Most cited papers in Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
What are the most cited papers in Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena?
The most cited paper in Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena is "First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters" (David N. Spergel, Licia Verde, Hiranya V. Peiris et al., 2003), with 11,089 citations. Next come "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" (9,794) and "Planck 2015 results" (5,452).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,215 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters David N. Spergel, Licia Verde, Hiranya V. Peiris et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 19 Aug 2003 | 11,089 |
| 2 | GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 Oct 2017 | 9,794 |
| 3 | Planck 2015 results Ade, PAR et al. · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) | Oct 2016 | 5,452 |
| 4 | Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos Y. Fukuda et al. · Physical Review Letters | 24 Aug 1998 | 5,135 |
| 5 | Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei Claudia Megan Urry, P. Padovani · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Sep 1995 | 4,919 |
| 6 | First‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Preliminary Maps and Basic Results C. L. Bennett et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 19 Aug 2003 | 4,868 |
| 7 | First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole Kazunori Akiyama et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 9 Apr 2019 | 4,300 |
| 8 | THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION W. B. Atwood et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 8 May 2009 | 4,175 |
| 9 | Neutrino oscillations in matter L. Wolfenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | May 1978 | 4,149 |
| 10 | Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets Roger D. Blandford, David G. Payne · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Aug 1982 | 4,125 |
| 11 | The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 Margarita Petkova, Volker Springel | 2005 | 3,961 |
| 12 | The Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI P. M. W. Kalberla, W. B. Burton, Dap Hartmann et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 29 Aug 2005 | 3,777 |
| 13 | Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A B. P. Abbott et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 16 Oct 2017 | 3,599 |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Rushdy Ahmad et al. · Physical Review Letters | 13 Jun 2002 | 3,030 |
| 16 | Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback A. C. Fabian · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 22 Jun 2012 | 2,833 |
| 17 | Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites? Anatoly A. Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, O. Valenzuela et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Sep 1999 | 2,771 |
| 18 | First Results from KamLAND: Evidence for Reactor Antineutrino Disappearance K. Eguchi et al. · Physical Review Letters | 17 Jan 2003 | 2,725 |
| 19 | LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray M. P. van Haarlem et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 15 May 2013 | 2,718 |
| 20 | The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts - I A. R. Bell · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Feb 1978 | 2,706 |
| 21 | The Supernova Legacy Survey: measurement of $\Omega_{\mathsf{M}}$, $\Omega_\mathsf{\Lambda}$ and w from the first year data set P. Astier et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 27 Jan 2006 | 2,459 |
| 22 | Spectra and Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Re'em Sari, Tsvi Piran, Ramesh Narayan · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Apr 1998 | 2,318 |
| 23 | The Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI: Final data release of the combined LDS and IAR surveys with improved stray-radiation corrections P. M. W. Kalberla, W. B. Burton, Dap Hartmann et al. · Americanae (AECID Library) | 6 Apr 2005 | 2,315 |
| 24 | THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY ( NuSTAR ) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION Fiona A. Harrison et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 30 May 2013 | 2,299 |
| 25 | Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 21 Feb 2003 | 2,281 |
| 26 | Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay Fengpeng An et al. · Physical Review Letters | 23 Apr 2012 | 2,233 |
| 27 | The host galaxies and classification of active galactic nuclei Lisa J. Kewley, Brent A Groves, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 29 Sep 2006 | 2,193 |
| 28 | THE AVERAGE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF GALAXIES IN DARK MATTER HALOS FROM z = 0-8 Peter Behroozi, Risa H. Wechsler, Charlie Conroy · The Astrophysical Journal | 24 May 2013 | 2,190 |
| 29 | An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5–100 GeV O. Adriani et al. · Nature | Apr 2009 | 2,174 |
| 30 | A Relationship Between Nuclear Black Hole Mass And Galaxy Velocity Dispersion Gebhardt, K, Bender, R, Bower, G et al. | 2000 | 2,155 |
| 31 | Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and γ-rays from coalescing neutron stars David Eichler, Mario Livio, Tsvi Piran et al. · Nature | Jul 1989 | 2,123 |
| 32 | High-energy-physics event generation with Pythia 6.1 Torbjörn Sjöstrand, P. Edén, Christer Friberg et al. · Computer Physics Communications | Apr 2001 | 2,060 |
| 33 | MASS AND ENVIRONMENT AS DRIVERS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN SDSS AND zCOSMOS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE SCHECHTER FUNCTION Yingjie Peng et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 26 Aug 2010 | 2,051 |
| 34 | A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft B. Bertotti, LUCIANO IESS, Paolo Tortora · Nature | Sep 2003 | 2,039 |
| 35 | The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS): Overview Nick Z. Scoville et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 31 Aug 2007 | 2,035 |
| 36 | The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope Peter W. A. Roming et al. · Space Science Reviews | Oct 2005 | 2,034 |
| 37 | Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A Keiko Hirata et al. · Physical Review Letters | 6 Apr 1987 | 2,000 |
| 38 | String axiverse Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos, Sergei Dubovsky et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 28 Jun 2010 | 1,999 |
| 39 | Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks: A theory of cosmic ray origin Roger D. Blandford, David Eichler · Physics Reports | Oct 1987 | 1,981 |
| 40 | A Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin et al. · Science | 27 Sep 2007 | 1,974 |
| 41 | Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei Mitchell C. Begelman, Roger D. Blandford, Martin John Rees · Nature | Sep 1980 | 1,967 |
| 42 | Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples M. Betoule et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26 May 2014 | 1,944 |
| 43 | An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 T. J. Galama et al. · Nature | Oct 1998 | 1,939 |
| 44 | First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way Kazunori Akiyama et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | May 2022 | 1,901 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | OPTICAL SPECTRA OF SUPERNOVAE A. V. Filippenko · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1997 | 1,853 |
| 47 | The physics of gamma-ray bursts Tsvi Piran · Reviews of Modern Physics | 28 Jan 2005 | 1,840 |
| 48 | Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source Antony Hewish, S. Bell, John Pilkington et al. · Nature | Feb 1968 | 1,840 |
| 49 | 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 | 4 Dec 2023 | 1,790 |
| 50 | On the Normalization of the Cosmic Star Formation History Andrew Hopkins, John Francis Beacom · The Astrophysical Journal | 27 Oct 2006 | 1,767 |
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