Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2017 · 9,508 citations · Free PDF
2. Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Q uantum ESPRESSO
   P Giannozzi, O Andreussi et al. · 2017 · 7,824 citations · Free PDF
3. Software update: the ORCA program system, version 4.0
   Frank Neese · 2017 · 5,616 citations
4. Joint effect of ageing and multilayer structure prevents ordering in the voter model
   Oriol Artime, Juan Fernández-Gracia et al. · 2017 · 5,608 citations · Free PDF
5. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger *
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2017 · 3,943 citations · Free PDF
6. Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO
   Paolo Giannozzi, Oliviero Andreussi et al. · 2017 · 3,642 citations
7. Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2017 · 3,522 citations · Free PDF
8. The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample
   Shadab Alam, Metin Ata et al. · 2017 · 3,045 citations · Free PDF
9. The AME 2020 atomic mass evaluation (II). Tables, graphs and references*
   Meng Wang, G. Audi et al. · 2017 · 2,794 citations
10. GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
    B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2017 · 2,489 citations · Free PDF
11. Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals
    Narbe Mardirossian, Martin Head‐Gordon · 2017 · 2,312 citations
12. Solving the quantum many-body problem with artificial neural networks
    Giuseppe Carleo, Matthias Troyer · 2017 · 2,216 citations · Free PDF
13. GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
    B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2017 · 2,153 citations · Free PDF
14. A Robust and Accurate Tight-Binding Quantum Chemical Method for Structures, Vibrational Frequencies, and Noncovalent Interactions of Large Molecular Systems Parametrized for All spd-Block Elements ( Z = 1–86)
    Stefan Grimme, Christoph Bannwarth et al. · 2017 · 2,029 citations
15. Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model
    Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. · 2017 · 2,003 citations · Free PDF
16. Quantized electric multipole insulators
    Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Bogdan Andrei Bernevig et al. · 2017 · 1,966 citations · Free PDF
17. A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions
    Lars Goerigk, Andreas Hansen et al. · 2017 · 1,910 citations
18. Accurately extracting the signature of intermolecular interactions present in the NCI plot of the reduced density gradient versus electron density
    Corentin Lefebvre, Gaëtan Rubez et al. · 2017 · 1,844 citations
19. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
    Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. · 2017 · 1,827 citations · Free PDF
20. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)
    Steven R. Majewski, Ricardo Piorno Schiavon et al. · 2017 · 1,798 citations · Free PDF
21. P y SCF: the Python‐based simulations of chemistry framework
    Qiming Sun, Timothy C. Berkelbach et al. · 2017 · 1,746 citations · Free PDF
22. Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals
    Binghai Yan, Claudia Felser · 2017 · 1,742 citations · Free PDF
23. GaN-on-Si Power Technology: Devices and Applications
    Kevin Jing Chen, Oliver D. Häberlen et al. · 2017 · 1,716 citations
24. Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter
    Lam Hui, Jeremiah P. Ostriker et al. · 2017 · 1,706 citations · Free PDF
25. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
    Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. · 2017 · 1,705 citations · Free PDF

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