B. Allen

126.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
118 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

B. Allen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Allen has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 47 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 22 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in B. Allen's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (57 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (49 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers). B. Allen is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (57 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (49 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers). B. Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. B. Allen's co-authors include Joseph D. Romano, E. P. S. Shellard, John H. Huffman, Robert W. Sidwell, Kimberly Robins, Robert R. Caldwell, Antoine Folacci, Adrian C. Ottewill, Theodore Jacobson and J. D. E. Creighton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

B. Allen

114 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity of Virazole: 1-β-D-Ribo... 1972 2026 1990 2008 1972 1985 1999 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. Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity of Virazole: 1-β-D-Ribofuranosyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide
    1972 819 citations B. Allen et al. profile →
  2. Vacuum states in de Sitter space
    1985 480 citations B. Allen Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  3. Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities
    1999 468 citations B. Allen, Joseph D. Romano Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  4. FINDCHIRP: An algorithm for detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries
    2012 359 citations B. Allen 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
B. Allen United States 35 4.5k 2.6k 781 765 565 118 6.1k
Brandon Carter France 32 3.8k 0.8× 2.8k 1.1× 538 0.7× 882 1.2× 152 0.3× 85 5.1k
Larry Smarr United States 35 2.8k 0.6× 2.1k 0.8× 231 0.3× 389 0.5× 131 0.2× 106 4.6k
Seiji Kawamura Japan 22 2.3k 0.5× 764 0.3× 1.1k 1.5× 92 0.1× 307 0.5× 129 3.5k
Michael Joyce United States 39 2.4k 0.5× 1.8k 0.7× 280 0.4× 505 0.7× 94 0.2× 128 5.7k
M. A. McLaughlin United States 43 7.9k 1.7× 2.4k 0.9× 589 0.8× 120 0.2× 1.3k 2.3× 189 8.6k
Jens H. Gundlach United States 27 940 0.2× 641 0.2× 502 0.6× 354 0.5× 138 0.2× 70 4.6k
Alan H. Diercks United States 18 11.4k 2.5× 7.7k 3.0× 344 0.4× 1.1k 1.4× 688 1.2× 33 12.5k
M. Reuter Germany 47 3.8k 0.8× 4.8k 1.9× 583 0.7× 2.4k 3.1× 125 0.2× 144 7.8k
Christopher Thompson United States 35 6.5k 1.4× 2.0k 0.8× 723 0.9× 57 0.1× 346 0.6× 88 8.1k
Christophe Pichon France 51 7.0k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 317 0.4× 528 0.7× 43 0.1× 248 9.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Allen, B. & Joseph D. Romano. (2025). Optimal Reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs Correlation. Physical Review Letters. 134(3). 31401–31401. 4 indexed citations
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Anderson, David P., Eric Korpela, Dan Werthimer, Jeff Cobb, & B. Allen. (2025). SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings. The Astronomical Journal. 170(2). 111–111. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, B., et al.. (2024). Pulsar timing array source ensembles. Physical review. D. 109(8). 13 indexed citations
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Agrell, Erik, et al.. (2024). Glued Lattices Are Better Quantizers Than K12. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70(11). 8414–8418. 1 indexed citations
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Allen, B.. (2023). Variance of the Hellings-Downs correlation. Physical review. D. 107(4). 48 indexed citations
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Agrell, Erik, et al.. (2023). The Voronoi Region of the Barnes–Wall Lattice Λ16. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. 4. 16–23. 3 indexed citations
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Agrell, Erik & B. Allen. (2023). On the Best Lattice Quantizers. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 69(12). 7650–7658. 7 indexed citations
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Ming, J., M. A. Papa, H.-B. Eggenstein, et al.. (2022). Results From an Einstein@Home Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves From G347.3 at Low Frequencies in LIGO O2 Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(1). 8–8. 9 indexed citations
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Beheshtipour, Banafsheh, M. A. Papa, P. C. C. Freire, et al.. (2021). New Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Seven Fast Pulsars. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 85–85. 15 indexed citations
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Clark, C. J., Jason Wu, H. J. Pletsch, et al.. (2017). THE EINSTEIN@HOME GAMMA-RAY PULSAR SURVEY. I. SEARCH METHODS, SENSITIVITY, AND DISCOVERY OF NEW YOUNG GAMMA-RAY PULSARS. The Astrophysical Journal. 834(2). 106–106. 37 indexed citations
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Clark, C. J., H. J. Pletsch, Jason Wu, et al.. (2016). THE BRAKING INDEX OF A RADIO-QUIET GAMMA-RAY PULSAR. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 832(1). L15–L15. 19 indexed citations
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Grindlay, J. E., et al.. (2016). The High Resolution X-Ray Imaging Detector Planes for the MIRAX Mission. 6 indexed citations
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Yodh, G. B. & B. Allen. (2008). Energy Spectrum of gamma rays from the Crab nebula from 1 to 100 TeV with the Milagro telescope. ICRC. 2. 751–754. 2 indexed citations
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Allen, B.. (2004). Monitoring hard disks with smart. Max Planck Digital Library. 2004(117). 9. 61 indexed citations
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Allen, B., M. Landry, A. Lazzarini, et al.. (2003). Towards the first search for a stochastic background in LIGO data: applications of signal simulations. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 20(17). S677–S687. 6 indexed citations
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Allen, B.. (1996). The stochastic gravity-wave background : sources and detection. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 373–417. 40 indexed citations
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Allen, B. & E. P. S. Shellard. (1992). Gravitational radiation from cosmic strings. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 45(6). 1898–1912. 62 indexed citations
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Allen, B. & Adrian C. Ottewill. (1992). Gauge independence in Hadamard renormalization. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 46(2). 861–864. 4 indexed citations
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Allen, B.. (1990). Reversing centrifugal forces. Nature. 347(6294). 615–616. 12 indexed citations
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Allen, B.. (1988). Stochastic gravity-wave background in inflationary-universe models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 37(8). 2078–2085. 234 indexed citations

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