Most-cited Physics and Astronomy papers of 2023, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Physics and Astronomy research papers published in 2023, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
   R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · 2023 · 1,758 citations · Free PDF
2. MadGraph 5 : Going Beyond
   Johan Alwall · 2023 · 1,654 citations
3. The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background
   Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi et al. · 2023 · 1,471 citations · Free PDF
4. Implementation strategies in phonopy and phono3py
   Atsushi Togo, Laurent Chaput et al. · 2023 · 1,341 citations · Free PDF
5. Search for an Isotropic Gravitational-wave Background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
   Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic et al. · 2023 · 1,158 citations · Free PDF
6. Searching for the Nano-Hertz Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I
   Heng Xu, Siyuan Chen et al. · 2023 · 1,119 citations · Free PDF
7. The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array
   John Antoniadis, P. Arumugam et al. · 2023 · 1,043 citations · Free PDF
8. Population of Merging Compact Binaries Inferred Using Gravitational Waves through GWTC-3
   R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · 2023 · 890 citations · Free PDF
9. The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics
   Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie et al. · 2023 · 750 citations · Free PDF
10. Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A ∗
    Sunny Vagnozzi, Rittick Roy et al. · 2023 · 743 citations · Free PDF
11. Semiconductor spin qubits
    Guido Burkard, Thaddeus D. Ladd et al. · 2023 · 715 citations · Free PDF
12. First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment
    J. Aalbers, D. S. Akerib et al. · 2023 · 693 citations · Free PDF
13. Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum
    Andreas Boes, Lin Chang et al. · 2023 · 663 citations
14. Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
    Pau Amaro‐Seoane, Jeff J. Andrews et al. · 2023 · 609 citations
15. Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure
    Adam S. Jermyn, Evan B. Bauer et al. · 2023 · 599 citations · Free PDF
16. Simple, Efficient, and Universal Energy Decomposition Analysis Method Based on Dispersion-Corrected Density Functional Theory
    Tian Lu, Qinxue Chen · 2023 · 549 citations
17. A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre-reionization Epoch
    Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi et al. · 2023 · 539 citations · Free PDF
18. CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST
    Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley et al. · 2023 · 536 citations · Free PDF
19. High-fidelity parallel entangling gates on a neutral-atom quantum computer
    Simon J. Evered, Dolev Bluvstein et al. · 2023 · 515 citations · Free PDF
20. Quantum Size Effect in Three-Dimensional Microscopic Semiconductor Crystals
    A. I. Ekimov, Aleksei A. Onushchenko · 2023 · 514 citations · Free PDF
21. Colloquium : Quantum anomalous Hall effect
    Cui‐Zu Chang, Chao‐Xing Liu et al. · 2023 · 509 citations · Free PDF
22. The James Webb Space Telescope Mission
    Jonathan P. Gardner, John C. Mather et al. · 2023 · 503 citations · Free PDF
23. A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z = 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH ∼ 106–108 M ⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties
    Yuichi Harikane, Yechi Zhang et al. · 2023 · 492 citations · Free PDF
24. The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning
    Jane R. Rigby, Marshall D. Perrin et al. · 2023 · 441 citations · Free PDF
25. Stability, Reliability, and Robustness of GaN Power Devices: A Review
    Joseph P. Kozak, Ruizhe Zhang et al. · 2023 · 435 citations

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