Everything about Pitfall!

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Pitfall!A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Neglected acidity pitfall: boric acid-anchoring hole-selective contact for perovskite solar cellsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro UnitsCited 1,835 times
5. Go sideways: Kaboom! (video game)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: David Crane (programmer)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units

  Brent R. Moulton · 1990 · The Review of Economics and Statistics · 1,835 citations

• The lack of a systematic validation of reference genes: a serious pitfall undervalued in reverse transcription‐polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) analysis in plants

  Laurent Gutierrez, Mélanie Mauriat, Stéphanie Guénin · 2008 · Plant Biotechnology Journal · 600 citations

• Pitfall Trapping as a Method for Studying Populations of Carabidae (Coleoptera)

  P. J. M. Greenslade · 1964 · The Journal of Animal Ecology · 491 citations

• SAMPLING CARABID ASSEMBLAGES WITH PITFALL TRAPS: THE MADNESS AND THE METHOD

  John R. Spence, Jari K. Niemelä · 1994 · The Canadian Entomologist · 412 citations

• OOPS! (OntOlogy Pitfall Scanner!)

  María Poveda-Villalón, Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa · 2014 · International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems · 389 citations

• The pitfall of experimenting on the web: How unattended selective attrition leads to surprising (yet false) research conclusions.

  Haotian Zhou, Ayelet Fishbach · 2016 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 374 citations

• Limitations to the Use of Pitfall Traps in Ecological Studies Exemplified by a Study of Spiders in a Field of Winter Wheat

  C. J. Topping, K. D. Sunderland · 1992 · The Journal of Applied Ecology · 342 citations

• Is precision livestock farming an engineer's daydream or nightmare, an animal's friend or foe, and a farmer's panacea or pitfall?

  C.M. Wathes, H.H. Kristensen, J.-M. Aerts · 2008 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 326 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Neglected acidity pitfall: boric acid-anchoring hole-selective contact for perovskite solar cells

  Huanxin Guo, Cong Liu, Honglong Hu · 2023 · National Science Review · 123 citations

• The energy austerity pitfall: Linking hidden energy poverty with self-restriction in household use in Austria

  Kristina Eisfeld, Sebastian Seebauer · 2022 · Energy Research & Social Science · 63 citations

• A Long‐Overlooked Pitfall in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Proper Electrode Balancing

  Daniel Deckenbach, Jörg J. Schneider · 2023 · Advanced Materials Interfaces · 41 citations

• Co-expression of ERG and CD31 in a subset of CIC-rearranged sarcoma: a potential diagnostic pitfall

  Naoki Kojima, Yasuhito Arai, Kaishi Satomi · 2022 · Modern Pathology · 29 citations

• Pitfall on the interpretation of double layer capacitance increase after accelerated stress test of hydrogen evolution reaction on NiMo catalysts

  Abdul Majeed, Nicholas Hemmerling, Bastian J.M. Etzold · 2025 · Electrochimica Acta · 22 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe Game Counselor, Inc. · 1991
• Surviving the practice of medicine · 2004
• 📕PITFALL INorma C. Hull · 1970
• Pitfall of Space Expansion-Comprehensive Study Of Mysteries In ScienceCres Huang · 2014
• Pitfall 3DMatt Harding · 1998
• Game Boy AdvanceAlan Maddrell, Geriant Evans · 2001
• How to Win at Home Video GamesEditors of Consumer Guide · 1983
• The Ultimate Hint BookLeo M. Pond, The Ultimate Game Club Ltd. · 1991

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