Top Cited Articles of All Time (1998 edition) in astro-ph

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1998 edition) in astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1998 edition) in the astro-ph archive

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Wed 7-Mar-2007. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 280
    Reconstructing the linear power spectrum of cosmological mass fluctuations
    By J.A. Peacock (Royal Observ., Edinburgh), S.J. Dodds (Edinburgh U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.267:1020-1034,1994< /a> [arXiv: astro-ph/9311057]
    [515 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 242
    The Cold dark matter density perturbation
    By Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.231:1-105,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9303019]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 224
    Cold + hot dark matter cosmology with m (muon-neutrino) approximates m (tau-neutrino) approximates 2.4-eV
    By Joel R. Primack (UC, Santa Cruz), Jon Holtzman (Lowell Observ.), Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State U.), David O. Caldwell (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2160-2163,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9411020]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 212
    Four year COBE DMR cosmic microwave background observations: Maps and basic results
    By C.L. Bennett (NASA, Goddard), A. Banday, K.M. Gorski, G. Hinshaw, P. Jackson, P. Keegstra, A. Kogut (Hughes STX, Greenbelt), George F. Smoot (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley), D.T. Wilkinson (Princeton U.), E.L. Wright (UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.464:L1-L4,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9601067]
    [667 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 206
    Big bang nucleosynthesis and the baryon density of the universe
    By Craig J. Copi (Chicago U. & Fermilab), David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner (Chicago U. & Fermilab & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Science 267:192-199,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407006]
    [252 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 179
    The Cosmological baryon density from the deuterium abundance at a redshift z = 3.57
    By David Tytler, Xiao-ming Fan, Scott Burles (UC, San Diego).
    Published in:Nature 381:207-209,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9603069]
    [241 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 177
    Cosmic microwave background probes models of inflation
    By Richard L. Davis (Pennsylvania U.), Hardy M. Hodges (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), George F. Smoot (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.), Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.69:1856-1859,1992, Erratum-ibid.70:1733,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9207001]
    [193 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 176
    The Structure of cold dark matter halos
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:563-575,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9508025]
    [1200 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 172
    Structure formation with cold plus hot dark matter
    By Anatoly Klypin (Kansas U.), John Holtzman (Lowell Observ.), Joel Primack, Eniko Regos (UC, Santa Cruz).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.416:1-16,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9305011]
    [195 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 161
    Using the evolution of clusters to constrain Omega
    By Vincent R. Eke, Shaun Cole, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.282:263-280,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9601088]
    [612 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 161
    Spectroscopic confirmation of a population of normal star - forming galaxies at redshifts z > 3
    By Charles C. Steidel, Mauro Giavalisco, Max Pettini, Mark Dickinson, Kurt L. Adelberger (Palomar Observ. & Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Royal Greenwich Observ. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:L17,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9602024]
    [449 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 149
    The Density and peculiar velocity fields of nearby galaxies
    By Michael A. Strauss (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jeffrey A. Willick (Carnegie Inst. Observ.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.261:271-431,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9502079]
    [269 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 147
    False vacuum inflation with Einstein gravity
    By Edmund J. Copeland, Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.), Ewan D. Stewart (Kyoto U.), David Wands (Sussex U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6410-6433,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401011]
    [458 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 144
    COBE, gravitational waves, inflation and extended inflation
    By Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B291:391-398,1992 [arXiv: astro-ph/9208007]
    [227 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 142
    Hybrid inflation
    By Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:748-754,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9307002]
    [539 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 138
    Dynamics of cosmic flows
    By Avishai Dekel (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.32:371-418,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401022]
    [180 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 137
    The Hubble Deep Field: Observations, data reduction, and galaxy photometry
    By the HDF Team (Robert E. Williams et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.112:1335,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9607174]
    [530 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 134
    A Line of sight integration approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies
    By Uros Seljak (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.469:437-444,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9603033]
    [1023 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 134
    Cosmological parameter determination with microwave background maps
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U.), Arthur Kosowsky (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Harvard U.), David N. Spergel (Princeton U. & Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:1332-1344,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9512139]
    [293 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 132
    Cosmic temperature fluctuations from two years of COBE differential microwave radiometers observations
    By C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, G. Hinshaw, A.J. Banday, E.L. Wright, K. Gorski, D.T. Wilkinson, R. Weiss, George F. Smoot, S.S. Meyer, John C. Mather, P. Lubin, K. Loewenstein, C. Lineweaver, P. Keegstra, E. Kaita, P.D. Jackson, E.S. Cheng (NASA, Goddard & Universities Space Research Assoc. & UCLA & Princeton U. & MIT, LNS & LBL, Berkeley & Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr. & UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.436:423-442,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9401012]
    [174 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 129
    The MACHO project LMC microlensing results from the first two years and the nature of the galactic dark halo
    By MACHO Collaboration (C. Alcock et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.486:697-726,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9606165]
    [270 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 126
    Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe and its cosmological implications
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Nature 391:51-54,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9712212]
    [781 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 118
    The Four year COBE normalization and large scale structure
    By Emory F. Bunn (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.), Martin J. White (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.480:6-21,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9607060]
    [378 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 118
    The Canada-France Redshift Survey. 6. Evolution of the galaxy luminosity function to Z 1
    By S.J. Lilly, L. Tresse, F. Hammer, David Crampton, Olivier Le Fevre.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.455:108,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9507079]
    [301 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 117
    The Cluster abundance in flat and open cosmologies
    By Pedro T.P. Viana, Andrew R. Liddle (Sussex U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.281:323,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9511007]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 110
    The Canada-France Redshift Survey. 13. The Luminosity density and star-formation history of the Universe to z ~ 1
    By S.J. Lilly (Toronto U., Astron. Dept.), Olivier Le Fevre, F. Hammer (Meudon Observ.), David Crampton (NRC-HIA, Victoria).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.460:L1,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9601050]
    [488 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 108
    Is there a cosmological constant?
