Most-cited Mathematics papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Mathematics research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models
   Alexandra Kuznetsova, Per B. Brockhoff et al. · 2017 · 23,877 citations · Free PDF
2. Discovering Statistics Using Ibm Spss Statistics
   Andy Peter Field · 2017 · 16,424 citations
3. glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling
   Mollie,E. Brooks, Kasper Kristensen et al. · 2017 · 13,038 citations
4. brms : An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan
   Paul‐Christian Bürkner · 2017 · 9,490 citations · Free PDF
5. Stan : A Probabilistic Programming Language
   Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman et al. · 2017 · 7,872 citations · Free PDF
6. Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value
   Tyler J. VanderWeele, Peng Ding · 2017 · 6,215 citations · Free PDF
7. Comparison of Sociodemographic and Health-Related Characteristics of UK Biobank Participants With Those of the General Population
   Anna Fry, Thomas J. Littlejohns et al. · 2017 · 3,996 citations
8. Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians
   David M. Blei, Alp Kucukelbir et al. · 2017 · 3,847 citations · Free PDF
9. Partial, conditional, and moderated moderated mediation: Quantification, inference, and interpretation
   Andrew F. Hayes · 2017 · 3,475 citations
10. ranger : A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and R
    Marvin N. Wright, Andreas Ziegler · 2017 · 3,373 citations · Free PDF
11. Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests
    Stefan Wager, Susan Carleton Athey · 2017 · 2,964 citations
12. Double/debiased machine learning for treatment and structural parameters
    Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov et al. · 2017 · 2,959 citations
13. The coefficient of determination R 2 and intra-class correlation coefficient from generalized linear mixed-effects models revisited and expanded
    Shinichi Nakagawa, P. Johnson et al. · 2017 · 2,809 citations
14. When and how should multiple imputation be used for handling missing data in randomised clinical trials – a practical guide with flowcharts
    Janus Christian Jakobsen, Christian Nyfeldt Gluud et al. · 2017 · 2,749 citations · Free PDF
15. Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging
    Kyong Hwan Jin, Michael T. McCann et al. · 2017 · 2,574 citations · Free PDF
16. Feature Selection
    Jundong Li, Kewei Cheng et al. · 2017 · 2,429 citations · Free PDF
17. Limb proportions show developmental plasticity in response to embryo movement
    Andrea S. Pollard, Bethany Charlton et al. · 2017 · 2,372 citations · Free PDF
18. Equivalence Tests
    Daniël Lakens · 2017 · 2,184 citations
19. Balancing Type I error and power in linear mixed models
    Hannes Matuschek, Reinhold M. Kliegl et al. · 2017 · 2,040 citations · Free PDF
20. Repeated Measures Correlation
    Jonathan Z. Bakdash, Laura Ranee Marusich · 2017 · 2,029 citations · Free PDF
21. Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach
    Sendhil Mullainathan, Jann Spiess · 2017 · 1,999 citations
22. Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
    Angus Deaton, Nancy Delaney Cartwright · 2017 · 1,857 citations
23. Determining Power and Sample Size for Simple and Complex Mediation Models
    Alexander M. Schoemann, Aaron Jacob Boulton et al. · 2017 · 1,833 citations
24. Random Forest
    Steven J. Rigatti · 2017 · 1,806 citations
25. rptR: repeatability estimation and variance decomposition by generalized linear mixed‐effects models
    Martin A. Stoffel, Shinichi Nakagawa et al. · 2017 · 1,792 citations

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