Bart Ripperda

18.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bart Ripperda is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bart Ripperda has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 24 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Bart Ripperda's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (29 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (20 papers). Bart Ripperda is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (29 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (20 papers). Bart Ripperda collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Canada. Bart Ripperda's co-authors include Alexander Philippov, Fabio Bacchini, Oliver Porth, Rony Keppens, Koushik Chatterjee, Matthew Liska, Lorenzo Sironi, Sera Markoff, Gibwa Musoke and Alexander Tchekhovskoy and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bart Ripperda

39 papers receiving 851 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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 →
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						Papers	Cites
Bart Ripperda United States	18	937	579	71	35	26	42	1.0k
K. Wiersema United Kingdom	24	2.0k 2.1×	549 0.9×	56 0.8×	29 0.8×	29 1.1×	133	2.0k
Kyle Parfrey United States	13	630 0.7×	389 0.7×	63 0.9×	11 0.3×	16 0.6×	16	665
W. Brisken United States	16	1.3k 1.3×	485 0.8×	63 0.9×	65 1.9×	34 1.3×	38	1.3k
S. Potter South Africa	19	1.1k 1.2×	240 0.4×	108 1.5×	88 2.5×	24 0.9×	98	1.2k
A. M. Read United Kingdom	24	1.6k 1.7×	611 1.1×	63 0.9×	49 1.4×	69 2.7×	50	1.6k
Matthew Liska United States	22	1.4k 1.5×	785 1.4×	65 0.9×	19 0.5×	96 3.7×	43	1.5k
Shinji Koide Japan	18	1.1k 1.2×	810 1.4×	28 0.4×	79 2.3×	15 0.6×	49	1.2k
Fabio Bacchini Belgium	10	463 0.5×	260 0.4×	27 0.4×	24 0.7×	10 0.4×	29	518
S. T. Holland United States	25	1.6k 1.7×	409 0.7×	19 0.3×	27 0.8×	16 0.6×	126	1.6k
Dacheng Lin United States	18	1.2k 1.3×	223 0.4×	146 2.1×	40 1.1×	58 2.2×	35	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Bart Ripperda

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bart Ripperda

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bart Ripperda. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bart Ripperda based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bart Ripperda. Bart Ripperda is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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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

Beattie, James R., et al.. (2025). Comparison of magnetic diffusion and reconnection in ideal and resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, ideal magnetodynamics, and resistive force-free electrodynamics. Physical review. D. 112(6). 1 indexed citations

Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 978(2). L45–L45. 1 indexed citations

Janssen, Michaël, Chi‐kwan Chan, Jordy Davelaar, et al.. (2025). Deep learning inference with the Event Horizon Telescope. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. A60–A60. 2 indexed citations

Salas, L., Matthew Liska, Sera Markoff, et al.. (2025). Two-temperature treatments in magnetically arrested disc GRMHD simulations more accurately predict light curves of Sagittarius A*. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(2). 698–710. 6 indexed citations

Most, Elias R., et al.. (2025). Black Hole Pulsars and Monster Shocks as Outcomes of Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 982(2). L54–L54. 2 indexed citations

Ressler, Sean M., et al.. (2025). Compact stellar systems hosting an intermediate-mass black hole: Magnetohydrodynamic study of inflow-outflow dynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 702. A233–A233.

Nättilä, Joonas, et al.. (2024). Neutron Star Atmosphere–Ocean Dynamics. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 37–37. 4 indexed citations

Porth, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Current Sheet Alignment in Oblique Black Hole Magnetospheres: A Black Hole Pulsar?. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 968(1). L10–L10. 6 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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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

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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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Porth, Oliver, et al.. (2023). Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Collisionless Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 169–169. 11 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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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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Ripperda, Bart, Oliver Porth, Lorenzo Sironi, & Rony Keppens. (2019). Relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamic reconnection and plasmoid formation in merging flux tubes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(1). 299–314. 39 indexed citations

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Ripperda, Bart, Oliver Porth, & Rony Keppens. (2019). Test particles in relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1225(1). 12018–12018. 3 indexed citations

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