Important Scientific Papers?

I would like to collect up a few Scientific papers, but am lost in the vastness of internet archives. I have downloaded quite a few Physics and Astrophysics papers from what seems to be a good online database, and have found some items of interest -- but there are so many papers that I don't really know where to start next. I was wondering if ATS members could post Scientific papers that they have read, and considered important. Or if any member has actually written a paper themselves that they would like to present a link to here -- that would be interesting.

Any Scientific subject is acceptable, but the weird and the controversial are of particular interest to me. The weirder the better.

Although failure is probable, I hope to perhaps create a small archive of member recommended papers in this thread... So please post whatever you have.

All is welcome.

Let me recommend scholar.google.com...

For managing an archive, you might try Greenstone (a software program)... but it's not terribly user friendly, in spite of the press saying that it is user friendly.

What kind of papers are you interested in? There's billions that could be recommended, from the very obscure to the reasonably well written, and on any subject from education, learning styles, museum science, music, art, physics, anthropology, paleontology, genetics, etc, etc, etc.

There's the occasional foofy bit, I should add. In general, you might look for papers that are frequently cited elsewhere... those are the keystone reading of any subject. You can also look at courses for universities; often they'll have a reading list attached and you can quickly determine who the leading theorists are in any field by looking at those.

Greetings, Byrd. Thank you for your reply.

Originally posted by Byrd
Let me recommend scholar.google.com...

Thank you. I have now bookmarked this page.

What kind of papers are you interested in? There's billions that could be recommended, from the very obscure to the reasonably well written, and on any subject from education, learning styles, museum science, music, art, physics, anthropology, paleontology, genetics, etc, etc, etc.

I'm interested in so many different subjects within Science that I really wouldn't know where to begin in starting a list. By asking members if they could post papers that they thought were important, and of interest to them, I was hoping to perhaps come across some interesting items that I don't know about. Anything goes, so anything on any of the above subjects you have listed would be welcome -- even if they're boring papers that aren't particularly well written.

I wouldn't dare claim to understand all the equations, but I am very gradually learning the very, very, very basic aspects of some of them.

Originally posted by Byrd
There's the occasional foofy bit, I should add. In general, you might look for papers that are frequently cited elsewhere... those are the keystone reading of any subject. You can also look at courses for universities; often they'll have a reading list attached and you can quickly determine who the leading theorists are in any field by looking at those.

Thank you for this advice.

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