Ilias Cholis

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ilias Cholis is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilias Cholis has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 47 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ilias Cholis's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (34 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (25 papers). Ilias Cholis is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (34 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (25 papers). Ilias Cholis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Greece. Ilias Cholis's co-authors include Dan Hooper, Marc Kamionkowski, Ely D. Kovetz, Simeon Bird, Tim Linden, Julián B. Muñoz, Alvise Raccanelli, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Adam G. Riess and Neal Weiner and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Optics Express.

In The Last Decade

Ilias Cholis

61 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 250 500 750
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.

  1. Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?
    2016 779 citations Simeon Bird, Ilias Cholis et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ilias Cholis United States 28 2.5k 2.5k 172 96 47 62 3.3k
Dario Grasso Italy 23 2.0k 0.8× 1.5k 0.6× 137 0.8× 98 1.0× 50 1.1× 71 2.3k
Tim Linden United States 31 2.6k 1.0× 2.1k 0.8× 189 1.1× 18 0.2× 66 1.4× 95 2.8k
Terry P. Walker United States 26 2.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 123 0.7× 62 0.6× 135 2.9× 52 2.6k
Г. С. Бисноватый-Коган Russia 24 1.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 112 0.7× 48 0.5× 87 1.9× 166 2.1k
Kunihito Ioka Japan 32 1.7k 0.6× 3.2k 1.3× 91 0.5× 51 0.5× 35 0.7× 114 3.5k
Richard Brito Portugal 30 2.1k 0.8× 2.9k 1.2× 296 1.7× 97 1.0× 169 3.6× 53 3.0k
A. Witzel Germany 23 1.9k 0.8× 2.1k 0.9× 76 0.4× 47 0.5× 23 0.5× 153 2.2k
G. Ghirlanda Italy 38 1.8k 0.7× 4.0k 1.6× 34 0.2× 24 0.3× 42 0.9× 136 4.1k
Luca Visinelli China 28 2.3k 0.9× 2.7k 1.1× 204 1.2× 95 1.0× 197 4.2× 63 2.9k
Kimberly K. Boddy United States 21 1.3k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 143 0.8× 44 0.5× 76 1.6× 40 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ilias Cholis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ilias Cholis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilias Cholis

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2025). On the mass distribution of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA events. Physical review. D. 111(4). 2 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2025). Simulating binary primordial black hole mergers in dark matter halos. Physical review. D. 111(6).
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Zhong, Yi-Ming & Ilias Cholis. (2024). Robustness of the Galactic Center excess morphology against masking. Physical review. D. 109(12). 5 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2024). Scrutinizing the isotropic gamma-ray background in search of dark matter. Physical review. D. 110(10). 2 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2023). Possible Counterpart Signal of the Fermi Bubbles at the Cosmic-Ray Positrons. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 120–120. 1 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2022). Can Thorne-Żytkow objects source GW190814-type events?. Physical review. D. 105(12). 3 indexed citations
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Poulin, Vivian, P. Salati, Ilias Cholis, Marc Kamionkowski, & Joseph Silk. (2020). Where do AMS-02 anti-helium events come from?. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 74–74. 2 indexed citations
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Zhong, Yi-Ming, Samuel D. McDermott, Ilias Cholis, & Patrick J. Fox. (2020). Testing the Sensitivity of the Galactic Center Excess to the Point Source Mask. Physical Review Letters. 124(23). 231103–231103. 35 indexed citations
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Kovetz, Ely D., Ilias Cholis, Patrick C. Breysse, & Marc Kamionkowski. (2017). Black hole mass function from gravitational wave measurements. Physical review. D. 95(10). 71 indexed citations
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Hooper, Dan, Ilias Cholis, Tim Linden, & Ke Fang. (2017). HAWC observations strongly favor pulsar interpretations of the cosmic-ray positron excess. Physical review. D. 96(10). 93 indexed citations
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Bird, Simeon, Ilias Cholis, Julián B. Muñoz, et al.. (2016). Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?. Physical Review Letters. 116(20). 201301–201301. 779 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mandic, Vuk, Simeon Bird, & Ilias Cholis. (2016). Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background due to Primordial Binary Black Hole Mergers. Physical Review Letters. 117(20). 201102–201102. 86 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, Ely D. Kovetz, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, et al.. (2016). Orbital eccentricities in primordial black hole binaries. Physical review. D. 94(8). 76 indexed citations
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Calore, Francesca, Ilias Cholis, Carmelo Evoli, et al.. (2016). Unveiling the nature of the “Fermi GeV excess”: robust characterisation and possible interpretations. Proceedings of The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015). 915–915. 2 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2014). Constraints on dark matter annihilations from diffuse gamma-ray emission in the Galaxy. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2014(1). 17–17. 20 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias & Dan Hooper. (2014). Constraining the origin of the rising cosmic ray positron fraction with the boron-to-carbon ratio. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(4). 38 indexed citations
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Bergström, Lars, Torsten Bringmann, Ilias Cholis, Dan Hooper, & Christoph Weniger. (2013). New Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Cosmic Ray Positron Data. Physical Review Letters. 111(17). 171101–171101. 162 indexed citations
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Hooper, Dan, Ilias Cholis, Tim Linden, Jennifer M. Siegal‐Gaskins, & Tracy R. Slatyer. (2013). Millisecond pulsars cannot account for the inner Galaxy’s GeV excess. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(8). 109 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, Gregory Dobler, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, L. Goodenough, & Neal Weiner. (2008). The Case for a 700+ GeV WIMP: Cosmic Ray Spectra from ATIC and PAMELA. arXiv (Cornell University). 28 indexed citations

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