Jeff Cobb

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jeff Cobb is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff Cobb has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jeff Cobb's work include Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (15 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (14 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). Jeff Cobb is often cited by papers focused on Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (15 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (14 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers). Jeff Cobb collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Jeff Cobb's co-authors include Dan Werthimer, David P. Anderson, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky, S. Bowyer, Woodruff T. Sullivan, Andrew Siemion, Paul Demorest, Andrew W. Howard and M. Lampton and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Communications of the ACM and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Jeff Cobb

22 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

SETI@home 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 200 400 600
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. SETI@home
    2002 719 citations David P. Anderson, Jeff Cobb et al. Communications of the ACM profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jeff Cobb United States 9 859 404 209 172 162 27 1.2k
Matt Lebofsky United States 13 591 0.7× 297 0.7× 121 0.6× 119 0.7× 465 2.9× 48 1.2k
Victor Pankratius Germany 15 241 0.3× 139 0.3× 182 0.9× 34 0.2× 97 0.6× 61 619
M. V. Wilkes United Kingdom 18 477 0.6× 208 0.5× 405 1.9× 26 0.2× 38 0.2× 114 1.1k
Scott Klasky United States 14 380 0.4× 128 0.3× 135 0.6× 164 1.0× 70 0.4× 52 648
Tom Peterka United States 17 340 0.4× 76 0.2× 178 0.9× 108 0.6× 83 0.5× 58 987
Ani Thakar United States 10 303 0.4× 148 0.4× 27 0.1× 135 0.8× 55 0.3× 22 480
Jay Lofstead United States 17 1.3k 1.5× 363 0.9× 545 2.6× 404 2.3× 11 0.1× 84 1.5k
Gurmeet Singh India 20 1.9k 2.2× 1.4k 3.4× 271 1.3× 1.3k 7.8× 22 0.1× 64 2.3k
A. C. Laity United States 10 1.2k 1.4× 835 2.1× 130 0.6× 952 5.5× 104 0.6× 17 1.4k
Sarah Bird China 13 154 0.2× 142 0.4× 78 0.4× 15 0.1× 318 2.0× 40 902

Countries citing papers authored by Jeff Cobb

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jeff Cobb

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jeff Cobb. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jeff Cobb. The network helps show where Jeff Cobb may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeff Cobb

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Anderson, David P., Eric Korpela, Dan Werthimer, Jeff Cobb, & B. Allen. (2025). SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings. The Astronomical Journal. 170(2). 111–111. 1 indexed citations
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Duan, Ran, Vishal Gajjar, H. Y. Zhang, et al.. (2023). An Overview of FAST Real-time Fast Radio Burst Searching System. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 23(9). 95023–95023.
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Agarwal, Devansh, D. R. Lorimer, Mayuresh Surnis, et al.. (2020). Initial results from a real-time FRB search with the GBT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 352–360. 20 indexed citations
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Foster, Griffin, A. Karastergiou, Mayuresh Surnis, et al.. (2017). ALFABURST: a commensal search for fast radio bursts with Arecibo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474(3). 3847–3856. 10 indexed citations
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Korpela, Eric, Andrew Siemion, Dan Werthimer, et al.. (2015). The next phases of SETI@home. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9606. 96060B–96060B. 2 indexed citations
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Korpela, Eric, David P. Anderson, Jeff Cobb, et al.. (2014). Status of the UC-Berkeley SETI Efforts. 8 indexed citations
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Siemion, Andrew, David P. Anderson, Jeff Cobb, et al.. (2013). Developments in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–1.
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Ford, John, Patrick T. Brandt, Jayanth Chennamangalam, et al.. (2013). Design of a multibeam spectrometer for the Green Bank Telescope. 1–1.
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Siemion, Andrew, Dan Werthimer, Debra Anderson, et al.. (2011). Developments in the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 487. 1–4.
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Korpela, Eric, Jeff Cobb, Matt Lebofsky, et al.. (2004). Three Years of SETI@home: A Status Report. Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 213. 419–422. 3 indexed citations
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Anderson, David P., Jeff Cobb, Eric Korpela, Matt Lebofsky, & Dan Werthimer. (2002). SETI@home. Communications of the ACM. 45(11). 56–61. 719 indexed citations breakdown →
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Werthimer, Dan, David P. Anderson, C. Stuart Bowyer, et al.. (2001). <title>Berkeley radio and optical SETI programs: SETI@home, SERENDIP, and SEVENDIP</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4273. 104–109. 19 indexed citations
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Korpela, Eric, et al.. (2001). SETI@home-massively distributed computing for SETI. Computing in Science & Engineering. 3(1). 78–83. 239 indexed citations
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Werthimer, Dan, S. Bowyer, Jeff Cobb, Matt Lebofsky, & M. Lampton. (2000). The Serendip IV Arecibo Sky Survey. ASPC. 213. 479. 1 indexed citations
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Gómez, José F., Àlvaro Giménez, Stuart Bowyer, et al.. (2000). Far‐Ultraviolet Absolute Flux of α Virginis. The Astrophysical Journal. 530(1). 403–407. 5 indexed citations
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Anderson, D. R., Dan Werthimer, Jeff Cobb, et al.. (2000). SETI@home: Internet Distributed Computing for SETI. 213. 511. 4 indexed citations
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Werthimer, Dan, et al.. (1997). The Berkeley Seti Program: Serendip IV Instrumentation. International Astronomical Union Colloquium. 161. 683–688. 4 indexed citations
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Bowyer, S., et al.. (1997). Twenty Years of Serendip, The Berkeley Seti Effort: Past Results and Future Plans. International Astronomical Union Colloquium. 161. 667–676. 5 indexed citations
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Werthimer, Dan, et al.. (1996). <title>SERENDIP SETI project: new instrumentation for SETI and results of the recent Arecibo sky survey</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2704. 9–15.

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