Most cited papers in Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
What are the most cited papers in Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research?
The most cited paper in Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research is "Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant" (Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis et al., 1998), with 19,814 citations. Next come "Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae" (18,225) and "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (14,545).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,324 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis et al. · The Astronomical Journal | Sep 1998 | 19,814 |
| 2 | Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae S. Perlmutter et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Jun 1999 | 18,225 |
| 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 | GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 Oct 2017 | 9,794 |
| 5 | Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes Roger D. Blandford, R. L. Znajek · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Jul 1977 | 5,162 |
| 6 | A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies Laura Ferrarese, David R. Merritt · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Aug 2000 | 4,479 |
| 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 | Advanced Virgo: a second-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector F. Acernese et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 18 Dec 2014 | 4,224 |
| 9 | A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay Paul B. Demorest, Timothy T. Pennucci, S. M. Ransom et al. · Nature | Oct 2010 | 3,967 |
| 10 | A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary John Antoniadis et al. · Science | 25 Apr 2013 | 3,919 |
| 11 | GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X | 4 Sep 2019 | 3,658 |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jun 2016 | 3,514 |
| 14 | Cosmic separation of phases Edward H. Witten · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Jul 1984 | 3,513 |
| 15 | Advanced LIGO J. Aasi et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 3 Mar 2015 | 3,511 |
| 16 | The Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar Catalogue Richard N. Manchester, George B. Hobbs, A. Teoh et al. · The Astronomical Journal | 21 Mar 2005 | 3,499 |
| 17 | Extended Theories of Gravity Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis · Physics Reports | 17 Sep 2011 | 3,364 |
| 18 | A phantom menace? Cosmological consequences of a dark energy component with super-negative equation of state R.R Caldwell · Physics Letters B | Oct 2002 | 3,324 |
| 19 | A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX Simone Alioli, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Jun 2010 | 3,144 |
| 20 | Singular hypersurfaces and thin shells in general relativity W. Israel · Il Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/Il Nuovo cimento B | Jul 1966 | 3,114 |
| 21 | Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities Roger Penrose · Physical Review Letters | 18 Jan 1965 | 3,037 |
| 22 | Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne · American Journal of Physics | May 1988 | 2,969 |
| 23 | GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | Jun 2017 | 2,530 |
| 24 | Equation of state of nucleon matter and neutron star structure A. Akmal, Vijay R. Pandharipande, D. G. Ravenhall · Physical Review C | Sep 1998 | 2,528 |
| 25 | GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 15 Oct 2018 | 2,512 |
| 26 | The Einstein Telescope: a third-generation gravitational wave observatory M. Punturo et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 21 Sep 2010 | 2,455 |
| 27 | Gravitational Radiation and the Motion of Two Point Masses P. C. Peters · Physical Review | 23 Nov 1964 | 2,437 |
| 28 | X-Ray Properties of Black-Hole Binaries Ronald A. Remillard, Jeffrey E. McClintock · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 18 Aug 2006 | 2,431 |
| 29 | XMM-Newton observatory F. A. Jansen, D. Lumb, B. Altieri et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2001 | 2,379 |
| 30 | Quasinormal modes of black holes and black branes Emanuele Berti, Vítor Cardoso, Andrei O. Starinets · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 24 Jul 2009 | 2,351 |
| 31 | Spectra and Light Curves of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Re'em Sari, Tsvi Piran, Ramesh Narayan · The Astrophysical Journal | 10 Apr 1998 | 2,318 |
| 32 | Gravitational Radiation from Post-Newtonian Sources and Inspiralling Compact Binaries Luc Blanchet · Living Reviews in Relativity | 13 Feb 2014 | 2,288 |
| 33 | LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Alex Abramovici, William E. Althouse, Ronald W. P. Drever et al. · Science | 17 Apr 1992 | 2,279 |
| 34 | The evolution and explosion of massive stars Stan E. Woosley, Alexander Heger, Thomas A. Weaver · Reviews of Modern Physics | 7 Nov 2002 | 2,273 |
| 35 | GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 6 Oct 2017 | 2,195 |
| 36 | How Massive Single Stars End Their Life Alexander Heger, Chris L. Fryer, Stan E. Woosley et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | Jul 2003 | 2,192 |
| 37 | 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 |
| 38 | A theory of highly condensed matter John Dirk Walecka · Annals of Physics | Apr 1974 | 2,134 |
| 39 | Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and γ-rays from coalescing neutron stars David Eichler, Mario Livio, Tsvi Piran et al. · Nature | Jul 1989 | 2,123 |
| 40 | Microscopic models for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions Steffen A. Bass · Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics | 1998 | 2,100 |
| 41 | Quasi-Normal Modes of Stars and Black Holes Kostas D. Kokkotas, Bernd G. Schmidt · Living Reviews in Relativity | 16 Sep 1999 | 2,076 |
| 42 | GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X | 9 Jun 2021 | 2,075 |
| 43 | A Skyrme parametrization from subnuclear to neutron star densities Part II. Nuclei far from stabilities E. Chabanat, P. Bonche, P. Haensel et al. · Nuclear Physics A | May 1998 | 2,069 |
| 44 | TianQin: a space-borne gravitational wave detector Jun Luo, Li-Sheng Chen, Hui-Zong Duan et al. · Classical and Quantum Gravity | 12 Jan 2016 | 2,035 |
| 45 | A Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin D. R. Lorimer, M. Bailes, M. A. McLaughlin et al. · Science | 27 Sep 2007 | 1,974 |
| 46 | Massive black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei Mitchell C. Begelman, Roger D. Blandford, Martin John Rees · Nature | Sep 1980 | 1,967 |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | Galileon as a local modification of gravity Alberto Nicolis, Riccardo Rattazzi, Enrico Trincherini · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 31 Mar 2009 | 1,893 |
| 49 | Gravitational waves in general relativity VIII. Waves in asymptotically flat space-time R. K. : Sachs · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 30 Oct 1962 | 1,878 |
| 50 | OPTICAL SPECTRA OF SUPERNOVAE A. V. Filippenko · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 1997 | 1,853 |
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