Alessandro Nagar

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Nagar is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Nagar has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 17 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Nagar's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (85 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (59 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (39 papers). Alessandro Nagar is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (85 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (59 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (39 papers). Alessandro Nagar collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Germany. Alessandro Nagar's co-authors include Thibault Damour, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, P. Rettegno, Tim Dietrich, Loïc Villain, Rossella Gamba, Luciano Rezzolla, Simone Albanesi, G. Riemenschneider and Denis Pollney and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. D and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Nagar

86 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Relativistic tidal properties of neutron stars 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2012 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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. Relativistic tidal properties of neutron stars
    2009 566 citations Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  2. Measurability of the tidal polarizability of neutron stars in late-inspiral gravitational-wave signals
    2012 317 citations Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  3. GW190521 as a dynamical capture of two nonspinning black holes
    2022 98 citations Rossella Gamba, M. Breschi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Nagar France 43 5.3k 1.4k 1.1k 821 350 86 5.4k
Sebastiano Bernuzzi Germany 45 5.0k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 847 1.0× 199 0.6× 118 5.2k
P. C. C. Freire Germany 36 5.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 806 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 213 0.6× 145 5.5k
J. A. Pons Spain 35 3.9k 0.7× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 387 0.5× 281 0.8× 113 4.2k
Tanja Hinderer United States 34 5.4k 1.0× 1.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.0k 1.2× 333 1.0× 49 5.6k
A. Melatos Australia 32 3.0k 0.6× 652 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 758 0.9× 235 0.7× 171 3.3k
Guillaume Faye France 32 3.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 469 0.4× 431 0.5× 253 0.7× 51 3.2k
Wynn C. G. Ho United States 37 3.6k 0.7× 794 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 561 0.7× 244 0.7× 118 3.8k
Valeria Ferrari Italy 37 3.8k 0.7× 1.8k 1.3× 509 0.5× 412 0.5× 274 0.8× 103 4.0k
Anna L. Watts Netherlands 31 2.9k 0.5× 583 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 449 0.5× 136 0.4× 101 3.0k
A. Bohé France 16 3.2k 0.6× 822 0.6× 581 0.5× 441 0.5× 215 0.6× 27 3.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Albanesi, Simone, Francesco Zappa, Rossella Gamba, et al.. (2025). Scattering and dynamical capture of two black holes: Synergies between numerical and analytical methods. Physical review. D. 111(2). 12 indexed citations
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Carullo, G., Simone Albanesi, Alessandro Nagar, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Merger Structure of Black Hole Binaries in Generic Planar Orbits. Physical Review Letters. 132(10). 101401–101401. 26 indexed citations
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Andrade, Tomás, J. Trenado, Simone Albanesi, et al.. (2024). Toward numerical-relativity informed effective-one-body waveforms for dynamical capture black hole binaries. Physical review. D. 109(8). 16 indexed citations
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Hopper, Seth, Alessandro Nagar, & P. Rettegno. (2023). Strong-field scattering of two spinning black holes: Numerics versus analytics. Physical review. D. 107(12). 29 indexed citations
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Bonino, A., Rossella Gamba, P. Schmidt, et al.. (2023). Inferring eccentricity evolution from observations of coalescing binary black holes. Physical review. D. 107(6). 34 indexed citations
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Placidi, A., et al.. (2023). 2.5PN accurate waveform information for generic-planar-orbit binaries in effective one-body models. Physical review. D. 108(2). 12 indexed citations
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Nagar, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Analytic systematics in next generation of effective-one-body gravitational waveform models for future observations. Physical review. D. 108(12). 34 indexed citations
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Jain, Tamanna, et al.. (2023). Effective-one-body Hamiltonian in scalar-tensor gravity at third post-Newtonian order. Physical review. D. 107(8). 10 indexed citations
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Albanesi, Simone, A. Placidi, Alessandro Nagar, Marta Orselli, & Sebastiano Bernuzzi. (2022). New avenue for accurate analytical waveforms and fluxes for eccentric compact binaries. Physical review. D. 105(12). 37 indexed citations
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Nagar, Alessandro, A. Bonino, & P. Rettegno. (2021). Effective one-body multipolar waveform model for spin-aligned, quasicircular, eccentric, hyperbolic black hole binaries. Physical review. D. 103(10). 106 indexed citations
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Placidi, A., Simone Albanesi, Alessandro Nagar, et al.. (2021). Exploiting Newton-factorized, 2PN-accurate, waveform multipoles in effective-one-body models for spin-aligned noncircularized binaries. arXiv (Cornell University). 35 indexed citations
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Rettegno, P., et al.. (2020). Comparing effective-one-body Hamiltonians for spin-aligned coalescing binaries. Physical review. D. 101(10). 30 indexed citations
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Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Tim Dietrich, & Alessandro Nagar. (2015). Modeling the Complete Gravitational Wave Spectrum of Neutron Star Mergers. Physical Review Letters. 115(9). 91101–91101. 158 indexed citations
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Bernuzzi, Sebastiano, Alessandro Nagar, Tim Dietrich, & Thibault Damour. (2015). Modeling the Dynamics of Tidally Interacting Binary Neutron Stars up to the Merger. Physical Review Letters. 114(16). 161103–161103. 154 indexed citations
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Nagar, Alessandro, et al.. (2014). The antikick strikes back: Recoil velocities for nearly extremal binary black hole mergers in the test-mass limit. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(12). 15 indexed citations
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Damour, Thibault, Alessandro Nagar, Ernst Nils Dorband, Denis Pollney, & Luciano Rezzolla. (2008). Faithful effective-one-body waveforms of equal-mass coalescing black-hole binaries. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(8). 95 indexed citations
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Nagar, Alessandro & Luciano Rezzolla. (2005). Gauge-invariant Non-spherical Metric Perturbations of Schwarzschild Spacetime. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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