Everything about John

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: JohnA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The John N. Insall Award: Functional Versus Mechanical Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled TrialInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Sign of FourThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: LII. An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, F. R. S. communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton, A. M. F. R. SCited 2,734 times
5. Go sideways: Ferdinand, Duke of ViseuA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Duke of ViseuA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• LII. An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, F. R. S. communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton, A. M. F. R. S

  Thomas Bayes · 1763 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 2,734 citations

• A model of investor sentiment1We are grateful to the NSF for financial support, and to Oliver Blanchard, Alon Brav, John Campbell (a referee), John Cochrane, Edward Glaeser, J.B. Heaton, Danny Kahneman, David Laibson, Owen Lamont, Drazen Prelec, Jay Ritter (a referee), Ken Singleton, Dick Thaler, an anonymous referee, and the editor, Bill Schwert, for comments.1

  Nicholas Barberis, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny · 1998 · Journal of Financial Economics · 2,715 citations

• The origins of attachment theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth.

  Inge Bretherton · 1992 · Developmental Psychology · 1,129 citations

• The John Insall Award: Patient Expectations Affect Satisfaction with Total Knee Arthroplasty

  Philip C Noble, Michael A Conditt, Karon F Cook · 2006 · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · 975 citations

• “John thinks that Mary thinks that…” attribution of second-order beliefs by 5- to 10-year-old children

  Josef Perner, Heinz Wimmer · 1985 · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 966 citations

• Note on a paper of John W. Miles

  Louis N. Howard · 1961 · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 957 citations

• Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective Thinking

  Carol Rodgers · 2002 · Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 803 citations

• Hidden variables and the two theorems of John Bell

  N. David Mermin · 1993 · Reviews of Modern Physics · 756 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The John N. Insall Award: Functional Versus Mechanical Alignment in Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  Simon W. Young, Mei Lin Tay, Kohei Kawaguchi · 2025 · The Journal of Arthroplasty · 71 citations

• Superwoman Schema and John Henryism among African American women: An intersectional perspective on coping with racism

  Amanda D. Perez, Suzanne M. Dufault, Erica C. Spears · 2023 · Social Science & Medicine · 70 citations

• Notes from the Field: Aircraft Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants — John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, August–September 2022

  Robert C. Morfino, Stephen M. Bart, Andrew Franklin · 2023 · MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report · 42 citations

• -adic images of Galois for elliptic curves over (and an appendix with John Voight)

  Jeremy Rouse, Andrew V. Sutherland, David Zureick-Brown · 2022 · Forum of Mathematics, Sigma · 35 citations

• Rethinking reflective practice: John Boyd’s OODA loop as an alternative to Kolb

  Mike Ryder, Carolyn Downs · 2022 · The International Journal of Management Education · 34 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Sign of FourArthur Conan Doyle · 1889
• The Valley of FearArthur Conan Doyle · 1914
• King JohnWilliam Shakespeare · 1623
• A Princess of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1912
• The warlord of Mars #3Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1914
• The Chessmen of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1922
• The Case-Book of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle · 1927
• Thuvia, Maid of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs, Craig Trahan · 1916

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

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