# Top Cited

> The most cited documents, sources or authors.

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:alt: Top Cited
:class: widget-screenshot

The Top Cited widget.
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## Overview

Ranks the corpus by citations and lists the top documents (or top sources /
authors by total citations). Useful for spotting landmark papers and venues.
Row selection in the preview outputs the chosen documents.

## Inputs

- **Data** (`Table`) — bibliographic data (needs a citation column).

## Outputs

- **Top Cited** (`Table`) — the ranked top entities/documents.
- **Selected** (`Table`) — documents selected in the preview.

## Controls

- **Type** — rank documents, sources, or authors.
- **Top N** — how many to list.

**Actions:** `Find Top Cited`, `Select All`, `Clear Selection`.
