# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2963002078) · 5,974 citations · Free PDF
2. [Software update: The ORCA program system—Version 5.0](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220694746) · 4,964 citations
3. [Gaia Data Release 3](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4281694390) · 4,179 citations · Free PDF
4. [Independent gradient model based on Hirshfeld partition: A new method for visual study of interactions in chemical systems](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4210370823) · 3,945 citations
5. [Scientific Machine Learning Through Physics–Informed Neural Networks: Where we are and What’s Next](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4288039037) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4286702585) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280589633) · 1,847 citations · Free PDF
8. [First-principles Phonon Calculations with Phonopy and Phono3py](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4310714033) · 1,839 citations
9. [The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4282961335) · 1,347 citations · Free PDF
10. [Emerging Research Landscape of Altermagnetism](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4311892900) · 1,209 citations · Free PDF
11. [Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3165898284) · 1,126 citations · Free PDF
12. [CASA, the Common Astronomy Software Applications for Radio Astronomy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4303439025) · 1,114 citations · Free PDF
13. [The ITensor Software Library for Tensor Network Calculations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3045710579) · 1,079 citations · Free PDF
14. [Beyond Conventional Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism: A Phase with Nonrelativistic Spin and Crystal Rotation Symmetry](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4297014776) · 1,077 citations · Free PDF
15. [The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4306850861) · 948 citations · Free PDF
16. [A comprehensive guide to the physics and usage of PYTHIA 8.3](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4308821586) · 894 citations
17. [Best‐Practice DFT Protocols for Basic Molecular Computational Chemistry**](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4295779282) · 890 citations
18. [Integrating Scientific Knowledge with Machine Learning for Engineering and Environmental Systems](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3185585276) · 821 citations · Free PDF
19. [Replica wormholes and the black hole interior](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2991561483) · 789 citations · Free PDF
20. [Magnetic control of tokamak plasmas through deep reinforcement learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4213377513) · 742 citations · Free PDF
21. [The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4210274399) · 671 citations · Free PDF
22. [First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. Testing the Black Hole Metric](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4280631862) · 668 citations · Free PDF
23. [Applications of Physics-Informed Neural Networks in Power Systems - A Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4220699563) · 622 citations
24. [Towards higher-dimensional structured light](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4283803826) · 619 citations · Free PDF
25. [Quantum magnonics: When magnon spintronics meets quantum information science](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3217066553) · 615 citations · Free PDF

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