Johan Samsing

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Johan Samsing is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Johan Samsing has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Johan Samsing's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (37 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (28 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers). Johan Samsing is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (37 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (28 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers). Johan Samsing collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Japan. Johan Samsing's co-authors include Daniel J. D’Orazio, E. Ramírez-Ruiz, Morgan MacLeod, Carl L. Rodriguez, M. Zevin, Kyle Kremer, C.‐J. Haster, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Adrian S. Hamers and Zoltán Haiman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Johan Samsing

43 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Eccentric black hole mergers forming in globular clusters 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 50 100 150 200
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. Eccentric black hole mergers forming in globular clusters
    2018 233 citations Johan Samsing Physical review. D profile →
  2. AGN as potential factories for eccentric black hole mergers
    2022 149 citations Johan Samsing, I. Bartos et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Johan Samsing United States 18 1.8k 229 194 69 54 47 1.8k
M. Favata United States 14 1.1k 0.6× 251 1.1× 160 0.8× 127 1.8× 56 1.0× 21 1.1k
Daniel J. D’Orazio United States 22 1.6k 0.9× 280 1.2× 91 0.5× 37 0.5× 20 0.4× 55 1.7k
S. Yoshida Japan 20 1.1k 0.6× 362 1.6× 135 0.7× 82 1.2× 47 0.9× 49 1.1k
Eric Pfahl United States 17 1.5k 0.8× 198 0.9× 197 1.0× 70 1.0× 20 0.4× 23 1.5k
Stanislav Babak Germany 9 1.1k 0.6× 368 1.6× 63 0.3× 107 1.6× 44 0.8× 11 1.1k
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez Australia 20 1.5k 0.8× 166 0.7× 60 0.3× 58 0.8× 23 0.4× 42 1.6k
Coenraad J. Neijssel United Kingdom 15 1.4k 0.8× 153 0.7× 63 0.3× 58 0.8× 17 0.3× 16 1.5k
V. Lipunov Russia 17 1.2k 0.7× 275 1.2× 118 0.6× 71 1.0× 41 0.8× 143 1.2k
Umin Lee Japan 15 1.1k 0.6× 58 0.3× 295 1.5× 88 1.3× 64 1.2× 43 1.2k
Yuk Tung Liu United States 21 1.5k 0.9× 418 1.8× 137 0.7× 47 0.7× 34 0.6× 27 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Johan Samsing

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Fields of papers citing papers by Johan Samsing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johan Samsing

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Johan Samsing. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Johan Samsing 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 Johan Samsing. Johan Samsing 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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Fabj, Gaia, et al.. (2025). Prompt gravitational-wave mergers aided by gas in active galactic nuclei: the hydrodynamics of binary-single black hole scatterings. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(2). 1501–1515. 8 indexed citations
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Trani, Alessandro A., et al.. (2025). The formation of mini-AGN discs around IMBHs and their dynamical implications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 1220–1231. 5 indexed citations
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Fabj, Gaia, Alexander J. Dittmann, Matteo Cantiello, Rosalba Perna, & Johan Samsing. (2025). Mapping the Outcomes of Stellar Evolution in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(1). 16–16. 7 indexed citations
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Zwick, Lorenz, et al.. (2025). The construction and use of dephasing prescriptions for environmental effects in gravitational wave astronomy. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(21). 215006–215006. 2 indexed citations
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Samsing, Johan, et al.. (2025). Gravitational-wave Phase Shifts in Eccentric Black Hole Mergers as a Probe of Dynamical Formation Environments. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 211–211. 1 indexed citations
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Zwick, Lorenz, et al.. (2025). Eccentric Features in the Gravitational-wave Phase of Dynamically Formed Black Hole Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(2). 252–252. 3 indexed citations
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D’Orazio, Daniel J., et al.. (2024). Gaseous Dynamical Friction on Elliptical Keplerian Orbits. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 216–216. 9 indexed citations
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Fabj, Gaia & Johan Samsing. (2024). Eccentric mergers in AGN discs: influence of the supermassive black hole on three-body interactions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(4). 3630–3645. 17 indexed citations
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Samsing, Johan, I. Bartos, Daniel J. D’Orazio, et al.. (2022). AGN as potential factories for eccentric black hole mergers. Nature. 603(7900). 237–240. 149 indexed citations breakdown →
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Romero-Shaw, I. M., Kyle Kremer, P. D. Lasky, E. Thrane, & Johan Samsing. (2021). Gravitational waves as a probe of globular cluster formation and evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 2362–2372. 16 indexed citations
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Veske, Doğa, Zsuzsa Márka, Andrew G. Sullivan, et al.. (2020). Have hierarchical three-body mergers been detected by LIGO/Virgo?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 498(1). L46–L52. 15 indexed citations
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Hamers, Adrian S. & Johan Samsing. (2020). Binary–binary scattering in the secular limit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(1). 850–867. 6 indexed citations
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Kremer, Kyle, Daniel J. D’Orazio, Johan Samsing, Sourav Chatterjee, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2019). Probing the Survival of Planetary Systems in Globular Clusters with Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 2–2. 9 indexed citations
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Zevin, M., Johan Samsing, Carl L. Rodriguez, C.‐J. Haster, & E. Ramírez-Ruiz. (2019). Eccentric Black Hole Mergers in Dense Star Clusters: The Role of Binary–Binary Encounters. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 91–91. 171 indexed citations
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Hamers, Adrian S. & Johan Samsing. (2019). Analytic computation of the secular effects of encounters on a binary: features arising from second-order perturbation theory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(4). 5630–5648. 27 indexed citations
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Hojjati, Alireza, Eric V. Linder, & Johan Samsing. (2013). New Constraints on the Early Expansion History of the Universe. Physical Review Letters. 111(4). 41301–41301. 16 indexed citations
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Samsing, Johan, Eric V. Linder, & Tristan L. Smith. (2012). Model independent early expansion history and dark energy. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(12). 14 indexed citations

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