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The climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and vaccines are the hottest studies of 2019.
From the universal application of artificial intelligence to the climate emergency that is closely related to everyone, the most controversial topic this year can be published today in the “Altmetric Hundred Papers” (Altmetric Top 100) . The annual “Altmetric Hundred Papers” list contains the most followed and most discussed research online in 2019. These online platforms include patent and public policy literature, mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia, and social media.
This year’s first 100 papers cover many topics. Among them, the cruel truth of the world’s climate emergency, the importance of vaccines to public health, and the development of artificial intelligence have received the most attention.
Other prominent themes include the UK parliamentary adjournment, Twitter fake news during the 2016 US presidential election, mortality and survival rates in Game of Thrones, how Brexit affects UK healthcare, and population health management algorithms Racial prejudice.
This year’s most watched paper describes a video synthesis system that can synthesize realistic video sequences that mimic the voice and expression of a particular individual. Egor Zakharov and Victor Lempitsky are two of the authors.
Zakharov said: “The inspiration of the paper comes from the need to make augmented reality and virtual reality more realistic. The important point to realize the application of realistic presence is to realistically simulate a person’s appearance, and we choose to perfect it with deep learning.
Lempitsky added: “We first train a new deep learning model with a large number of celebrity videos. This technique requires only a few personal photos to learn a realistic head avatar.”
This paper is also the most widely shared paper in the seven years since Altmetric 100 Papers was born.
Altmetric’s Chief Operating Officer Catherine Williams said, “From the‘ Altmetric Hundred Papers ’each year, we can see different trends,This is very interesting. In 2019, it is clear that the current climate emergency and political multipolarity have sparked huge public attention and debate. This list shows the key role research plays in these topics. “
This year’s papers have been published in 43 different journals, preprint servers and government websites. Among them, Harvard authors (11 papers) and a paper published in Nature Top 10 in 2019 list
No. 1 Small sample adversarial learning of real head speaking neural model
ALTMETRIC index: 13557
Thesis title: Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models
Preprint server : Arxiv
Intro: Samsung’s Deepfake AI makes Mona Lisa “live”. With just one still photo, it can create a dynamic video.
2nd place scientists collectively oppose statistical significance
ALTMETRIC Index: 13115
Paper title: Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Introduction: More than 800 scientists have called for statistical significance to exit the stage of history, saying goodbye to the excessive hype, waste of resources, and lost opportunities that result.
3rd place Measles-mumps-rubella combined vaccine and autism
ALTMETRIC index: 9199
Paper title: Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism
Publishing journal: Annals of Internal Medicine 《Medical Yearbook of Medicine》
Introduction: Official announcement (again) : Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine will not cause autism . Danish researchers have examined more than 650,000 children and found that children who were vaccinated were actually less likely to develop autism than children who were not vaccinated.
No. 4 Global scientists warn of climate emergency
ALTMETRIC index: 8864
Paper title: World Scientists ’Warning of a Climate Emergency
Publishing journal: BioScience “Bioscience”
Introduction: More than 11,000 scientists believe that the planet will enter a climate emergency, and people around the world should no longer be deaf.
No. 5 style-based generative adversarial network generator architecture
ALTMETRIC index: 7337
Paper title: A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
Preprint server: Arxiv
Intro: Seeing is not necessarily true? That’s right, this AI image generator can create your own photos, which means fake photos are easier to generate than you think.
No. 6 Large-scale genome-wide association study reveals genetic structure of same-sex behavior
ALTMETRIC index: 7192
Paper title: Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior
Publishing journal: Science 《科学》
Intro: This genetic study of hundreds of thousands of people found that there is no single gay gene; but is it ethical?
No. 7 The new elevation data shows that global sea level rise and the threat of coastal flooding mayAffects three times the population previously estimated
ALTMETRIC index: 6953
Paper title: New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Publishing journal: Nature Communications “Nature-Communications”
Intro: Live near the coast? Your risk of flooding may be more serious than you think. As climate change accelerates, the number of people facing threats of sea-level rise and flooding may be three times what was previously estimated.
