Carl L. Rodriguez

11.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
64 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Carl L. Rodriguez is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl L. Rodriguez has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Carl L. Rodriguez's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (34 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (31 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers). Carl L. Rodriguez is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (34 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (31 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers). Carl L. Rodriguez collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Carl L. Rodriguez's co-authors include Frederic A. Rasio, Sourav Chatterjee, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, Kyle Kremer, M. Zevin, C.‐J. Haster, Meagan Morscher, Claire S. Ye, Bharath Pattabiraman and Johan Samsing 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

Carl L. Rodriguez

59 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Binary black hole mergers from globular clusters: Masses, merger rates, and the impact of stellar evolution

2016 385 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Sourav Chatterjee et al. Physical review. D profile →
Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO

2015 290 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Meagan Morscher et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers

2018 229 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Pau Amaro‐Seoane et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties

2019 212 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, M. Zevin et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carl L. Rodriguez United States	32	3.4k	454	271	216	128	64	3.6k
Hyung Mok Lee South Korea	28	2.0k 0.6×	331 0.7×	84 0.3×	514 2.4×	54 0.4×	118	2.3k
Rodrigo Fernández United States	26	2.4k 0.7×	848 1.9×	158 0.6×	60 0.3×	51 0.4×	67	2.6k
William M. Wolf United States	6	1.1k 0.3×	109 0.2×	58 0.2×	282 1.3×	27 0.2×	8	1.3k
Jonathan Granot United States	37	3.8k 1.1×	1.7k 3.8×	101 0.4×	148 0.7×	23 0.2×	119	3.9k
K. Scherer Germany	24	1.5k 0.4×	311 0.7×	55 0.2×	27 0.1×	34 0.3×	103	1.7k
Kenta Hotokezaka Japan	27	3.4k 1.0×	910 2.0×	393 1.5×	61 0.3×	240 1.9×	55	3.5k
M. J. Keith United Kingdom	29	2.6k 0.7×	665 1.5×	301 1.1×	35 0.2×	527 4.1×	101	2.7k
Stephen P. Reynolds United States	36	3.7k 1.1×	3.1k 6.9×	63 0.2×	44 0.2×	31 0.2×	127	4.0k
Patrick Slane United States	31	2.9k 0.8×	2.3k 5.1×	128 0.5×	25 0.1×	77 0.6×	146	3.1k
Kunihito Ioka Japan	32	3.2k 0.9×	1.7k 3.6×	112 0.4×	105 0.5×	51 0.4×	114	3.5k

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El-Badry, Kareem, et al.. (2025). Realistic Predictions for Gaia Black Hole Discoveries: Comparison of Isolated Binary and Dynamical Formation Models. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 137(4). 44202–44202. 4 indexed citations

Carlo, Ugo N Di, et al.. (2024). Young Star Clusters Dominate the Production of Detached Black Hole–Star Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(1). 22–22. 9 indexed citations

Andrews, Jeff J., et al.. (2023). Weighing the Darkness. II. Astrometric Measurement of Partial Orbits with Gaia. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 111–111. 3 indexed citations

Hurley, Jarrod R., et al.. (2023). Modelling stellar evolution in mass-transferring binaries and gravitational-wave progenitors with metisse. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(1). 933–951. 11 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Carl L., et al.. (2022). On the Mass Ratio Distribution of Black Hole Mergers in Triple Systems. The Astrophysical Journal. 937(2). 78–78. 14 indexed citations

Ye, Claire S., Kyle Kremer, Carl L. Rodriguez, et al.. (2022). Compact Object Modeling in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(2). 84–84. 20 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Carl L., Scott Coughlin, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, et al.. (2022). Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 258(2). 22–22. 72 indexed citations

Grudić, Michael Y, Zachary Hafen, Carl L. Rodriguez, et al.. (2022). Great balls of FIRE – I. The formation of star clusters across cosmic time in a Milky Way-mass galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(1). 1366–1380.

Rui, Nicholas Z., Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, et al.. (2021). Matching Globular Cluster Models to Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 912(2). 102–102. 16 indexed citations

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Fragione, Giacomo, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, et al.. (2020). Demographics of Triple Systems in Dense Star Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(1). 16–16. 16 indexed citations

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Kremer, Kyle, Sourav Chatterjee, Claire S. Ye, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2019). How Initial Size Governs Core Collapse in Globular Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 38–38. 61 indexed citations

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Rodriguez, Carl L., M. Zevin, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, et al.. (2019). Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties. Physical review. D. 100(4). 212 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kremer, Kyle, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2019). The Role of “black hole burning” in the evolution of dense star clusters. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14(S351). 357–366. 18 indexed citations

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Zevin, M., Johan Samsing, Carl L. Rodriguez, C.‐J. Haster, & E. Ramírez-Ruiz. (2019). Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters: The Role of Binary–Binary Encounters. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 91–91. 171 indexed citations

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Kremer, Kyle, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2018). How Black Holes Shape Globular Clusters: Modeling NGC 3201. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 855(2). L15–L15. 48 indexed citations

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Kremer, Kyle, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2018). Accreting Black Hole Binaries in Globular Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 852(1). 29–29. 40 indexed citations

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Rodriguez, Carl L., Pau Amaro‐Seoane, Sourav Chatterjee, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2018). Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers. Physical Review Letters. 120(15). 151101–151101. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kremer, Kyle, Sourav Chatterjee, Katelyn Breivik, et al.. (2018). LISA Sources in Milky Way Globular Clusters. Physical Review Letters. 120(19). 191103–191103. 45 indexed citations

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Rodriguez, Carl L., Meagan Morscher, Bharath Pattabiraman, et al.. (2015). Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO. Physical Review Letters. 115(5). 51101–51101. 290 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gair, Jonathan R., Ilya Mandel, & Carl L. Rodriguez. (2012). Verifying the no-hair property of massive compact objects with intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in advanced gravitational-wave detectors. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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