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Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Living Reviews in Relativity 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
ISSN1433-8351
Citation impact (2-yr)27.67
h-index112
i10-index183
Total citations64,116
Open accessYes
Top institutions publishing hereMax Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Journal websiterelativity.livingreviews.org
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Papers published in Living Reviews in Relativity per year

7
2014
3
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3
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7
2017
8
2018
6
2019
4
2020
4
2021
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2022
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Citation impact of Living Reviews in Relativity by publication year

8.1K
2014
258
2015
784
2016
1.7K
2017
3.4K
2018
1.8K
2019
375
2020
462
2021
442
2022
633
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230
2024
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Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Living Reviews in Relativity

The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment

Clifford M. Will · 11 Jun 2014

The status of experimental tests of general relativity and of theoretical frameworks for analyzing them is reviewed. Einstein's equivalence principle (EEP) is well supported by experiments such as the Eötvös experiment, tests of special relativity, and the gravitational redshift experiment. Ongoing tests of EEP and of the inverse square law are searching for new interactions…

3,895 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
f(R) Theories

Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa · 23 Jun 2010

Over the past decade, f (R) theories have been extensively studied as one of the simplest modifications to General Relativity. In this article we review various applications of f (R) theories to cosmology and gravity -such as inflation, dark energy, local gravity constraints, cosmological perturbations, and spherically symmetric solutions in weak and strong gravitational backgrounds.…

3,846 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Cosmological Constant

Sean M. Carroll · 7 Feb 2001

This is a review of the physics and cosmology of the cosmological constant. Focusing on recent developments, I present a pedagogical overview of cosmology in the presence of a cosmological constant, observational constraints on its magnitude, and the physics of a small (and potentially nonzero) vacuum energy.

2,588 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Gravitational Radiation from Post-Newtonian Sources and Inspiralling Compact Binaries

Luc Blanchet · 13 Feb 2014

LISA, etc.), inspiralling compact binaries - binary star systems composed of neutron stars and/or black holes in their late stage of evolution - require high-accuracy templates predicted by general relativity theory. The gravitational waves emitted by these very relativistic systems can be accurately modelled using a high-order post-Newtonian gravitational wave generation formalism. In this article,…

2,250 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Quasi-Normal Modes of Stars and Black Holes

Kostas D. Kokkotas, Bernd G. Schmidt · 16 Sep 1999

Perturbations of stars and black holes have been one of the main topics of relativistic astrophysics for the last few decades. They are of particular importance today, because of their relevance to gravitational wave astronomy. In this review we present the theory of quasi-normal modes of compact objects from both the mathematical and astrophysical points…

2,019 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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