Evan McDonough

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Evan McDonough is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Evan McDonough has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Evan McDonough's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (24 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (23 papers). Evan McDonough is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (24 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (23 papers). Evan McDonough collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Evan McDonough's co-authors include Stephon Alexander, J. Colin Hill, Michael W. Toomey, Wayne Hu, Robert Brandenberger, Keisuke Inomata, Marco Scalisi, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Matías Zaldarriaga and Marko Simonović and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Evan McDonough

45 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Early dark energy does not restore cosmological concordance

2020 215 citations J. Colin Hill, Evan McDonough et al. Physical review. D profile →
Constraining early dark energy with large-scale structure

2020 170 citations Mikhail M. Ivanov, Evan McDonough et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Evan McDonough United States	20	1.3k	1.1k	86	76	42	47	1.4k
Adrià Gómez-Valent Spain	20	1.3k 1.0×	849 0.8×	90 1.0×	84 1.1×	75 1.8×	31	1.3k
Massimo Pietroni Italy	21	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	165 1.9×	72 0.9×	38 0.9×	49	1.5k
Micol Benetti Italy	18	948 0.7×	617 0.6×	67 0.8×	129 1.7×	41 1.0×	38	980
Lixin Xu China	26	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	111 1.3×	114 1.5×	82 2.0×	114	2.0k
J. Väliviita Finland	17	1.3k 1.0×	936 0.9×	92 1.1×	88 1.2×	20 0.5×	24	1.3k
Hermano Velten Brazil	20	1.1k 0.8×	710 0.7×	147 1.7×	121 1.6×	28 0.7×	63	1.1k
Foteini Skara Greece	8	808 0.6×	492 0.5×	67 0.8×	57 0.8×	48 1.1×	11	856
J. Borrill United States	9	946 0.7×	633 0.6×	78 0.9×	82 1.1×	39 0.9×	13	1.0k
Jiun-Huei Proty Wu United States	11	897 0.7×	594 0.6×	79 0.9×	51 0.7×	51 1.2×	23	953
Özgür Akarsu Türkiye	17	936 0.7×	686 0.6×	53 0.6×	73 1.0×	32 0.8×	44	991

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Evan McDonough

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Evan McDonough. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Evan McDonough 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 Evan McDonough. Evan McDonough 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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McDonough, Evan, et al.. (2025). BAO-CMB tension and implications for inflation. Physical review. D. 113(4).

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McDonough, Evan, J. Colin Hill, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Adrien La Posta, & Michael W. Toomey. (2024). Observational constraints on early dark energy. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 33(11). 21 indexed citations

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Kolb, Edward W., et al.. (2024). Runaway Gravitational Production of Dark Photons. Physical Review Letters. 133(6). 61602–61602. 9 indexed citations

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Kaiser, David, et al.. (2024). Natural inflation with exponentially small tensor-to-scalar ratio. Physical review. D. 110(6). 5 indexed citations

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McDonough, Evan, et al.. (2024). Swampland conjectures constraints on dark energy from a highly curved field space. Physical review. D. 110(10). 4 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2023). π-axion and π-axiverse of dark QCD. Physical review. D. 108(12). 12 indexed citations

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Kolb, Edward W., et al.. (2023). Completely dark matter from rapid-turn multifield inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 13 indexed citations

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McDonough, Evan & Marco Scalisi. (2023). Towards Early Dark Energy in string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 21 indexed citations

9.

Lin, Mengxiang, Evan McDonough, J. Colin Hill, & Wayne Hu. (2023). Dark matter trigger for early dark energy coincidence. Physical review. D. 107(10). 19 indexed citations

10.

Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2023). Early Dark Energy in Type IIB String Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(6). 19 indexed citations

11.

Maleknejad, Azadeh & Evan McDonough. (2022). Ultralight pion and superheavy baryon dark matter. Physical review. D. 106(9). 15 indexed citations

12.

Kolb, Edward W., Andrew J. Long, & Evan McDonough. (2021). Catastrophic production of slow gravitinos. Physical review. D. 104(7). 27 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2020). Chiral symmetry and the cosmological constant. Physical review. D. 102(8). 5 indexed citations

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McDonough, Evan. (2020). The cosmological heavy ion collider: Fast thermalization after cosmic inflation. Physics Letters B. 809. 135755–135755. 9 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2019). Novel Substructure and Superfluid Dark Matter. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2019). Higher spin supersymmetry at the cosmological collider: sculpting SUSY rilles in the CMB. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(10). 58 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon & Evan McDonough. (2019). Axion-dilaton destabilization and the Hubble tension. Physics Letters B. 797. 134830–134830. 82 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon & Evan McDonough. (2018). Primordial circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background. Physics Letters B. 789. 197–202. 7 indexed citations

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Каллош, Рената, Andrei Linde, Evan McDonough, & Marco Scalisi. (2018). de Sitter Vacua with a Nilpotent Superfield. Fortschritte der Physik. 67(1-2). 21 indexed citations

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Cai, Yi-Fu, et al.. (2013). Two field matter bounce cosmology. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2013(10). 24–24. 89 indexed citations

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