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| 2 | Atomic structure and chemistry of human serum albumin | Nature | 1992 | 3,549 |
| 3 | Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results | Science | 2010 | 2,848 |
| 4 | Structure of Serum Albumin | Advances in Protein Chemistry | 1994 | 2,751 |
| 5 | The Hinode (Solar-B) Mission: An Overview | Solar Physics | 2007 | 1,394 |
| 6 | Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams | Physical Review Letters | 2001 | 1,154 |
| 7 | Global frequency and distribution of lightning as observed from space by the Optical Transient Detector | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2003 | 1,090 |
| 8 | THEFERMIGAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 1,063 |
| 9 | GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M⊙ | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2020 | 1,049 |
| 10 | The Solar Optical Telescope for the Hinode Mission: An Overview | Solar Physics | 2008 | 1,028 |
| 11 | The Status of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) after Two Years in Orbit | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 2000 | 1,000 |
| 12 | Fast Plasma Investigation for Magnetospheric Multiscale | Space Science Reviews | 2016 | 960 |
| 13 | KEPLER MISSION DESIGN, REALIZED PHOTOMETRIC PERFORMANCE, AND EARLY SCIENCE | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2010 | 941 |
| 14 | The Soft X-ray Telescope for the SOLAR-A mission | Solar Physics | 1991 | 928 |
| 15 | An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300–800 GeV | Nature | 2008 | 861 |
| 16 | CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANETARY CANDIDATES OBSERVED BYKEPLER. II. ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF DATA | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 859 |
| 17 | 150 M⊙">GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M⊙ | Physical Review Letters | 2020 | 836 |
| 18 | IBIS: The Imager on-board INTEGRAL | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 2003 | 824 |
| 19 | Transient optical emission from the error box of the γ-ray burst of 28 February 1997 | Nature | 1997 | 785 |
| 20 | Onset of the Magnetic Explosion in Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections | Astrophysical Journal | 2001 | 770 |
| 21 | Metal additive manufacturing in aerospace: A review | Materials and Design | 2021 | 743 |
| 22 | Evidence for a Canonical Gamma‐Ray Burst Afterglow Light Curve in theSwiftXRT Data | Astrophysical Journal | 2006 | 710 |
| 23 | A hypernova model for the supernova associated with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998 | Nature | 1998 | 568 |
| 24 | Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2019 | 566 |
| 25 | Three-dimensional structure of human serum albumin | Science | 1989 | 554 |
| 26 | The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources | Water Resources Research | 2017 | 552 |
| 27 | Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space | Science | 2016 | 545 |
| 28 | First X-Ray Scattering Studies on Electrostatically Levitated Metallic Liquids: Demonstrated Influence of Local Icosahedral Order on the Nucleation Barrier | Physical Review Letters | 2003 | 541 |
| 29 | The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission for Science and Society | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2017 | 541 |
| 30 | Precipitation Retrieval over Land and Ocean with the SSM/I: Identification and Characteristics of the Scattering Signal | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | 1989 | 525 |
| 31 | Spatial distribution of γ-ray bursts observed by BATSE | Nature | 1992 | 501 |
| 32 | Coupled-resonator-induced transparency | Physical Review A | 2004 | 457 |
| 33 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2021 | 453 |
| 34 | Seismic Detection of the Lunar Core | Science | 2011 | 451 |
| 35 | Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA | Living Reviews in Relativity | 2020 | 447 |
| 36 | Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2020 | 442 |
| 37 | Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investigation: Design of the Solar Wind and Coronal Plasma Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus | Space Science Reviews | 2016 | 439 |
| 38 | A MEASUREMENT OF THE DAMPING TAIL OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 433 |
| 39 | The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons | Science | 2015 | 407 |
| 40 | Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2020 | 406 |
| 41 | Gridded lightning climatology from TRMM-LIS and OTD: Dataset description | Atmospheric Research | 2014 | 405 |
| 42 | Photonic bands: Convergence problems with the plane-wave method | Physical Review B | 1992 | 404 |
| 43 | Plasma Beta above a Solar Active Region: Rethinking the Paradigm | Solar Physics | 2001 | 401 |
| 44 | Transient Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole | Science | 2014 | 401 |
| 45 | THE MISSING LINK: MERGING NEUTRON STARS NATURALLY PRODUCE JET-LIKE STRUCTURES AND CAN POWER SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2011 | 383 |
| 46 | A far ultraviolet imager for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Mission | Space Science Reviews | 1995 | 382 |
| 47 | Contrasting convective regimes over the Amazon: Implications for cloud electrification | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2002 | 374 |
| 48 | The Solar Cycle | Living Reviews in Solar Physics | 2010 | 374 |
| 49 | The Complete Spectral Catalog of Bright BATSE Gamma‐Ray Bursts | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2006 | 355 |
| 50 | A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors | Nature | 2013 | 348 |
