Everything about Calibration

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CalibrationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Calibration of computational tools for missense variant pathogenicity classification and ClinGen recommendations for PP3/BP4 criteriaInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Calibration of x-ray and gamma-ray measuring instrumentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A flexible new technique for camera calibrationCited 13,010 times
5. Go sideways: MetrologyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Pressure measurementA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A flexible new technique for camera calibration

  Z. Zhang · 2000 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 13,010 citations

• IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

  Paula J Reimer, Edouard Bard, Alex Bayliss · 2013 · Radiocarbon · 9,782 citations

• The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)

  Paula J Reimer, William E N Austin, Edouard Bard · 2020 · Radiocarbon · 7,425 citations

• Extended 14C Data Base and Revised CALIB 3.0 14C Age Calibration Program

  Minze Stuiver, Paula J. Reimer · 1993 · Radiocarbon · 7,014 citations

• A versatile camera calibration technique for high-accuracy 3D machine vision metrology using off-the-shelf TV cameras and lenses

  R. Tsai · 1987 · IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation · 4,406 citations

• Calibration of the ruby pressure gauge to 800 kbar under quasi‐hydrostatic conditions

  H. K. Mao, J. Xu, P. M. Bell · 1986 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth · 4,165 citations

• IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP

  P J Reimer, M G L Baillie, E Bard · 2009 · Radiocarbon · 4,006 citations

• Calibration of atomic-force microscope tips

  Jeffrey L. Hutter, John Bechhoefer · 1993 · Review of Scientific Instruments · 3,938 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Calibration of computational tools for missense variant pathogenicity classification and ClinGen recommendations for PP3/BP4 criteria

  Vikas Pejaver, Alicia B. Byrne, Bing-Jian Feng · 2022 · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 646 citations

• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear and robustness to data calibration

  A. Amon, D. Gruen, M. A. Troxel · 2022 · Physical Review D · 428 citations

• First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multiwavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration

  Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Kazunori Akiyama, Antxon Alberdi · 2022 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 370 citations

• Calibration-free, high-precision, and robust terahertz ultrafast metasurfaces for monitoring gastric cancers

  Jing Lou, Yanan Jiao, Ruisheng Yang · 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 357 citations

• JWST Census for the Mass–Metallicity Star Formation Relations at z = 4–10 with Self-consistent Flux Calibration and Proper Metallicity Calibrators

  Kimihiko Nakajima, Masami Ouchi, Yuki Isobe · 2023 · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 328 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Calibration of x-ray and gamma-ray measuring instrumentsPaul J. Lamperti · 1988
• 📕Temperature-electromotive force reference functions and tables for the letter-designated thermocouple types based on the ITS-90G. W. Burns · 1993
• 📕Antireflecting-chromium linewidth standard, SRM 473, for calibration of optical microscope linewidth measuring systemsJames E. Potzick · 1997
• 📕Calibration of a 90 ̊V-notch weir using parameters other than upstream headRobert Eli · 1980
• 📕Post-launch calibration of the visible and near infrared channels of the advanced very high resolution radiometer on NOAA-7, -9, and -11 spacecraftC. R. Nagaraja Rao · 1994
• 📕NIST multifunction calibration systemNile Oldham · 1998
• 📕CCT-K3B. W. Mangum · 2002
• 📕Calibration of ground-based microwave radiometers for atmospheric remote sensingMartin T. Decker · 1991

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