I believe you need to set eligibility criteria based on the topic/discipline. The most cited paper of all times might be something completely irrelevant to your area of interest, unless of course an all-time-high is part of your research.
http://www.nature.com/news/the-top-100-papers-1.16224
Nature news. This link may be useful
You may check these in the field of computers & electrical engineering:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/most-cited-articles/
In IEEE database:
The most cited paper by research papers is:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=1100705&sortType=desc_p_Citation_Count
The most cited paper by patents is:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6178212&sortType=desc_p_Patent_Count
The link below shows the most cited papers in IEEE journals and conferences papers in the field of Power Engineering
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_powerengineering
As an example, the link below shows the most cited papers in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng&view_op=list_hcore&venue=CxA6KzCaQBgJ.2015
- The link below shows the most cited papers in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_powerengineering&view_op=list_hcore&venue=x_O7PX7uKNEJ.2015
....etc
I hope you will find these links are helpful.
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