Most cited papers in History and Developments in Astronomy
What are the most cited papers in History and Developments in Astronomy?
The most cited paper in History and Developments in Astronomy is "Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei" (John Kormendy, Douglas O. Richstone, 1995), with 2,567 citations. Next come "Allen's Astrophysical Quantities" (2,311) and "The Cosmological Constant" (1,557).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 303 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei John Kormendy, Douglas O. Richstone · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1995 | 2,567 |
| 2 | Allen's Astrophysical Quantities Arthur N. Cox, Catherine A. Pilachowski · Physics Today | Oct 2000 | 2,311 |
| 3 | The Cosmological Constant Sean Michael Carroll, William H. Press, Edwin L. Turner · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1992 | 1,557 |
| 4 | A 3% SOLUTION: DETERMINATION OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT WITH THEHUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPEAND WIDE FIELD CAMERA 3 Adam G. Riess, Lucas M. Macri, Stefano Casertano et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Mar 2011 | 1,495 |
| 5 | Infrared Photons and Gravitons Steven Weinberg · Physical Review | 25 Oct 1965 | 1,387 |
| 6 | A dwarf satellite galaxy in Sagittarius Rodrigo Ibata, Gerard F. Gilmore, Michael J. Irwin · Nature | Jul 1994 | 1,386 |
| 7 | History of dark matter Gianfranco Bertone, Dan Hooper · Reviews of Modern Physics | 15 Oct 2018 | 1,255 |
| 8 | The center of the core-cusp globular cluster M15: CFHT and HST Observations, ALLFRAME reductions Peter B. Stetson · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Mar 1994 | 1,136 |
| 9 | GALACTIC MAGNETISM: Recent Developments and Perspectives Rainer Beck, Axel Brandenburg, David L. Moss et al. · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1996 | 1,014 |
| 10 | A proof of the Kepler conjecture Thomas Hales · Annals of Mathematics | Nov 2005 | 1,011 |
| 11 | A Brief History of Time Stephen William Hawking, James Lee Anderson · Physics Today | Nov 1988 | 1,010 |
| 12 | The 2001 US Naval Observatory Double Star CD-ROM. I. The Washington Double Star Catalog Brian D. Mason, Gary L. Wycoff, William I. Hartkopf et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Dec 2001 | 1,009 |
| 13 | Interstellar extinction in the UV Michael John Seaton · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | May 1979 | 1,003 |
| 14 | New catalogue of optically visible open clusters and candidates W. S. Dias, B. S. Alessi, Andre Moitinho et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2002 | 915 |
| 15 | Astrometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Jeffrey R. Pier, Jeffrey A. Munn, Robert B. Hindsley et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Mar 2003 | 906 |
| 16 | The Direction of Time Maria Reichenbach, P. Morrison · Physics Today | Oct 1956 | 835 |
| 17 | Apparent Weight of Photons Robert V. Pound, G. A. Rebka · Physical Review Letters | Apr 1960 | 812 |
| 18 | Cataclysmic Variable Stars Brian D. Warner, Scott J. Kenyon · Physics Today | Nov 1996 | 806 |
| 19 | Small Telescopes Uri Simonsohn · Psychological Science | 23 Mar 2015 | 794 |
| 20 | The Vertebrate Visual System Warren Andrew, Stephen Polyak · AIBS Bulletin | 1958 | 780 |
| 21 | The Possibility of Compensating Astronomical Seeing Horace W. Babcock · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Oct 1953 | 736 |
| 22 | Evolution of the Sun's Spectral Irradiance Since the Maunder Minimum Judith L. Lean · Geophysical Research Letters | 15 Aug 2000 | 701 |
| 23 | A distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud that is precise to one per cent G. Pietrzyński et al. · Nature | Mar 2019 | 696 |
| 24 | COSMICFLOWS-2: THE DATA R. Brent Tully, Hélène M. Courtois, Andrew E. Dolphin et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 5 Sep 2013 | 689 |
| 25 | Review of galactic constants Frank J. Kerr, Donald Lynden-Bell · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Aug 1986 | 678 |
