Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Gaia Data Release 2
   A. G. A. Brown, Antonella Vallenari et al. · 2018 · 8,461 citations · Free PDF
2. Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer
   Maksim Kunitski, Nicolas Eicke et al. · 2018 · 8,178 citations · Free PDF
3. Review of Particle Physics
   Masaharu Tanabashi, K. Hagiwara et al. · 2018 · 7,138 citations
4. Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids
   N. P. Armitage, E. J. Melé et al. · 2018 · 4,535 citations · Free PDF
5. Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions
   Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg et al. · 2018 · 3,756 citations · Free PDF
6. The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample
   Daniel M. Scolnic, D. O. Jones et al. · 2018 · 2,718 citations · Free PDF
7. Antiferromagnetic spintronics
   V. Baltz, Aurélien Manchon et al. · 2018 · 2,715 citations · Free PDF
8. Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions
   Price-Whelan, A., Hogg, D. et al. · 2018 · 2,582 citations
9. GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State
   B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2018 · 2,417 citations · Free PDF
10. Edge States and Topological Invariants of Non-Hermitian Systems
    Shunyu Yao, Zhong Wang · 2018 · 2,213 citations · Free PDF
11. Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( ): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions
    Bill Paxton, Josiah Schwab et al. · 2018 · 2,121 citations · Free PDF
12. The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
    Eric C. Bellm, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni et al. · 2018 · 2,070 citations · Free PDF
13. Gaia Data Release 2
    L. Lindegren, Jesús Hernández et al. · 2018 · 1,979 citations · Free PDF
14. Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators
    Tobias J. Kippenberg, Alexander L. Gaeta et al. · 2018 · 1,845 citations
15. Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T
    Elena Aprile, J. Aalbers et al. · 2018 · 1,817 citations · Free PDF
16. Estimating Distance from Parallaxes. IV. Distances to 1.33 Billion Stars in Gaia Data Release 2
    C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, J. Rybizki et al. · 2018 · 1,792 citations · Free PDF
17. Solving high-dimensional partial differential equations using deep learning
    Jiequn Han, Arnulf Jentzen et al. · 2018 · 1,774 citations · Free PDF
18. Quantum‐mechanical condensed matter simulations with CRYSTAL
    Roberto Dovesi, Alessandro Erba et al. · 2018 · 1,754 citations
19. Higher-order topological insulators
    Frank Schindler, Ashley M. Cook et al. · 2018 · 1,626 citations · Free PDF
20. Search for new physics with atoms and molecules
    Marianna S. Safronova, Dmitry Budker et al. · 2018 · 1,567 citations · Free PDF
21. Topological Phases of Non-Hermitian Systems
    Zongping Gong, Yuto Ashida et al. · 2018 · 1,467 citations · Free PDF
22. Deep learning for universal linear embeddings of nonlinear dynamics
    Bethany Lusch, J. Nathan Kutz et al. · 2018 · 1,452 citations · Free PDF
23. Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition and its relationship to dynamic mode decomposition and resolvent analysis
    Aaron Towne, Oliver T. Schmidt et al. · 2018 · 1,436 citations · Free PDF
24. Topological insulator laser: Experiments
    Miguel A. Bandres, Steffen Wittek et al. · 2018 · 1,364 citations
25. Hadronic molecules
    Feng-Kun Guo, C. Hanhart et al. · 2018 · 1,350 citations · Free PDF

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