Here are some papers with many citations:
- An empirical evaluation of deep architectures on problems with many factors of variation [2]
- Extracting and composing robust features with denoising autoencoders [3]
- Scaling learning algorithms towards AI [4]
[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=kukA0LcAAAAJ...
[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
[3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
[4] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...