| 26 | Relations among stellar X-ray emission observed from Einstein, stellar rotation and bolometric luminosity R. Pallavicini, L. Golub, R. Rosner et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Aug 1981 | 670 |
| 27 | LXXIV. A new type of interferometer for use in radio astronomy Robert Hanbury Brown, R. Q. Twiss · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science | Jul 1954 | 636 |
| 28 | PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING OF THE MASSES AND RADII OF OTHER WORLDS Jingjing Chen, David Kipping · The Astrophysical Journal | 27 Dec 2016 | 624 |
| 29 | How Experiments End Peter Galison, WILLEM D. HACKMANN · Physics Today | Mar 1989 | 613 |
| 30 | ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XIX. An Astrometric/Spectroscopic Survey of O Stars Brian D. Mason, Douglas R. Gies, William I. Hartkopf et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Feb 1998 | 607 |
| 31 | Excitation of the Hydrogen 21-CM Line George B. Field · Proceedings of the IRE | 1958 | 603 |
| 32 | A Stringy Nature Needs Just Two Constants GABRIELE VENEZIANO · Europhysics Letters (EPL) | Aug 1986 | 588 |
| 33 | Round Table Summary: Problems in Modelling Stellar Atmospheres Fiorella Castelli · Symposium - International Astronomical Union | 2003 | 577 |
| 34 | Secular instability of rotating Newtonian stars John L. Friedman, Bernard F. Schutz · The Astrophysical Journal | May 1978 | 569 |
| 35 | A search for stars of very low metal abundance. II Timothy C. Beers, George W. Preston, Stephen A. Shectman · The Astronomical Journal | Jun 1992 | 557 |
| 36 | A MOLECULAR STAR FORMATION LAW IN THE ATOMIC-GAS-DOMINATED REGIME IN NEARBY GALAXIES Andreas Schruba, Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 24 Jun 2011 | 554 |
| 37 | On the Use of Trigonometric Parallaxes for the Calibration of Luminosity Systems: Theory T. E. Lutz, Douglas H. Kelker · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Oct 1973 | 519 |
| 38 | Solow, Robert M Roger Middleton | 2002 | 519 |
| 39 | CLEO: Science and Innovations Philip J.W. Hands, Damian J. Gardiner, Stephen Morris et al. · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics | 6 May 2012 | 487 |
| 40 | Infrared standard stars J. H. Elias, J. A. Frogel, Keith Matthews et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Jul 1982 | 479 |
| 41 | The metal-rich nature of stars with planets N. C. Santos, G. Israelian, M. Mayor · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jul 2001 | 478 |
| 42 | The evolution of the lithium abundances of solar-type stars. III - The Pleiades David R. Soderblom, Burton F. Jones, S. Balachandran et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 1993 | 476 |
| 43 | Abundances for Globular Cluster Giants: I. Homogeneous Metallicities for 24 Clusters E. Carretta, R. Gratton · Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) | 1996 | 471 |
| 44 | The Astronomical Almanac's algorithm for approximate solar position (1950–2050) Joseph Michalsky · Solar Energy | 1988 | 471 |
| 45 | Republication of: The redshift of extragalactic nebulae F. Zwicky · General Relativity and Gravitation | 17 Nov 2008 | 467 |
| 46 | The W. M. Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics System: Overview Peter L. Wizinowich, David Le Mignant, Antonin H. Bouchez et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Feb 2006 | 461 |
| 47 | Cosmology intertwined III: f σ 8 and S 8 Eleonora Di Valentino et al. · Astroparticle Physics | 11 May 2021 | 454 |
| 48 | The Concept of Observation in Science and Philosophy Dudley Shapere · Philosophy of Science | Dec 1982 | 453 |
| 49 | Orbital Evolution in Binary and Triple Stars, with an Application to SS Lacertae P. P. Eggleton, L. Kiseleva-Eggleton · The Astrophysical Journal | Dec 2001 | 437 |
| 50 | Fundamental photon noise limit to radial velocity measurements F. Bouchy, Francesco Alfonso Pepe, Didier P. Queloz · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Aug 2001 | 436 |
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 a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; 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.