The phrase "cited paper" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a paper that has been referenced or mentioned in another paper or publication. Example: The researcher's findings were based on the analysis of several cited papers, indicating a strong foundation for their conclusions.
Prof. Gmachl and Wysocki receive top cited paper in Chemical Physics Letters.
His paper explaining it became the most frequently cited paper in the recent history of particle physics.
During these years, Simons published a widely cited paper, "Axiomatic Characterization of Ordinary Differential Cohomology," in the Journal of Topology.
(Akaike's 1974 paper, introducing Akaike Information Criterion AICC), is the most often cited paper in the subject of model selection).
They found their solution in parallelism, and as a result, wrote a paper that has been the second-most cited paper in IEEE's Journal of Solid State Circuits.
This paper, which appeared in Science on Jan . 3 2013 (Cong et al., 2013) is now the most cited paper in the genome-editing field.
We thus can define each academic paradigm as the set of all papers that cited a certain highly-cited paper.
The same paper also ranked as the 4th most-cited paper among all papers published in Management Science.
Last year, a widely-cited paper from Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton found that the death rate has been increasing for middle-aged whites in America.
According to an oft-cited paper by Marcel LaFollette, a 1926 magazine once introduced an eminent medical researcher as a woman whose mahogany furniture "gleams".
His oft-cited paper on tipping points is two years old now and was based on literature surveys rather than direct research.
