Matthew McQuinn

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Matthew McQuinn is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew McQuinn has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 34 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 9 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Matthew McQuinn's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (37 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (28 papers). Matthew McQuinn is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (37 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (28 papers). Matthew McQuinn collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Matthew McQuinn's co-authors include Lars Hernquist, Matías Zaldarriaga, O. Zahn, Adam Lidz, Steven R. Furlanetto, Suvendra Dutta, Anson D’Aloisio, Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère and Martin White and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Matthew McQuinn

70 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts
    2020 339 citations Jean‐Pierre Macquart, J. X. Prochaska et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew McQuinn United States 34 3.9k 1.9k 607 372 181 73 4.1k
S. Peng Oh United States 43 5.6k 1.4× 2.6k 1.4× 800 1.3× 300 0.8× 154 0.9× 92 5.9k
Tirthankar Roy Choudhury India 35 3.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 419 0.7× 300 0.8× 159 0.9× 121 3.5k
B. Ciardi Germany 36 3.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.9× 465 0.8× 512 1.4× 205 1.1× 119 3.7k
Garrelt Mellema Sweden 39 4.4k 1.1× 1.7k 0.9× 478 0.8× 599 1.6× 237 1.3× 139 4.6k
Ilian T. Iliev United Kingdom 39 4.5k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 814 1.3× 551 1.5× 239 1.3× 118 4.7k
Mário G. Santos South Africa 32 2.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 383 0.6× 233 0.6× 109 0.6× 90 2.8k
A. G. de Bruyn Netherlands 38 4.3k 1.1× 2.7k 1.4× 438 0.7× 539 1.4× 177 1.0× 132 4.5k
J. Stuart B. Wyithe Australia 42 5.6k 1.4× 1.9k 1.0× 1.6k 2.7× 268 0.7× 201 1.1× 176 5.8k
Adam Lidz United States 25 2.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 658 1.1× 151 0.4× 124 0.7× 60 2.8k
Avery Meiksin United Kingdom 32 4.2k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 1.2k 2.0× 129 0.3× 109 0.6× 82 4.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew McQuinn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew McQuinn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthew McQuinn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthew McQuinn 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 Matthew McQuinn. Matthew McQuinn 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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Mas-Ribas, Lluís, Matthew McQuinn, & J. X. Prochaska. (2025). Circumgalactic Medium Cloud Sizes from Refractive Fast Radio Burst Scattering. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 179–179.
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Cain, Christopher, Evan Scannapieco, Matthew McQuinn, Anson D’Aloisio, & Hy Trac. (2024). The hydrodynamic response of small-scale structure to reionization drives large IGM temperature fluctuations that persist to z = 4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 533(1). L100–L106. 1 indexed citations
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Brinckmann, Thejs, et al.. (2023). Postinflationary contamination of local primordial non-Gaussianity in galaxy power spectra. Physical review. D. 108(10). 3 indexed citations
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Visbal, Eli & Matthew McQuinn. (2023). Cross Correlation of Pencil-beam Galaxy Surveys and Line-intensity Maps: An Application of the James Webb Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(2). 84–84. 1 indexed citations
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Boone, K. & Matthew McQuinn. (2023). Solar System-scale Interferometry on Fast Radio Bursts Could Measure Cosmic Distances with Subpercent Precision. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 947(2). L23–L23. 3 indexed citations
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McQuinn, Matthew, et al.. (2023). A Measurement of Circumgalactic Gas around Nearby Galaxies Using Fast Radio Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(2). 87–87. 16 indexed citations
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Iršič, Vid, Huangyu Xiao, & Matthew McQuinn. (2020). Early structure formation constraints on the ultralight axion in the postinflation scenario. Physical review. D. 101(12). 43 indexed citations
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Macquart, Jean‐Pierre, J. X. Prochaska, Matthew McQuinn, et al.. (2020). A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts. Nature. 581(7809). 391–395. 339 indexed citations breakdown →
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Götberg, Y., S. E. de Mink, Matthew McQuinn, et al.. (2020). . UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 40 indexed citations
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Cain, Christopher, Anson D’Aloisio, Vid Iršič, Matthew McQuinn, & Hy Trac. (2020). A Model-insensitive Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Feature in the 21 cm Signal from Reionization. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 9 indexed citations
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Ravi, Vikram, Nicholas Battaglia, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, et al.. (2019). Fast Radio Burst Tomography of the Unseen Universe. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 51(3). 420. 3 indexed citations
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Battaglia, Nicholas, J. Colin Hill, Stefania Amodeo, et al.. (2019). Probing Feedback in Galaxy Formation with Millimeter-wave Observations. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 51(3). 297. 3 indexed citations
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D’Aloisio, Anson, Matthew McQuinn, Frederick B. Davies, & Steven R. Furlanetto. (2017). Large fluctuations in the high-redshift metagalactic ionizing background. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 473(1). 560–575. 101 indexed citations
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Pober, Jonathan C., Aaron R. Parsons, David R. DeBoer, et al.. (2013). THE BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION BROADBAND AND BROAD-BEAM ARRAY: DESIGN OVERVIEW AND SENSITIVITY FORECASTS. The Astronomical Journal. 145(3). 65–65. 107 indexed citations
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McQuinn, Matthew. (2013). LOCATING THE “MISSING” BARYONS WITH EXTRAGALACTIC DISPERSION MEASURE ESTIMATES. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 780(2). L33–L33. 183 indexed citations
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Mao, Yi, Max Tegmark, Matthew McQuinn, Matías Zaldarriaga, & O. Zahn. (2008). How accurately can 21 cm tomography constrain cosmology?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(2). 172 indexed citations
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Lidz, Adam, O. Zahn, Matthew McQuinn, et al.. (2007). Higher Order Contributions to the 21 cm Power Spectrum. The Astrophysical Journal. 659(2). 865–876. 56 indexed citations
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Zahn, O., Matías Zaldarriaga, Lars Hernquist, & Matthew McQuinn. (2005). The Influence of Nonuniform Reionization on the CMB. The Astrophysical Journal. 630(2). 657–666. 66 indexed citations
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Furlanetto, Steven R., Matthew McQuinn, & Lars Hernquist. (2005). Characteristic scales during reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 365(1). 115–126. 84 indexed citations
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McQuinn, Matthew, Steven R. Furlanetto, Lars Hernquist, O. Zahn, & Matías Zaldarriaga. (2005). The Kinetic Sunyaev‐Zel’dovich Effect from Reionization. The Astrophysical Journal. 630(2). 643–656. 94 indexed citations

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