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Table 1 Top of the corpus comparison

From: PageRank as a method to rank biomedical literature by importance

PubMed ID (PMID)

Paper title

PageRank (E-5)

Citation count

9254694

Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs.

3.19

6291

2231712

Basic local alignment search tool.

2.88

5385

10802651

Gene ontology: tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium.

2.37

4293

11846609

Analysis of relative gene expression data using real-time quantitative PCR and the 2(−Delta Delta C(T)) Method.

1.95

6012†

7984417

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice.

1.78

3899

942051

A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding.

1.62

3850

21546353

MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods.

1.58

3431

17488738

MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0.

1.47

3075

5432063

Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4.

1.13

2881

3447015

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1.12

2171

  1. Top of the corpus comparison (n = 10), sorted by PageRank, descending. Paper titles were sourced from PMID via PMC-OAS look-up, though were not included in the initial XML extraction. Rankings accurate as of January 2015