| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | A Simplex Method for Function Minimization | Computer Journal | 1965 | 23,990 |
| 2 | A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for Minimization | Computer Journal | 1963 | 4,127 |
| 3 | Function minimization by conjugate gradients | Computer Journal | 1964 | 3,943 |
| 4 | An efficient method for finding the minimum of a function of several variables without calculating derivatives | Computer Journal | 1964 | 3,888 |
| 5 | A new approach to variable metric algorithms | Computer Journal | 1970 | 3,201 |
| 6 | An Automatic Method for Finding the Greatest or Least Value of a Function | Computer Journal | 1960 | 2,488 |
| 7 | How Many Clusters? Which Clustering Method? Answers Via Model-Based Cluster Analysis | Computer Journal | 1998 | 1,907 |
| 8 | A General Theory of Classificatory Sorting Strategies: 1. Hierarchical Systems | Computer Journal | 1967 | 1,367 |
| 9 | Computing the n-dimensional Delaunay tessellation with application to Voronoi polytopes | Computer Journal | 1981 | 1,236 |
| 10 | A New Method of Constrained Optimization and a Comparison With Other Methods | Computer Journal | 1965 | 1,144 |
| 11 | Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms: An Efficient Improvement to Dubner and Abate's Method | Computer Journal | 1974 | 979 |
| 12 | Literate Programming | Computer Journal | 1984 | 925 |
| 13 | Computing Dirichlet tessellations | Computer Journal | 1981 | 912 |
| 14 | Finding Response Times in a Real-Time System | Computer Journal | 1986 | 850 |
| 15 | SLINK: An optimally efficient algorithm for the single-link cluster method | Computer Journal | 1973 | 846 |
| 16 | An Information Measure for Classification | Computer Journal | 1968 | 839 |
| 17 | A Survey of Recent Advances in Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms | Computer Journal | 1983 | 810 |
| 18 | A Method for Minimizing a Sum of Squares of Non-Linear Functions Without Calculating Derivatives | Computer Journal | 1965 | 749 |
| 19 | Hierarchical grouping methods and stopping rules: an evaluation | Computer Journal | 1977 | 730 |
| 20 | Quicksort | Computer Journal | 1962 | 708 |
| 21 | The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions | Computer Journal | 1964 | 672 |
| 22 | Computing Dirichlet Tessellations in the Plane | Computer Journal | 1978 | 618 |
| 23 | The QR Transformation A Unitary Analogue to the LR Transformation--Part 1 | Computer Journal | 1961 | 588 |
| 24 | An upper bound for the chromatic number of a graph and its application to timetabling problems | Computer Journal | 1967 | 555 |
| 25 | An efficient algorithm for a complete link method | Computer Journal | 1977 | 554 |
| 26 | A tree-search algorithm for mixed integer programming problems | Computer Journal | 1965 | 530 |
| 27 | Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing | Computer Journal | 2010 | 530 |
| 28 | Tane: An Efficient Algorithm for Discovering Functional and Approximate Dependencies | Computer Journal | 1999 | 492 |
| 29 | Some general implicit processes for the numerical solution of differential equations | Computer Journal | 1963 | 487 |
| 30 | Variance algorithm for minimization | Computer Journal | 1968 | 481 |
| 31 | On Testing Non-Testable Programs | Computer Journal | 1982 | 434 |
| 32 | Super-Resolution in Medical Imaging | Computer Journal | 2008 | 414 |
| 33 | Why Functional Programming Matters | Computer Journal | 1989 | 407 |
| 34 | Drawing Contours from Arbitrary Data Points | Computer Journal | 1974 | 393 |
| 35 | An algorithm with guaranteed convergence for finding a zero of a function | Computer Journal | 1971 | 366 |
| 36 | Computation and Computational Thinking | Computer Journal | 2012 | 364 |
| 37 | Locally equiangular triangulations | Computer Journal | 1978 | 340 |
| 38 | A Comparison of Several Current Optimization Methods, and the use of Transformations in Constrained Problems | Computer Journal | 1966 | 337 |
| 39 | Computer Programs for Hierarchical Polythetic Classification ("Similarity Analyses") | Computer Journal | 1966 | 324 |
| 40 | Computational experience with quadratically convergent minimisation methods | Computer Journal | 1970 | 321 |
| 41 | The QR Transformation--Part 2 | Computer Journal | 1962 | 313 |
| 42 | Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov Complexity | Computer Journal | 1999 | 301 |
| 43 | Diagnosing Workflow Processes using Woflan | Computer Journal | 2001 | 301 |
| 44 | A Unified Model for Spatial and Temporal Information | Computer Journal | 1994 | 290 |
| 45 | An Approach to Persistent Programming | Computer Journal | 1983 | 285 |
| 46 | A controlled random search procedure for global optimisation | Computer Journal | 1977 | 274 |
| 47 | A non-classical logic for information retrieval | Computer Journal | 1986 | 274 |
| 48 | A constructive geometry for computer graphics | Computer Journal | 1973 | 271 |
| 49 | Classification of Text Documents | Computer Journal | 1998 | 267 |
| 50 | Recognizing Daily and Sports Activities in Two Open Source Machine Learning Environments Using Body-Worn Sensor Units | Computer Journal | 2014 | 259 |
