Simple Features for R: Standardized Support for Spatial Vector Data](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804233742) · 4,744 citations
9. [Generative Adversarial Networks: An Overview](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2765811365) · 4,546 citations · Free PDF
10. [Blockchain technology and its relationships to sustainable supply chain management](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2898069736) · 4,100 citations
11. [A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2902907165) · 3,600 citations · Free PDF
12. [Artificial Intelligence in Service](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2786141192) · 3,556 citations
13. [Mask R-CNN](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2806070179) · 3,493 citations
14. [SECOND: Sparsely Embedded Convolutional Detection](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2897529137) · 3,411 citations
15. [Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Brief Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2794284562) · 3,368 citations
16. [Blockchain challenges and opportunities: a survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2897450989) · 3,348 citations
17. [PubChem 2019 update: improved access to chemical data](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2899070097) · 3,266 citations
18. [Optimization Methods for Large-Scale Machine Learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2436219157) · 3,221 citations · Free PDF
19. [ProTox-II: a webserver for the prediction of toxicity of chemicals](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2801088198) · 3,216 citations
20. [Automatic Chemical Design Using a Data-Driven Continuous Representation of Molecules](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2529996553) · 3,099 citations · Free PDF
21. [State-of-the-art in artificial neural network applications: A survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2901312569) · 3,072 citations
22. [Ensemble learning: A survey](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2789758093) · 3,058 citations
23. [MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Cluster](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2122465391) · 2,956 citations
24. [Recent Trends in Deep Learning Based Natural Language Processing [Review Article]](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2884001105) · 2,918 citations
25. [Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2964159205) · 2,868 citations

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