Katherine Freese

15.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
187 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Katherine Freese is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine Freese has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 147 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Katherine Freese's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (118 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (105 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (58 papers). Katherine Freese is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (118 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (105 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (58 papers). Katherine Freese collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Katherine Freese's co-authors include J. Frieman, Paolo Gondolo, Angela V. Olinto, Fred C. Adams, Cosimo Bambi, David N. Spergel, A. K. Drukier, Matthew Lewis, Sunny Vagnozzi and Douglas Spolyar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Katherine Freese

181 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Natural inflation with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons

1990 816 citations Katherine Freese et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Detecting cold dark-matter candidates

1986 540 citations Katherine Freese et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image

2019 333 citations Katherine Freese, Sunny Vagnozzi et al. Physical review. D profile →
Unveiling ν secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy

2017 253 citations Sunny Vagnozzi, Elena Giusarma et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine Freese United States	44	7.2k	6.8k	728	383	311	187	8.6k
Jean–Philippe Uzan France	39	3.4k 0.5×	5.2k 0.8×	622 0.9×	631 1.6×	427 1.4×	141	5.8k
Robert J. Scherrer United States	39	3.8k 0.5×	4.3k 0.6×	212 0.3×	459 1.2×	141 0.5×	136	4.8k
I. Tkachev Russia	42	5.3k 0.7×	5.1k 0.8×	881 1.2×	666 1.7×	238 0.8×	135	6.5k
Edward W. Kolb United States	57	11.1k 1.5×	10.6k 1.6×	910 1.3×	983 2.6×	534 1.7×	195	13.0k
Justin Khoury United States	43	7.3k 1.0×	9.1k 1.3×	983 1.4×	1.2k 3.1×	650 2.1×	106	9.8k
Philippe Brax France	34	3.2k 0.4×	4.1k 0.6×	653 0.9×	396 1.0×	268 0.9×	162	4.5k
Gary Steigman United States	48	6.4k 0.9×	5.9k 0.9×	512 0.7×	474 1.2×	147 0.5×	144	8.1k
Anne-Christine Davis United Kingdom	36	3.4k 0.5×	3.8k 0.6×	460 0.6×	361 0.9×	273 0.9×	149	4.5k
Glenn D. Starkman United States	39	3.9k 0.5×	4.8k 0.7×	339 0.5×	577 1.5×	219 0.7×	160	5.5k
A. Melchiorri Italy	54	6.9k 1.0×	7.7k 1.1×	230 0.3×	425 1.1×	536 1.7×	227	9.1k

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Wallisch, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Free-streaming neutrinos and their phase shift in current and future CMB power spectra. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(8). 51–51. 4 indexed citations

Shapiro, Paul R., Taha Dawoodbhoy, Paz Beniamini, et al.. (2025). Predictions for dispersion measures of fast radio bursts through the epoch of reionization using CoDa II. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 1518–1531. 1 indexed citations

Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2025). Higgs Inflation and the Electroweak Gauge Sector. Fortschritte der Physik. 73(5).

Ilie, Cosmin, et al.. (2024). Detectability of Supermassive Dark Stars with the Roman Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 121–121. 3 indexed citations

Freese, Katherine, et al.. (2024). Mechanism for nonnuclear energy to fill in the black hole mass gap. Physical review. D. 109(10).

Linden, Tim, et al.. (2023). Constraining axion-like particles with HAWC observations of TeV blazars. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(10). 9–9. 10 indexed citations

Malhan, Khyati, Monica Valluri, Katherine Freese, & Rodrigo Ibata. (2022). New Constraints on the Dark Matter Density Profiles of Dwarf Galaxies from Proper Motions of Globular Cluster Streams. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 941(2). L38–L38. 11 indexed citations

Malhan, Khyati, Rodrigo Ibata, R. G. Carlberg, Monica Valluri, & Katherine Freese. (2019). Butterfly in a Cocoon, Understanding the Origin and Morphology of Globular Cluster Streams: The Case of GD-1. The Astrophysical Journal. 881(2). 106–106. 33 indexed citations

Vagnozzi, Sunny, Suhail Dhawan, M. Gerbino, et al.. (2018). Constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses in dynamical dark energy models with w(z)≥−1 are tighter than those obtained in ΛCDM. Physical review. D. 98(8). 167 indexed citations

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Visinelli, Luca, Sebastian Baum, Javier Redondo, Katherine Freese, & Frank Wilczek. (2017). Dilute and dense axion stars. Physics Letters B. 777. 64–72. 121 indexed citations

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Vagnozzi, Sunny, Elena Giusarma, Olga Mena, et al.. (2017). Unveiling ν secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy. Physical review. D. 96(12). 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freese, Katherine, Tanja Rindler-Daller, Douglas Spolyar, & Monica Valluri. (2016). Dark stars: a review. Reports on Progress in Physics. 79(6). 66902–66902. 44 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine, Paolo Gondolo, & Douglas Spolyar. (2008). The Effect of Dark Matter on the First Stars: A New Phase of Stellar Evolution. AIP conference proceedings. 42–44. 6 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine, Peter Bodenheimer, Douglas Spolyar, & Paolo Gondolo. (2008). Stellar Structure of Dark Stars: A First Phase of Stellar Evolution Resulting from Dark Matter Annihilation. The Astrophysical Journal. 685(2). L101–L104. 63 indexed citations

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Spolyar, Douglas, Katherine Freese, & Paolo Gondolo. (2008). Dark Matter and the First Stars: A New Phase of Stellar Evolution. Physical Review Letters. 100(5). 51101–51101. 132 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine, William H. Kinney, & Christopher Savage. (2007). NATURAL INFLATION: STATUS AFTER WMAP THREE-YEAR DATA. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 16(12b). 2573–2585. 22 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine & Douglas Spolyar. (2004). Chain Inflation: "Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble". arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine. (2003). Generalized Cardassian Expansion: a Model in which the Universe is Flat, Matter Dominated, and Accelerating. 45 indexed citations

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Baltz, Edward A., Joakim Edsjö, Katherine Freese, & Paolo Gondolo. (2002). Cosmic ray positron excess and neutralino dark matter. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 65(6). 97 indexed citations

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Freese, Katherine, Brian D. Fields, & D. Graff. (1999). What are MACHOs? Limits on stellar objects as the dark matter of our halo. CERN Bulletin. 397. 1 indexed citations

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