Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2022, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2022, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Review of Particle Physics
   Particle Data Group, Ronald Workman et al. · 2022 · 5,974 citations · Free PDF
2. Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0
   Frank Neese · 2022 · 4,964 citations
3. Gaia Data Release 3
   Antonella Vallenari, A. G. A. Brown et al. · 2022 · 4,179 citations · Free PDF
4. Independent gradient model based on Hirshfeld partition: A new method for visual study of interactions in chemical systems
   Tian Lu, Qinxue Chen · 2022 · 3,945 citations
5. Scientific Machine Learning Through Physics–Informed Neural Networks: Where we are and What’s Next
   Salvatore Cuomo, Vincenzo Schiano Di Cola et al. · 2022 · 2,773 citations · Free PDF
6. A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km s −1 Mpc −1 Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team
   Adam G. Riess, Wenlong Yuan et al. · 2022 · 2,370 citations · Free PDF
7. First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
   Kazunori Akiyama, Antonio José Alberdi et al. · 2022 · 1,847 citations · Free PDF
8. First-principles Phonon Calculations with Phonopy and Phono3py
   Atsushi Togo · 2022 · 1,839 citations
9. The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints
   Dillon Brout, Daniel M. Scolnic et al. · 2022 · 1,347 citations · Free PDF
10. Emerging Research Landscape of Altermagnetism
    Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova et al. · 2022 · 1,209 citations · Free PDF
11. Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing
    T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena et al. · 2022 · 1,126 citations · Free PDF
12. CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy
    The CASA Team, Ben Bean et al. · 2022 · 1,114 citations · Free PDF
13. The ITensor Software Library for Tensor Network Calculations
    Matthew Fishman, Steven R. White et al. · 2022 · 1,079 citations · Free PDF
14. Beyond Conventional Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism: A Phase with Nonrelativistic Spin and Crystal Rotation Symmetry
    Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova et al. · 2022 · 1,077 citations · Free PDF
15. The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release
    Daniel M. Scolnic, Dillon Brout et al. · 2022 · 948 citations · Free PDF
16. A comprehensive guide to the physics and usage of PYTHIA 8.3
    Christian Bierlich, Smita Chakraborty et al. · 2022 · 894 citations
17. Best‐Practice DFT Protocols for Basic Molecular Computational Chemistry**
    Markus Bursch, Jan‐Michael Mewes et al. · 2022 · 890 citations
18. Integrating Scientific Knowledge with Machine Learning for Engineering and Environmental Systems
    Jared Willard, Xiaowei Jia et al. · 2022 · 821 citations · Free PDF
19. Replica wormholes and the black hole interior
    Geoff Penington, Stephen H. Shenker et al. · 2022 · 789 citations · Free PDF
20. Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning
    Jonas Degrave, Federico Felici et al. · 2022 · 742 citations · Free PDF
21. The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope
    P. Jakobsen, Pierre Ferruit et al. · 2022 · 671 citations · Free PDF
22. First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. Testing the Black Hole Metric
    Kazunori Akiyama, Antonio José Alberdi et al. · 2022 · 668 citations · Free PDF
23. Applications of Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Power Systems - A Review
    Bin Huang, Jianhui Wang · 2022 · 622 citations
24. Towards higher-dimensional structured light
    Chao He, Yijie Shen et al. · 2022 · 619 citations · Free PDF
25. Quantum magnonics: When magnon spintronics meets quantum information science
    H. Y. Yuan, Yunshan Cao et al. · 2022 · 615 citations · Free PDF

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