Alessandra Buonanno

22.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
136 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Alessandra Buonanno is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Buonanno has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 19 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Buonanno's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (125 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (70 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (52 papers). Alessandra Buonanno is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (125 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (70 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (52 papers). Alessandra Buonanno collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Alessandra Buonanno's co-authors include Thibault Damour, Yanbei Chen, Yi Pan, Larry Kidder, Andrea Taracchini, Harald Pfeiffer, Enrico Barausse, Mark Scheel, Jan Steinhoff and Serguei Ossokine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Buonanno

135 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-b... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2000 2017 2014 2020 250 500 750
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.

  1. Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics
    1999 841 citations Alessandra Buonanno et al. profile →
  2. Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences
    2000 573 citations Alessandra Buonanno et al. profile →
  3. Improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors
    2017 409 citations Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
  4. Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins
    2014 300 citations Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  5. Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation
    2020 217 citations Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
  6. Enriching the symphony of gravitational waves from binary black holes by tuning higher harmonics
    2018 194 citations R. Cotesta, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
  7. Next generation of accurate and efficient multipolar precessing-spin effective-one-body waveforms for binary black holes
    2023 87 citations A. Ramos-Buades, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandra Buonanno United States 58 10.5k 3.1k 1.5k 1.2k 1.0k 136 11.0k
Mark Scheel United States 53 8.9k 0.8× 3.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 807 0.7× 624 0.6× 171 9.3k
D. R. Lorimer United States 51 9.3k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 387 0.4× 208 9.6k
Larry Kidder United States 50 8.3k 0.8× 2.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 818 0.7× 621 0.6× 156 8.7k
Nils Andersson United Kingdom 46 6.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 2.3k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 752 0.7× 188 7.0k
Luc Blanchet France 53 8.9k 0.8× 3.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 595 0.6× 120 9.1k
S. Husa Germany 41 7.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 830 0.7× 639 0.6× 91 8.0k
Curt Cutler United States 34 6.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 939 0.8× 533 0.5× 67 6.8k
G. Hobbs Australia 39 7.8k 0.7× 2.4k 0.8× 946 0.6× 1.9k 1.6× 355 0.4× 150 8.1k
Luciano Rezzolla Germany 68 13.1k 1.2× 5.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 508 0.5× 239 14.0k
F. Camilo United States 50 9.6k 0.9× 2.9k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 443 0.4× 224 9.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pfeiffer, Harald, Alessandra Buonanno, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, et al.. (2025). Highly accurate simulations of asymmetric black-hole scattering and cross validation of effective-one-body models. Physical review. D. 112(12). 1 indexed citations
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Khanna, Gaurav, et al.. (2025). Phenomenology and origin of late-time tails in eccentric binary black hole mergers. Physical review. D. 112(2). 7 indexed citations
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Ramos-Buades, A., Alessandra Buonanno, J. R. Gair, et al.. (2025). Evidence for eccentricity in the population of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Physical review. D. 112(10). 4 indexed citations
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Mihaylov, Deyan P., Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno, et al.. (2025). pySEOBNR: A software package for the next generation of effective-one-body multipolar waveform models. SoftwareX. 30. 102080–102080. 1 indexed citations
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Buonanno, Alessandra, Mohammed Khalil, A. Ramos-Buades, et al.. (2025). Accurate waveforms for eccentric, aligned-spin binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model seobnrv5ehm. Physical review. D. 112(4). 18 indexed citations
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Pompili, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity within the effective-one-body formalism. Physical review. D. 111(2). 16 indexed citations
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Meent, Maarten van de, et al.. (2025). Testing eccentric corrections to the radiation-reaction force in the test-mass limit of effective-one-body models. Physical review. D. 111(4). 8 indexed citations
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Meent, Maarten van de, et al.. (2025). Characterizing the merger of equatorial-eccentric-geodesic plunges in rotating black holes. Physical review. D. 112(8). 3 indexed citations
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Silva, Hector O., Abhirup Ghosh, & Alessandra Buonanno. (2023). Black-hole ringdown as a probe of higher-curvature gravity theories. Physical review. D. 107(4). 49 indexed citations
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Mehta, A. K., Alessandra Buonanno, R. Cotesta, et al.. (2023). Tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave observations using a flexible theory-independent method. Physical review. D. 107(4). 46 indexed citations
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Maggio, Elisa, Hector O. Silva, Alessandra Buonanno, & Abhirup Ghosh. (2023). Tests of general relativity in the nonlinear regime: A parametrized plunge-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model. Physical review. D. 108(2). 30 indexed citations
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Mehta, A. K., Alessandra Buonanno, J. R. Gair, et al.. (2022). Observing Intermediate-mass Black Holes and the Upper Stellar-mass gap with LIGO and Virgo. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(1). 39–39. 58 indexed citations
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Khalil, Mohammed, Alessandra Buonanno, Jan Steinhoff, & Justin Vines. (2022). Energetics and scattering of gravitational two-body systems at fourth post-Minkowskian order. arXiv (Cornell University). 55 indexed citations
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Estellés, H., S. Husa, M. Colleoni, et al.. (2022). A Detailed Analysis of GW190521 with Phenomenological Waveform Models. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(2). 79–79. 45 indexed citations
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Mihaylov, Deyan P., Serguei Ossokine, Alessandra Buonanno, & Abhirup Ghosh. (2021). Fast post-adiabatic waveforms in the time domain: Applications to compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo. Physical review. D. 104(12). 19 indexed citations
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Scheel, Mark, Béla Szilágyi, Jonathan Blackman, et al.. (2015). Numerical relativity reaching into post-Newtonian territory: a compact-object binary simulation spanning 350 gravitational-wave cycles. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Buonanno, Alessandra, Larry Kidder, Abdul Mroué, Harald Pfeiffer, & Andrea Taracchini. (2010). Reducing orbital eccentricity in quasi-circular binary black-hole evolutions in presence of spins. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Schnittman, Jeremy D., Alessandra Buonanno, James R. van Meter, et al.. (2008). Anatomy of the binary black hole recoil: A multipolar analysis. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(4). 94 indexed citations
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Berti, Emanuele, Alessandra Buonanno, & Clifford M. Will. (2005). Testing general relativity and probing the merger history of massive black holes with LISA. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 22(18). S943–S954. 73 indexed citations
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Buonanno, Alessandra & Yanbei Chen. (2002). Laser-interferometer gravitational-wave optical-spring detectors. 11 indexed citations

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