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

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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.

A Relativist's Toolkit

2004 645 citations Eric Poisson profile →
Gravity

2014 524 citations Eric Poisson et al. 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 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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Eric Poisson	7.9k	4.8k	1.2k	802	656	111	8.4k
Emanuele Berti	15.2k 1.9×	8.4k 1.8×	1.0k 0.9×	977 1.2×	703 1.1×	233	15.9k
Paolo Pani	10.3k 1.3×	6.7k 1.4×	681 0.6×	752 0.9×	631 1.0×	181	10.7k
Nicolás Yunes	10.7k 1.3×	5.5k 1.2×	700 0.6×	524 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	230	11.1k
R. Ruffini	5.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	799 0.7×	900 1.1×	244 0.4×	329	6.0k
Misao Sasaki	11.4k 1.4×	8.1k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	699 0.9×	997 1.5×	272	11.8k
Robert V. Wagoner	5.0k 0.6×	3.3k 0.7×	632 0.5×	554 0.7×	375 0.6×	99	5.9k
Bernd Brügmann	7.6k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	427 0.4×	195 0.2×	685 1.0×	121	8.0k
Friedrich W. Hehl	6.1k 0.8×	5.2k 1.1×	2.5k 2.2×	1.4k 1.8×	433 0.7×	149	7.7k
Vítor Cardoso	18.6k 2.3×	13.8k 2.9×	2.0k 1.7×	1.9k 2.3×	500 0.8×	300	19.7k
Frans Pretorius	5.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	374 0.3×	285 0.4×	382 0.6×	84	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Poisson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Poisson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Poisson

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All Works

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Poisson, Eric. (2025). Mukkamala-Pereñiguez master function for even-parity perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime. General Relativity and Gravitation. 57(2). 1 indexed citations

Poisson, Eric, et al.. (2025). Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals. Physical review. D. 112(8). 4 indexed citations

Bonga, Béatrice, Xisco Jiménez Forteza, B. Krishnan, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear Ringdown at the Black Hole Horizon. Physical Review Letters. 131(23). 231401–231401. 24 indexed citations

Poisson, Eric. (2021). Tidally induced multipole moments of a nonrotating black hole vanish to all post-Newtonian orders. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations

Landry, Philippe & Eric Poisson. (2015). Dynamical response to a stationary tidal field. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(12). 23 indexed citations

Poisson, Eric, et al.. (2014). Self-force on a charge outside a five-dimensional black hole. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(12). 14 indexed citations

Zimmerman, Peter & Eric Poisson. (2014). Gravitational self-force in nonvacuum spacetimes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(8). 14 indexed citations

Chatziioannou, Katerina, Eric Poisson, & Nicolás Yunes. (2013). Tidal heating and torquing of a Kerr black hole to next-to-leading order in the tidal coupling. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(4). 48 indexed citations

Poisson, Eric, Adam Pound, & Ian Vega. (2011). The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime. arXiv (Cornell University). 14(1). 7–7. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vega, Ian, et al.. (2011). Intrinsic and extrinsic geometries of a tidally deformed black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 28(17). 175006–175006. 24 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric, et al.. (2009). Relativistic theory of tidal Love numbers. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(8). 483 indexed citations breakdown →

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Poisson, Eric. (2005). Metric of a Tidally Distorted Nonrotating Black Hole. Physical Review Letters. 94(16). 161103–161103. 53 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric, et al.. (2001). Regular coordinate systems for Schwarzschild and other spherical spacetimes. American Journal of Physics. 69(4). 476–480. 113 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric. (1998). Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: The quadrupole-moment term. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 57(8). 5287–5290. 180 indexed citations

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Droz, Serge & Eric Poisson. (1997). Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries: Second post-Newtonian waveforms as search templates. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 56(8). 4449–4454. 16 indexed citations

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Marković, Dragoljub & Eric Poisson. (1995). Classical Stability and Quantum Instability of Black-Hole Cauchy Horizons. Physical Review Letters. 74(8). 1280–1283. 22 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric. (1993). Gravitational-wave astronomy.. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. 87(1). 234–243.

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Poisson, Eric. (1991). Quadratic gravity as hair tonic for black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 8(4). 639–650. 12 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric & W. Israel. (1989). Inner-horizon instability and mass inflation in black holes. Physical Review Letters. 63(16). 1663–1666. 215 indexed citations

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Poisson, Eric & W. Israel. (1988). Structure of the black hole nucleus. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 5(12). L201–L205. 109 indexed citations

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