Everything about Lost

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: LostA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long ContextsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Paradise LostThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?Cited 7,258 times
5. Go sideways: VengeanceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Paradise Lost (disambiguation)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Lost at Sea: Where Is All the Plastic?

  Richard C. Thompson, Ylva Olsen, Richard P. Mitchell · 2004 · Science · 7,258 citations

• Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map?

  Ian D. Graham, Jo Logan, Margaret B. Harrison · 2006 · Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions · 3,720 citations

• Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015

  Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Christina Fitzmaurice, Christine Allen · 2017 · JAMA Oncology · 3,082 citations

• Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories

  Kyle J Foreman, Neal Marquez, Andrew Dolgert · 2018 · The Lancet · 2,531 citations

• Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years for 29 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2017

  Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Christina Fitzmaurice, Degu Abate · 2019 · JAMA Oncology · 2,012 citations

• How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area

  Nick C. Davidson · 2014 · Marine and Freshwater Research · 2,006 citations

• Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019

  Global Burden of Disease 2019 Cancer Collaboration, Jonathan M. Kocarnik, Kelly Compton · 2022 · JAMA Oncology · 1,854 citations

• Years of Life Lost Due to Obesity

  Kevin R. Fontaine, David T. Redden, Chenxi Wang · 2003 · JAMA · 1,824 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts

  Nelson F. Liu, Kevin Lin, John Hewitt · 2024 · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 1,719 citations

• Life expectancy and years of potential life lost in people with mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Joe Kwun Nam Chan, Christoph U. Correll, Corine Sau Man Wong · 2023 · eClinicalMedicine · 257 citations

• Can Deep Reinforcement Learning Improve Inventory Management? Performance on Lost Sales, Dual-Sourcing, and Multi-Echelon Problems

  Joren Gijsbrechts, Robert N. Boute, Jan A. Van Mieghem · 2022 · Manufacturing & Service Operations Management · 224 citations

• Exploring a lost ocean in the Tibetan Plateau: Birth, growth, and demise of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean

  Xiumian Hu, Anlin Ma, Weiwei Xue · 2022 · Earth-Science Reviews · 179 citations

• Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

  Dana Bryazka, Marissa B Reitsma, Yohannes Habtegiorgis Abate · 2024 · The Lancet Public Health · 149 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Paradise LostJohn Milton · 1667
• The Lost ContinentC. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · 1972
• Двенадцать стульевИлья Арнольдович Ильф, Евгений Петрович Петров · 1938
• Jungle girlEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1933
• Have You Seen My Cat?Eric Carle · 1973
• The land that time forgotEdgar Rice Burroughs · 1918
• Nate The Great (Nate The Great)Marjorie Weinman Sharmat, Marc Simont · 1972
• Lost and foundOliver Jeffers · 2005

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

🔗 Related topics

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• Forgotten Look up forgotten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Forgotten or The Forgotten may refer to: Forgotten River, New Zealand Forgotten Hills, Victoria Land…