John G. Baker

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

John G. Baker is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John G. Baker has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John G. Baker's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (41 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (32 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (19 papers). John G. Baker is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (41 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (32 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (19 papers). John G. Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. John G. Baker's co-authors include Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, Bernard Kelly, James van Meter, James R. van Meter, Sean T. McWilliams, Alessandra Buonanno, William D. Boggs, Yi Pan and C. O. Loustó and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

John G. Baker

46 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes

2006 837 citations John G. Baker, Dae-Il Choi 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						Papers	Cites
John G. Baker United States	25	2.8k	981	237	180	176	48	2.8k
Ian Hinder United States	19	2.7k 1.0×	885 0.9×	351 1.5×	137 0.8×	200 1.1×	34	2.8k
Geoffrey Lovelace United States	23	2.2k 0.8×	759 0.8×	316 1.3×	183 1.0×	195 1.1×	39	2.3k
Antoine Klein United States	29	2.6k 0.9×	857 0.9×	223 0.9×	125 0.7×	252 1.4×	48	2.7k
Davide Gerosa United Kingdom	33	2.8k 1.0×	597 0.6×	270 1.1×	135 0.8×	153 0.9×	98	2.9k
M. D. Hannam Germany	28	3.3k 1.2×	958 1.0×	422 1.8×	308 1.7×	273 1.6×	31	3.3k
Denis Pollney United States	28	3.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	390 1.6×	251 1.4×	273 1.6×	47	3.5k
Roland Haas United States	27	2.5k 0.9×	985 1.0×	291 1.2×	89 0.5×	150 0.9×	57	2.7k
Yosef Zlochower United States	32	4.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	288 1.2×	241 1.3×	175 1.0×	64	4.1k
C. P. L. Berry United Kingdom	24	2.4k 0.9×	686 0.7×	177 0.7×	77 0.4×	211 1.2×	48	2.5k
P. D. Lasky Australia	31	2.6k 0.9×	658 0.7×	455 1.9×	144 0.8×	295 1.7×	103	2.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Castelli, E., Quentin Baghi, John G. Baker, et al.. (2025). Extracting gravitational wave signals from LISA data in the presence of artifacts. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(6). 65018–65018. 3 indexed citations

Cieplak, Agnieszka M., Jeremy D. Schnittman, John G. Baker, et al.. (2024). Short-period Heartbeat Binaries from TESS Full-frame Images. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 276(1). 17–17. 3 indexed citations

Kelly, Bernard, John G. Baker, Z. B. Etienne, Bruno Giacomazzo, & Jeremy D. Schnittman. (2017). Prompt electromagnetic transients from binary black hole mergers. Physical review. D. 96(12). 34 indexed citations

Baker, John G., Bruno Giacomazzo, J. B. Kanner, Bernard Kelly, & Jeremy D. Schnittman. (2013). Electromagnetic Counterparts to Supermassive Black Hole Mergers. 1 indexed citations

Meter, James R. van, John Wise, M. Coleman Miller, et al.. (2010). MODELING FLOWS AROUND MERGING BLACK HOLE BINARIES. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 711(2). L89–L93. 15 indexed citations

Baker, John G., Bernard Kelly, & James R. van Meter. (2010). The Final Merger of Black-Hole Binaries. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 60(1). 75–100. 13 indexed citations

Kelly, Bernard, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, James R. van Meter, & Sean T. McWilliams. (2009). Gravitational radiation characteristics of nonspinning black-hole binaries. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 154. 12050–12050. 1 indexed citations

Pan, Yi, Alessandra Buonanno, John G. Baker, et al.. (2008). Data-analysis driven comparison of analytic and numerical coalescing binary waveforms: Nonspinning case. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(2). 99 indexed citations

Schnittman, Jeremy D., Alessandra Buonanno, James R. van Meter, et al.. (2008). Anatomy of the binary black hole recoil: A multipolar analysis. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(4). 94 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., James R. van Meter, Sean T. McWilliams, & Bernard Kelly. (2007). Consistency of Post-Newtonian Waveforms with Numerical Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 99(18). 181101–181101. 100 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., William D. Boggs, Bernard Kelly, et al.. (2007). Modeling Kicks from the Merger of Nonprecessing Black Hole Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 668(2). 1140–1144. 76 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter, et al.. (2007). Binary black hole late inspiral: Simulations for gravitational wave observations. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 75(12). 71 indexed citations

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Choi, Dae-Il, Bernard Kelly, William D. Boggs, John G. Baker, & James van Meter. (2007). Recoiling from a kick in the head-on collision of spinning black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(10). 34 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., William D. Boggs, Bernard Kelly, Sean T. McWilliams, & James R. van Meter. (2007). Binary black holes, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 78. 12010–12010. 1 indexed citations

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Arnaud, Keith A., Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, et al.. (2006). An Overview of the Mock LISA Data Challenges. AIP conference proceedings. 873. 619–624. 30 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, & James van Meter. (2006). Binary black hole merger dynamics and waveforms. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 73(10). 147 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, & James van Meter. (2006). Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 96(11). 111102–111102. 837 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baker, John G., et al.. (2005). Wave zone extraction of gravitational radiation in three-dimensional numerical relativity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 71(10). 31 indexed citations

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Baker, John G. & James R. van Meter. (2005). Reducing reflections from mesh refinement interfaces in numerical relativity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(10). 11 indexed citations

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Baker, John G., Manuela Campanelli, & C. O. Loustó. (2002). The Lazarus project : A pragmatic approach to binary black hole. Max Planck Digital Library. 65. 2 indexed citations

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