Alexander Philippov

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander Philippov is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Philippov has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 8 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Alexander Philippov's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (47 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (33 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (26 papers). Alexander Philippov is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (47 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (33 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (26 papers). Alexander Philippov collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and France. Alexander Philippov's co-authors include Anatoly Spitkovsky, Benoît Cerutti, Bart Ripperda, Kyle Parfrey, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Fabio Bacchini, M. Krämer, Elias R. Most, В. С. Бескин and Koushik Chatterjee and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Philippov

66 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Black Hole Flares: Ejection of Accreted Magnetic Flux thr... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2022 2020 50 100 150
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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. Black Hole Flares: Ejection of Accreted Magnetic Flux through 3D Plasmoid-mediated Reconnection
    2022 181 citations Bart Ripperda, Matthew Liska et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →
  2. Magnetic Reconnection and Hot Spot Formation in Black Hole Accretion Disks
    2020 165 citations Bart Ripperda, Fabio Bacchini 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
Alexander Philippov United States 27 2.0k 1.2k 302 139 129 71 2.2k
A. De Luca Italy 25 2.4k 1.2× 998 0.9× 338 1.1× 80 0.6× 93 0.7× 125 2.5k
Maxim Lyutikov United States 30 2.8k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 455 1.5× 146 1.1× 115 0.9× 111 2.9k
Ioannis Contopoulos Greece 20 1.3k 0.6× 582 0.5× 314 1.0× 144 1.0× 149 1.2× 77 1.4k
Andrei M. Beloborodov United States 33 3.4k 1.7× 1.5k 1.3× 572 1.9× 100 0.7× 108 0.8× 89 3.6k
Shami Chatterjee United States 27 1.9k 0.9× 689 0.6× 163 0.5× 221 1.6× 62 0.5× 90 2.0k
M. D. Hannam Germany 28 3.3k 1.6× 958 0.8× 422 1.4× 273 2.0× 308 2.4× 31 3.3k
Vasileios Paschalidis United States 27 2.1k 1.0× 604 0.5× 391 1.3× 153 1.1× 81 0.6× 73 2.2k
T. Bulik Poland 27 3.8k 1.9× 559 0.5× 357 1.2× 146 1.1× 77 0.6× 100 3.9k
I. Cognard France 26 1.7k 0.9× 494 0.4× 280 0.9× 313 2.3× 86 0.7× 99 1.8k
C. P. L. Berry United Kingdom 24 2.4k 1.2× 686 0.6× 177 0.6× 211 1.5× 77 0.6× 48 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Philippov

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Philippov

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hankla, Amelia, et al.. (2026). An Outflow from the X-Ray Corona as the Origin of Millimeter Emission from Radio-quiet AGNs. The Astrophysical Journal. 997(2). 224–224.
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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Origin of Pulsed Radio Emission from Magnetars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 996(2). L20–L20.
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Davelaar, Jordy, et al.. (2025). Modeling of Lightcurves from Reconnection-powered Very High-energy Flares from M87*. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(2). 147–147. 2 indexed citations
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Fielding, Drummond B., Eliot Quataert, Philipp Grete, et al.. (2025). Self-similar Cosmic-Ray Transport in High-resolution Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 994(2). L49–L49. 1 indexed citations
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Bacchini, Fabio & Alexander Philippov. (2024). Fundamental, harmonic, and third-harmonic plasma emission from beam–plasma instabilities: a first-principles precursor for astrophysical radio bursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(1). 169–177. 5 indexed citations
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Ripperda, Bart, et al.. (2023). Radiative Reconnection-powered TeV Flares from the Black Hole Magnetosphere in M87. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(2). L29–L29. 43 indexed citations
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Davelaar, Jordy, Bart Ripperda, Lorenzo Sironi, et al.. (2023). Synchrotron Polarization Signatures of Surface Waves in Supermassive Black Hole Jets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 959(1). L3–L3. 15 indexed citations
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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). High-energy Radiation and Ion Acceleration in Three-dimensional Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection with Strong Synchrotron Cooling. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 122–122. 27 indexed citations
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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Polarized Anisotropic Synchrotron Emission and Absorption and Its Application to Black Hole Imaging. The Astrophysical Journal. 957(2). 103–103. 12 indexed citations
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Fielding, Drummond B., Bart Ripperda, & Alexander Philippov. (2023). Plasmoid Instability in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 949(1). L5–L5. 22 indexed citations
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Fielding, Drummond B., et al.. (2023). Cosmic ray transport in large-amplitude turbulence with small-scale field reversals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(4). 4985–4998. 38 indexed citations
12.
Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Twisted Magnetar Magnetospheres: Kinking Flux Tubes and Global Eruptions. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 947(2). L34–L34. 20 indexed citations
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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Magnetically driven coupling in relativistic radiation-mediated shocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 6126–6137. 1 indexed citations
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Ripperda, Bart, Matthew Liska, Koushik Chatterjee, et al.. (2022). Black Hole Flares: Ejection of Accreted Magnetic Flux through 3D Plasmoid-mediated Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 924(2). L32–L32. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cerutti, Benoît, et al.. (2022). Synthetic Images of Magnetospheric Reconnection-Powered Radiation around Supermassive Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 129(20). 205101–205101. 30 indexed citations
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Cerutti, Benoît, et al.. (2021). Synthetic gamma-ray light curves of Kerr black hole magnetospheric activity from particle-in-cell simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 650. A163–A163. 43 indexed citations
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Ripperda, Bart, Jason TenBarge, Elias R. Most, et al.. (2021). Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas.Part 2. current sheets and dissipation. Journal of Plasma Physics. 87(5). 21 indexed citations
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TenBarge, Jason, Bart Ripperda, A. Bhattacharjee, et al.. (2021). Weak Alfvénic turbulence in relativistic plasmas. Part 1. Dynamical equations and basic dynamics of interacting resonant triads. Journal of Plasma Physics. 87(6). 16 indexed citations
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Cerutti, Benoît, et al.. (2020). Multidimensional Simulations of Ergospheric Pair Discharges around Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 124(14). 145101–145101. 59 indexed citations
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Cerutti, Benoît & Alexander Philippov. (2017). Dissipation of the striped pulsar wind. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 607. A134–A134. 41 indexed citations

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