| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos | Astrophysical Journal | 1996 | 6,326 |
| 2 | Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars | Nature | 2005 | 3,801 |
| 3 | Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies | Nature | 2005 | 2,577 |
| 4 | The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2004 | 2,530 |
| 5 | NINE-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: FINAL MAPS AND RESULTS | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2013 | 1,810 |
| 6 | The mass function of dark matter haloes | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2001 | 1,335 |
| 7 | Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 1,144 |
| 8 | The dependence of star formation history and internal structure on stellar mass for 105low-redshift galaxies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2003 | 1,077 |
| 9 | Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2013 | 1,072 |
| 10 | The environmental dependence of the relations between stellar mass, structure, star formation and nuclear activity in galaxies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2004 | 1,054 |
| 11 | From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2011 | 950 |
| 12 | The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2003 | 917 |
| 13 | Galaxy Groups in the SDSS DR4. I. The Catalog and Basic Properties | Astrophysical Journal | 2007 | 757 |
| 14 | Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: the entropy equation | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2002 | 748 |
| 15 | First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2018 | 746 |
| 16 | Substructures in hydrodynamical cluster simulations | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2009 | 724 |
| 17 | Theory of core-collapse supernovae | Physics Reports | 2007 | 665 |
| 18 | Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: The Formation of Red Elliptical Galaxies | Astrophysical Journal | 2005 | 642 |
| 19 | Asymmetries in the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Field | Astrophysical Journal | 2004 | 600 |
| 20 | Stellar Structure and Evolution | Astronomy and Astrophysics Library | 2012 | 600 |
| 21 | The ATLAS3D project - III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early-type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2011 | 587 |
| 22 | Galaxy halo masses and satellite fractions from galaxy-galaxy lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: stellar mass, luminosity, morphology and environment dependencies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2006 | 581 |
| 23 | Dust coagulation in protoplanetary disks: A rapid depletion of small grains | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2005 | 552 |
| 24 | The large-scale structure of the Universe | Nature | 2006 | 525 |
| 25 | THE SINS SURVEY OFz∼ 2 GALAXY KINEMATICS: PROPERTIES OF THE GIANT STAR-FORMING CLUMPS | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 511 |
| 26 | Catalogue of cataclysmic binaries, low–mass X-ray binaries and related objects (Seventh edition) | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2003 | 500 |
| 27 | Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae | Nature | 2007 | 495 |
| 28 | The history of star formation in a cold dark matter universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2003 | 473 |
| 29 | The merger rates and mass assembly histories of dark matter haloes in the two Millennium simulations | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2010 | 473 |
| 30 | Comprehensive nucleosynthesis analysis for ejecta of compact binary mergers | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2015 | 466 |
| 31 | SYSTEMATICS OF DYNAMICAL MASS EJECTION, NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, AND RADIOACTIVELY POWERED ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS FROM NEUTRON-STAR MERGERS | Astrophysical Journal | 2013 | 456 |
| 32 | A Merger‐driven Scenario for Cosmological Disk Galaxy Formation | Astrophysical Journal | 2006 | 443 |
| 33 | Theoretical Challenges in Galaxy Formation | Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2017 | 443 |
| 34 | An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218 | Nature | 2006 | 432 |
| 35 | COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies - I. Relations between H2, H i, stellar content and structural properties | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2011 | 418 |
| 36 | Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star | Nature | 2011 | 412 |
| 37 | INFRARED TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE EXOPLANETS HD 209458b AND XO-1b USING THE WIDE FIELD CAMERA-3 ON THEHUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE | Astrophysical Journal | 2013 | 409 |
| 38 | Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion | Nature | 2009 | 399 |
| 39 | r -PROCESS NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN DYNAMICALLY EJECTED MATTER OF NEUTRON STAR MERGERS | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2011 | 390 |
| 40 | The ATLAS3D project - II. Morphologies, kinemetric features and alignment between photometric and kinematic axes of early-type galaxies | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2011 | 378 |
| 41 | A fossil origin for the magnetic field in A stars and white dwarfs | Nature | 2004 | 377 |
| 42 | The effect of dust settling on the appearance of protoplanetary disks | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2004 | 359 |
| 43 | DISSECTING THE GRAVITATIONAL LENS B1608+656. II. PRECISION MEASUREMENTS OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT, SPATIAL CURVATURE, AND THE DARK ENERGY EQUATION OF STATE | Astrophysical Journal | 2010 | 356 |
| 44 | THE PECULIAR SOLAR COMPOSITION AND ITS POSSIBLE RELATION TO PLANET FORMATION | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 337 |
| 45 | The Central Mass Distribution in Dwarf and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies | Astrophysical Journal | 2003 | 336 |
| 46 | A CONTINUUM OF H- TO He-RICH TIDAL DISRUPTION CANDIDATES WITH A PREFERENCE FOR E+A GALAXIES | Astrophysical Journal | 2014 | 332 |
| 47 | THE COSMOLOGICAL SIZE AND VELOCITY DISPERSION EVOLUTION OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 329 |
| 48 | THE DATA REDUCTION PIPELINE FOR THE SDSS-IV MaNGA IFU GALAXY SURVEY | Astronomical Journal | 2016 | 323 |
| 49 | X-ray properties of galaxy clusters and groups from a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2004 | 315 |
| 50 | The Coma cluster magnetic field from Faraday rotation measures | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2010 | 313 |
