Everything about Action

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ActionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dietary Polyphenols and Their Role in Oxidative Stress-Induced Human Diseases: Insights Into Protective Effects, Antioxidant Potentials and Mechanism(s) of ActionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of EmbeddednessCited 20,038 times
5. Go sideways: War StoryA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ThrillerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness

  Mark Granovetter · 1985 · American Journal of Sociology · 20,038 citations

• Inhibition of Prostaglandin Synthesis as a Mechanism of Action for Aspirin-like Drugs

  J. R. VANE · 1971 · Nature New Biology · 5,742 citations

• Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies

  Ann Swidler · 1986 · American Sociological Review · 5,493 citations

• 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Action Recognition

  Shuiwang Ji, Wei Xu, Ming Yang · 2013 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 5,361 citations

• Separate visual pathways for perception and action

  Melvyn A. Goodale, A.David Milner · 1992 · Trends in Neurosciences · 5,117 citations

• Specificity and mechanism of action of some commonly used protein kinase inhibitors

  Stephen P. DAVIES, Helen REDDY, Matilde CAIVANO · 2000 · Biochemical Journal · 5,037 citations

• Cisplatin in cancer therapy: Molecular mechanisms of action

  Shaloam Dasari, Paul Bernard Tchounwou · 2014 · European Journal of Pharmacology · 4,990 citations

• Role of AMP-activated protein kinase in mechanism of metformin action

  Gaochao Zhou, Robert Myers, Ying Li · 2001 · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 4,849 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dietary Polyphenols and Their Role in Oxidative Stress-Induced Human Diseases: Insights Into Protective Effects, Antioxidant Potentials and Mechanism(s) of Action

  Mithun Rudrapal, Shubham J. Khairnar, Johra Khan · 2022 · Frontiers in Pharmacology · 1,093 citations

• Time for united action on depression: a Lancet–World Psychiatric Association Commission

  Helen Herrman, Vikram Patel, Christian Kieling · 2022 · The Lancet · 1,070 citations

• A 2022 update on the epidemiology of obesity and a call to action: as its twin COVID-19 pandemic appears to be receding, the obesity and dysmetabolism pandemic continues to rage on

  Chrysoula Boutari, Christos S. Mantzoros · 2022 · Metabolism · 1,038 citations

• The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

  Marina Romanello, Maria Walawender, Shih-Che Hsu · 2024 · The Lancet · 951 citations

• microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation

  Renfu Shang, Seungjae Lee, Gayan Senavirathne · 2023 · Nature Reviews Genetics · 929 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · 1979
• The First Men in the MoonH. G. Wells · 1900
• Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson, Jim Seward · 1881
• The Angel ExperimentJames Patterson · 2001
• Chapterhouse DuneFrank Herbert · 1985
• Deep SixClive Cussler · 1984
• IcebergClive Cussler · 1975
• The Princess BrideWilliam Goldman · 1973

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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