| Formation of massive black holes through runaway collisions in dense young star clusters SF Portegies Zwart, H Baumgardt, P Hut, J Makino, SLW McMillan Nature 428 (6984), 724-726, 2004 | 924 | 2004 |
| Dynamical evolution of star clusters in tidal fields H Baumgardt, J Makino Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 340 (1), 227-246, 2003 | 902 | 2003 |
| On a Hermite integrator with Ahmad-Cohen scheme for gravitational many-body problems J Makino, SJ Aarseth Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 44 (2), 141-151, 1992 | 610 | 1992 |
| A special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body problems D Sugimoto, Y Chikada, J Makino, T Ito, T Ebisuzaki, M Umemura Nature 345 (6270), 33-35, 1990 | 506 | 1990 |
| Missing link found? The “runaway” path to supermassive black holes T Ebisuzaki, J Makino, TG Tsuru, Y Funato, SP Zwart, P Hut, S McMillan, ... The Astrophysical Journal 562 (1), L19, 2001 | 471 | 2001 |
| Star cluster ecology—IV. Dissection of an open star cluster: photometry SF Portegies Zwart, SLW McMillan, P Hut, J Makino Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 321 (2), 199-226, 2001 | 457 | 2001 |
| Dynamical formation of close binary systems in globular clusters D Pooley, WHG Lewin, SF Anderson, H Baumgardt, AV Filippenko, ... The Astrophysical Journal 591 (2), L131, 2003 | 439 | 2003 |
| Star cluster ecology. III. Runaway collisions in young compact star clusters SF Portegies Zwart, J Makino, SLW McMillan, P Hut Astronomy and Astrophysics, v. 348, p. 117-126 (1999) 348, 117-126, 1999 | 436 | 1999 |
| Scattering of planetesimals by a protoplanet: Slowing down of runaway growth S Ida, J Makino Icarus 106 (1), 210-227, 1993 | 416 | 1993 |
| On the origin of cusps in dark matter halos T Fukushige, J Makino The Astrophysical Journal 477 (1), L9, 1997 | 355 | 1997 |
| Optimal order and time-step criterion for Aarseth-type N-body integrators J Makino Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 369, March 1, 1991, p …, 1991 | 338 | 1991 |
| Building a better leapfrog P Hut, J Makino, S McMillan Astrophysical Journal, Part 2-Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 443, no. 2, p …, 1995 | 306 | 1995 |
| Grape-4: A massively parallel special-purpose computer for collisional n-body simulations J Makino, M Taiji, T Ebisuzaki, D Sugimoto The Astrophysical Journal 480 (1), 432, 1997 | 283 | 1997 |
| GRAPE-6: Massively-parallel special-purpose computer for astrophysical particle simulations J Makino, T Fukushige, M Koga, K Namura Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 55 (6), 1163-1187, 2003 | 273 | 2003 |
| Structure of Dark Matter Halos from HierarchicalClustering T Fukushige, J Makino The Astrophysical Journal 557 (2), 533, 2001 | 271 | 2001 |
| Merging of two galaxies with central black holes T Ebisuzaki, J Makino, SK Okumura Nature 354 (6350), 212-214, 1991 | 266 | 1991 |
| Scientific simulations with special-purpose computers--the GRAPE systems J Makino, M Taiji Scientific Simulations with Special-Purpose Computers--the GRAPE Systems, 248, 1998 | 257 | 1998 |
| Massive black holes in star clusters. II. Realistic cluster models H Baumgardt, J Makino, T Ebisuzaki The Astrophysical Journal 613 (2), 1143, 2004 | 243 | 2004 |
| A density-independent formulation of smoothed particle hydrodynamics TR Saitoh, J Makino The Astrophysical Journal 768 (1), 44, 2013 | 225 | 2013 |
| A necessary condition for individual time steps in SPH simulations TR Saitoh, J Makino The Astrophysical Journal 697 (2), L99, 2009 | 225 | 2009 |