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Most cited papers from Royal Observatory
What are the most cited papers from Royal Observatory?
The most cited paper from Royal Observatory is "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary" (Donald G. York et al., 2000), with 10,547 citations. Next come "Gaia Data Release 2" (8,734) and "The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package *" (7,690).
Showing 50 of 57 papers. Every paper with more than 893 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary Donald G. York et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 2000 | 10,547 |
| 2 | Gaia Data Release 2 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 24 Apr 2018 | 8,734 |
| 3 | The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package * Adrian M. Price-Whelan et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 23 Aug 2018 | 7,690 |
| 4 | Review of Particle Physics Masaharu Tanabashi et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. | 17 Aug 2018 | 7,268 |
| 5 | The Gaia mission T. Prusti et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 Sep 2016 | 7,118 |
| 6 | Review of Particle Physics Particle Data Group et al. · Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics | Aug 2022 | 6,346 |
| 7 | Review of Particle Physics J. Beringer et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 20 Jul 2012 | 6,020 |
| 8 | THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY Kevork N. Abazajian et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 18 May 2009 | 5,449 |
| 9 | Review of Particle Physics C. Amsler et al. · Physics Letters B | 5 Aug 2008 | 5,093 |
| 10 | The Astropy Project : Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package* The Astropy Collaboration et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) | 2022 | 5,044 |
| 11 | Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies Daniel J. Eisenstein et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 7 Nov 2005 | 4,664 |
| 12 | Gaia Early Data Release 3 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Dec 2020 | 3,978 |
| 13 | The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample Shadab Alam et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 24 Mar 2017 | 3,192 |
| 14 | Review of Particle Properties K. Hagiwara et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 2002 | 3,120 |
| 15 | LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray M. P. van Haarlem et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 May 2013 | 2,718 |
| 16 | The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Alistair B Lawrence et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 23 Jul 2007 | 2,493 |
| 17 | Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release Chris Stoughton et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 2002 | 2,423 |
| 18 | The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts Matthew Colless et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Dec 2001 | 2,378 |
| 19 | TheHerschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance Matthew J. Griffin et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2010 | 2,276 |
| 20 | Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars Hugues Sana, S. E. de Mink, A. de Koter et al. · Science | 26 Jul 2012 | 2,162 |
| 21 | The USNO-B Catalog David G. Monet et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Feb 2003 | 2,139 |
| 22 | The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications Shaun Cole et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 26 Aug 2005 | 2,115 |
| 23 | Gaia Data Release 1 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 Sep 2016 | 2,113 |
| 24 | CANDELS: THE COSMIC ASSEMBLY NEAR-INFRARED DEEP EXTRAGALACTIC LEGACY SURVEY—THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS, IMAGING DATA PRODUCTS, AND MOSAICS Anton M. Koekemoer et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Dec 2011 | 2,094 |
| 25 | Stable clustering, the halo model and non-linear cosmological power spectra R. C. Smith, John A. Peacock, Adrian R. Jenkins et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Jun 2003 | 2,088 |
| 26 | Gaia Data Release 2 L. Lindegren et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 24 Apr 2018 | 1,998 |
| 27 | Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey D. E. vanden Berk et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Aug 2001 | 1,918 |
| 28 | Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample Will J. Percival et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 23 Nov 2009 | 1,866 |
| 29 | Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Arjun Dey et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 9 Apr 2019 | 1,847 |
| 30 | A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085 Daniel J. Mortlock, Stephen J. Warren, Bram P. Venemans et al. · Nature | Jun 2011 | 1,515 |
| 31 | The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 24 Mar 2008 | 1,501 |
| 32 | Planck2013 results. I. Overview of products and scientific results Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 19 May 2014 | 1,500 |
| 33 | From filamentary clouds to prestellar cores to the stellar IMF: Initial highlights from theHerschelGould Belt Survey Ph. André et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2010 | 1,483 |
| 34 | High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey David H. Hughes, Stephen Serjeant, J. S. Dunlop et al. · Nature | Jul 1998 | 1,324 |
| 35 | The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data Abdurrouf et al. · Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) | 3 Dec 2021 | 1,296 |
| 36 | CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey Sebastián F. Sánchez et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 10 Nov 2011 | 1,286 |
| 37 | The Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes: Insights from Surveys of the Contemporary Universe Timothy M. Heckman, Philip N. Best · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26 Jun 2014 | 1,268 |
| 38 | Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies Élcio Abdalla et al. · Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) | 2022 | 1,230 |
| 39 | Gaia Early Data Release 3 L. Lindegren et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Dec 2020 | 1,211 |
| 40 | A Redshift Survey of the Submillimeter Galaxy Population S. C. Chapman, A. W. Blain, Ian Smail et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 29 Mar 2005 | 1,191 |
| 41 | The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Kevork N. Abazajian et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Jul 2004 | 1,176 |
| 42 | THE COSMOS2015 CATALOG: EXPLORING THE 1 < z < 6 UNIVERSE WITH HALF A MILLION GALAXIES C. Laigle et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Jun 2016 | 1,166 |
| 43 | The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 2006 | 1,150 |
| 44 | GOODS– Herschel : an infrared main sequence for star-forming galaxies D. Elbaz et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 10 Aug 2011 | 1,145 |
| 45 | simba: Cosmological simulations with black hole growth and feedback Romeel Davé, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Desika Narayanan et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2 Apr 2019 | 1,136 |
| 46 | Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release Simon P. Driver et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2 Mar 2011 | 1,107 |
| 47 | The 6dF Galaxy Survey: final redshift release (DR3) and southern large-scale structures D. H. P. Jones et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 31 Aug 2009 | 1,073 |
| 48 | Cosmology and fundamental physics with the Euclid satellite The Euclid Theory Working Group et al. · Living Reviews in Relativity | 12 Apr 2018 | 1,047 |
| 49 | KiDS-450: cosmological parameter constraints from tomographic weak gravitational lensing Hendrik Hildebrandt et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 31 Oct 2016 | 1,046 |
| 50 | Mass assembly in quiescent and star-forming galaxies since z ≃ 4 from UltraVISTA O. Ilbert et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 4 Jun 2013 | 1,037 |
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