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Most cited papers from LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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What are the most cited papers from LIGO Scientific Collaboration?

The most cited paper from LIGO Scientific Collaboration is "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (B. P. Abbott et al., 2016), with 14,545 citations. Next come "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" (9,794) and "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs" (3,658).

Showing 50 of 59 papers. Every paper with more than 314 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,011 authors 11 Feb 2016 14,545
2 GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,124 authors 16 Oct 2017 9,794
3 GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,149 authors 4 Sep 2019 3,658
4 Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,154 authors 16 Oct 2017 3,599
5 GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access977 authors 15 Jun 2016 3,514
6 Advanced LIGO J. Aasi et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access701 authors 3 Mar 2015 3,511
7 GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,049 authors Jun 2017 2,530
8 GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,150 authors 15 Oct 2018 2,512
9 GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,108 authors 6 Oct 2017 2,195
10 GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,352 authors 9 Jun 2021 2,075
11 Tests of General Relativity with GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access980 authors 31 May 2016 1,836
12 GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object R. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,255 authors Jun 2020 1,825
13 GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,658 authors 4 Dec 2023 1,790
14 GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙ B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,200 authors 19 Mar 2020 1,630
15 Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger Abbott, BP et al. · NIOZ Publications (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) Open access 2017 1,390
16 GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M ⊙ R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,256 authors 2 Sep 2020 1,354
17 Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,148 authors 2 Jan 2019 1,329
18 Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run J. Aasi et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access870 authors 13 May 2015 1,324
19 GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,102 authors 18 Dec 2017 1,253
20 Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors B. P. Abbott et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access722 authors 24 Jan 2017 1,243
21 Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light J. Aasi et al. · Nature Photonics Open access660 authors 19 Jul 2013 1,243
22 A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant B. P. Abbott et al. · Nature Open access1,314 authors 16 Oct 2017 1,241
23 LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory B. P. Abbott et al. · Reports on Progress in Physics Open access501 authors 30 Jun 2009 1,218
24 Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access973 authors 21 Oct 2016 1,181
25 Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA B. P. Abbott et al. · Living Reviews in Relativity Open access1,100 authors 26 Apr 2018 1,175
26 Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors J. Abadie et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access710 authors 16 Jul 2010 1,156
27 Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access988 authors 14 Jun 2016 1,054
28 A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit J. Abadie et al. · Nature Physics Open access615 authors 11 Sep 2011 956
29 Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO–Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog R. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,339 authors May 2021 933
30 Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3 R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,654 authors 29 Mar 2023 926
31 Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,143 authors 20 Nov 2019 848
32 ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access963 authors 11 Feb 2016 841
33 Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,347 authors 15 Jun 2021 807
34 Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. · White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) Open access975 authors 15 Jun 2016 786
35 GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access959 authors 31 Mar 2016 774
36 Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access1,140 authors 9 Sep 2019 763
37 GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,255 authors 24 Aug 2020 686
38 Quantum-Enhanced Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy M. Tse et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access201 authors 5 Dec 2019 676
39 Tests of General Relativity with GW170817 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access1,146 authors Jul 2019 661
40 Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star-Black Hole Coalescences R. Abbott et al. · Institutional Repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) Open access1,599 authors 2021 649
41 Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo B. P. Abbott et al. · Living Reviews in Relativity Open access943 authors 8 Feb 2016 544
42 GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access980 authors 7 Jun 2016 516
43 GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,431 authors 5 Jan 2024 499
44 Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy Д. В. Мартынов et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access264 authors 2 Jun 2016 498
45 GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object Abbott, R. et al. · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) Open access1,255 authors 2020 458
46 Black-hole spectroscopy: testing general relativity through gravitational-wave observations Olaf Dreyer, Bernard Kelly, Badri Krishnan et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity Open access 5 Jan 2004 446
47 Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run R. Abbott et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access1,587 authors 23 Jul 2021 444
48 Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run A. Buikema et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. Open access198 authors 11 Sep 2020 416
49 GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters Open access957 authors 31 Mar 2016 399
50 THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914 B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters Open access965 authors 30 Nov 2016 391

Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for an institution when any of its authors gave it as an affiliation; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.