    By Christopher S. Kochanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.466:638,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9510077]
    [267 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 105
    How many solar neutrino experiments are wrong?
    By John N. Bahcall (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B338:276-281,1994, Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.38:98-103,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407048]
    [126 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 100
    The Last three minutes: issues in gravitational wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries
    By Curt Cutler, Theocharis A. Apostolatos, Lars Bildsten (Caltech), Lee Samuel Finn (Northwestern U.), Eanna E. Flanagan, Daniel Kennefick, Dragoljubov M. Markovic, Amos Ori, Eric Poisson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Kip S. Thorne (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.70:2984-2987,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9208005]
    [204 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 98
    Merger rates in hierarchical models of galaxy formation. 2. Comparison with N body simulations
    By Cedric G. Lacey (Oxford U.), Shaun Cole (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.271:676,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402069]
    [300 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 95
    A Recipe for galaxy formation
    By Shaun Cole, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Carlos S. Frenk, Julio F. Navarro, Stephen E. Zepf (Durham U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.271:781,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9402001]
    [336 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 95
    The optical depth to gravitational microlensing in the direction of the galactic bulge
    By A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, K.Z. Stanek, J. Kaluzny, M. Kubiak, M. Mateo, W. Krzeminski, B. Paczynski, R. Venkat (Warsaw U. Observ. & Princeton U. Observ. & Michigan U. & Las Campanas Observ. & Case Western Reserve U.).
    Published in:Acta Astron.44:165-189,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9407014]
    [145 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 94
    Gamma-ray bursts as the death throes of massive binary stars
    By Ramesh Narayan (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton U. Observ.), Tsvi Piran (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.395:L83-L86,1992 [arXiv: astro-ph/9204001]
    [276 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 93
    Microwave background constraints on cosmological parameters
    By Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT, LNS), David N. Spergel (Princeton U.), Uros Seljak (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.488:1-13,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9702157]
    [275 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 92
    Measurements of the cosmological parameters Omega and Lambda from the first 7 supernovae at z>=0.35
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.483:565,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9608192]
    [565 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 92
    Measuring cosmological parameters with cosmic microwave background experiments
    By J.Richard Bond (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Robert Crittenden, Richard L. Davis (Pennsylvania U.), George Efstathiou (Oxford U.), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.72:13-16,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9309041]
    [120 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 91
    Cosmic background anistropies in CDM cosmology
    By Naoshi Sugiyama (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Tokyo U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.100:281,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9412025]
    [240 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 91
    Using SN-Ia light curve shapes to measure the Hubble constant
    By Adam G. Riess, William H. Press, Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.438:L17-20,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9410054]
    [173 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 91
    Autofib redshift survey. 1. Evolution of the galaxy luminosity function
    By Richard S. Ellis (Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.), Matthew Colless (Res. Sch. Astron. Astrophys., Weston Creek), Thomas J. Broadhurst (Johns Hopkins U.), Jeremy Heyl, Karl Glazebrook (Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.280:235,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9512057]
    [227 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 91
    Experimental limits on the dark matter halo of the galaxy from gravitational microlensing
    By MACHO Collaboration (C. Alcock et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2867-2871,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9501091]
    [117 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 91
    Assessing big bang nucleosynthesis
    By Craig J. Copi (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab), David N. Schramm, Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., EFI & Fermilab & Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:3981-3984,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9508029]
    [111 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 89
    Advection dominated accretion: A Selfsimilar solution
    By Ramesh Narayan, In-su Yi (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.428:L13,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9403052]
    [439 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 87
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805201]
    [3064 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 87
    Simulations of x-ray clusters
    By Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.275:720-740,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9408069]
    [338 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 85
    The Cosmic Microwave Background spectrum from the full COBE FIRAS data set
    By D.J. Fixsen, E.S. Cheng, J.M. Gales, John C. Mather, R.A. Shafer (NASA, Goddard), E.L. Wright (UCLA).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.473:576,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9605054]
    [311 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 85
    Constraints on neutrino oscillations from big bang nucleosynthesis
    By X. Shi (Chicago U.), D.N. Schramm (Chicago U. & Fermilab), B.D. Fields (Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:2563-2572,1993 [arXiv: astro-ph/9307027]
    [143 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 84
    Unified schemes for radio-loud active galactic nuclei
    By C.Megan Urry (Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci.), Paolo Padovani (Rome U.,Tor Vergata).
    Published in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.107:803,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9506063]
    [547 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 84
    Gravitational collapse of small scale structure as the origin of the Lyman alpha forest
    By Ren-yue Cen (Princeton U. Observ.), Jordi Miralda-Escude (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton U. Observ.), Michael Rauch (Carnegie Inst. Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.437:L9,1994 [arXiv: astro-ph/9409017]
    [219 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 84
    From microwave anisotropies to cosmology
    By Douglas Scott, Joseph Silk, Martin J. White (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Science 268:829-835,1995 [arXiv: astro-ph/9505015]
    [115 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 84
    Optical and long wavelength afterglow from gamma-ray bursts
    By P. Meszaros, M.J. Rees.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.476:232-237,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9606043]
    [317 Total citations in HEP]