Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Radiation Resistant Camera System for Monitoring Deuterium Plasma Discharges in the Large Helical Device
   M. Shoji, LHD Experiment Group · 2020 · 801,217 citations · Free PDF
2. Planck 2018 results
   N. Aghanim, Y. Akrami et al. · 2020 · 14,259 citations · Free PDF
3. The ORCA quantum chemistry program package
   Frank Neese, Frank Wennmohs et al. · 2020 · 5,237 citations
4. Review of Particle Physics
   Particle Data Group, P. Żyła et al. · 2020 · 5,106 citations
5. CP2K: An electronic structure and molecular dynamics software package - Quickstep: Efficient and accurate electronic structure calculations
   Thomas D. Kühne, Marcella Iannuzzi et al. · 2020 · 4,446 citations · Free PDF
6. Gaia Early Data Release 3
   A. G. A. Brown, Antonella Vallenari et al. · 2020 · 3,932 citations · Free PDF
7. WIEN2k: An APW+lo program for calculating the properties of solids
   Peter Blaha, Karlheinz Schwarz et al. · 2020 · 2,709 citations
8. Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods
   Philipp Pracht, Fabian Bohle et al. · 2020 · 2,377 citations
9. Hidden fluid mechanics: Learning velocity and pressure fields from flow visualizations
   Maziar Raissi, Alireza Z. K. Yazdani et al. · 2020 · 2,137 citations
10. GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
    R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · 2020 · 1,824 citations · Free PDF
11. Non-Hermitian physics
    Yuto Ashida, Zongping Gong et al. · 2020 · 1,788 citations · Free PDF
12. Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi 2 Te 4
    Yujun Deng, Yijun Yu et al. · 2020 · 1,684 citations · Free PDF
13. Extended tight‐binding quantum chemistry methods
    Christoph Bannwarth, Eike Caldeweyher et al. · 2020 · 1,668 citations
14. GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M ⊙
    B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott et al. · 2020 · 1,611 citations · Free PDF
15. Networks beyond pairwise interactions: Structure and dynamics
    Federico Battiston, Giulia Cencetti et al. · 2020 · 1,603 citations · Free PDF
16. LOBSTER : Local orbital projections, atomic charges, and chemical‐bonding analysis from projector‐augmented‐wave‐based density‐functional theory
    Ryky Nelson, Christina Ertural et al. · 2020 · 1,592 citations
17. Review on spintronics: Principles and device applications
    Atsufumi Hirohata, K. Yamada et al. · 2020 · 1,498 citations
18. Recent developments in the general atomic and molecular electronic structure system
    Giuseppe M. J. Barca, Colleen Bertoni et al. · 2020 · 1,449 citations
19. The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
    Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto et al. · 2020 · 1,419 citations · Free PDF
20. Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives
    Yuge Huang, En‐Lin Hsiang et al. · 2020 · 1,406 citations · Free PDF
21. Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog
    S. Abdollahi, F. Acero et al. · 2020 · 1,351 citations · Free PDF
22. Accurate and Numerically Efficient r2SCAN Meta-Generalized Gradient Approximation
    James W. Furness, Aaron D. Kaplan et al. · 2020 · 1,328 citations · Free PDF
23. Topological Origin of Non-Hermitian Skin Effects
    Nobuyuki Ōkuma, Kohei Kawabata et al. · 2020 · 1,239 citations · Free PDF
24. Science case for the Einstein telescope
    Michele Maggiore, Chris Van Den Broeck et al. · 2020 · 1,233 citations · Free PDF
25. Recent developments in the P y SCF program package
    Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang et al. · 2020 · 1,233 citations · Free PDF

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