8th place using parachutes to prevent skydiving death and major trauma: a randomized controlled trial
ALTMETRIC index: 6371
Paper title: Parachute use to prevent deathand major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
Publishing journal: British Medical Journal “British Medical Journal”
Intro: Parachutes can’t save those who jump off the plane, but they can keep us from jumping to conclusions. Harvard researchers point out the limitations of randomized controlled trials in their paper.
9th place, global tree restoration potential
ALTMETRIC index: 6148
Paper title: The global tree restoration potential
Publishing journal: Science 《科学》
Introduction: The way to alleviate the climate change crisis can be very simple: plant trees …… but 1.6 billion hectares of trees. Based on a tree with an average life of 40 years, these trees can absorb more than 200 billion tons of carbon.
10th place Global Citizen Integrity
ALTMETRIC index: 5888
Paper title: Civic honesty around the globe
Publishing journal: Science 《科学》
Introduction: Scientists “lost” 17,000 fake wallets around the world and found that the more money in the wallet, the more likely the wallet is returned. why? Because it is difficult to imagine ourselves as thieves.
Thesis with the participation of research institutions in mainland China
No. 13 Global Reduction of Insect Fauna: Overview of Driving Factors
ALTMETRIC index: 5249
Paper title: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
Publishing periodicals: Biological Conservation “Bio Conservation”
Participating research institutions in Mainland China: Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Intro: Insects are disappearing from the earth, which is bad news for nature: the first global review shows that more than 40% of insect species are declining and more than 30% of insect species are on the verge Extinction, which may trigger “catastrophic collapse of the natural ecosystem.”
No. 16Emission levels of energy infrastructure endanger climate target of 1.5 ° C
ALTMETRIC index: 4432
Paper title: Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 ° C climate target
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Participating research institutions in Mainland China: Tsinghua University
Intro: If you want to achieve the climate goal of controlling global warming to within 2 ° C, the existing infrastructure may be marginally qualified; but if you want to achieve 1.5 ° in the Paris Agreement C’s goal, then it is time to start phasing out fossil energy power plants.
No. 60. An intuitive 3D map of a classic Cepheid variable star tracking the warp of the Milky Way.
ALTMETRIC index: 2829
Paper title: An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp ’s precession traced by classical Cepheids
Publishing journal: Nature Astronomy “Nature-Astronomy”
Participating research institutions in Mainland China: International Institute of Space Science-Beijing, West China Normal University, Peking University, and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Introduction: According to measurements from an aging star network, the Milky Way is not a flat disk we imagine, but twisted and warped.
No. 69: Parental inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA
ALTMETRIC index: 2645
Paper title: Biparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in Humans
Publishing journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Participating research institutes in Mainland China: Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital
Intro: Forget what’s on the textbook-mitochondrial DNA doesn’t always come only from your mother. A doctor examining a four-year-old boy for mitochondrial disease found that the boy’s mitochondrial DNA came from both parents.
Paper in Springer Nature journals
2nd place scientists collectively oppose statistical significance
ALTMETRIC index: 13155
Paper title: Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Introduction: More than 800 scientists have called for statistical significance to exit the stage of history, saying goodbye to the excessive hype, waste of resources, and lost opportunities that result.
No. 7 New elevation data shows that global sea level rise and threat of coastal floods can affect three times as many people as previously estimated
ALTMETRIC index: 6953
Paper title: New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding
Publishing journal: Nature Communications “Nature-Communications”
Intro: Live near the coast? Your risk of flooding may be more serious than you think. As climate change accelerates, the number of people facing threats of sea-level rise and flooding may be three times what was previously estimated.
12th place Programmable superconducting processor achieves quantum superiority
ALTMETRIC index: 5723
Thesis title: Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Intro: Google ’s quantum leap can change the entire computing landscape. The device described by Google in this paper can use quantum physics to accelerate calculations.
No. 14 Cumulative impact of frequent changes in extreme weather by ecological memory modification
ALTMETRIC index: 4640
Thesis title: Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes
Publishing journal: Nature Climate Change “Nature-Climate Change”
Introduction: Colorful corals have hope: corals that have survived extreme temperatures without bleaching will be more resistant to bleaching when the temperature warms again.
No. 15 Hours after death to restore brain circulation and cell function
ALTMETRIC index: 4467
Paper title: Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Introduction: Scientists let the pig brain “rise back to life” four hours after death. Experiments let us rethink the concept of brain death.
