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Decade Old Academic Paper on Global Climate Zones Named the Most Cited Source on Wikipedia (theguardian.com)
An academic paper on global climate zones written by three Australians more than a decade ago has been named the most cited source on Wikipedia, having being referenced more than 2.8m times. From a report: The authors of the paper, who are still good friends, had no idea about the wider impact of their work until recently. The paper, published in 2007 in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, used contemporary data to update a widely used model for classifying the world's climates. Known as the Koppen Climate Classification System, the model was first published by climatologist Wladimir Koppen in 1884, but it had not been comprehensively updated for decades.
The lead author of the paper is Dr Murray Peel, a senior lecturer in the department of infrastructure engineering at the University of Melbourne, and he co-authored the updated climate map with geography professor Brian Finlayson and engineering professor Thomas McMahon, both now retired. "We are amazed, absolutely amazed at the number of citations," Finlayson told Guardian Australia from his home in Melbourne. "We are not so much amazed at the fact it's been cited as we are about the number of people who have cited it."
The lead author of the paper is Dr Murray Peel, a senior lecturer in the department of infrastructure engineering at the University of Melbourne, and he co-authored the updated climate map with geography professor Brian Finlayson and engineering professor Thomas McMahon, both now retired. "We are amazed, absolutely amazed at the number of citations," Finlayson told Guardian Australia from his home in Melbourne. "We are not so much amazed at the fact it's been cited as we are about the number of people who have cited it."
is like academic equivalent of being hottest search term on pr0nhub; its kind of a mark of shame, but all your peers secretly wish it was them anyways.
Considering that nearly every article about a city, state, nation, geographic region, etc. talks about the Koppen climate classification of that area it's not surprising that the work would be cited so much. And for all you folks thinking this is about climate change, no it's not. It's about the existing climate as it is in those places.
The most cited paper in Mathematics is over half a century old.
http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/h...
The most cited work in optics is several centuries old.
https://www.gutenberg.org/file...
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Svante Arrheniusâ(TM) 1896 paper on the Greenhouse Effect, entitled âoeOn the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the groundâ.
Others that filled in answers Arrhenius didn't have the tools to address:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/the-most-influential-climate-change-papers-of-all-time
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