| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant | Astronomical Journal | 1998 | 14,196 |
| 2 | The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) | Astronomical Journal | 2006 | 9,145 |
| 3 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary | Astronomical Journal | 2000 | 8,099 |
| 4 | THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE | Astronomical Journal | 2010 | 5,751 |
| 5 | A numerical approach to the testing of the fission hypothesis | Astronomical Journal | 1977 | 4,640 |
| 6 | The NRAO VLA Sky Survey | Astronomical Journal | 1998 | 4,523 |
| 7 | The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package* | Astronomical Journal | 2018 | 4,142 |
| 8 | A Catalog of Parameters for Globular Clusters in the Milky Way | Astronomical Journal | 1996 | 3,580 |
| 9 | UBVRI photometric standard stars in the magnitude range 11.5-16.0 around the celestial equator | Astronomical Journal | 1992 | 3,479 |
| 10 | The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers | Astronomical Journal | 1998 | 3,145 |
| 11 | An iterative technique for the rectification of observed distributions | Astronomical Journal | 1974 | 2,975 |
| 12 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System | Astronomical Journal | 1996 | 2,458 |
| 13 | The Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar Catalogue | Astronomical Journal | 2005 | 2,433 |
| 14 | Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions | Astronomical Journal | 2018 | 2,267 |
| 15 | Detailed Structural Decomposition of Galaxy Images | Astronomical Journal | 2002 | 2,118 |
| 16 | Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release | Astronomical Journal | 2002 | 2,003 |
| 17 | Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity | Astronomical Journal | 1962 | 1,900 |
| 18 | The USNO-B Catalog | Astronomical Journal | 2003 | 1,832 |
| 19 | The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Astronomical Journal | 2006 | 1,828 |
| 20 | The applicability of the third integral of motion: Some numerical experiments | Astronomical Journal | 1964 | 1,730 |
| 21 | SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS | Astronomical Journal | 2011 | 1,700 |
| 22 | THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III | Astronomical Journal | 2013 | 1,571 |
| 23 | The structure of star clusters. III. Some simple dvriamical models | Astronomical Journal | 1966 | 1,561 |
| 24 | Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample | Astronomical Journal | 2002 | 1,556 |
| 25 | The structure of star clusters. I. an empirical density law | Astronomical Journal | 1962 | 1,541 |
| 26 | Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Astronomical Journal | 2001 | 1,494 |
| 27 | THE STAR FORMATION EFFICIENCY IN NEARBY GALAXIES: MEASURING WHERE GAS FORMS STARS EFFECTIVELY | Astronomical Journal | 2008 | 1,481 |
| 28 | Estimating Distance from Parallaxes. IV. Distances to 1.33 Billion Stars in Gaia Data Release 2 | Astronomical Journal | 2018 | 1,446 |
| 29 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera | Astronomical Journal | 1998 | 1,420 |
| 30 | THE STAR FORMATION LAW IN NEARBY GALAXIES ON SUB-KPC SCALES | Astronomical Journal | 2008 | 1,409 |
| 31 | THE OBSERVED PROPERTIES OF DWARF GALAXIES IN AND AROUND THE LOCAL GROUP | Astronomical Journal | 2012 | 1,391 |
| 32 | The [CLC][ITAL]u[/ITAL][/CLC][arcmin]′[CLC][ITAL]g[/ITAL][/CLC][arcmin]′[CLC][ITAL]r[/ITAL][/CLC][arcmin]′[CLC][ITAL]i[/ITAL][/CLC][arcmin]′[CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC][arcmin]′ Standard-Star System | Astronomical Journal | 2002 | 1,386 |
| 33 | New Insight on Galaxy Formation and Evolution From Keck Spectroscopy of the Hawaii Deep Fields | Astronomical Journal | 1996 | 1,361 |
| 34 | K-Corrections and Filter Transformations in the Ultraviolet, Optical, and Near-Infrared | Astronomical Journal | 2007 | 1,309 |
| 35 | A survey for circumstellar disks around young stellar objects | Astronomical Journal | 1990 | 1,293 |
| 36 | DETAILED DECOMPOSITION OF GALAXY IMAGES. II. BEYOND AXISYMMETRIC MODELS | Astronomical Journal | 2010 | 1,272 |
| 37 | Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data | Astronomical Journal | 2001 | 1,250 |
| 38 | New limb-darkening coefficients for modeling binary star light curves | Astronomical Journal | 1993 | 1,225 |
| 39 | A survey of galaxy redshifts. I - Data reduction techniques | Astronomical Journal | 1979 | 1,195 |
| 40 | Measures of location and scale for velocities in clusters of galaxies - A robust approach | Astronomical Journal | 1990 | 1,119 |
| 41 | Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization withz ~ 6 Quasars. II. A Sample of 19 Quasars | Astronomical Journal | 2006 | 1,116 |
| 42 | Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe | Astronomical Journal | 2017 | 1,100 |
| 43 | A [ITAL]Hipparcos[/ITAL] Census of the Nearby OB Associations | Astronomical Journal | 1999 | 1,073 |
| 44 | The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) | Astronomical Journal | 2017 | 1,065 |
| 45 | THINGS: THE H I NEARBY GALAXY SURVEY | Astronomical Journal | 2008 | 1,055 |
| 46 | New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog: A Galaxy Catalog Based on New Public Surveys | Astronomical Journal | 2005 | 989 |
| 47 | Symplectic maps for the n-body problem | Astronomical Journal | 1991 | 986 |
| 48 | VLA observations of objects in the Palomar Bright Quasar Survey | Astronomical Journal | 1989 | 958 |
| 49 | The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Astronomical Journal | 2004 | 953 |
| 50 | Color Transformations for the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release | Astronomical Journal | 2001 | 936 |
