Most-cited Mathematics papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Mathematics research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Comparison of Convenience Sampling and Purposive Sampling
   İlker Etikan · 2016 · 11,287 citations
2. Principal component analysis: a review and recent developments
   Ian T. Jolliffe, Jorge F. C. L. Cadima · 2016 · 9,998 citations
3. Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence
   Emily F. Oster · 2016 · 5,437 citations
4. New fractional derivatives with nonlocal and non-singular kernel: Theory and application to heat transfer model
   Atangana Abdon, Dumitru Bǎleanu · 2016 · 3,966 citations
5. Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations
   Sander Greenland, Stephen John Senn et al. · 2016 · 3,211 citations · Free PDF
6. Using Big Data to Emulate a Target Trial When a Randomized Trial Is Not Available: Table 1.
   Miguel Ángel Hernán, James M. Robins · 2016 · 3,039 citations
7. Interrupted time series regression for the evaluation of public health interventions: a tutorial
   Jamie Lopez Bernal, Steven Cummins et al. · 2016 · 3,024 citations
8. Information bias in health research: definition, pitfalls, and adjustment methods
   Alaa Althubaiti · 2016 · 3,016 citations · Free PDF
9. Introduction to the Analysis of Survival Data in the Presence of Competing Risks
   Peter C. Austin, Douglas S. Lee et al. · 2016 · 2,595 citations · Free PDF
10. Probabilistic programming in Python using PyMC3
    John Salvatier, Thomas V. Wiecki et al. · 2016 · 2,428 citations · Free PDF
11. Robust causal inference using directed acyclic graphs: the R package ‘dagitty’
    Johannes C. Textor, Benito van der Zander et al. · 2016 · 2,292 citations
12. TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics
    Pablo A. Goloboff, Santiago Andrés Catalano · 2016 · 2,247 citations
13. Propensity Score Matching in Accounting Research
    Jonathan E. Shipman, Quinn Thomas Swanquist et al. · 2016 · 1,764 citations
14. Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects
    Susan Carleton Athey, Guido W. Imbens · 2016 · 1,617 citations · Free PDF
15. Defining Feasibility and Pilot Studies in Preparation for Randomised Controlled Trials: Development of a Conceptual Framework
    Sandra M Eldridge, Gillian Lancaster et al. · 2016 · 1,568 citations · Free PDF
16. Epidemiology: An introduction
    Kenneth Jay Rothman · 2016 · 1,522 citations
17. Increasing Transparency Through a Multiverse Analysis
    Sara Steegen, Francis Tuerlinckx et al. · 2016 · 1,455 citations
18. JuMP: A MODELING LANGUAGE FOR MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION
    Iain Dunning, Joey Huchette et al. · 2016 · 1,391 citations
19. Methodology series module 3: Cross-sectional studies
    Maninder Singh Setia · 2016 · 1,375 citations
20. missMDA : A Package for Handling Missing Values in Multivariate Data Analysis
    Julie Josse, François Husson · 2016 · 1,356 citations
21. Smoothing Parameter and Model Selection for General Smooth Models
    Simon N. Wood, Natalya Pya et al. · 2016 · 1,322 citations · Free PDF
22. Multicollinearity in Regression Analyses Conducted in Epidemiologic Studies
    Kristina P. Vatcheva, MinJae Lee · 2016 · 1,288 citations
23. Net benefit approaches to the evaluation of prediction models, molecular markers, and diagnostic tests
    Andrew Julian Vickers, Ben VAN CALSTER et al. · 2016 · 1,152 citations · Free PDF
24. Triangulation in aetiological epidemiology
    Debbie A. Lawlor, Kate M. Tilling et al. · 2016 · 1,121 citations
25. False discovery rates: a new deal
    Matthew Stephens · 2016 · 1,101 citations · Free PDF

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