Mark Scheel

15.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
171 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Mark Scheel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Scheel has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 65 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 14 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Mark Scheel's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (157 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (105 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (73 papers). Mark Scheel is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (157 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (105 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (73 papers). Mark Scheel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Mark Scheel's co-authors include Larry Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, Saul A. Teukolsky, Béla Szilágyi, Michael Boyle, Alessandra Buonanno, François Foucart, Geoffrey Lovelace, Matthew Duez and Yi Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Mark Scheel

167 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors

2017 409 citations Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno et al. Physical review. D profile →
Effective-one-body model for black-hole binaries with generic mass ratios and spins

2014 300 citations Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno et al. profile →
Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914

2019 269 citations M. Isi, Matthew Giesler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation

2020 217 citations Alessandra Buonanno, Harald Pfeiffer et al. Physical review. D profile →
Black Hole Ringdown: The Importance of Overtones

2019 196 citations Matthew Giesler, M. Isi et al. Physical Review X profile →
Surrogate model of hybridized numerical relativity binary black hole waveforms

2019 193 citations Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field et al. Physical review. D profile →
Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns

2023 118 citations Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Scheel United States	53	8.9k	3.2k	1.2k	807	624	171	9.3k
Larry Kidder United States	50	8.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	818 1.0×	621 1.0×	156	8.7k
Bernd Brügmann Germany	49	7.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	903 0.8×	685 0.8×	431 0.7×	121	8.0k
S. Husa Germany	41	7.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	830 1.0×	639 1.0×	91	8.0k
Luciano Rezzolla Germany	68	13.1k 1.5×	5.3k 1.6×	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.4×	508 0.8×	239	14.0k
Luc Blanchet France	53	8.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	595 1.0×	120	9.1k
Alessandra Buonanno United States	58	10.5k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	1.0k 1.6×	136	11.0k
Lee Lindblom United States	38	5.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	900 1.1×	462 0.7×	115	5.5k
Frans Pretorius United States	39	5.7k 0.6×	3.2k 1.0×	448 0.4×	382 0.5×	204 0.3×	84	5.9k
Béla Szilágyi United States	36	4.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	766 0.6×	555 0.7×	331 0.5×	75	4.7k
Eric Poisson Canada	42	7.9k 0.9×	4.8k 1.5×	555 0.5×	656 0.8×	396 0.6×	111	8.4k

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Giesler, Matthew, Sizheng Ma, Keefe Mitman, et al.. (2025). Overtones and nonlinearities in binary black hole ringdowns. Physical review. D. 111(8). 13 indexed citations

Cook, Gregory B., Larry Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, et al.. (2025). Robustness of extracting quasinormal mode information from black hole merger simulations. Physical review. D. 112(2). 3 indexed citations

Foucart, François, Matthew Duez, Larry Kidder, Harald Pfeiffer, & Mark Scheel. (2024). Dynamical ejecta from binary neutron star mergers: Impact of a small residual eccentricity and of the equation of state implementation. Physical review. D. 110(2). 5 indexed citations

Ripley, Justin L., Frans Pretorius, Sizheng Ma, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear effects in black hole ringdown from scattering experiments: Spin and initial data dependence of quadratic mode coupling. Physical review. D. 109(10). 31 indexed citations

Mitman, Keefe, Michael Boyle, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2024). A review of gravitational memory and BMS frame fixing in numerical relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(22). 223001–223001. 22 indexed citations

Pretorius, Frans, Sizheng Ma, Robert Owen, et al.. (2024). Imprints of changing mass and spin on black hole ringdown. Physical review. D. 110(12). 10 indexed citations

Duez, Matthew, et al.. (2024). High angular momentum hot differentially rotating equilibrium star evolutions in conformally flat spacetime. Physical review. D. 110(4). 5 indexed citations

Ma, Sizheng, Vijay Varma, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2023). Numerical simulations of black hole-neutron star mergers in scalar-tensor gravity. Physical review. D. 107(12). 13 indexed citations

Gottlieb, Ore, Brian D. Metzger, Eliot Quataert, et al.. (2023). A Unified Picture of Short and Long Gamma-Ray Bursts from Compact Binary Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 958(2). L33–L33. 42 indexed citations

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Barack, Leor, Harald Pfeiffer, Adam Pound, et al.. (2023). Worldtube excision method for intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: Scalar-field model in 3+1 dimensions. Physical review. D. 108(2). 4 indexed citations

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Yoo, J., Keefe Mitman, Vijay Varma, et al.. (2023). Numerical relativity surrogate model with memory effects and post-Newtonian hybridization. Physical review. D. 108(6). 27 indexed citations

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Mitman, Keefe, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2023). Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns. Physical Review Letters. 130(8). 81402–81402. 118 indexed citations breakdown →

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Deppe, Nils, Larry Kidder, Saul A. Teukolsky, et al.. (2023). A positivity-preserving adaptive-order finite-difference scheme for GRMHD. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(24). 245014–245014. 2 indexed citations

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Zertuche, L. Magaña, Keefe Mitman, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2022). High precision ringdown modeling: Multimode fits and BMS frames. Physical review. D. 105(10). 40 indexed citations

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Ramos-Buades, A., Maarten van de Meent, Harald Pfeiffer, et al.. (2022). Eccentric binary black holes: Comparing numerical relativity and small mass-ratio perturbation theory. Physical review. D. 106(12). 30 indexed citations

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Okounkova, Maria, Mark Scheel, & Saul A. Teukolsky. (2019). Numerical black hole initial data and shadows in dynamical Chern–Simons gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36(5). 54001–54001. 18 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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Scheel, Mark, Béla Szilágyi, Jonathan Blackman, et al.. (2015). Numerical relativity reaching into post-Newtonian territory: a compact-object binary simulation spanning 350 gravitational-wave cycles. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Blackman, Jonathan, Scott E. Field, Chad R. Galley, et al.. (2015). Fast and Accurate Prediction of Numerical Relativity Waveforms from Binary Black Hole Coalescences Using Surrogate Models. Physical Review Letters. 115(12). 121102–121102. 140 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Jeffrey D., et al.. (2010). Simulations of Neutron-Star Binaries using the Spectral Einstein Code (SpEC). Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010(6). 510–2.

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