Pulsars and neutron stars/Key discoveries and the literature

Key discoveries

Date	Discovery	Reference
Nov 28th 1967	First pulsar discovered
1968	Discovery of Crab pulsar
1974	First pulsar in binary system (PSR B1913+16)
1982	Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar (PSR B1937+21)
1992	Discovery of the first extra-Solar planets (around PSR B1257+12)
2003	Discovery of the first double pulsar system

Top cited papers each year

The following has been obtained from ADS by searching for the word "pulsar" in the abstract for papers in a given year. We list the top two cited papers for each year. Note that it is likely that this "ranking" may change for publications in recent years.

Year	Reference	Title
2014	Will Olausen & Kaspi	The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment The McGill Magnetar Catalog
2013	Antoniadis et al. Abdo et al.	A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars
2012	Profumo Abazajian & Kaplinghat	Dissecting cosmic-ray electron-positron data with Occam's razor: the role of known pulsars Detection of a gamma-ray source in the Galactic Center consistent with extended emission from dark matter annihilation and concentrated astrophysical emission
2011	Uzan van Haasteren et al.	Varying Constants, Gravitation and Cosmology Placing limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background using European Pulsar Timing Array data
2010	Demorest et al. Abadie et al.	A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay TOPICAL REVIEW: Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
2009	Abdo et al. Hooper, Balsi & Dario Serpico	Fermi/Large Area Telescope Bright Gamma-Ray Source List Pulsars as the sources of high energy cosmic ray positrons
2008	Chang et al. Mereghetti	An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300-800GeV The strongest cosmic magnets: soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars
2007	Lattimer & Prakash Lorimer et al.	Neutron star observations: Prognosis for equation of state constraints A Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin
2006	Will Woosley & Heger	The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment The Progenitor Stars of Gamma-Ray Bursts
2005	Manchester et al. Hobbs et al.	The Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar Catalogue A statistical study of 233 pulsar proper motions
2004	Lattimer & Prakash Lyne et al.	The Physics of Neutron Stars A Double-Pulsar System: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics
2003	Burgay et al. Chakrabarty et al.	An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic system Nuclear-powered millisecond pulsars and the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars
2002	Cordes & Lazio Sarangi & Tye	NE2001.I. A New Model for the Galactic Distribution of Free Electrons and its Fluctuations Cosmic string production towards the end of brane inflation
2001	Manchester et al. Will	The Parkes multi-beam pulsar survey - I. Observing and data analysis systems, discovery and timing of 100 pulsars The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
2000	van der Klis Maeder & Meynet	Millisecond Oscillations in X-ray binaries The evolution of rotating stars
1999	Hartman et al. Thorsett & Chakrabarty	The Third EGRET Catalog of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources Neutron Star Mass Measurements. I. Radio Pulsars
1998	Kouveliotou et al.	An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806 - 20
1997	Bildsten et al. Becker & Truemper	Observations of Accreting Pulsars The X-ray luminosity of rotation-powered neutron stars
1996	Thompson & Duncan Romani	The Soft Gamma Repeaters as Very Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars. II. Quiescent Neutrino, X-Ray, and Alfven Wave Emission Gamma-Ray Pulsars: Radiation Processes in the Outer Magnetosphere
1995	Thompson & Duncan Burrows, Hayes & Fryxell	The soft gamma repeaters as very strongly magnetized neutron stars - I. Radiative mechanism for outbursts On the Nature of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
1994	Lyne & Lorimer Kaspi, Taylor & Ryba	High birth velocities of radio pulsars High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars. 3: Long-term monitoring of PSRs B1855+09 and B1937+21
1993	Taylor & Cordes Taylor, Manchester & Lyne ]	Pulsar distances and the galactic distribution of free electrons Catalog of 558 pulsars
1992	Duncan & Thompson Wolszczan & Frail	Formation of very strongly magnetized neutron stars - Implications for gamma-ray bursts A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12
1991	Bhattacharya & van den Heuvel Phinney	Formation and evolution of binary and millisecond radio pulsars The rate of neutron star binary mergers in the universe - Minimal predictions for gravity wave detectors
1990	Rickett Coroniti	Radio propagation through the turbulent interstellar plasma Magnetically striped relativistic magnetohydrodynamic winds - The Crab Nebula revisited
1989	Eichler et al. Taylor & Weisberg	Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and gamma-rays from coalescing neutron stars Further experimental tests of relativistic gravity using the binary pulsar PSR 1913 + 16
1987	Dewey & Cordes Lyne et al.	Monte Carlo simulations of radio pulsars and their progenitors The discovery of a millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M28
1986	Chen, Ho & Ruderman Chen, Ho & Ruderman	Energetic radiation from rapidly spinning pulsars. I - Outer magnetosphere gaps. II - VELA and Crab Energetic Radiation from Rapidly Spinning Pulsars. II. VELA and Crab
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1977	Rickett Flowers & Ruderman	Interstellar scattering and scintillation of radio waves Evolution of pulsar magnetic fields
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1974	Rees & Gunn Manchester	The origin of the magnetic field and relativistic particles in the Crab Nebula Structure of the Local Galactic Magnetic Field
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1970	Gunn & Ostriker Shklovskii	On the Nature of Pulsars. III. Analysis of Observations Possible Causes of the Secular Increase in Pulsar Periods
1969	Goldreich & Julian Ostriker & Gunn	Pulsar Electrodynamics On the Nature of Pulsars. I. Theory
1968	Pacini Large, Vaughan, Mills	Rotating Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Supernova Remnants A Pulsar Supernova Association?