Most-cited Engineering papers of 2018, with free PDFs

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

1. 30 Years of Lithium‐Ion Batteries
   Matthew Li, Jun Biao Lu et al. · 2018 · 6,093 citations
2. VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator
   Tong Qin, Peiliang Li et al. · 2018 · 4,726 citations · Free PDF
3. Carbon capture and storage (CCS): the way forward
   Mai Bui, Claire S. Adjiman et al. · 2018 · 4,381 citations
4. Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning
   Mike Davies, Narayan Srinivasa et al. · 2018 · 3,957 citations
5. Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification
   Werner Kritzinger, Matthias Karner et al. · 2018 · 3,503 citations
6. Industry 4.0: state of the art and future trends
   Li Da Xu, Eric Li Xu et al. · 2018 · 3,230 citations
7. Road Extraction by Deep Residual U-Net
   Zhengxin Zhang, Qingjie Liu et al. · 2018 · 3,187 citations · Free PDF
8. Photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging via nanotheranostics in fighting cancer
   Yijing Liu, Pravin Bhattarai et al. · 2018 · 2,907 citations
9. Multiplexed and portable nucleic acid detection platform with Cas13, Cas12a, and Csm6
   Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. · 2018 · 2,654 citations
10. Science and technology of ammonia combustion
    Hideaki Kobayashi, Akihiro Hayakawa et al. · 2018 · 2,578 citations
11. Chemicals from lignin: an interplay of lignocellulose fractionation, depolymerisation, and upgrading
    Wouter Schutyser, Tom Renders et al. · 2018 · 2,560 citations · Free PDF
12. Organic and solution-processed tandem solar cells with 17.3% efficiency
    Lingxian Meng, Yamin Zhang et al. · 2018 · 2,534 citations
13. Additive manufacturing of Ti6Al4V alloy: A review
    Shunyu Liu, Yung C. Shin · 2018 · 2,493 citations
14. Net-zero emissions energy systems
    Steven J. Davis, Nathan S. Lewis et al. · 2018 · 2,385 citations · Free PDF
15. Industrial Internet of Things: Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions
    Emiliano Sisinni, Abusayeed M. Saifullah et al. · 2018 · 2,382 citations
16. ENDF/B-VIII.0: The 8 th Major Release of the Nuclear Reaction Data Library with CIELO-project Cross Sections, New Standards and Thermal Scattering Data
    David A. Brown, M. B. Chadwick et al. · 2018 · 2,355 citations
17. Recent Advances in Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries
    Guozhao Fang, Jiang Zhou et al. · 2018 · 2,277 citations
18. Hierarchically porous polymer coatings for highly efficient passive daytime radiative cooling
    Jyotirmoy Mandal, Yanke Fu et al. · 2018 · 2,242 citations
19. Before Li Ion Batteries
    Martin Winter, Brian Barnett et al. · 2018 · 2,216 citations
20. Recent Advances in Zn‐Ion Batteries
    Ming Song, Hua Tan et al. · 2018 · 2,214 citations
21. Bright Side of Lignin Depolymerization: Toward New Platform Chemicals
    Zhuohua Sun, Bálint Fridrich et al. · 2018 · 2,208 citations
22. Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells
    Yaoguang Rong, Yue Hu et al. · 2018 · 2,144 citations
23. 3D printing of ceramics: A review
    Zhangwei Chen, Ziyong Li et al. · 2018 · 2,121 citations
24. Carbothermal shock synthesis of high-entropy-alloy nanoparticles
    Yonggang Yao, Zhennan Huang et al. · 2018 · 2,116 citations
25. Implementation of machine-learning classification in remote sensing: an applied review
    Aaron Edward Maxwell, Timothy A. Warner et al. · 2018 · 2,070 citations

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