John L. Friedman

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
110 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

John L. Friedman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John L. Friedman has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 36 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 26 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John L. Friedman's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (50 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (35 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (30 papers). John L. Friedman is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (50 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (35 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (30 papers). John L. Friedman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. John L. Friedman's co-authors include B. F. Schutz, J. Read, B. D. Lackey, James R. Ipser, Masaru Shibata, Donald Witt, B. J. Owen, Kristin Schleich, Sharon M. Morsink and Rafael D. Sorkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

John L. Friedman

105 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Constraints on a phenomenologically parametrized neutron-... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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. Constraints on a phenomenologically parametrized neutron-star equation of state
    2009 555 citations John L. Friedman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John L. Friedman United States 36 4.8k 1.8k 991 876 666 110 5.3k
Lee Lindblom United States 38 5.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 900 1.0× 308 0.5× 115 5.5k
Eric Poisson Canada 42 7.9k 1.7× 4.8k 2.7× 555 0.6× 656 0.7× 1.2k 1.8× 111 8.4k
Bernd Brügmann Germany 49 7.6k 1.6× 3.0k 1.7× 903 0.9× 685 0.8× 427 0.6× 121 8.0k
Robert V. Wagoner United States 31 5.0k 1.0× 3.3k 1.9× 412 0.4× 375 0.4× 632 0.9× 99 5.9k
Luc Blanchet France 53 8.9k 1.8× 3.2k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 337 0.5× 120 9.1k
Mark Scheel United States 53 8.9k 1.8× 3.2k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 807 0.9× 373 0.6× 171 9.3k
Larry Kidder United States 50 8.3k 1.7× 2.6k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 818 0.9× 296 0.4× 156 8.7k
Curt Cutler United States 34 6.6k 1.4× 1.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 939 1.1× 180 0.3× 67 6.8k
S. Husa Germany 41 7.8k 1.6× 2.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 830 0.9× 239 0.4× 91 8.0k
Frans Pretorius United States 39 5.7k 1.2× 3.2k 1.8× 448 0.5× 382 0.4× 374 0.6× 84 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John L. Friedman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John L. Friedman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John L. Friedman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John L. Friedman 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 John L. Friedman. John L. Friedman 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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Price, Larry R., et al.. (2008). On finding fields and self-force in a gauge appropriate to separable wave equations. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 4 indexed citations
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Uryū, Kōji, et al.. (2006). Binary Neutron Stars: Equilibrium Models beyond Spatial Conformal Flatness. Physical Review Letters. 97(17). 171101–171101. 34 indexed citations
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Uryū, Kōji, et al.. (2005). Binary neutron stars in a waveless approximation. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L., Kōji Uryū, & Masaru Shibata. (2002). Thermodynamics of binary black holes and neutron stars. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 65(6). 76 indexed citations
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Lockitch, Keith H. & John L. Friedman. (1999). Where are ther‐Modes of Isentropic Stars?. The Astrophysical Journal. 521(2). 764–788. 100 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1997). Topological censorship and chronology protection.. Gravitation and Cosmology. 211. 157–167. 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1996). Stability theory of relativistic stars. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 17(3-4). 199–211. 5 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1995). Upper Limit on the Rotation of Relativistic Stars. ASPC. 72. 177. 3 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Atsushi Higuchi. (1995). Quantum field theory in Lorentzian universes from nothing. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(10). 5687–5697. 9 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L., et al.. (1992). 閉じた時間的曲線を持つ時空における相互作用場に対するユニタリー性の破れ | 文献情報 | J-GLOBAL 科学技術総合リンクセンター. Physical Review D. 46(10). 4456–4469.
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Friedman, John L., et al.. (1992). Errata. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 341(1662). 561–561.
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Friedman, John L. & James R. Ipser. (1992). Rapidly rotating relativistic stars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 340(1658). 391–422. 28 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1991). Inscrutable matter. Nature. 350(6314). 119–119. 1 indexed citations
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Caldwell, Robert R. & John L. Friedman. (1991). Evidence against a strange ground state for baryons. Physics Letters B. 264(1-2). 143–148. 55 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1991). Evading the cosmic censor. Nature. 351(6324). 269–270. 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Atsushi Higuchi. (1990). State vectors in higher-dimensional gravity with kinematic quantum numbers of quarks and leptons. Nuclear Physics B. 339(2). 491–515. 4 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L., et al.. (1986). Zero frequency modes of the Maclaurin spheroids. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 405(1828). 65–72. 2 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Donald Witt. (1986). Homotopy is not isotopy for homeomorphisms of 3-manifolds. Topology. 25(1). 35–44. 20 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L., James R. Ipser, & Leonard Parker. (1984). Models of rapidly rotating neutron stars. Nature. 312(5991). 255–257. 24 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L.. (1973). On the Born approximation for perturbations of a spherical star and the Newman—Penrose constants. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 335(1601). 163–190. 7 indexed citations

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