K. E. Saavik Ford

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

K. E. Saavik Ford is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, K. E. Saavik Ford has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in K. E. Saavik Ford's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (26 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (25 papers). K. E. Saavik Ford is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (26 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (25 papers). K. E. Saavik Ford collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and United Kingdom. K. E. Saavik Ford's co-authors include Barry McKernan, Jillian Bellovary, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, Bence Kocsis, Wladimir Lyra, Nathan W. C. Leigh, R. O’Shaughnessy, Zoltán Haiman, David A. Neufeld and M. J. Graham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

K. E. Saavik Ford

49 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

2019 182 citations K. E. Saavik Ford, Zoltán Haiman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. E. Saavik Ford United States	25	2.0k	280	101	86	64	52	2.1k
J. Kerp Germany	16	1.4k 0.7×	482 1.7×	113 1.1×	48 0.6×	38 0.6×	31	1.4k
M. García-Marín Germany	23	1.2k 0.6×	241 0.9×	252 2.5×	49 0.6×	64 1.0×	68	1.3k
N. Ben Bekhti Germany	14	1.3k 0.6×	444 1.6×	83 0.8×	46 0.5×	33 0.5×	22	1.4k
Jorge Cuadra Chile	26	2.5k 1.2×	431 1.5×	123 1.2×	118 1.4×	115 1.8×	87	2.6k
Jun‐Hui Zhao United States	25	1.9k 0.9×	810 2.9×	78 0.8×	104 1.2×	65 1.0×	60	1.9k
R. M. Wagner United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	310 1.1×	123 1.2×	125 1.5×	50 0.8×	76	1.5k
Philip Chang United States	23	1.5k 0.8×	623 2.2×	98 1.0×	91 1.1×	15 0.2×	54	1.7k
W. J. Duschl Germany	25	2.2k 1.1×	594 2.1×	302 3.0×	64 0.7×	50 0.8×	88	2.2k
M. M. Romanova United States	26	2.0k 1.0×	304 1.1×	31 0.3×	224 2.6×	43 0.7×	73	2.1k
G. Leloudas Denmark	24	1.6k 0.8×	592 2.1×	112 1.1×	55 0.6×	51 0.8×	75	1.8k

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Ford, K. E. Saavik, et al.. (2025). Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by a Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 161–161.

McKernan, Barry, et al.. (2025). McFACTS . II. Mass Ratio–Effective Spin Relationship of Black Hole Mergers in the Active Galactic Nucleus Channel. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 163–163.

Ford, K. E. Saavik, et al.. (2025). Using gravitational waves & multi-messenger astronomy to reverse-engineer the properties of galactic nuclei. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 43(3). 33001–33001. 1 indexed citations

McKernan, Barry, et al.. (2025). McFACTS I: Testing the LVK AGN Channel with Monte Carlo for AGN Channel Testing and Simulation (McFACTS). The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 217–217. 6 indexed citations

Brightman, Murray, Daniel Stern, Thomas Connor, et al.. (2024). NuSTAR Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 104–104. 4 indexed citations

Chan, J. H. H., K. E. Saavik Ford, M. J. Graham, et al.. (2024). Latent Stochastic Differential Equations for Modeling Quasar Variability and Inferring Black Hole Properties. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 104–104. 5 indexed citations

McKernan, Barry & K. E. Saavik Ford. (2024). Constraining the LVK AGN channel with black hole spins. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3479–3485. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Yihan, et al.. (2024). Tidal disruption events from three-body scatterings and eccentricity pumping in the discs of active galactic nuclei. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 1409–1421. 8 indexed citations

Graham, M. J., Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford, et al.. (2023). A Light in the Dark: Searching for Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole–Black Hole Mergers in LIGO/Virgo O3 with the Zwicky Transient Facility. The Astrophysical Journal. 942(2). 99–99. 58 indexed citations

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Wang, Yihan, K. E. Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna, et al.. (2023). Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(2). 2014–2026. 1 indexed citations

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Ryu, Taeho, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford, et al.. (2023). In-plane tidal disruption of stars in discs of active galactic nuclei. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 8103–8117. 15 indexed citations

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Nasim, Syeda S., Gaia Fabj, Amy Secunda, et al.. (2023). Aligning Retrograde Nuclear Cluster Orbits with an Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(4). 5393–5401. 26 indexed citations

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McKernan, Barry, K. E. Saavik Ford, Matteo Cantiello, et al.. (2022). Starfall: a heavy rain of stars in ‘turning on’ AGN. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(3). 4102–4110. 24 indexed citations

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McKernan, Barry, K. E. Saavik Ford, T. A. Callister, et al.. (2022). LIGO–Virgo correlations between mass ratio and effective inspiral spin: testing the active galactic nuclei channel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(3). 3886–3893. 37 indexed citations

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Ford, K. E. Saavik & Barry McKernan. (2022). Binary black hole merger rates in AGN discs versus nuclear star clusters: loud beats quiet. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(4). 5827–5834. 53 indexed citations

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Vajpeyi, A., E. Thrane, R. J. E. Smith, Barry McKernan, & K. E. Saavik Ford. (2022). Measuring the Properties of Active Galactic Nuclei Disks with Gravitational Waves. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(2). 82–82. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Yihan, Barry McKernan, K. E. Saavik Ford, et al.. (2021). Symmetry Breaking in Dynamical Encounters in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 923(2). L23–L23. 31 indexed citations

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Renzo, Mathieu, T. A. Callister, Katerina Chatziioannou, et al.. (2021). Prospects of Gravitational Wave Detections from Common Envelope Evolution with LISA. The Astrophysical Journal. 919(2). 128–128. 18 indexed citations

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Secunda, Amy, Jillian Bellovary, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, et al.. (2020). Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes. II. Spins and Incoming Objects. The Astrophysical Journal. 903(2). 133–133. 60 indexed citations

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McKernan, Barry, K. E. Saavik Ford, Jillian Bellovary, et al.. (2018). Constraining Stellar-mass Black Hole Mergers in AGN Disks Detectable with LIGO. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 73 indexed citations

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