Kent Yagi

11.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
106 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Kent Yagi is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Kent Yagi has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 17 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Kent Yagi's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (97 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (53 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (33 papers). Kent Yagi is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (97 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (53 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (33 papers). Kent Yagi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Kent Yagi's co-authors include Nicolás Yunes, Takahiro Tanaka, Naoki Seto, Frans Pretorius, Leo C. Stein, Zack Carson, Huan Yang, Enrico Barausse, Diego Blas and Emanuele Berti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kent Yagi

103 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Theoretical physics implications of the binary black-hole... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2016 2011 2013 2013 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Theoretical physics implications of the binary black-hole mergers GW150914 and GW151226
    2016 445 citations Nicolás Yunes, Kent Yagi et al. Physical review. D profile →
  2. Detector configuration of DECIGO/BBO and identification of cosmological neutron-star binaries
    2011 339 citations Kent Yagi, Naoki Seto Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  3. I-Love-Q relations in neutron stars and their applications to astrophysics, gravitational waves, and fundamental physics
    2013 339 citations Kent Yagi, Nicolás Yunes Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  4. I-Love-Q: Unexpected Universal Relations for Neutron Stars and Quark Stars
    2013 328 citations Kent Yagi, Nicolás Yunes profile →
  5. Extreme gravity tests with gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences: (II) ringdown
    2018 237 citations Kent Yagi, Huan Yang et al. General Relativity and Gravitation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kent Yagi United States 37 4.7k 2.2k 673 564 289 106 4.9k
Leonardo Gualtieri Italy 42 4.9k 1.0× 3.1k 1.4× 386 0.6× 386 0.7× 293 1.0× 107 5.1k
Valeria Ferrari Italy 37 3.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 412 0.6× 509 0.9× 353 1.2× 103 4.0k
Guillaume Faye France 32 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 431 0.6× 469 0.8× 199 0.7× 51 3.2k
Éric Gourgoulhon France 34 3.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 338 0.5× 441 0.8× 217 0.8× 103 3.3k
Ulrich Sperhake United States 38 4.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.0× 265 0.4× 356 0.6× 134 0.5× 104 4.9k
Enrico Barausse Italy 48 6.4k 1.4× 2.9k 1.3× 443 0.7× 262 0.5× 340 1.2× 111 6.6k
Thomas W. Baumgarte United States 34 4.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 295 0.4× 442 0.8× 102 0.4× 114 4.4k
Jan Steinhoff Germany 31 2.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 317 0.5× 342 0.6× 201 0.7× 66 2.8k
Scott A. Hughes United States 41 5.4k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 336 0.5× 343 0.6× 310 1.1× 100 5.6k
P. Jaranowski Poland 26 2.9k 0.6× 934 0.4× 369 0.5× 518 0.9× 266 0.9× 44 3.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Radice, David, et al.. (2025). Tight Bound on the Neutron Star Radius with Quasiperiodic Oscillations in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(2). 88–88.
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Yunes, Nicolás, Xavier Siemens, & Kent Yagi. (2025). Gravitational-wave tests of general relativity with ground-based detectors and pulsar-timing arrays. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 28(1). 5 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent, et al.. (2025). Astrophysical systematics on testing general relativity with gravitational waves from Galactic double white dwarfs. Physical review. D. 111(2). 3 indexed citations
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Chirenti, Cecilia, et al.. (2024). Broadening of universal relations at the birth and death of a neutron star. Physical review. D. 109(8). 4 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent, et al.. (2024). Love–C relations for elastic hybrid stars. General Relativity and Gravitation. 56(10). 1 indexed citations
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Vaman, Diana, et al.. (2024). Gravitational-wave energy-momentum tensor and radiated power in a strongly curved background. Physical review. D. 109(2). 1 indexed citations
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Pan, Zhen, Huan Yang, & Kent Yagi. (2023). Repeating fast radio bursts from neutron star binaries: Multiband and multimessenger opportunities. Physical review. D. 108(6). 2 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Deep, G. P. Holder, D. E. Holz, et al.. (2023). Breaking bad degeneracies with Love relations: Improving gravitational-wave measurements through universal relations. Physical review. D. 107(4). 10 indexed citations
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Shao, Lijing & Kent Yagi. (2022). Neutron stars as extreme laboratories for gravity tests. Science Bulletin. 67(19). 1946–1949. 14 indexed citations
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Herrero-Valea, Mario, Diego Blas, Enrico Barausse, et al.. (2021). New binary pulsar constraints on Einstein-æther theory after GW170817. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38(19). 195003–195003. 26 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Deep, G. P. Holder, D. E. Holz, et al.. (2021). Cosmology with Love: Measuring the Hubble constant using neutron star universal relations. arXiv (Cornell University). 32 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent, et al.. (2020). Probing massive scalar fields from a pulsar in a stellar triple system. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37(14). 145008–145008. 18 indexed citations
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Yang, Huan, Kent Yagi, Jonathan Blackman, et al.. (2017). Black Hole Spectroscopy with Coherent Mode Stacking. Physical Review Letters. 118(16). 161101–161101. 81 indexed citations
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Brustein, Ram, A. J. M. Medved, & Kent Yagi. (2017). Discovering the interior of black holes. Physical review. D. 96(12). 17 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent & Nicolás Yunes. (2015). I-Love-Q Anisotropically. arXiv (Cornell University). 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Barausse, Enrico & Kent Yagi. (2015). Gravitation-Wave Emission in Shift-Symmetric Horndeski Theories. Physical Review Letters. 115(21). 211105–211105. 36 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent, Diego Blas, Nicolás Yunes, & Enrico Barausse. (2014). Strong Binary Pulsar Constraints on Lorentz Violation in Gravity. Physical Review Letters. 112(16). 161101–161101. 85 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent, Nicolás Yunes, & Takahiro Tanaka. (2012). Slowly rotating black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity: Deformation quadratic in the spin. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(4). 136 indexed citations
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Yagi, Kent & Naoki Seto. (2011). Detector configuration of DECIGO/BBO and identification of cosmological neutron-star binaries. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(4). 339 indexed citations breakdown →

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