M. E. Caplan

1.1k total citations
33 papers, 725 citations indexed

About

M. E. Caplan is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. E. Caplan has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 725 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in M. E. Caplan's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (11 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers). M. E. Caplan is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (11 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (9 papers). M. E. Caplan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. M. E. Caplan's co-authors include C. J. Horowitz, A. Schneider, Don Berry, A. Cumming, Patrick E. Hopkins, Ashutosh Giri, Zidu Lin, Greg Huber, Brian M. Foley and Costel Constantin and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

M. E. Caplan

27 papers receiving 677 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. E. Caplan United States	13	436	259	171	126	108	33	725
Takaya Ohashi Japan	20	1.2k 2.8×	390 1.5×	41 0.2×	46 0.4×	76 0.7×	111	1.4k
C. Killer Germany	15	285 0.7×	249 1.0×	105 0.6×	110 0.9×	289 2.7×	58	568
Zhiyong Qiu China	20	702 1.6×	836 3.2×	39 0.2×	107 0.8×	169 1.6×	102	976
M. Galeazzi United States	19	913 2.1×	525 2.0×	24 0.1×	62 0.5×	141 1.3×	82	1.2k
C. D. Dowell United States	28	2.5k 5.8×	341 1.3×	41 0.2×	35 0.3×	120 1.1×	98	2.7k
Sebastian von Alfthan Finland	15	412 0.9×	64 0.2×	95 0.6×	233 1.8×	77 0.7×	29	729
Cong Yu China	16	418 1.0×	578 2.2×	73 0.4×	74 0.6×	178 1.6×	30	694
G. Frossati Netherlands	16	195 0.4×	71 0.3×	127 0.7×	44 0.3×	548 5.1×	103	793
Florent Michel France	15	261 0.6×	170 0.7×	14 0.1×	70 0.6×	384 3.6×	29	577
H. Höfner Germany	15	652 1.5×	77 0.3×	299 1.7×	28 0.2×	507 4.7×	22	836

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. E. Caplan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2026). Evolutionary Tracks and Spectral Properties of Quasi-stars and Their Correlation with Little Red Dots. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 998(1). L4–L4.

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2026). MESA-QUEST: Tracing the Formation of Direct Collapse Black Hole Seeds via Quasi-stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 998(1). 150–150. 1 indexed citations

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2025). Possible constraints on asteroid-mass primordial black holes from Solar system cratering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(1). 108–113. 2 indexed citations

Bellinger, Earl P. & M. E. Caplan. (2025). The Sun’s Dark Core: Helioseismic and Neutrino Flux Constraints on a Compact Solar Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 212–212.

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2025). MESA-QUEST: Modeling Quasi-stars in MESA. Research Notes of the AAS. 9(7). 185–185. 3 indexed citations

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2024). Is there a black hole in the center of the Sun?. Astrophysics and Space Science. 369(1). 8 indexed citations

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2024). Formation of Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass Black Holes and Red Stragglers via Hawking Stars in Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 145–145. 3 indexed citations

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2024). Universal Diffusion in Coulomb Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 133(13). 135301–135301. 4 indexed citations

Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2023). Distillation of ⁵⁶Fe in Ultramassive O–Ne White Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 78–78. 5 indexed citations

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Yalinewich, Almog & M. E. Caplan. (2021). Crater morphology of primordial black hole impacts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 505(1). L115–L119. 12 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E., et al.. (2021). Thermal fluctuations in nuclear pasta. Physical review. C. 103(5). 9 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E.. (2020). Black dwarf supernova in the far future. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(4). 4357–4362. 4 indexed citations

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Svoronos, Alexander A. & M. E. Caplan. (2020). Comments on “Stellar engines: Design considerations for maximizing acceleration”. Acta Astronautica. 179. 495–497. 1 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E.. (2020). Structure of multicomponent Coulomb crystals. Physical review. E. 101(2). 23201–23201. 12 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E., A. Schneider, & C. J. Horowitz. (2018). Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta. Physical Review Letters. 121(13). 132701–132701. 59 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E. & C. J. Horowitz. (2017). Colloquium: Astromaterial science and nuclear pasta. Reviews of Modern Physics. 89(4). 74 indexed citations

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Horowitz, C. J., et al.. (2015). Disordered Nuclear Pasta, Magnetic Field Decay, and Crust Cooling in Neutron Stars. Physical Review Letters. 114(3). 31102–31102. 144 indexed citations

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Cheaito, Ramez, John T. Gaskins, M. E. Caplan, et al.. (2015). Thermal boundary conductance accumulation and interfacial phonon transmission: Measurements and theory. Physical Review B. 91(3). 80 indexed citations

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Schneider, A., et al.. (2014). Nuclear “waffles”. Physical Review C. 90(5). 42 indexed citations

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Caplan, M. E., Ashutosh Giri, & Patrick E. Hopkins. (2014). Analytical model for the effects of wetting on thermal boundary conductance across solid/classical liquid interfaces. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 140(15). 50 indexed citations

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