不记得在哪里看过一个说法，David Cox 那篇提出 proportional hazards model 的文章是历史上被引用次数最多的统计类论文。前几天由好奇心的驱使，在 SCI 的数据库里查证了一下这个说法，结果并非如此，这篇 1972 年发在 JRSSB 上的文章被引 24309 次，排在第二位，排第一的是 Kaplan 和 Meier 那篇提出 Kaplan-Meier estimator 的文章，被引 33732 次，提出 EM 算法的文章紧跟在后，这三篇文章的被引次数都超过了一万次。由于文章领域的界定问题，我只搜索了 JASA, AOS, JRSS 和 Biometrika 这四种最重要的统计期刊上的文章，按被引次数排序，其他相关期刊比如 Biometrics 和 Econometrica 上也有一些属于统计方法论的文章，被引次数也非常高，就被忽略了。以下是排名前十的文章：
1. EL Kaplan and P Meier. Nonparametric-estimation from incomplete observations. Journal of the American Statistical Association 53(282): 457-481, 1958. Cited: 33,732.
2. DR Cox. Regression models and life-tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 34(2): 187-220, 1972. Cited: 24,309.
3. AP Dempster, NM Laird, and DB Rubin. Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via EM algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 39(1): 1-38, 1977. Cited: 10,218.
4. G Schwarz. Estimating dimension of a model. Annals of Statistics 6(2): 461-464, 1978. Cited: 5,700.
5. KY Liang and SL Zeger. Longitudinal data-analysis using generalized linear-models. Biometrika 73(1): 13-22, 1986. Cited: 5,651.
6. Y Benjamini and Y Hochberg. Controlling the false discovery rate - a practical and powerful approach to multiple testing. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 57(1): 289-300, 1995. Cited: 5,193.
7. CW Dunnett. A multiple comparison procedure for comparing several treatments with a control. Journal of the American Statistical Association 50(272): 1096-1121, 1955. Cited: 4,072.
8. GEP Box and DR Cox. An analysis of transformations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 26(2): 211-252, 1964. Cited: 3,513.
9. SS Shapiro and MB Wilk. An analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples). Biometrika 52(3-4): 591-611, 1965. Cited: 3,215.
10. JH Ward. Hierarchical grouping to optimize an objective function. Journal of the American Statistical Association 58(301): 236-244, 1963. Cited: 3,146.
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