M. Isi

58.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

M. Isi is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Isi has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in M. Isi's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (19 papers). M. Isi is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (42 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (19 papers). M. Isi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. M. Isi's co-authors include Will M. Farr, Saul A. Teukolsky, Mark Scheel, Matthew Giesler, Richard Brito, L. Sun, Katerina Chatziioannou, S. Vitale, M. Pitkin and A. J. Weinstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

M. Isi

45 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914
    2019 269 citations M. Isi, Matthew Giesler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Black Hole Ringdown: The Importance of Overtones
    2019 196 citations Matthew Giesler, M. Isi et al. Physical Review X profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. Isi United States 20 1.4k 609 146 131 118 47 1.5k
S. Bose India 22 1.4k 1.0× 531 0.9× 173 1.2× 209 1.6× 124 1.1× 70 1.5k
Aaron Zimmerman United States 21 1.3k 0.9× 664 1.1× 121 0.8× 109 0.8× 69 0.6× 40 1.3k
S. Babak France 20 1.9k 1.4× 482 0.8× 221 1.5× 220 1.7× 65 0.6× 37 2.0k
C. P. L. Berry United Kingdom 24 2.4k 1.7× 686 1.1× 177 1.2× 211 1.6× 71 0.6× 48 2.5k
Leo C. Stein United States 26 1.8k 1.3× 994 1.6× 131 0.9× 142 1.1× 100 0.8× 53 1.9k
Hideyuki Tagoshi Japan 21 1.4k 1.1× 610 1.0× 157 1.1× 123 0.9× 80 0.7× 55 1.5k
Anıl Zenginoğlu United States 18 1.2k 0.9× 559 0.9× 141 1.0× 82 0.6× 109 0.9× 33 1.3k
Xisco Jiménez Forteza Germany 11 1.6k 1.2× 388 0.6× 269 1.8× 228 1.7× 64 0.5× 13 1.6k
Antoine Klein United States 29 2.6k 1.9× 857 1.4× 223 1.5× 252 1.9× 56 0.5× 48 2.7k
Sylvain Marsat France 23 1.7k 1.2× 538 0.9× 216 1.5× 182 1.4× 58 0.5× 37 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by M. Isi

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. Isi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Isi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of M. Isi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of M. Isi 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 M. Isi. M. Isi 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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Gottlieb, Ore, et al.. (2025). Spinning into the Gap: Direct-horizon Collapse as the Origin of GW231123 from End-to-end General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 993(2). L54–L54. 3 indexed citations
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Siegel, Harrison, M. Isi, & Will M. Farr. (2025). Analyzing black-hole ringdowns. II. Data conditioning. Physical review. D. 111(4). 7 indexed citations
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Siegel, Harrison, Keefe Mitman, M. Isi, et al.. (2025). Black hole spectroscopy for precessing binary black hole coalescences. Physical review. D. 111(6). 11 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Will M. Farr, & Vijay Varma. (2024). The Directional Isotropy of LIGO–Virgo Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations
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Payne, Ethan, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, et al.. (2024). Curvature Dependence of Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 133(25). 251401–251401. 4 indexed citations
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Miller, Simona J., M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, Vijay Varma, & Ilya Mandel. (2024). GW190521: Tracing imprints of spin-precession on the most massive black hole binary. Physical review. D. 109(2). 14 indexed citations
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Magee, R. M., M. Isi, Ethan Payne, et al.. (2024). Impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals. Physical review. D. 109(2). 8 indexed citations
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Golomb, Jacob, M. Isi, & Will M. Farr. (2024). Physical Models for the Astrophysical Population of Black Holes: Application to the Bump in the Mass Distribution of Gravitational-wave Sources. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(1). 121–121. 10 indexed citations
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Edwards, T., Kaze W. K. Wong, Adam Coogan, et al.. (2024). Differentiable and hardware-accelerated waveforms for gravitational wave data analysis. Physical review. D. 110(6). 12 indexed citations
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Okounkova, Maria, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, & Will M. Farr. (2023). Gravitational wave inference on a numerical-relativity simulation of a black hole merger beyond general relativity. Physical review. D. 107(2). 18 indexed citations
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Payne, Ethan, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, & Will M. Farr. (2023). Fortifying gravitational-wave tests of general relativity against astrophysical assumptions. Physical review. D. 108(12). 13 indexed citations
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Isi, M.. (2023). Parametrizing gravitational-wave polarizations. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(20). 203001–203001. 14 indexed citations
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Isi, M. & Will M. Farr. (2023). Comment on “Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914”. Physical Review Letters. 131(16). 169001–169001. 29 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Will M. Farr, & Katerina Chatziioannou. (2022). Comparing Bayes factors and hierarchical inference for testing general relativity with gravitational waves. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations
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Isi, M., S. Mastrogiovanni, M. Pitkin, & O. J. Piccinni. (2020). Establishing the significance of continuous gravitational-wave detections from known pulsars. Physical review. D. 102(12). 14 indexed citations
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Sun, L., Richard Brito, & M. Isi. (2020). Search for ultralight bosons in Cygnus X-1 with Advanced LIGO. Physical review. D. 101(6). 61 indexed citations
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Giesler, Matthew, M. Isi, Mark Scheel, & Saul A. Teukolsky. (2019). Black Hole Ringdown: The Importance of Overtones. Physical Review X. 9(4). 196 indexed citations breakdown →
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Callister, T. A., A. S. Biscoveanu, N. Christensen, et al.. (2017). Tests of General Relativity with the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Jonas Mureika, & Piero Nicolini. (2014). Self-completeness and the generalized uncertainty principle. 2014. 6 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Jonas Mureika, & Piero Nicolini. (2013). Self-Completeness and the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. 25 indexed citations

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