Most cited papers in Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
What are the most cited papers in Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena?
The most cited paper in Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena is "A smooth particle mesh Ewald method" (Ulrich Essmann, L. Perera, Max L. Berkowitz et al., 1995), with 23,377 citations. Next come "Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds" (15,435) and "Planck 2018 results" (14,737).
Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 2,085 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A smooth particle mesh Ewald method Ulrich Essmann, L. Perera, Max L. Berkowitz et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Nov 1995 | 23,377 |
| 2 | Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Jun 1998 | 15,435 |
| 3 | Planck 2018 results N. Aghanim et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 3 Apr 2020 | 14,737 |
| 4 | emcee : The MCMC Hammer Daniel Foreman-Mackey, David W. Hogg, Dustin Lang et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Mar 2013 | 12,323 |
| 5 | The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) Michael F. Skrutskie et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 24 Jan 2006 | 12,280 |
| 6 | Planck 2015 results Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 20 Jun 2016 | 10,771 |
| 7 | Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003 Gustavo A. Bruzual, Stéphane Charlot · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 22 Sep 2003 | 10,695 |
| 8 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary Donald G. York et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 2000 | 10,547 |
| 9 | A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White · The Astrophysical Journal | Dec 1997 | 9,998 |
| 10 | SEVEN-YEARWILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE(WMAP) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION Eiichiro Komatsu et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | 11 Jan 2011 | 8,892 |
| 11 | An Alternative to Compactification Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 6 Dec 1999 | 7,311 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | STAR FORMATION IN GALAXIES ALONG THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE Robert C. Kennicutt · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1998 | 6,628 |
| 14 | Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters Peter A. R. Ade et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 25 Feb 2014 | 6,598 |
| 15 | The cosmological simulation code gadget-2 Volker Springel · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 14 Nov 2005 | 6,434 |
| 16 | The NRAO VLA Sky Survey J. J. Condon, W. D. Cotton, E. W. Greisen et al. · The Astronomical Journal | May 1998 | 5,847 |
| 17 | The Dust Content and Opacity of Actively Star‐forming Galaxies Daniela Calzetti, L. Armus, R. C. Bohlin et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 Apr 2000 | 5,835 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | The Global Schmidt Law in Star‐forming Galaxies Robert C. Kennicutt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 May 1998 | 5,273 |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies Laura Ferrarese, David R. Merritt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Aug 2000 | 4,479 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies John Kormendy, Luis C. Ho · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 18 Aug 2013 | 4,233 |
| 27 | Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function Gilles Chabrier | 2003 | 4,200 |
| 28 | The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers John Magorrian, Scott D. Tremaine, Douglas O. Richstone et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Jun 1998 | 4,074 |
| 29 | Starburst99: Synthesis Models for Galaxies with Active Star Formation Claus Leitherer, Daniel Schaerer, Jeffrey D. Goldader et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Jul 1999 | 4,048 |
| 30 | 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 |
| 31 | The cosmological simulation code GADGET-2 Margarita Petkova, Volker Springel | 2005 | 3,961 |
| 32 | Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering Simon D. M. White, Martin John Rees · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Jul 1978 | 3,938 |
| 33 | Cosmic Star-Formation History Piero Madau, Mark Dickinson · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 26 Jun 2014 | 3,846 |
| 34 | The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 24 Nov 2005 | 3,715 |
| 35 | A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Aug 2000 | 3,695 |
| 36 | The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments Joop Schaye et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 11 Nov 2014 | 3,678 |
| 37 | The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Christy Tremonti, Timothy M. Heckman, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Oct 2004 | 3,670 |
| 38 | The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter M. Davis, G. Efstathiou, Carlos Silvestre Frenk et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | May 1985 | 3,428 |
| 39 | Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies Tiziana Di Matteo, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist · Nature | Feb 2005 | 3,408 |
| 40 | The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe J. Brinchmann, S. Charlot, Simon D. M. White et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 11 Jul 2004 | 3,333 |
| 41 | Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore, Brad K. Gibson et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 20 May 2001 | 3,330 |
| 42 | 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 |
| 43 | Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna, Fabio Governato et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Oct 1999 | 3,058 |
| 44 | Non-gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models JUAN M. MALDACENA · Journal of High Energy Physics | 9 May 2003 | 2,968 |
| 45 | Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies Robert C. Kennicutt, Neal J. Evans · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 28 Aug 2012 | 2,941 |
| 46 | LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES D. B. Sanders, I. Félix Mirabel · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1996 | 2,848 |
| 47 | Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images Chien Y. Peng, Luis C. Ho, Chris Impey et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Jul 2002 | 2,833 |
| 48 | Observational Evidence of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback A. C. Fabian · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 22 Jun 2012 | 2,833 |
| 49 | Large-scale bias and the peak background split Ravi K. Sheth, G. Tormen · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Sep 1999 | 2,828 |
| 50 | THE CASE FOR A POSITIVE COSMOLOGICAL Λ-TERM Varun Sahni, Alexei A. Starobinsky · International Journal of Modern Physics D | Aug 2000 | 2,776 |
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