Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2016, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2016, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2016 · 14,192 citations · Free PDF
2. Planck 2015 results
   Peter A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim et al. · 2016 · 10,599 citations · Free PDF
3. Review of Particle Physics
   K.A. Olive · 2016 · 7,365 citations
4. The Gaia mission
   T. Prusti, Jos H. J. de Bruijne et al. · 2016 · 6,958 citations · Free PDF
5. Planck 2015 results
   Peter A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim et al. · 2016 · 5,332 citations
6. Discovering governing equations from data by sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems
   Steven L. Brunton, Joshua L. Proctor et al. · 2016 · 4,794 citations · Free PDF
7. Recent developments in Geant4
   J. Allison, K. Amako et al. · 2016 · 4,198 citations
8. LOBSTER: A tool to extract chemical bonding from plane‐wave based DFT
   Stefan Maintz, Volker L. Deringer et al. · 2016 · 3,742 citations
9. GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2016 · 3,450 citations · Free PDF
10. Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments
    Clemens Bechinger, Roberto Di Leonardo et al. · 2016 · 2,978 citations · Free PDF
11. MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST). I. SOLAR-SCALED MODELS
    Jieun Choi, Aaron Dotter et al. · 2016 · 2,871 citations · Free PDF
12. Classification of topological quantum matter with symmetries
    Ching‐Kai Chiu, Jeffrey C. Y. Teo et al. · 2016 · 2,859 citations · Free PDF
13. Nine-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Parameter Results
    Wright, E. L. · 2016 · 2,616 citations
14. From quantum chaos and eigenstate thermalization to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
    Luca D'Alessio, Yariv Kafri et al. · 2016 · 2,332 citations · Free PDF
15. A bound on chaos
    JUAN M. MALDACENA, Stephen H. Shenker et al. · 2016 · 2,330 citations · Free PDF
16. A 2.4% DETERMINATION OF THE LOCAL VALUE OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT *
    Adam G. Riess, Lucas M. Macri et al. · 2016 · 2,257 citations · Free PDF
17. Gaia Data Release 1
    A. G. A. Brown, Antonella Vallenari et al. · 2016 · 2,107 citations · Free PDF
18. TianQin: a space-borne gravitational wave detector
    Jun Luo, Li-Sheng Chen et al. · 2016 · 2,053 citations · Free PDF
19. Planck 2015 results
    Peter A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim et al. · 2016 · 1,959 citations · Free PDF
20. Quantum spin liquids: a review
    Lucile Savary, Leon Balents · 2016 · 1,940 citations · Free PDF
21. MESA ISOCHRONES AND STELLAR TRACKS (MIST) 0: METHODS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STELLAR ISOCHRONES
    Aaron Dotter · 2016 · 1,932 citations · Free PDF
22. Remarks on the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model
    JUAN M. MALDACENA, Douglas Stanford · 2016 · 1,868 citations · Free PDF
23. Tests of General Relativity with GW150914
    B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2016 · 1,784 citations · Free PDF
24. Dual-comb spectroscopy
    Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury et al. · 2016 · 1,740 citations
25. Isotopic compositions of the elements 2013 (IUPAC Technical Report)
    Juris Meija, Tyler B. Coplen et al. · 2016 · 1,677 citations

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