A. Lazarian

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
238 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

A. Lazarian is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Lazarian has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in A. Lazarian's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (152 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (152 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (117 papers). A. Lazarian is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (152 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (152 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (117 papers). A. Lazarian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Brazil. A. Lazarian's co-authors include Jungyeon Cho, Huirong Yan, D. Pogosyan, G. Kowal, Thiem Hoang, G. Brunetti, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Andrey Beresnyak, Ka Ho Yuen and Ethan T. Vishniac and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

A. Lazarian

230 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

GLIMPSE. I. AnSIRTFLegacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

2003 783 citations A. Lazarian et al. profile →
Interstellar Dust Grain Alignment

2015 283 citations B. G. Andersson, A. Lazarian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Lazarian United States	49	7.8k	2.1k	530	416	373	238	8.0k
Carl Heiles United States	42	6.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	464 0.9×	461 1.1×	104 0.3×	190	6.8k
Ellen G. Zweibel United States	39	5.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	187 0.4×	111 0.3×	547 1.5×	193	5.3k
Christoph Federrath Australia	41	6.3k 0.8×	535 0.3×	622 1.2×	696 1.7×	142 0.4×	186	6.6k
Steven A. Balbus United States	35	8.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	122 0.2×	481 1.2×	388 1.0×	109	9.0k
N. M. McClure‐Griffiths Australia	34	4.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	165 0.3×	246 0.6×	68 0.2×	140	4.6k
Jeffrey L. Linsky United States	52	8.4k 1.1×	413 0.2×	875 1.7×	547 1.3×	150 0.4×	311	8.8k
Pat Scott Australia	29	7.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	375 0.7×	260 0.6×	48 0.1×	69	8.3k
W. M. Goss United States	48	8.3k 1.1×	3.4k 1.6×	452 0.9×	779 1.9×	54 0.1×	451	8.7k
J. C. B. Papaloizou United Kingdom	52	8.8k 1.1×	522 0.2×	100 0.2×	702 1.7×	138 0.4×	205	9.1k
Eve C. Ostriker United States	49	8.5k 1.1×	817 0.4×	724 1.4×	924 2.2×	42 0.1×	122	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by A. Lazarian

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Lazarian

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hu, Yue, et al.. (2025). Anisotropic Velocity Fluctuations in Galaxy Mergers: A Probe of the Magnetic Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 32–32. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Yue, Siyao Xu, A. Lazarian, James M. Stone, & Philip F. Hopkins. (2025). Cosmic-ray Perpendicular Superdiffusion and Parallel Mirror Diffusion in a Partially Ionized and Turbulent Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(2). 142–142. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Yue & A. Lazarian. (2024). Tracing Magnetic Fields with the Gradient Technique: Spatial Filtering Effect and Use of Interferometers. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 17–17. 2 indexed citations

Zhou, Jianjun, Willem A. Baan, Yue Hu, et al.. (2024). Magnetic Field of Molecular Gas Measured with the Velocity Gradient Technique. II. Curved Magnetic Field in kpc-scale Bubble of NGC 628. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(1). 18–18. 4 indexed citations

Lazarian, A. & Siyao Xu. (2023). Mirror Acceleration of Cosmic Rays in a High-β Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(1). 63–63. 9 indexed citations

Hu, Yue & A. Lazarian. (2023). Characterizing three-dimensional magnetic field, turbulence, and self-gravity in the star-forming region L1688. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(3). 4431–4446. 12 indexed citations

Hu, Yue, et al.. (2023). Parallel and perpendicular alignments of velocity gradient and magnetic field observed in the molecular clouds L1478 and L1482. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(2). 1853–1866. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Yue, et al.. (2023). Nature of striation in 21 cm channel Maps: velocity caustics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2994–3019. 14 indexed citations

Gouellec, Valentin J. M. Le, B. G. Andersson, Archana Soam, et al.. (2023). The Origin of Dust Polarization in the Orion Bar. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(2). 97–97. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jianjun, Yue Hu, A. Lazarian, et al.. (2022). Magnetic Field of Molecular Gas Measured with the Velocity Gradient Technique I. Orion A. The Astrophysical Journal. 934(1). 45–45. 8 indexed citations

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Alina, Dana, et al.. (2022). Unveiling polarized emission from interstellar dust of the Large Magellanic Cloud with Planck. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(3). 4466–4480. 4 indexed citations

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Lazarian, A., et al.. (2020). Principal Component analysis studies of turbulence in optically thick gas. Americanae (AECID Library). 1 indexed citations

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Krumholz, Mark R., et al.. (2020). Cosmic ray transport in starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(2). 2817–2833. 61 indexed citations

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Hu, Yue, A. Lazarian, & Shmuel Bialy. (2020). Study Turbulence and Probe Magnetic Fields Using the Gradient Technique: Application to H i-to-H₂ Transition Regions. The Astrophysical Journal. 905(2). 129–129. 16 indexed citations

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Murphy, E. J., Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Kieran Cleary, et al.. (2019). Unsolved Problems in Modern Astrophysics: Anomalous Microwave Emission. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 430. 1 indexed citations

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Vishniac, Ethan T., et al.. (2018). Stochastic Reconnection for Large Magnetic Prandtl Numbers. The Astrophysical Journal. 860(1). 52–52. 9 indexed citations

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Hu, Yue, Ka Ho Yuen, & A. Lazarian. (2018). Improving Velocity Gradient Technique with Principal Component Analysis. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Santos-Lima, R., E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, G. Kowal, et al.. (2014). Magnetic Field Amplification and Evolution in Turbulent Collisionless Magnetohydrodynamics: An Application to the Intracluster Medium. Repositorio Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires). 46 indexed citations

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Montmerle, T., et al.. (2010). IAU volume 6 issue S271 Cover and Front matter. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 6(S271). f1–f19. 1 indexed citations

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Ossenkopf, V., A. Esquivel, A. Lazarian, & J. Stützki. (2006). Interstellar cloud structure: the statistics of centroid velocities. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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