| The origins of the telescope A Van Helden, S Dupré, R van Gent Amsterdam University Press, 2010 | 135 | 2010 |
| Periodicity of the radial-velocity and brightness variations of the hypergiant P Cygni (B1 Ia+), and origin of the shell ejections RH Van Gent, H Lamers Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 158, no. 1-2, April 1986 …, 1986 | 40 | 1986 |
| “A Bare Outpost of Learned European Culture on the Edge of the Jungles of Java” Johan Maurits Mohr (1716–1775) and the Emergence of Instrumental and Institutional Science in … HJ Zuidervaart, RHV Gent Isis 95 (1), 1-33, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| The star catalogues of Ptolemaios and Ulugh Beg-Machine-readable versions and comparison with the modern Hipparcos Catalogue F Verbunt, RH van Gent Astronomy & Astrophysics 544, A31, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Three editions of the star catalogue of Tycho Brahe F Verbunt, RH van Gent arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3836, 2010 | 28* | 2010 |
| The lens production by Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens AC van Helden, RH van Gent Annals of science 56 (1), 69-79, 1999 | 17 | 1999 |
| Early star catalogues of the southern sky-De Houtman, Kepler (second and third classes), and Halley F Verbunt, RH van Gent Astronomy & Astrophysics 530, A93, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Red Sirius RH Van Gent Nature 312 (5992), 302-302, 1984 | 10 | 1984 |
| De hemelatlas van Andreas Cellarius: Het meesterwerk van een vergeten Hollandse kosmograaf RH Van Gent Caert-Thresoor. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van de Kartografie 19 (1), 9-25, 2000 | 9 | 2000 |
| Lightcurves of the Algol-variable U CrB in the UPS photometrical system RH Van Gent Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series (ISSN 0365-0138), vol. 77, no …, 1989 | 9 | 1989 |
| Between Rhetoric and Reality: Instrumental Practices at the Astronomical Observatory of the Amsterdam Society'Felix Meritis', 1786-1889 HJ Zuidervaart, RH van Gent Uitgeverij Verloren, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| The colour of Sirius in the sixth century RH Van Gent Nature 325 (6099), 87-89, 1987 | 8 | 1987 |
| Evidence for a third component in the U CrB system RH Van Gent Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, vol. 48, June 1982, p. 457-480 …, 1982 | 8 | 1982 |
| Tycho Brahe, Abū Macshar, and the comet beyond Venus (ninth century A.D.) R Neuhäuser, P Kunitzsch, M Mugrauer, D Luge, R Van Gent Journal for the History of Astronomy 47 (2), 136-158, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| The Utrecht Photometric System (≡ UPS) and Some Results with It JRW Heintze International Astronomical Union Colloquium 107, 257-260, 1989 | 7 | 1989 |
| The star catalogue of Hevelius F Verbunt, RH van Gent arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3841, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| De Nederlandse Venus-expedities van 1874 en 1882 R van Gent Zenit 20, 332-337, 1993 | 6 | 1993 |
| The colour of Sirius RH van Gent The observatory 109, 23-24, 1989 | 6 | 1989 |
| Lunar, solar, and planetary representations to 1650 RH Van Gent, A Van Helden The History of Cartography 3, 123-134, 2007 | 5 | 2007 |
| The Finest Atlas of the Heavens: Andreas Cellarius," Harmonia macrocosmica" of 1660 RH van Gent Taschen, 2006 | 5 | 2006 |
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