It may never win a Nobel Prize, but a 1951 paper describing a way to detect protein levels in a solution tops a new list of the 100 most cited research papers.

Fifty years ago, the American scientist Eugene Garfield started the Science Citation Index, the first organized effort to track citations in scientific literature. To mark the anniversary, the journal Nature asked Thomson Reuters, which now owns the index, to list the 100 most highly cited papers.

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