Eric Poisson

12.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
111 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Eric Poisson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Poisson has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 56 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Eric Poisson's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (68 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (48 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (47 papers). Eric Poisson is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (68 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (48 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (47 papers). Eric Poisson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Eric Poisson's co-authors include Clifford M. Will, W. Israel, Adam Pound, Ian Vega, Matt Visser, Curt Cutler, Daniel Kennefick, Philippe Landry, P. R. Brady and Misao Sasaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Eric Poisson

109 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A Relativist's Toolkit

2004 645 citations Eric Poisson profile →
Gravity

2014 524 citations Eric Poisson, Clifford M. Will profile →
Internal structure of black holes

1990 489 citations Eric Poisson, W. Israel Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Relativistic theory of tidal Love numbers

2009 483 citations Eric Poisson et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime

2011 480 citations Eric Poisson, Adam Pound et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics

2004 447 citations Eric Poisson CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
The last three minutes: Issues in gravitational-wave measurements of coalescing compact binaries

1993 338 citations Dragoljub Marković, Eric Poisson et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Poisson

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Poisson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Poisson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Eric Poisson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Eric Poisson 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 Eric Poisson. Eric Poisson 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Mukkamala-Pereñiguez master function for even-parity perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime 2025 ·General Relativity and Gravitation ·Eric Poisson	1
2	Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals 2025 ·Physical review. D ·(unknown), Eric Poisson	4
3	Nonlinear Ringdown at the Black Hole Horizon 2023 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Béatrice Bonga, Xisco Jiménez Forteza, B. Krishnan, Eric Poisson, (unknown), Erik Schnetter, Huan Yang	24
4	Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts 2022 ·Notices of the American Mathematical Society ·Eric Poisson	20
5	Tidally induced multipole moments of a nonrotating black hole vanish to all post-Newtonian orders 2021 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Eric Poisson	16
6	Dynamical response to a stationary tidal field 2015 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·Philippe Landry, Eric Poisson	23
7	Gravitational self-force in nonvacuum spacetimes 2014 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·Peter Zimmerman, Eric Poisson	14
8	Self-force on a charge outside a five-dimensional black hole 2014 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·(unknown), Eric Poisson, (unknown)	14
9	Gravity: Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic 2014 ·CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Eric Poisson, Clifford M. Will	206
10	The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime breakdown → 2011 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Eric Poisson, Adam Pound, Ian Vega	480
11	Tidal interaction of a small black hole in the field of a large Kerr black hole 2009 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·(unknown), Eric Poisson	14
12	Nonrotating black hole in a post-Newtonian tidal environment 2008 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·(unknown), Eric Poisson	63
13	Metric of a Tidally Distorted Nonrotating Black Hole 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·Eric Poisson	53
14	Micromegas, a microstrip detector for Compass 2001 ·Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment ·P. Abbon, J. Ball, Y. Bedfer, C. Carasco, E. Delagnes, D. Durand, J.C. Faivre, H. Fonvieille, A. Giganon, F. Kunne, J.M. Le Goff, F. Lehar, A. Magnon, D. Neyret, (unknown), H. Pereira, S. Platchkov, Eric Poisson, P. Rebourgeard, D. Thers	7
15	Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: Second post-Newtonian waveforms as search templates 1997 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Serge Droz, Eric Poisson	16
16	Classical Stability and Quantum Instability of Black-Hole Cauchy Horizons 1995 ·Physical Review Letters ·Dragoljub Marković, Eric Poisson	22
17	Gravitational-wave astronomy. 1993 ·Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ·Eric Poisson	0
18	How singular are black hole interiors? 1991 ·Physics Letters A ·Roberto Balbinot, P. R. Brady, W. Israel, Eric Poisson	13
19	Inner-horizon instability and mass inflation in black holes 1989 ·Physical Review Letters ·Eric Poisson, W. Israel	215
20	Structure of the black hole nucleus 1988 ·Classical and Quantum Gravity ·Eric Poisson, W. Israel	109

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