Dan Maoz

14.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
97 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Dan Maoz is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Maoz has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 24 papers in Instrumentation and 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Dan Maoz's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (46 papers). Dan Maoz is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (50 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (46 papers). Dan Maoz collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Dan Maoz's co-authors include H. Netzer, S. Kaspi, B. M. Peterson, M. Vestergaard, Richard W. Pogge, Hans‐Walter Rix, A. V. Filippenko, Christopher A. Onken, Laura Ferrarese and Amri Wandel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Dan Maoz

95 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Central Masses and Broad‐Line Region Sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei. II. A Homogeneous Analysis of a Large Reverberation‐Mapping Database

2004 1.0k citations B. M. Peterson, S. Kaspi et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Relationship between Luminosity and Broad‐Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei

2005 485 citations S. Kaspi, Dan Maoz et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger

2017 314 citations D. Poznanski, Dan Maoz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Maoz Israel	32	5.0k	1.3k	939	236	100	97	5.1k
A. Georgakakis Greece	31	3.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	109 0.5×	90 0.9×	113	4.1k
G. Risaliti Italy	43	6.6k 1.3×	2.3k 1.8×	979 1.0×	174 0.7×	72 0.7×	142	6.7k
Aaron J. Barth United States	40	4.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	227 1.0×	124 1.2×	128	4.8k
J. P. U. Fynbo Denmark	45	6.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 2.0×	143 0.6×	69 0.7×	343	6.7k
Robert Antonucci United States	39	7.0k 1.4×	2.7k 2.0×	1.1k 1.1×	181 0.8×	63 0.6×	125	7.2k
K. T. Korista United States	38	4.8k 1.0×	904 0.7×	726 0.8×	584 2.5×	57 0.6×	104	5.2k
B. Koribalski Australia	33	3.7k 0.7×	816 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	132 0.6×	75 0.8×	201	3.8k
M. J. Page United Kingdom	29	3.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	599 0.6×	118 0.5×	79 0.8×	125	3.4k
Harry I. Teplitz United States	37	4.6k 0.9×	505 0.4×	1.6k 1.8×	232 1.0×	75 0.8×	125	4.7k
John T. Stocke United States	40	5.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.9×	924 1.0×	117 0.5×	68 0.7×	172	5.6k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maoz, Dan & Ehud Nakar. (2025). The Neutron Star Merger Delay-time Distribution, R-process “Knees,” and the Metal Budget of the Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(2). 179–179. 3 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Ósmar, Dan Maoz, & Ehud Nakar. (2023). The Iron Yield of Core-collapse Supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 71–71. 23 indexed citations

Loeb, Abraham & Dan Maoz. (2022). A Hot Subdwarf Model for the 18.18 minutes Pulsar GLEAM-X. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(2). 27–27. 14 indexed citations

Kaspi, S., W. N. Brandt, Dan Maoz, et al.. (2021). Taking a Long Look: A Two-decade Reverberation Mapping Study of High-luminosity Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 915(2). 129–129. 28 indexed citations

Hallakoun, Na’ama & Dan Maoz. (2021). A bottom-heavy initial mass function for the likely-accreted blue-halo stars of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(1). 398–413. 25 indexed citations

Freundlich, Jonathan & Dan Maoz. (2021). The delay time distribution of Type-Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters: the impact of extended star-formation histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(4). 5882–5895. 23 indexed citations

Maoz, Dan, Na’ama Hallakoun, & Carles Badenes. (2018). The separation distribution and merger rate of double white dwarfs: improved constraints. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476(2). 2584–2590. 72 indexed citations

Hallakoun, Na’ama, Dan Maoz, Mukremin Kilic, et al.. (2016). SDSS J1152+0248: an eclipsing double white dwarf from theKeplerK2campaign. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 458(1). 845–854. 28 indexed citations

Graur, Or, et al.. (2014). Spectroscopic identification of a redshift 1.55 supernova host galaxy from the Subaru Deep Field Supernova Survey. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Horesh, A., Dan Maoz, Stefan Hilbert, & Matthias Bartelmann. (2011). Lensed arc statistics: comparison of Millennium simulation galaxy clusters to Hubble Space Telescope observations of an X-ray selected sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 418(1). 54–63. 16 indexed citations

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Pian, E., P. Romano, Dan Maoz, et al.. (2009). Variability and spectral energy distributions of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei: a simultaneous X-ray/UV look withSwift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 401(1). 677–686. 31 indexed citations

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Schweitzer, Mario, E. Sturm, D. Lutz, et al.. (2005). Discovery of 10 Mu.m silicate emission in quasars. - Evidence of the AGN unification scheme.. Astronomische Nachrichten. 326. 556–556. 4 indexed citations

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Kaspi, S., Dan Maoz, H. Netzer, et al.. (2005). The Relationship between Luminosity and Broad‐Line Region Size in Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 629(1). 61–71. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

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Maoz, Dan, A. Markowitz, Rick Edelson, & K. Nandra. (2002). X-Ray versus Optical Variations in the Seyfert 1 Nucleus NGC 3516: A Puzzling Disconnectedness. The Astronomical Journal. 124(4). 1988–1994. 34 indexed citations

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Gal‐Yam, A., Dan Maoz, & Puragra Guhathakurta. (2000). Supernova 1999ct and No Supernova 1999cv. IAUC. 7356. 2.

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Maoz, Dan, et al.. (1997). Astronomical time series : proceedings of the Florence and George Wise Observatory, 25th anniversary symposium, held in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 30 December, 1996-1 January, 1997. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Maoz, Dan, Hans‐Walter Rix, A. Gal‐Yam, & Andrew Gould. (1997). A Survey for Large–Image Separation Lensed Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 486(1). 75–84. 54 indexed citations

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Bahcall, John N., G. Hartig, Buell T. Jannuzi, Dan Maoz, & Donald P. Schneider. (1992). Faint object spectrograph observations of the large-redshift gravitational lens candidate 1208+1011. The Astrophysical Journal. 400. L51–L51. 2 indexed citations

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Maoz, Dan. (1990). Emission line variability in active galactic nuclei. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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Maoz, Dan, H. Netzer, Ε. M. Leibowitz, et al.. (1990). High-rate spectroscopic active galactic nucleus monitoring at the Wise Observatory. I - Markarian 279. The Astrophysical Journal. 351. 75–75. 19 indexed citations

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