| The formation of massive stars from turbulent cores CF McKee, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 585 (2), 850, 2003 | 1267 | 2003 |
| Slow star formation in dense gas: evidence and implications MR Krumholz, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 654 (1), 304, 2007 | 767 | 2007 |
| The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III S Alam, FD Albareti, CA Prieto, F Anders, SF Anderson, T Anderton, ... The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 219 (1), 12, 2015 | 737 | 2015 |
| Massive star formation in 100,000 years from turbulent and pressurized molecular clouds CF McKee, JC Tan Nature 416 (6876), 59-61, 2002 | 487 | 2002 |
| Massive star formation JC Tan, MT Beltrán, P Caselli, F Fontani, MR Krumholz, CF McKee, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0919, 2014 | 469 | 2014 |
| A 100 pc elliptical and twisted ring of cold and dense molecular clouds revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center S Molinari, J Bally, A Noriega-Crespo, M Compiegne, JP Bernard, ... The Astrophysical journal letters 735 (2), L33, 2011 | 391 | 2011 |
| The formation of the first stars. II. Radiative feedback processes and implications for the initial mass function CF McKee, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 681 (2), 771, 2008 | 330 | 2008 |
| Star formation in disk galaxies. I. Formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds via gravitational instability and cloud collisions EJ Tasker, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 700 (1), 358, 2009 | 327 | 2009 |
| The formation of the first stars. I. Mass infall rates, accretion disk structure, and protostellar evolution JC Tan, CF McKee The Astrophysical Journal 603 (2), 383, 2004 | 303 | 2004 |
| Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies and Circumnuclear Starburstsfrom CloudCollisions JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 536 (1), 173, 2000 | 294 | 2000 |
| The formation of massive stars H Beuther, EB Churchwell, CF McKee, JC Tan arXiv preprint astro-ph/0602012, 2006 | 292 | 2006 |
| Protostars and Planets VI JC Tan, MT Beltrán, P Caselli, F Fontani, MR Krumholz, CF McKee, ... Univ. Arizona Press, 2014 | 288 | 2014 |
| Supermassive stars in quasar disks J Goodman, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 608 (1), 108, 2004 | 264 | 2004 |
| Trans-Relativistic Blast Waves in Supernovae asGamma-Ray Burst Progenitors JC Tan, CD Matzner, CF McKee The Astrophysical Journal 551 (2), 946, 2001 | 239 | 2001 |
| Collapse, outflows and fragmentation of massive, turbulent and magnetized prestellar barotropic cores P Hennebelle, B Commerçon, M Joos, RS Klessen, M Krumholz, JC Tan, ... Astronomy & Astrophysics 528, A72, 2011 | 225 | 2011 |
| Inside-out planet formation S Chatterjee, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 780 (1), 53, 2013 | 224 | 2013 |
| Equilibrium star cluster formation JC Tan, MR Krumholz, CF McKee The Astrophysical Journal 641 (2), L121, 2006 | 224 | 2006 |
| Magnetic fields in high-mass infrared dark clouds T Pillai, J Kauffmann, JC Tan, PF Goldsmith, SJ Carey, KM Menten The Astrophysical Journal 799 (1), 74, 2015 | 215 | 2015 |
| High-dynamic-range extinction mapping of infrared dark clouds-Dependence of density variance with sonic Mach number in molecular clouds J Kainulainen, JC Tan Astronomy & Astrophysics 549, A53, 2013 | 183 | 2013 |
| Mid-infrared extinction mapping of infrared dark clouds. ii. the structure of massive starless cores and clumps MJ Butler, JC Tan The Astrophysical Journal 754 (1), 5, 2012 | 180 | 2012 |
