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Over the next week, we're going to be looking back at the most cited #MNRAS papers of the decade 🏆 Together they've been cited nearly 10,000 times!

🔟 The 10th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes by Michael Boylan-Kolchin @MBKplus et al
doi.org/10.1111/j.1745…
#astronomy #MilkyWay

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals 9⃣ The 9th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: E pur si muove: Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh by Volker Springel of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #cosmology

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube 8⃣ The 8th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology by Qi Guo et al. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #galaxies #Cosmology

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics 7⃣ The 7th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: Local kinematics and the local standard of rest by Ralph Schönrich, James Binney and Walter Dehnen 🌠
doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #astronomy

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks 6⃣ The 6th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples by Lauren Anderson et al doi.org/10.1093/mnras/… #SDSS #galaxies

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory 5⃣ The 5th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe by Mark Vogelsberger et al.
doi.org/10.1093/mnras/… #DarkMatter

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory @mvogelsb @MIT @CenterForAstro @HITStudies 4⃣ The 4th most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: The 6dF Galaxy Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations and the local Hubble constant by Florian Beutler et al. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #Hubble

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory @mvogelsb @MIT @CenterForAstro @HITStudies @uwanews @Swinburne @AAOMacquarie 3⃣ The 3rd most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: The EAGLE project: simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments by Joop Schaye et al. doi.org/10.1093/mnras/… #galaxies

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory @mvogelsb @MIT @CenterForAstro @HITStudies @uwanews @Swinburne @AAOMacquarie @UniLeidenNews @DarkerMatters 2⃣ The 2nd most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample by Will J. Percival et al. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #SDSS #astronomy

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory @mvogelsb @MIT @CenterForAstro @HITStudies @uwanews @Swinburne @AAOMacquarie @UniLeidenNews @DarkerMatters @UoPCosmology @Princeton @azstewobs 1⃣🏆 The most cited #MNRAS paper of the decade was: PARSEC: stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code by Alessandro Bressan et al. 🏆 doi.org/10.1111/j.1365… #astronomy #PARSEC

@MBKplus @RoyalAstroSoc @OxfordJournals @kim_clube @DurhamPhysics @OxfordSparks @EricAubourg @uwastronomy @APC_Laboratory @mvogelsb @MIT @CenterForAstro @HITStudies @uwanews @Swinburne @AAOMacquarie @UniLeidenNews @DarkerMatters @UoPCosmology @Princeton @azstewobs @lucywimss @leo_girardi_ @Sissaschool Bonus! You can access the #MNRAS articles with the highest #Altmetric scores in 2019 for free until June 30th this year:
academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/al… 🔢🏆🆓