Everything about Fortran

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: FortranA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: PathSum : A C++ and Fortran suite of fully quantum mechanical real-time path integral methods for (multi-)system + bath dynamicsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Classical FORTRANThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: CONISS: a FORTRAN 77 program for stratigraphically constrained cluster analysis by the method of incremental sum of squaresCited 3,023 times
5. Go sideways: PL/IA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: WATFIVA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• CONISS: a FORTRAN 77 program for stratigraphically constrained cluster analysis by the method of incremental sum of squares

  Eric C. Grimm · 1987 · Computers & Geosciences · 3,023 citations

• PARST95 – an update to PARST: a system of Fortran routines for calculating molecular structure parameters from the results of crystal structure analyses

  M. Nardelli · 1995 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 1,985 citations

• Parst: A system of fortran routines for calculating molecular structure parameters from results of crystal structure analyses

  M. Nardelli · 1983 · Computers & Chemistry · 1,646 citations

• BIOSYS-1: a FORTRAN program for the comprehensive analysis of electrophoretic data in population genetics and systematics

  David L. Swofford, Richard B. Selander · 1981 · Journal of Heredity · 1,583 citations

• Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms for Fortran Usage

  C. L. Lawson, R. J. Hanson, D. R. Kincaid · 1979 · ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software · 1,114 citations

• A Fortran package for generalized, cross-validatory spline smoothing and differentiation

  Herman J. Woltring · 1986 · Advances in Engineering Software (1978) · 878 citations

• Capabilities and limitations of a current FORTRAN implementation of the T-matrix method for randomly oriented, rotationally symmetric scatterers

  Michael I. Mishchenko, Larry D. Travis · 1998 · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer · 710 citations

• NLPQL: A fortran subroutine solving constrained nonlinear programming problems

  K. Schittkowski · 1986 · Annals of Operations Research · 696 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• PathSum : A C++ and Fortran suite of fully quantum mechanical real-time path integral methods for (multi-)system + bath dynamics

  Sohang Kundu, Nancy Makri · 2023 · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 49 citations

• A CUDA Fortran GPU-parallelised hydrodynamic tool for high-resolution and long-term eco-hydraulic modelling

  Marcos Sanz-Ramos, David López-Gómez, Ernest Bladé · 2023 · Environmental Modelling & Software · 30 citations

• The State of Fortran

  Laurence J. Kedward, Balint Aradi, Ondrej Certik · 2022 · Computing in Science & Engineering · 27 citations

• Large-Scale direct numerical simulations of turbulence using GPUs and modern Fortran

  Martin Karp, Daniele Massaro, Niclas Jansson · 2023 · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications · 22 citations

• FTorch: a library for coupling PyTorch models to Fortran

  Jack Atkinson, Athena Elafrou, Elliott Kasoar · 2025 · Journal of Open Source Software · 17 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Classical FORTRANMichael Kupferschmid · 2002
• FortranElliot B. Koffman, Frank L. Friedman · 1992
• FORTRAN 77 for engineers and scientistsLarry R. Nyhoff, Larry Nyhoff · 1985
• Structured FORTRAN 77 for engineers and scientistsD. M. Etter · 1983
• FORTRAN IVFritz A. McCameron · 1970
• Numerical mathematics and computingCheney, E. W. · 1980
• Fortran IV self-taughtMario V. Farina · 1966
• Modern Fortran explainedMichael Metcalf, John Reid · 2011

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