Everything about Open

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OpenA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Women in LoveThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysisCited 71,008 times
5. Go sideways: News (disambiguation)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Sky (disambiguation)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

  Johannes Schindelin, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Erwin Frise · 2012 · Nature Methods · 71,008 citations

• EEGLAB: an open source toolbox for analysis of single-trial EEG dynamics including independent component analysis

  Arnaud Delorme, Scott Makeig · 2004 · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 23,975 citations

• QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials

  Paolo Giannozzi, Stefano Baroni, Nicola Bonini · 2009 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · 23,939 citations

• Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

  Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin · 2009 · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 19,551 citations

• The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data

  Ethan Cerami, Jianjiong Gao, Ugur Dogrusoz · 2012 · Cancer Discovery · 15,682 citations

• Visualization and analysis of atomistic simulation data with OVITO–the Open Visualization Tool

  Alexander Stukowski · 2009 · Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering · 15,577 citations

• UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age

  Cathie Sudlow, John Gallacher, Naomi Allen · 2015 · PLOS Medicine · 13,186 citations

• pROC: an open-source package for R and S+ to analyze and compare ROC curves

  Xavier Robin, Natacha Turck, Alexandre Hainard · 2011 · BMC Bioinformatics · 12,607 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package*

  The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim · 2022 · The Astrophysical Journal · 5,570 citations

• PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis

  Neal R. Haddaway, Matthew J. Page, Chris C. Pritchard · 2022 · Campbell Systematic Reviews · 3,261 citations

• A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions

  Lei Huang, Weijiang Yu, Weitao Ma · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 2,467 citations

• A Metaverse: Taxonomy, Components, Applications, and Open Challenges

  Sang-Min Park, Young-Gab Kim · 2022 · IEEE Access · 1,630 citations

• Segmentectomy versus lobectomy in small-sized peripheral non-small-cell lung cancer (JCOG0802/WJOG4607L): a multicentre, open-label, phase 3, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

  Hisashi Saji, Morihito Okada, Masahiro Tsuboi · 2022 · The Lancet · 1,611 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Women in LoveD. H. Lawrence · 1877
• Jenseits von Gut und BöseFriedrich Nietzsche · 1885
• The TwitsRoald Dahl · 1967
• FoundationIsaac Asimov · 1951
• Principles of marketingPhilip Kotler, Gary Armstrong · 1980
• Educational psychologyAnita Woolfolk Hoy, Philip H. Winne · 1987
• Marketing managementPhilip Kotler · 1973
• The FountainheadAyn Rand · 1943

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

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