Most cited papers in Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
What are the most cited papers in Cosmology and Gravitation Theories?
The most cited paper in Cosmology and Gravitation Theories is "Planck 2018 results" (N. Aghanim et al., 2020), with 14,737 citations. Next come "The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity" (14,697) and "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (14,545).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,778 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planck 2018 results N. Aghanim et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Apr 2020 | 14,737 |
| 2 | The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity JUAN M. MALDACENA · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 14,697 |
| 3 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 11 Feb 2016 | 14,545 |
| 4 | Anti de Sitter space and holography Edward H. Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 13,441 |
| 5 | Particle creation by black holes Stephen William Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics | Aug 1975 | 13,167 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Planck 2015 results Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 20 Jun 2016 | 10,771 |
| 8 | Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC S. Chatrchyan et al. · Physics Letters B | 17 Aug 2012 | 10,126 |
| 9 | Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems Alan H. Guth · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Jan 1981 | 10,058 |
| 10 | Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 25 Oct 1999 | 9,373 |
| 11 | SEVEN-YEARWILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE(WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION Eiichiro Komatsu et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 11 Jan 2011 | 8,892 |
| 12 | A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity Alexei A. Starobinsky · Physics Letters B | Mar 1980 | 7,827 |
| 13 | Black Holes and Entropy Jacob D. Bekenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Apr 1973 | 7,550 |
| 14 | The cosmological constant problem Steven Weinberg · Reviews of Modern Physics | 1989 | 7,442 |
| 15 | An Alternative to Compactification Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 6 Dec 1999 | 7,311 |
| 16 | The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity Juan Maldacena · International Journal of Theoretical Physics | Apr 1999 | 6,784 |
| 17 | Review of Particle Physics S. Eidelman et al. · Physics Letters B | 29 Jun 2004 | 6,725 |
| 18 | Three‐Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe ( WMAP ) Observations: Implications for Cosmology David N. Spergel et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 31 May 2007 | 6,681 |
| 19 | CP-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction M. Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa · Progress of Theoretical Physics | Feb 1973 | 6,651 |
| 20 | The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter Nima Arkani–Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali · Physics Letters B | Jun 1998 | 6,617 |
| 21 | Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 25 Feb 2014 | 6,598 |
| 22 | A new inflationary universe scenario: A possible solution of the horizon, flatness, homogeneity, isotropy and primordial monopole problems Andrei D Linde · Physics Letters B | Feb 1982 | 6,495 |
| 23 | DYNAMICS OF DARK ENERGY Edmund J. Copeland, M. Sami, Shinji Tsujikawa · International Journal of Modern Physics D | Nov 2006 | 6,316 |
| 24 | HEALPix: A Framework for High‐Resolution Discretization and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere Krzysztof M. Gorski, E. Hivon, Anthony J. Banday et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 29 Mar 2005 | 6,115 |
| 25 | Black hole explosions? Stephen William Hawking · Nature | Mar 1974 | 5,736 |
| 26 | FIVE-YEARWILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBEOBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION Eiichiro Komatsu, J. Dunkley, Michael R. Nolta et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Feb 2009 | 5,735 |
| 27 | Mach's Principle and a Relativistic Theory of Gravitation Carl H. Brans, R. H. Dicke · Physical Review | Nov 1961 | 5,679 |
| 28 | Large N field theories, string theory and gravity Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser, JUAN M. MALDACENA et al. · Physics Reports | 2000 | 5,620 |
| 29 | A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering Julio F. Navarro, Carlos Silvestre Frenk, Simon D. M. White | 13 Nov 1996 | 5,564 |
| 30 | Planck 2015 results Ade, PAR et al. · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) | Oct 2016 | 5,452 |
| 31 | The cosmological constant and dark energy P. J. E. Peebles, Bharat Ratra · Reviews of Modern Physics | 22 Apr 2003 | 5,320 |
| 32 | NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER RESULTS G. Hinshaw et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 20 Sep 2013 | 5,171 |
| 33 | Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Adrian R. Jenkins et al. · Nature | Jun 2005 | 5,112 |
| 34 | Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking Andreas Albrecht, Paul Joseph Steinhardt · Physical Review Letters | 26 Apr 1982 | 5,056 |
| 35 | Particle dark matter: evidence, candidates and constraints Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper, Joseph I. Silk · Physics Reports | 9 Nov 2004 | 5,054 |
| 36 | Notes on black-hole evaporation William George Unruh · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Aug 1976 | 4,940 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | Problem of Strong P and T Invariance in the Presence of Instantons Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 30 Jan 1978 | 4,791 |
| 39 | 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 |
| 40 | Topology of cosmic domains and strings T. W. B. Kibble · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General | Aug 1976 | 4,620 |
| 41 | f ( R ) theories of gravity Thomas P. Sotiriou, Valerio Faraoni · Reviews of Modern Physics | Mar 2010 | 4,584 |
| 42 | Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy from the anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence Shinsei Ryu, Tadashi Takayanagi · Physical Review Letters | 9 May 2006 | 4,426 |
| 43 | Unified cosmic history in modified gravity: From F ( R ) theory to Lorentz non-invariant models Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov · Physics Reports | 3 May 2011 | 4,380 |
| 44 | Cosmological consequences of a rolling homogeneous scalar field Bharat Ratra, P. J. E. Peebles · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Jun 1988 | 4,366 |
| 45 | Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Sidney Coleman, Erick J. Weinberg · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Mar 1973 | 4,324 |
| 46 | Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope : Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution Adam G. Riess, Louis‐Gregory Strolger, John L. Tonry et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 19 May 2004 | 4,278 |
| 47 | Modified gravity and cosmology Timothy Clifton, Pedro G. Ferreira, Antonio Padilla et al. · Physics Reports | 9 Jan 2012 | 4,260 |
| 48 | Supersymmetric dark matter Gerard Jungman, Marc Kamionkowski, K. Griest · Physics Reports | Mar 1996 | 4,186 |
| 49 | The world as a hologram Leonard Susskind · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Nov 1995 | 4,087 |
| 50 | Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP Max Tegmark et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 5 May 2004 | 4,037 |
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