Isaacson opens by introducing the five landmark papers Einstein published in 1905, when the 26-year-old Bern patent clerk turned the world of physics on its head.
But over the years, his work has been recognized as "one of the landmark papers in transfusion medicine," according to Courtney Hopkins, the Chief Medical Officer of the American Red Cross's eastern division.
In 1990 and again in 1992, they jointly published landmark papers laying out the idea of telomeres as cellular clocks — papers that spawned what is today one of the hottest fields in molecular biology.
A useful collection of landmark papers in this area is Mani et al. (2005).
But around 2010, three landmark papers caused more doctors to sit up and take notice.
In 2000 Hazuda and her team published two landmark papers showing that integrase inhibitors could be made.
In the 1970s, Trivers penned a series of landmark papers that have been cited thousands of times and opened up the study of human relationships to biology.
The question of repeated evaluation of patients at day three, supported by some landmark papers [8, 46, 47], was also evaluated by our meta-analysis.
Academics place an emphasis on breaking new ground, Molyneux says, and students and researchers are constantly running the risk of reinventing the wheel or missing landmark papers because of sheer volume.
With the tremendous advances in the field of brain computer interfaces (BCI), the literature in this field has grown exponentially; examination of highly cited articles is a tool that can help identify outstanding scientific studies and landmark papers.
We show how two landmark papers, (Ho and Kalman, 1965) and (Åström and Bohlin, 1965), gave birth to two main streams of research that have dominated the development of system identitication over the last fourty years.
