C. Alcock

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

C. Alcock is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Alcock has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Instrumentation and 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in C. Alcock's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (34 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (25 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (13 papers). C. Alcock is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (34 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (25 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (13 papers). C. Alcock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. C. Alcock's co-authors include Edward Farhi, B. Paczyński, Angela V. Olinto, Nitya Kallivayalil, Roeland P. van der Marel, T. S. Axelrod, K. Griest, B. A. Peterson, K. C. Freeman and A. W. Rodgers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

C. Alcock

73 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Strange stars

1986 834 citations C. Alcock et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
An evolution free test for non-zero cosmological constant

1979 638 citations C. Alcock et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. Alcock United States	26	3.9k	1.2k	915	400	287	80	4.1k
B. Paczyński United States	39	8.4k 2.2×	2.2k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	507 1.3×	505 1.8×	173	8.7k
Carl Heiles United States	42	6.6k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	438 0.5×	395 1.0×	165 0.6×	190	6.8k
A. S. Fruchter United States	40	5.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	198 0.5×	237 0.8×	140	5.7k
Eric Agol United States	43	7.1k 1.8×	948 0.8×	2.1k 2.3×	384 1.0×	161 0.6×	147	7.3k
D. J. Helfand United States	39	7.2k 1.8×	3.3k 2.7×	889 1.0×	221 0.6×	371 1.3×	179	7.4k
E. Ramírez-Ruiz United States	47	7.7k 2.0×	2.1k 1.7×	829 0.9×	174 0.4×	255 0.9×	195	7.9k
A. M. Ghez United States	46	7.2k 1.8×	1.1k 0.9×	831 0.9×	638 1.6×	203 0.7×	197	7.4k
E. Falco United States	36	6.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 2.0×	875 2.2×	64 0.2×	119	6.7k
P. Demarque United States	38	5.9k 1.5×	581 0.5×	2.4k 2.6×	175 0.4×	96 0.3×	181	6.1k
E. Baron United States	40	5.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	892 1.0×	290 0.7×	135 0.5×	180	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by C. Alcock

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. Alcock

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Emami, Razieh, Richard Anantua, Angelo Ricarte, et al.. (2023). Probing Plasma Composition with the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT). Galaxies. 11(1). 11–11. 2 indexed citations

Emami, Razieh, Shy Genel, Lars Hernquist, et al.. (2021). Morphological Types of DM Halos in Milky Way-like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation: Simple, Twisted, or Stretched. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

Kim, Dae‐Won, et al.. (2011). Automatic QSO Selection Algorithm Using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning. 217. 1 indexed citations

Bianco, Federica, B. A. McLeod, & C. Alcock. (2007). Sub-second, High Precision Photometry with the MMT/Megacam System to Probe the Kuiper Belt Population. AAS. 211. 1 indexed citations

Kallivayalil, Nitya, Roeland P. van der Marel, C. Alcock, et al.. (2006). The Proper Motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud UsingHST. The Astrophysical Journal. 638(2). 772–785. 179 indexed citations

Kallivayalil, Nitya, Roeland P. van der Marel, & C. Alcock. (2006). Is the SMC Bound to the LMC? TheHubble Space TelescopeProper Motion of the SMC. The Astrophysical Journal. 652(2). 1213–1229. 153 indexed citations

Stubbs, C. W., Kem H. Cook, Suzanne L. Hawley, et al.. (2001). A Next Generation Microlensing Survey of the LMC. 37. 1 indexed citations

Alcock, C., D. Ciarlo, Jian Ge, et al.. (1999). Adaptive optics high resolution spectroscopy: present status and future direction. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 195. 568.

Alcock, C., R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, et al.. (1997). The MACHO Project: 45 Candidate Microlensing Events from the First Year Galactic Bulge Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 479(1). 119–146. 92 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, et al.. (1997). The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. III. Multimode RR Lyrae Stars, Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, and Age of the Oldest Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 482(1). 89–97. 43 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, et al.. (1997). MACHO Project Photometry of RR Lyrae Stars in the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal. 474(1). 217–222. 20 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., R. A. Allsman, D. R. Alves, et al.. (1997). The MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 486(2). 697–726. 303 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., R. A. Allsman, T. S. Axelrod, et al.. (1995). Theory of Exploring the Dark Halo with Microlensing. I. Power-Law Models. The Astrophysical Journal. 449. 28–28. 26 indexed citations

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Bennett, D. P., C. Alcock, R. A. Allsman, et al.. (1993). The MACHO Project II: Data Reduction and Analysis of 6 Million Lightcurves. AAS. 183. 1 indexed citations

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Griest, K., C. Alcock, T. S. Axelrod, et al.. (1991). Gravitational microlensing as a method of detecting disk dark matter and faint disk stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 372. L79–L79. 47 indexed citations

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Mathews, Grant J., B. S. Meyer, C. Alcock, & George M. Fuller. (1990). Coupled baryon diffusion and nucleosynthesis in the early universe. The Astrophysical Journal. 358. 36–36. 44 indexed citations

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Sumiyoshi, Kohsuke, Toshitaka Kajino, C. Alcock, & Grant J. Mathews. (1990). Evolution of baryon number density during the cosmic quark-hadron phase transition. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(12). 3963–3968. 31 indexed citations

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Frieman, J., Angela V. Olinto, Marcelo Gleiser, & C. Alcock. (1989). Cosmic evolution of nontopological solitons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 40(10). 3241–3251. 47 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., M. Tyndel, & P. C. M. Yock. (1974). Flux of medium-energy deuterons at6 m w.e. underground. Il Nuovo cimento della Società italiana di fisica. B/Il Nuovo cimento B. 22(1). 43–48. 4 indexed citations

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Alcock, C., A. S. Chisholm, M. Tyndel, & P. C. M. Yock. (1973). Search For Massive and/or Fractionally Charged Particles. ICRC. 3(36/4). 2106–2111. 1 indexed citations

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