| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 8,753 |
| 2 | GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 6,413 |
| 3 | GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 2,701 |
| 4 | Cosmological constant—the weight of the vacuum | Physics Reports | 2003 | 2,619 |
| 5 | GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 1,987 |
| 6 | GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 1,600 |
| 7 | GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State | Physical Review Letters | 2018 | 1,473 |
| 8 | Tests of General Relativity with GW150914 | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 1,224 |
| 9 | GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M⊙ | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2020 | 1,049 |
| 10 | Statefinder—A new geometrical diagnostic of dark energy | JETP Letters | 2003 | 1,037 |
| 11 | 150 M⊙">GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M⊙ | Physical Review Letters | 2020 | 836 |
| 12 | Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light | Nature Photonics | 2013 | 825 |
| 13 | Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA | Living Reviews in Relativity | 2018 | 808 |
| 14 | Accelerated expansion of the universe driven by tachyonic matter | Physical Review D | 2002 | 797 |
| 15 | Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914 | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 673 |
| 16 | ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2016 | 633 |
| 17 | RECONSTRUCTING DARK ENERGY | International Journal of Modern Physics D | 2006 | 620 |
| 18 | Braneworld models of dark energy | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2003 | 604 |
| 19 | Thermodynamical aspects of gravity: new insights | Reports on Progress in Physics | 2010 | 581 |
| 20 | Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2019 | 566 |
| 21 | Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger | Science | 2017 | 559 |
| 22 | Particle production and complex path analysis | Physical Review D | 1999 | 547 |
| 23 | GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 466 |
| 24 | Gravity and the thermodynamics of horizons | Physics Reports | 2005 | 453 |
| 25 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2021 | 453 |
| 26 | Cosmology with tachyon field as dark energy | Physical Review D | 2003 | 447 |
| 27 | Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA | Living Reviews in Relativity | 2020 | 447 |
| 28 | Black holes on the brane | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 2000 | 443 |
| 29 | Two new diagnostics of dark energy | Physical Review D | 2008 | 438 |
| 30 | New cosmological model of quintessence and dark matter | Physical Review D | 2000 | 431 |
| 31 | Cosmological dynamics of a phantom field | Physical Review D | 2003 | 429 |
| 32 | Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo | Living Reviews in Relativity | 2016 | 427 |
| 33 | Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Revisited | Astrophysical Journal | 1997 | 409 |
| 34 | Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M⊙ Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521 | Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2020 | 406 |
| 35 | Can the clustered dark matter and the smooth dark energy arise from the same scalar field? | Physical Review D | 2002 | 389 |
| 36 | Traversable Wormholes with Arbitrarily Small Energy Condition Violations | Physical Review Letters | 2003 | 372 |
| 37 | Tests of General Relativity with GW170817 | Physical Review Letters | 2019 | 370 |
| 38 | Choice of filters for the detection of gravitational waves from coalescing binaries | Physical Review D | 1991 | 363 |
| 39 | Quantum-Enhanced Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy | Physical Review Letters | 2019 | 359 |
| 40 | The case for dynamical dark energy revisited | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2004 | 345 |
| 41 | The origin, evolution and signatures of primordial magnetic fields | Reports on Progress in Physics | 2016 | 322 |
| 42 | GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO | Physical Review D | 2016 | 315 |
| 43 | Dark energy and gravity | General Relativity and Gravitation | 2008 | 303 |
| 44 | A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance | Science | 2019 | 295 |
| 45 | Multiwavelength Study of Massive Galaxies atz ∼ 2. II. Widespread Compton‐thick Active Galactic Nuclei and the Concurrent Growth of Black Holes and Bulges | Astrophysical Journal | 2007 | 289 |
| 46 | WMAP constraints on low redshift evolution of dark energy | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 2005 | 282 |
| 47 | Hawking radiation in different coordinate settings: complex paths approach | Classical and Quantum Gravity | 2002 | 280 |
| 48 | Limits on the Time Variation of the Electromagnetic Fine-Structure Constant in the Low Energy Limit from Absorption Lines in the Spectra of Distant Quasars | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 278 |
| 49 | GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 269 |
| 50 | Thermodynamic route to field equations in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity | Physical Review D | 2006 | 264 |
