| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary | Astronomical Journal | 2000 | 8,099 |
| 2 | The four laws of black hole mechanics | Communications in Mathematical Physics | 1973 | 2,668 |
| 3 | Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe | Nature | 1998 | 2,058 |
| 4 | THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series | 2015 | 1,877 |
| 5 | Theory of the Motion of Vortices in Superconductors | Physical Review | 1965 | 1,411 |
| 6 | Introduction to quantum noise, measurement, and amplification | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2010 | 1,291 |
| 7 | Localization of interacting fermions at high temperature | Physical Review B | 2007 | 1,287 |
| 8 | First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility | Physical Review Letters | 2014 | 1,248 |
| 9 | Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane | Nature | 2008 | 1,195 |
| 10 | Quantum Computation with Trapped Polar Molecules | Physical Review Letters | 2002 | 1,107 |
| 11 | Results from a Search for Dark Matter in the Complete LUX Exposure | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 1,081 |
| 12 | The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) | Astronomical Journal | 2017 | 1,065 |
| 13 | ppCollisions ats=7and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments">Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass inppCollisions ats=7and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments | Physical Review Letters | 2015 | 1,062 |
| 14 | Cosmology at low frequencies: The 21cm transition and the high-redshift Universe | Physics Reports | 2006 | 1,059 |
| 15 | Quantum Theory of Cavity-Assisted Sideband Cooling of Mechanical Motion | Physical Review Letters | 2007 | 957 |
| 16 | Demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor | Nature | 2009 | 923 |
| 17 | Bounds on universal extra dimensions | Physical Review D | 2001 | 875 |
| 18 | Order of Magnitude Smaller Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron | Science | 2014 | 820 |
| 19 | The role of default network deactivation in cognition and disease | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 2012 | 805 |
| 20 | Force Fluctuations in Bead Packs | Science | 1995 | 754 |
| 21 | The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2019 | 741 |
| 22 | Topological energy transfer in an optomechanical system with exceptional points | Nature | 2016 | 668 |
| 23 | The Bacterial Cytoplasm Has Glass-like Properties and Is Fluidized by Metabolic Activity | Cell | 2014 | 643 |
| 24 | Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm | Physical Review B | 2004 | 621 |
| 25 | Laser cooling of a diatomic molecule | Nature | 2010 | 620 |
| 26 | Quantum Theory of an Optical Maser. I. General Theory | Physical Review | 1967 | 615 |
| 27 | Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP | European Physical Journal C | 2006 | 592 |
| 28 | GALAXY STRUCTURE AND MODE OF STAR FORMATION IN THE SFR-MASS PLANE FROMz∼ 2.5 TOz∼ 0.1 | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 590 |
| 29 | Chiral Hierarchies and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents in Hypercolor | Physical Review Letters | 1986 | 546 |
| 30 | A 2 per cent distance toz= 0.35 by reconstructing baryon acoustic oscillations – I. Methods and application to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2012 | 543 |
| 31 | A universal gauge theory model based on E6 | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics | 1976 | 514 |
| 32 | Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists | Nature Human Behaviour | 2020 | 498 |
| 33 | Membrane Tension Maintains Cell Polarity by Confining Signals to the Leading Edge during Neutrophil Migration | Cell | 2012 | 490 |
| 34 | Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015 | European Physical Journal C | 2017 | 489 |
| 35 | Experimental Searches for the Axion and Axion-Like Particles | Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | 2015 | 486 |
| 36 | Realization of three-qubit quantum error correction with superconducting circuits | Nature | 2012 | 481 |
| 37 | Preparation and measurement of three-qubit entanglement in a superconducting circuit | Nature | 2010 | 476 |
| 38 | Optical Production of Ultracold Polar Molecules | Physical Review Letters | 2005 | 473 |
| 39 | Hierarchy of transcriptomic specialization across human cortex captured by structural neuroimaging topography | Nature Neuroscience | 2018 | 459 |
| 40 | Effective field theory of gravity for extended objects | Physical Review D | 2006 | 457 |
| 41 | Deterministically Encoding Quantum Information Using 100-Photon Schrödinger Cat States | Science | 2013 | 455 |
| 42 | Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at $$\sqrt{s}$$ s =13 TeV | European Physical Journal C | 2016 | 453 |
| 43 | Quantum phase transitions | Physics World | 1999 | 449 |
| 44 | Weak magnetism and non-Fermi liquids near heavy-fermion critical points | Physical Review B | 2004 | 440 |
| 45 | A MEASUREMENT OF THE DAMPING TAIL OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND POWER SPECTRUM WITH THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE | Astrophysical Journal | 2011 | 433 |
| 46 | Structure, function, and self-assembly of single network gyroid ( I 4 1 32) photonic crystals in butterfly wing scales | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 428 |
| 47 | Suppressing charge noise decoherence in superconducting charge qubits | Physical Review B | 2008 | 415 |
| 48 | Characterizing Thalamo-Cortical Disturbances in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Illness | Cerebral Cortex | 2014 | 415 |
| 49 | Klein-Gordon equation and rotating black holes | Physical Review D | 1980 | 408 |
| 50 | Solving the 3d Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap II. $$c$$ c -Minimization and Precise Critical Exponents | Journal of Statistical Physics | 2014 | 400 |
