Abraham Loeb

37.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
559 papers, 22.6k citations indexed

About

Abraham Loeb is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Abraham Loeb has authored 559 papers receiving a total of 22.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 521 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 178 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 73 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Abraham Loeb's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (238 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (146 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (140 papers). Abraham Loeb is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (238 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (146 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (140 papers). Abraham Loeb collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Australia. Abraham Loeb's co-authors include Rennan Barkana, J. Stuart B. Wyithe, Volker Bromm, Zoltán Haiman, Avery E. Broderick, Raúl Jiménez, Mikhail V. Medvedev, Bence Kocsis, Eli Waxman and Nicholas C. Stone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Abraham Loeb

536 papers receiving 21.7k citations

Hit Papers

In the beginning: the first sources of light and the reio... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2001 2002 1999 2003 2012 250 500 750
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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.

  1. In the beginning: the first sources of light and the reionization of the universe
    2001 869 citations Abraham Loeb et al. profile →
  2. Constraining Cosmological Parameters Based on Relative Galaxy Ages
    2002 622 citations Abraham Loeb et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  3. Generation of Magnetic Fields in the Relativistic Shock of Gamma‐Ray Burst Sources
    1999 535 citations Abraham Loeb et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  4. Formation of the First Supermassive Black Holes
    2003 514 citations Abraham Loeb et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  5. Subhaloes in self-interacting galactic dark matter haloes
    2012 401 citations Abraham Loeb et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei
    2009 340 citations Abraham Loeb et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. Eppur è piatto? The Cosmic Chronometers Take on Spatial Curvature and Cosmic Concordance
    2021 152 citations Abraham Loeb et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Abraham Loeb United States 80 21.3k 8.9k 2.9k 922 618 559 22.6k
R. D. Blandford United States 66 24.8k 1.2× 13.6k 1.5× 2.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.7× 416 0.7× 303 26.2k
Eliot Quataert United States 90 24.1k 1.1× 6.3k 0.7× 4.7k 1.6× 590 0.6× 340 0.6× 350 25.0k
J. Tonry United States 52 24.3k 1.1× 11.4k 1.3× 4.4k 1.5× 932 1.0× 1.6k 2.5× 219 25.1k
James E. Gunn United States 69 20.3k 1.0× 4.5k 0.5× 8.3k 2.8× 986 1.1× 849 1.4× 257 22.0k
Jeremiah P. Ostriker United States 79 22.8k 1.1× 8.2k 0.9× 5.5k 1.9× 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 2.2× 353 24.1k
Piero Madau United States 65 15.8k 0.7× 5.2k 0.6× 4.6k 1.6× 553 0.6× 481 0.8× 189 16.6k
C. W. Stubbs United States 40 15.5k 0.7× 8.9k 1.0× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 1.4k 2.3× 196 17.2k
Joseph Silk United States 75 25.1k 1.2× 15.2k 1.7× 4.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.4× 1.3k 2.2× 821 28.4k
R. Genzel Germany 81 19.9k 0.9× 3.5k 0.4× 4.3k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 392 0.6× 429 20.5k
Rüdiger Pakmor Germany 71 22.3k 1.0× 4.7k 0.5× 8.6k 2.9× 539 0.6× 765 1.2× 296 23.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Loeb, Abraham. (2024). Pulsar Timing Noise from Brownian Motion of the Sun. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 968(2). L27–L27. 1 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2024). Accretion flares from stellar collisions in galactic nuclei. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A130–A130. 1 indexed citations
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Opher, M., Abraham Loeb, Catherine Zucker, et al.. (2024). The Passage of the Solar System through the Edge of the Local Bubble. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(2). 201–201. 3 indexed citations
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Pacucci, Fabio & Abraham Loeb. (2024). The Redshift Evolution of the M •–M ⋆ Relation for JWST’s Supermassive Black Holes at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(2). 154–154. 32 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2023). Metallicity ceiling in quasars from recycled stellar winds. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A31–A31. 2 indexed citations
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Hertzberg, Mark P. & Abraham Loeb. (2023). Possible relation between the cosmological constant and standard model parameters. Physical review. D. 107(6). 1 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Morgan & Abraham Loeb. (2023). Author Correction: Breaking waves on the surface of the heartbeat star MACHO 80.7443.1718. Nature Astronomy. 7(12). 1532–1535. 1 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham. (2022). Galactic Kites. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(5). 104–104. 1 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Morgan, et al.. (2022). Tidal Wave Breaking in the Eccentric Lead-in to Mass Transfer and Common Envelope Phases. The Astrophysical Journal. 937(1). 37–37. 10 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Morgan, Kishalay De, & Abraham Loeb. (2022). Dusty, Self-obscured Transients from Stellar Coalescence. The Astrophysical Journal. 937(2). 96–96. 12 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham. (2022). Measuring the Expansion or Contraction of Galaxies. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(2). 26–26. 1 indexed citations
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Opher, M., J. F. Drake, G. P. Zank, et al.. (2021). A Turbulent Heliosheath Driven by the Rayleigh–Taylor Instability. The Astrophysical Journal. 922(2). 181–181. 26 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2020). Repeated impact-driven plume formation on Enceladus over megayear timescales. Icarus. 357. 114281–114281. 3 indexed citations
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Fragione, Giacomo & Abraham Loeb. (2019). Black hole–neutron star mergers from triples. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(3). 4443–4450. 61 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2018). A Model Connecting Galaxy Masses, Star Formation Rates, and Dust Temperatures across Cosmic Time. The Astrophysical Journal. 854(1). 36–36. 19 indexed citations
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Fialkov, Anastasia, Abraham Loeb, & D. R. Lorimer. (2018). Enhanced Rates of Fast Radio Bursts from Galaxy Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 863(2). 132–132. 10 indexed citations
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Loeb, Abraham, et al.. (2018). Self-sustaining Star Formation Fronts in Filaments during the Cosmic Dawn. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 862(2). L14–L14. 1 indexed citations
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Fialkov, Anastasia & Abraham Loeb. (2015). DISTORTION OF THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES BY GRAVITATIONAL LENSING. The Astrophysical Journal. 806(2). 256–256. 16 indexed citations
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Mirabel, I. F., Mark Dijkstra, Philippe Laurent, Abraham Loeb, & Jonathan R. Pritchard. (2011). Stellar black holes at the dawn of the universe. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 123 indexed citations
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Wyithe, J. Stuart B., Abraham Loeb, & C. L. Carilli. (2005). Improved Constraints on the Neutral Intergalactic Hydrogen Surrounding Quasars at Redshiftsz> 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 628(2). 575–582. 54 indexed citations

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