Most-cited Computer Science papers of 2021, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Computer Science research papers published in 2021, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales
   Aidan P. Thompson, Hasan Metin Aktulga et al. · 2021 · 12,535 citations
2. Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions
   Laith Alzubaidi, Jinglan Zhang et al. · 2021 · 7,886 citations · Free PDF
3. AutoDock Vina 1.2.0: New Docking Methods, Expanded Force Field, and Python Bindings
   Jérôme Eberhardt, Diogo Santos‐Martins et al. · 2021 · 7,552 citations
4. seaborn: statistical data visualization
   Michael Waskom · 2021 · 7,272 citations · Free PDF
5. performance: An R Package for Assessment, Comparison and Testing of Statistical Models
   Daniel Lüdecke, Mattan S. Ben‐Shachar et al. · 2021 · 5,780 citations · Free PDF
6. A Survey of Convolutional Neural Networks: Analysis, Applications, and Prospects
   Zewen Li, Fan Liu et al. · 2021 · 5,146 citations · Free PDF
7. Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning: A Survey
   Shervin Minaee, Yuri Boykov et al. · 2021 · 3,674 citations · Free PDF
8. gmx_MMPBSA: A New Tool to Perform End-State Free Energy Calculations with GROMACS
   Mario Sergio Valdés Tresanco, Mario E. Valdés‐Tresanco et al. · 2021 · 3,394 citations
9. Combinatorial optimization: networks and matroids
   Eugene L. Lawler · 2021 · 3,357 citations
10. Temporal Fusion Transformers for interpretable multi-horizon time series forecasting
    Bryan Y. Lim, Sercan Ö. Arık et al. · 2021 · 3,079 citations · Free PDF
11. The Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm
    Laith Abualigah, Ali H. Diabat et al. · 2021 · 2,941 citations
12. A Survey on Knowledge Graphs: Representation, Acquisition, and Applications
    Shaoxiong Ji, Shirui Pan et al. · 2021 · 2,925 citations · Free PDF
13. HuBERT: Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning by Masked Prediction of Hidden Units
    Wei-Ning Hsu, Benjamin Bolte et al. · 2021 · 2,919 citations · Free PDF
14. ADMETlab 2.0: an integrated online platform for accurate and comprehensive predictions of ADMET properties
    Guo‐Li Xiong, Zhenhua Wu et al. · 2021 · 2,863 citations
15. 1D convolutional neural networks and applications: A survey
    Kiranyaz, Mustafa Serkan, Onur Avcı et al. · 2021 · 2,848 citations
16. Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection
    Guansong Pang, Chunhua Shen et al. · 2021 · 2,831 citations · Free PDF
17. A review of uncertainty quantification in deep learning: Techniques, applications and challenges
    Moloud Abdar, Farhad Pourpanah et al. · 2021 · 2,703 citations · Free PDF
18. Machine learning and deep learning
    Christian Janiesch, Patrick Zschech et al. · 2021 · 2,655 citations · Free PDF
19. EnlightenGAN: Deep Light Enhancement Without Paired Supervision
    Yifan Jiang, Xinyu Gong et al. · 2021 · 2,635 citations
20. Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking generalization
    Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio et al. · 2021 · 2,390 citations
21. A Survey on Multi-Task Learning
    Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang · 2021 · 2,354 citations
22. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving: A Survey
    Bangalore Ravi Kiran, Ibrahim Sobh et al. · 2021 · 2,328 citations · Free PDF
23. Deep Learning for Person Re-Identification: A Survey and Outlook
    Mang Ye, Jianbing Shen et al. · 2021 · 2,254 citations
24. Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing
    裕二 池谷, Robert Tinn et al. · 2021 · 2,137 citations · Free PDF
25. Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review
    Davy Tsz Kit Ng, Jac Ka Lok Leung et al. · 2021 · 2,025 citations

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