No. 16 The emission level of existing energy infrastructure endangers the climate target of 1.5 ° C
ALTMETRIC index: 4432
Paper title: Committed emissions from existing energy infrastructure jeopardize 1.5 ° C climate target
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Intro: If you want to achieve the climate goal of controlling global warming to within 2 ° C, the existing infrastructure may be marginally qualified; but if you want to achieve 1.5 ° in the Paris Agreement C’s goal, then it is time to start phasing out fossil energy power plants.
No. 22 Global warming weakens the amount of broodstock-replenishment dynamics of corals
ALTMETRIC index: 4045
Paper title: Global warming impairs stock_recruitment dynamics of corals
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Intro: After two years of extensive whitening, the future of the Great Barrier Reef is full of uncertainty. Australian scientists monitoring the Great Barrier Reef have found that the number of new coral reefs fell by 89% in 2018.
No. 28 There is no evidence that the earth in the post-industrial industrialization period existed in a period of global cold or global warming
ALTMETRIC index: 3646
Paper title: No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Intro: The 20th century was the warmest period of the 2000s. Studies show that there have been temperature fluctuations in the past, but in the past two thousand years, the earth did not have a period of global cold or global warming.
No. 33. Water vapor exists in the atmosphere of 8 Earth-mass habitable planets K2-18 b
ALTMETRIC index: 3421
Paper title: Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b
Publishing journal: Nature Astronomy “Nature-Astronomy”
Intro: Does extraterrestrial life exist? If it exists, then Super Earth K2-18 b is the most promising seed player. Scientists have found that the temperature above is suitable to support the existence of life and that water is present in the atmosphere.
No. 37 speech synthesis of spoken sentence neural decoding
ALTMETRIC index: 3177
Paper title: Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Intro: A device that converts brain signals into speech is expected to help stroke or paralyzed people regain communication.
No. 38. Being close to nature for at least 120 minutes a week is related to physical health and well-being.
ALTMETRIC index: 3160
Paper title: Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing
Publishing journals: Scientific Reports “Scientific Reports”
Intro: Embracing nature can make you healthier, and it only takes two hours a week.
No. 55 Neo-Paleocene human species from the Late Pleistocene Philippines
ALTMETRIC index: 2919
Paper title: A new species of Homo from the Late Pleistocene of the Philippines
Publishing journal: Nature 《Nature》
Introduction: An adult finger, some toes, a child’s femur, and some teeth found in the Philippines solved a 12-year-old puzzle and confirmed a New ancient human species: Luzon.
No. 60. An intuitive 3D map of a classic Cepheid variable star tracking the warp of the Milky Way.
ALTMETRIC index: 2829
Paper title: An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp ’s precession traced by classical Cepheids
Publishing journal: Nature Astronomy “Nature-Astronomy”
Introduction: According to measurements from an aging star network, the Milky Way is not a flat disk we imagine, but twisted and warped.
No. 61 “Death is certain, time is uncertain”: Mortality and survival in Game of Thrones
ALTMETRIC index: 2785
Paper title: “Death is certain, the time is not”: mortality and survival in Game of Thrones
Publishing journal: Injury Epidemiology “Injury Epidemiology”
Intro: Spoiler alert! Of all 330 characters in Game of Thrones, 186 characters died at the end of the seventh season, with survival times ranging from 11 seconds to 57 hours and 15 minutes. This study of the characters in the play reveals the great possibility of avoiding tragic death in Game of Thrones.
No. 63 APOE3 Christchurch homozygotes resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease: case study p>
ALTMETRIC index: 2719
Paper title: Resistance to autosomal dominant Alzheimer ’s disease in an APOE3 Christchurch homozygote: a case report
Publishing journal: N ature Medicine 《Natural Medicine》
Introduction: A woman in her 70s with Alzheimer’s may reveal the key to controlling the disease: a rare genetic mutation has made her sick 30 years later than expected year.
No. 64. Domestic cats can recognize their names from other words.
ALTMETRIC index: 2713
Paper title: Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words
Publishing journals: Scientific Reports “Scientific Reports”
Intro: This study found that cats understand their names (don’t be too happy, they don’t care about you anyway).