Ehud Nakar

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Ehud Nakar is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ehud Nakar has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 59 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 5 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Ehud Nakar's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (98 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (59 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers). Ehud Nakar is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (98 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (59 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers). Ehud Nakar collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Japan. Ehud Nakar's co-authors include Tsvi Piran, Re’em Sari, Ore Gottlieb, Omer Bromberg, Jonathan Granot, Anthony L. Piro, Amir Levinson, Kenta Hotokezaka, K. P. Mooley and Gregg Hallinan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ehud Nakar

114 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817

2018 333 citations K. P. Mooley, Adam T. Deller et al. Nature profile →
A Hubble constant measurement from superluminal motion of the jet in GW170817 (Letter to the Editor)

2019 205 citations Kenta Hotokezaka, Ehud Nakar et al. Radboud Repository (Radboud University) profile →

Peers

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P. A. Evans United Kingdom

J. Knödlseder France

Leandros Perivolaropoulos Greece

Nevin N. Weinberg United States

D. Bhattacharya India

David Branch United States

M. J. Ward United Kingdom

Niayesh Afshordi Canada

Zi-Gao Dai China

V. Kalogera United States

P. A. Evans United Kingdom

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2.8k ×0.5

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1.1k ×0.5

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143 ×0.8

INSTR

122 ×1.5

GEOPH

58 ×0.8

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Citations per year, relative to Ehud Nakar Ehud Nakar (= 1×) peers P. A. Evans

Countries citing papers authored by Ehud Nakar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ehud Nakar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ehud Nakar

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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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

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

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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Magnetically driven coupling in relativistic radiation-mediated shocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 6126–6137. 1 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud, et al.. (2023). Relativistic spherical shocks in expanding media. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 313–318. 1 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud, et al.. (2023). Analytic model for off-axis GRB afterglow images – geometry measurement and implications for measuring H0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 403–425. 13 indexed citations

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Gottlieb, Ore, et al.. (2022). Observational signatures of stellar explosions driven by relativistic jets. arXiv (Cornell University). 21 indexed citations

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Ito, Hirotaka, Amir Levinson, & Ehud Nakar. (2020). Monte Carlo simulations of fast Newtonian and mildly relativistic shock breakout from a stellar wind. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(4). 4961–4971. 10 indexed citations

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Hotokezaka, Kenta, Ehud Nakar, Ore Gottlieb, et al.. (2019). A Hubble constant measurement from superluminal motion of the jet in GW170817 (Letter to the Editor). Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 205 indexed citations breakdown →

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Irwin, Christopher M., Xiaping Tang, Tsvi Piran, & Ehud Nakar. (2019). Jet-driven bubbles in Fanaroff–Riley type-I sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(4). 4926–4936. 3 indexed citations

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Hotokezaka, Kenta & Ehud Nakar. (2019). HeatingRate: Radioactive heating rate and macronova (kilonova) light curve. ascl. 1 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Tatsuya, Kunihito Ioka, Shota Kisaka, & Ehud Nakar. (2018). Is the Macronova in GW170817 Powered by the Central Engine?. The Astrophysical Journal. 861(1). 55–55. 20 indexed citations

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Piran, Tsvi, Ehud Nakar, & Stephan Rosswog. (2013). The electromagnetic signals of compact binary mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 430(3). 2121–2136. 156 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud & Tsvi Piran. (2011). Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars. Nature. 478(7367). 82–84. 210 indexed citations

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Shaviv, Nir J., Ehud Nakar, & Tsvi Piran. (2009). Inhomogeneity in Cosmic Ray Sources as the Origin of the Electron Spectrum and the PAMELA Anomaly. Physical Review Letters. 103(11). 111302–111302. 77 indexed citations

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Cameron, P. B., P. Chandra, Alak Ray, et al.. (2005). Detection of a radio counterpart to the 27 December 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806–20. Nature. 434(7037). 1112–1115. 75 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud & Shahar Hod. (2004). Survival probabilities in time-dependent random walks. Physical Review E. 70(1). 16116–16116. 1 indexed citations

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Hod, Shahar & Ehud Nakar. (2004). Evolutionary minority game: The roles of response time and mutation threshold. Physical Review E. 69(6). 66122–66122. 3 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud & Shahar Hod. (2003). Temporal oscillations and phase transitions in the evolutionary minority game. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(1). 16109–16109. 17 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud, Tsvi Piran, & Jonathan Granot. (2002). Variability in GRB Afterglows and GRB. 40 indexed citations

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Nakar, Ehud & L. Frièdland. (1999). Passage through resonance and autoresonance inx2n-type potentials. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(5). 5479–5485. 3 indexed citations

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