Matt Lebofsky

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Matt Lebofsky is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Matt Lebofsky has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Matt Lebofsky's work include Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (26 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (24 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (14 papers). Matt Lebofsky is often cited by papers focused on Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (26 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (24 papers) and Planetary Science and Exploration (14 papers). Matt Lebofsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Matt Lebofsky's co-authors include Dan Werthimer, Jeff Cobb, Eric Korpela, David P. Anderson, G. H. Rieke, Andrew Siemion, Danny C. Price, Vishal Gajjar, Howard Isaacson and S. Croft and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Communications of the ACM and The Astronomical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Matt Lebofsky

43 papers receiving 1.1k 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 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matt Lebofsky United States 13 591 465 297 121 119 48 1.2k
Eric Korpela United States 16 881 1.5× 711 1.5× 441 1.5× 187 1.5× 181 1.5× 77 1.8k
Jeff Cobb United States 9 859 1.5× 162 0.3× 404 1.4× 209 1.7× 172 1.4× 27 1.2k
Peter Kunszt Switzerland 15 779 1.3× 244 0.5× 231 0.8× 166 1.4× 315 2.6× 38 1.2k
Nicholas A. Murphy United States 19 267 0.5× 752 1.6× 111 0.4× 88 0.7× 21 0.2× 51 1.2k
Sarah Bird China 13 154 0.3× 318 0.7× 142 0.5× 78 0.6× 15 0.1× 40 902
Mike Wilde United States 12 676 1.1× 50 0.1× 370 1.2× 156 1.3× 376 3.2× 19 1.0k
Tom Peterka United States 17 340 0.6× 83 0.2× 76 0.3× 178 1.5× 108 0.9× 58 987
T. Wenaus United States 11 515 0.9× 54 0.1× 129 0.4× 74 0.6× 313 2.6× 64 836
Rob Gardner United States 6 679 1.1× 50 0.1× 557 1.9× 147 1.2× 124 1.0× 6 977
Alain Roy United States 6 411 0.7× 50 0.1× 206 0.7× 90 0.7× 157 1.3× 6 703

Countries citing papers authored by Matt Lebofsky

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matt Lebofsky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matt Lebofsky

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matt Lebofsky. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matt Lebofsky 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 Matt Lebofsky. Matt Lebofsky 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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Painter, C. A., S. Croft, Matt Lebofsky, et al.. (2025). A Novel Technosignature Search in the Breakthrough Listen Green Bank Telescope Archive. The Astronomical Journal. 169(4). 222–222.
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Croft, S., Daniel Bautista, Vishal Gajjar, et al.. (2025). Anomaly Detection and Radio-frequency Interference Classification with Unsupervised Learning in Narrowband Radio Technosignature Searches. The Astronomical Journal. 169(4). 206–206. 3 indexed citations
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Pardo, S., D. Poznanski, S. Croft, Andrew Siemion, & Matt Lebofsky. (2025). Using Anomaly Detection to Search for Technosignatures in Breakthrough Listen Observations. The Astronomical Journal. 170(1). 12–12.
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Isaacson, Howard, et al.. (2023). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Laser Search Pipeline for the Automated Planet Finder. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 114–114. 7 indexed citations
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Ng, Cherry, S. Croft, Andrew Siemion, et al.. (2023). A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars. Nature Astronomy. 19 indexed citations
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Hickish, J., Paul Demorest, Cherry Ng, et al.. (2023). COSMIC: An Ethernet-based Commensal, Multimode Digital Backend on the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The Astronomical Journal. 167(1). 35–35. 6 indexed citations
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Croft, S., Andrew Siemion, Vishal Gajjar, et al.. (2022). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of Transiting TESS Targets of Interest. The Astronomical Journal. 163(3). 104–104. 13 indexed citations
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Price, Danny C., David H. E. MacMahon, Matt Lebofsky, et al.. (2021). Expanded Capability of the Breakthrough Listen Parkes Data Recorder for Observations with the UWL Receiver. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(5). 114–114. 5 indexed citations
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Sheikh, Sofia Z., Danny C. Price, David R. DeBoer, et al.. (2021). Analysis of the Breakthrough Listen signal of interest blc1 with a technosignature verification framework. Nature Astronomy. 5(11). 1153–1162. 22 indexed citations
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Sheikh, Sofia Z., Danny C. Price, Matt Lebofsky, et al.. (2021). No Redetections of blc1 in 39 hr of Reobservation Campaigns of Proxima Centauri. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(10). 248–248. 1 indexed citations
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Lacki, Brian C., S. Croft, Daniel Czech, et al.. (2021). The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog: Supplementary Materials. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 10 indexed citations
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Sheikh, Sofia Z., Andrew Siemion, J. Emilio Enriquez, et al.. (2020). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95–8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone. The Astronomical Journal. 160(1). 29–29. 23 indexed citations
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Gajjar, Vishal, Howard Isaacson, Andrew Siemion, et al.. (2020). Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures toward the Kepler-160 System. Research Notes of the AAS. 4(6). 97–97. 3 indexed citations
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Price, Danny C., S. Croft, David R. DeBoer, et al.. (2019). Breakthrough Listen Observations of Asteroid (514107) 2015 BZ509 with the Parkes Radio Telescope. Research Notes of the AAS. 3(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations
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Enriquez, J. Emilio, Andrew Siemion, T. Joseph W. Lazio, et al.. (2018). Breakthrough Listen Observations of 1I/′Oumuamua with the GBT. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(1). 9–9. 9 indexed citations
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Price, Danny C., Vishal Gajjar, Lee J. Rosenthal, et al.. (2018). No Bursts Detected from FRB121102 in Two 5 hr Observing Campaigns with the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(1). 30–30. 7 indexed citations
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Croft, S., Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, et al.. (2018). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life. 231. 1 indexed citations
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Enriquez, J. Emilio, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, et al.. (2017). The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1–1.9 GHz Observations of 692 Nearby Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 849(2). 104–104. 68 indexed citations
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Werthimer, Dan, S. Bowyer, Jeff Cobb, Matt Lebofsky, & M. Lampton. (2000). The Serendip IV Arecibo Sky Survey. ASPC. 213. 479. 1 indexed citations
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Wilking, B. A., et al.. (1979). Infrared polarimetry in the Rho Ophiuchus dark cloud. The Astronomical Journal. 84. 199–199. 12 indexed citations

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