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Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Astrophysical Journal Letters

2041-8205

Published by: IOP Publishing

https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 6 1251 1924 100

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1515
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2072
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 51
SCIMAGO H-index: 212
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.713
Impact Factor: 11.7

Top Publications

  • 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

    (2021)
    1929 Citations
  • First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

    (2023)
    1603 Citations
  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background

    (2023)
    1195 Citations
  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

    (2020)
    1102 Citations
  • Search for an Isotropic Gravitational-wave Background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

    (2023)
    985 Citations
  • GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

    (2020)
    939 Citations
  • The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data

    M. C. Miller;F. K. Lamb;A. J. Dittmann;S. Bogdanov

    (2021)
    889 Citations
  • Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

    (2021)
    866 Citations
  • A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy

    Thomas E. Riley;Anna L. Watts;Paul S. Ray;Slavko Bogdanov

    (2021)
    853 Citations
  • The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

    (2023)
    683 Citations

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