M. L. Pretorius

77 total papers · 1.9k total citations
40 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

M. L. Pretorius is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. L. Pretorius has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Computational Mechanics and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in M. L. Pretorius's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (30 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers). M. L. Pretorius is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (30 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (27 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers). M. L. Pretorius collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. M. L. Pretorius's co-authors include C. Knigge, P. A. Woudt, K. Mukai, Brian D. Warner, Ian Heywood, U. Kolb, R. P. Fender, Beatriz Agı́s-González, I. M. Monageng and K. D. Alexander and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

M. L. Pretorius

40 papers receiving 944 citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

2019 175 citations G. Miniutti, R. D. Saxton et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
M. L. Pretorius	944	248	90	62	62	40	1.0k
S. R. Rosen	851 0.9×	272 1.1×	72 0.8×	75 1.2×	73 1.2×	58	873
R. S. Warwick	1.1k 1.2×	636 2.6×	42 0.5×	35 0.6×	69 1.1×	43	1.2k
T. J. Gaetz	850 0.9×	397 1.6×	72 0.8×	51 0.8×	27 0.4×	63	900
Simone Scaringi	957 1.0×	146 0.6×	77 0.9×	155 2.5×	88 1.4×	76	1.0k
S. S. Holt	1.1k 1.1×	475 1.9×	66 0.7×	62 1.0×	155 2.5×	56	1.1k
M. W. Pakull	1.1k 1.2×	336 1.4×	62 0.7×	59 1.0×	92 1.5×	73	1.2k
R. A. Downes	994 1.1×	213 0.9×	127 1.4×	155 2.5×	47 0.8×	65	1.0k
E. T. Harlaftis	830 0.9×	117 0.5×	63 0.7×	58 0.9×	135 2.2×	40	852
A. B. Hill	1.0k 1.1×	370 1.5×	73 0.8×	18 0.3×	136 2.2×	46	1.0k
L. Angelini	962 1.0×	258 1.0×	42 0.5×	33 0.5×	199 3.2×	80	988

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. L. Pretorius

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. L. Pretorius

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of M. L. Pretorius. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of M. L. Pretorius 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. L. Pretorius. M. L. Pretorius is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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