| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Simplex Method for Function Minimization | Computer Journal | 1965 | 23,541 |
| 2 | A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for Minimization | Computer Journal | 1963 | 4,088 |
| 3 | Function minimization by conjugate gradients | Computer Journal | 1964 | 3,863 |
| 4 | An efficient method for finding the minimum of a function of several variables without calculating derivatives | Computer Journal | 1964 | 3,814 |
| 5 | A new approach to variable metric algorithms | Computer Journal | 1970 | 3,095 |
| 6 | An Automatic Method for Finding the Greatest or Least Value of a Function | Computer Journal | 1960 | 2,453 |
| 7 | How Many Clusters? Which Clustering Method? Answers Via Model-Based Cluster Analysis | Computer Journal | 1998 | 1,875 |
| 8 | A General Theory of Classificatory Sorting Strategies: 1. Hierarchical Systems | Computer Journal | 1967 | 1,341 |
| 9 | Computing the n-dimensional Delaunay tessellation with application to Voronoi polytopes | Computer Journal | 1981 | 1,225 |
| 10 | A New Method of Constrained Optimization and a Comparison With Other Methods | Computer Journal | 1965 | 1,129 |
| 11 | Numerical Inversion of Laplace Transforms: An Efficient Improvement to Dubner and Abate's Method | Computer Journal | 1974 | 950 |
| 12 | Computing Dirichlet tessellations | Computer Journal | 1981 | 900 |
| 13 | Literate Programming | Computer Journal | 1984 | 900 |
| 14 | Finding Response Times in a Real-Time System | Computer Journal | 1986 | 840 |
| 15 | An Information Measure for Classification | Computer Journal | 1968 | 834 |
| 16 | SLINK: An optimally efficient algorithm for the single-link cluster method | Computer Journal | 1973 | 831 |
| 17 | A Survey of Recent Advances in Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms | Computer Journal | 1983 | 788 |
| 18 | A Method for Minimizing a Sum of Squares of Non-Linear Functions Without Calculating Derivatives | Computer Journal | 1965 | 745 |
| 19 | Hierarchical grouping methods and stopping rules: an evaluation | Computer Journal | 1977 | 706 |
| 20 | Quicksort | Computer Journal | 1962 | 691 |
| 21 | The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions | Computer Journal | 1964 | 666 |
| 22 | Computing Dirichlet Tessellations in the Plane | Computer Journal | 1978 | 610 |
| 23 | The QR Transformation A Unitary Analogue to the LR Transformation--Part 1 | Computer Journal | 1961 | 579 |
| 24 | An efficient algorithm for a complete link method | Computer Journal | 1977 | 545 |
| 25 | An upper bound for the chromatic number of a graph and its application to timetabling problems | Computer Journal | 1967 | 541 |
| 26 | A tree-search algorithm for mixed integer programming problems | Computer Journal | 1965 | 526 |
| 27 | Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing | Computer Journal | 2010 | 521 |
| 28 | Variance algorithm for minimization | Computer Journal | 1968 | 481 |
| 29 | Some general implicit processes for the numerical solution of differential equations | Computer Journal | 1963 | 478 |
| 30 | Tane: An Efficient Algorithm for Discovering Functional and Approximate Dependencies | Computer Journal | 1999 | 472 |
| 31 | On Testing Non-Testable Programs | Computer Journal | 1982 | 424 |
| 32 | Why Functional Programming Matters | Computer Journal | 1989 | 401 |
| 33 | Super-Resolution in Medical Imaging | Computer Journal | 2008 | 397 |
| 34 | Drawing Contours from Arbitrary Data Points | Computer Journal | 1974 | 392 |
| 35 | Stochastic -Calculus | Computer Journal | 1995 | 378 |
| 36 | An algorithm with guaranteed convergence for finding a zero of a function | Computer Journal | 1971 | 356 |
| 37 | Locally equiangular triangulations | Computer Journal | 1978 | 340 |
| 38 | Computation and Computational Thinking | Computer Journal | 2012 | 339 |
| 39 | A Comparison of Several Current Optimization Methods, and the use of Transformations in Constrained Problems | Computer Journal | 1966 | 337 |
| 40 | Computational experience with quadratically convergent minimisation methods | Computer Journal | 1970 | 320 |
| 41 | Computer Programs for Hierarchical Polythetic Classification ("Similarity Analyses") | Computer Journal | 1966 | 319 |
| 42 | The QR Transformation--Part 2 | Computer Journal | 1962 | 306 |
| 43 | Diagnosing Workflow Processes using Woflan | Computer Journal | 2001 | 299 |
| 44 | Minimum Message Length and Kolmogorov Complexity | Computer Journal | 1999 | 293 |
| 45 | A Unified Model for Spatial and Temporal Information | Computer Journal | 1994 | 290 |
| 46 | An Approach to Persistent Programming | Computer Journal | 1983 | 285 |
| 47 | A non-classical logic for information retrieval | Computer Journal | 1986 | 273 |
| 48 | A controlled random search procedure for global optimisation | Computer Journal | 1977 | 268 |
| 49 | A constructive geometry for computer graphics | Computer Journal | 1973 | 266 |
| 50 | Classification of Text Documents | Computer Journal | 1998 | 266 |
