Christoph Weniger

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Christoph Weniger is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Weniger has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 56 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Christoph Weniger's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (58 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (40 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (36 papers). Christoph Weniger is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (58 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (40 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (36 papers). Christoph Weniger collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Christoph Weniger's co-authors include Pat Scott, Torsten Bringmann, Richard Bartels, James M. Cline, Kimmo Kainulainen, Ilias Cholis, Francesca Calore, T. Edwards, Alejandro Ibarra and Christopher McCabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Weniger

82 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Update on scalar singlet dark matter 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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.

  1. Update on scalar singlet dark matter
    2013 393 citations James M. Cline, Pat Scott et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christoph Weniger Netherlands 32 2.7k 2.2k 232 112 85 84 3.1k
Hsi-Yu Schive Taiwan 17 1.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.8× 234 1.0× 39 0.3× 155 1.8× 37 2.0k
M. Raidal Estonia 48 6.5k 2.4× 4.2k 1.9× 329 1.4× 84 0.8× 197 2.3× 149 7.3k
Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine United States 24 1.6k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 218 0.9× 152 1.4× 111 1.3× 49 2.2k
Matthew Reece United States 29 2.4k 0.9× 1.6k 0.7× 183 0.8× 49 0.4× 220 2.6× 60 2.6k
Tracy R. Slatyer United States 35 5.4k 2.0× 4.5k 2.0× 358 1.5× 49 0.4× 175 2.1× 85 5.8k
F. S. Guzmán Mexico 23 1.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 264 1.1× 39 0.3× 225 2.6× 95 1.7k
Michael S. Turner United States 7 2.4k 0.9× 2.3k 1.1× 249 1.1× 26 0.2× 313 3.7× 13 2.9k
N. Fornengo Italy 43 5.3k 2.0× 3.3k 1.5× 385 1.7× 40 0.4× 91 1.1× 123 5.5k
Steen Hannestad Denmark 44 5.1k 1.9× 4.1k 1.9× 203 0.9× 41 0.4× 227 2.7× 134 5.8k
Luca Marzola Estonia 23 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 270 1.2× 116 1.0× 103 1.2× 68 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Weniger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Weniger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christoph Weniger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christoph Weniger 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 Christoph Weniger. Christoph Weniger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Alvey, James, U. Bhardwaj, Valerie Domcke, Mauro Pieroni, & Christoph Weniger. (2025). Leveraging time-dependent instrumental noise for the LISA stochastic gravitational wave background analysis. Physical review. D. 111(10). 1 indexed citations
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Weniger, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Numerical analysis of resonant axion-photon mixing. Physical review. D. 110(8). 7 indexed citations
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Prabhu, Anirudh, et al.. (2024). Axion Clouds around Neutron Stars. Physical Review X. 14(4). 8 indexed citations
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Alvey, James, et al.. (2024). Scalable inference with autoregressive neural ratio estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 4107–4124. 7 indexed citations
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Prabhu, Anirudh, et al.. (2023). Novel Constraints on Axions Produced in Pulsar Polar-Cap Cascades. Physical Review Letters. 131(11). 111004–111004. 54 indexed citations
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Coogan, Adam, et al.. (2023). The effect of the perturber population on subhalo measurements in strong gravitational lenses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 66–78. 11 indexed citations
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Trotta, Roberto, et al.. (2022). SICRET: Supernova Ia Cosmology with truncated marginal neural Ratio EsTimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 1056–1072. 20 indexed citations
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Coogan, Adam, et al.. (2022). Estimating the warm dark matter mass from strong lensing images with truncated marginal neural ratio estimation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(2). 2746–2760. 22 indexed citations
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Coogan, Adam, et al.. (2022). Strong-lensing source reconstruction with variationally optimized Gaussian processes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(1). 661–685. 11 indexed citations
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Coogan, Adam, T. Edwards, Horng Sheng Chia, et al.. (2022). Efficient gravitational wave template bank generation with differentiable waveforms. Physical review. D. 106(12). 15 indexed citations
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Edwards, T., Bradley J. Kavanagh, Luca Visinelli, & Christoph Weniger. (2021). Transient Radio Signatures from Neutron Star Encounters with QCD Axion Miniclusters. Physical Review Letters. 127(13). 131103–131103. 40 indexed citations
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Foster, Joshua W., Yonatan Kahn, Oscar Macías, et al.. (2020). Green Bank and Effelsberg Radio Telescope Searches for Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres. Physical Review Letters. 125(17). 171301–171301. 70 indexed citations
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Bartels, Richard, Daniele Gaggero, & Christoph Weniger. (2017). Prospects for indirect dark matter searches with MeV photons. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2017(5). 1–1. 44 indexed citations
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Bringmann, Torsten & Christoph Weniger. (2016). Gamma Ray Signals from Dark Matter: Concepts, Status and Prospects. 78 indexed citations
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Calore, Francesca, Ilias Cholis, Carmelo Evoli, et al.. (2016). Unveiling the nature of the “Fermi GeV excess”: robust characterisation and possible interpretations. Proceedings of The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015). 915–915. 2 indexed citations
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Weniger, Christoph, Pasquale Dario Serpico, Fabio Iocco, & Gianfranco Bertone. (2013). CMB bounds on dark matter annihilation: Nucleon energy losses after recombination. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(12). 29 indexed citations
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Cline, James M., Pat Scott, Kimmo Kainulainen, & Christoph Weniger. (2013). Update on scalar singlet dark matter. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(5). 393 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vertongen, Gilles & Christoph Weniger. (2011). Hunting 1-500 GeV Dark Matter Gamma-Ray Lines with the Fermi LAT. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Ibarra, Alejandro, Andreas Ringwald, David Tran, & Christoph Weniger. (2009). Cosmic Rays from Leptophilic Dark Matter Decay via Kinetic Mixing. 33 indexed citations

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