Matthew Middleton

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Matthew Middleton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Middleton has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 34 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthew Middleton's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (105 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (41 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (29 papers). Matthew Middleton is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (105 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (41 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (29 papers). Matthew Middleton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Matthew Middleton's co-authors include T. P. Roberts, Chris Done, A. C. Fabian, D. J. Walton, C. Pinto, M. J. Ward, Andrew D. Sutton, Marek Gierliński, L. Heil and William Alston 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 Middleton

111 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

False periodicities in quasar time-domain surveys 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2023 50 100 150
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. False periodicities in quasar time-domain surveys
    2016 178 citations Matthew Middleton, William Alston et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. Ultraluminous X-ray sources
    2023 90 citations J. P. Lasota, Matthew Middleton et al. 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 Middleton United Kingdom 32 3.4k 1.3k 507 385 152 113 3.6k
P. Kaaret United States 38 4.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 512 1.0× 462 1.2× 192 1.3× 205 4.3k
Roberto Soria Australia 35 3.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 290 0.6× 292 0.8× 100 0.7× 164 3.6k
A. N. Parmar Netherlands 33 3.0k 0.9× 811 0.6× 695 1.4× 423 1.1× 129 0.8× 186 3.2k
Edward M. Cackett United States 39 4.2k 1.2× 1.3k 1.0× 695 1.4× 555 1.4× 113 0.7× 151 4.2k
K. Pottschmidt United States 36 4.3k 1.3× 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 2.1× 463 1.2× 120 0.8× 210 4.4k
D. Porquet France 31 2.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 233 0.5× 182 0.5× 151 1.0× 82 2.9k
Kinwah Wu United Kingdom 29 2.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 269 0.5× 120 0.3× 92 0.6× 173 2.9k
Tadayasu Dotani Japan 29 3.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 618 1.2× 525 1.4× 161 1.1× 175 3.8k
Tod E. Strohmayer United States 40 5.7k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 2.0k 4.0× 597 1.6× 101 0.7× 183 5.9k
Erin Kara United States 34 3.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 193 0.4× 360 0.9× 111 0.7× 133 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Middleton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Middleton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthew Middleton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthew Middleton 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 Middleton. Matthew Middleton 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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Fragile, P. Chris, et al.. (2025). Long time-scale numerical simulations of large supercritical accretion discs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2820–2829. 2 indexed citations
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Middleton, Matthew, A. Gúrpide, Lixin Dai, et al.. (2025). Quasi-periodic eruptions as Lense–Thirring precession of super-Eddington flows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 1688–1702. 7 indexed citations
3.
Pintore, Fabio, C. Pinto, G. A. Rodríguez Castillo, et al.. (2025). A new pulsating neutron star in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4559 X7?. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A238–A238. 4 indexed citations
4.
Wang, Yanan, Dheeraj R. Pasham, D. Altamirano, et al.. (2024). Rapid Dimming Followed by a State Transition: A Study of the Highly Variable Nuclear Transient AT 2019avd over 1000+ Days. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 78–78. 3 indexed citations
5.
Earnshaw, Hannah P., Matteo Bachetti, Murray Brightman, et al.. (2024). Return to the Forgotten Ultraluminous X-Ray Source: A Broadband NICER+NuSTAR Study of NGC 4190 ULX-1. The Astrophysical Journal. 968(2). 111–111. 1 indexed citations
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Gúrpide, A., Noel Castro Segura, Roberto Soria, & Matthew Middleton. (2024). Absence of nebular He ii λ4686 constrains the UV emission from the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar NGC 1313 X-2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3118–3135. 2 indexed citations
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Beuchert, Tobias, Matthew Middleton, Roberto Soria, et al.. (2024). Exploring the case for hard-X-ray beaming in NGC 6946 X-1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 645–654.
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Ingram, Adam, et al.. (2023). Thefalse widowlink between neutron star X-ray binaries and spider pulsars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3416–3435. 8 indexed citations
9.
Middleton, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Long-term X-ray/UV variability in ULXs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(3). 4302–4314. 3 indexed citations
10.
Brightman, Murray, J. M. Hameury, J. P. Lasota, et al.. (2023). A New Sample of Transient Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Serendipitously Discovered by Swift/XRT. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 51–51. 5 indexed citations
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Fragile, P. Chris, Koushik Chatterjee, Adam Ingram, & Matthew Middleton. (2023). The luminous, hard state can’t be MAD. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 525(1). L82–L86. 6 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yan-Fei, et al.. (2023). Global 3D Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion onto a Stellar-mass Black Hole at Sub- and Near-critical Accretion Rates. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(1). 57–57. 17 indexed citations
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Pinto, C., D. J. Walton, Roberto Soria, et al.. (2021). Broadband X-ray spectral variability of the pulsing ULX NGC 1313 X-2. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 16 indexed citations
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Fürst, Felix, D. J. Walton, Marianne Heida, et al.. (2021). Long-term pulse period evolution of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar NGC 7793 P13. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 19 indexed citations
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Paice, John A., P. Gandhi, P. A. Charles, et al.. (2019). Puzzling blue dips in the black hole candidate Swift J1357.2 − 0933, from ULTRACAM, SALT, ATCA, Swift, and NuSTAR. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 512–524. 4 indexed citations
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Gandhi, P., D. Altamirano, D. M. Russell, et al.. (2017). X-ray brightening of GX 339-4 in late September 2017. ATel. 10798. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Walton, D. J., Matthew Middleton, C. Pinto, et al.. (2016). An iron K component to the ultrafast outflow in NGC 1313 X-1. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 58 indexed citations
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Altamirano, D., Arash Bahramian, G. R. Sivakoff, et al.. (2015). Swift follow-up observations of the new outburst of the black hole candidate V4641 Sgr. ATel. 7874. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Walton, D. J., Matthew Middleton, Vikram Rana, et al.. (2015). <i>NuSTAR, XMM-Newton </i>and<i> Suzaku Observations</i> of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source Holmberg II X-1. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 41 indexed citations
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Middleton, Matthew, et al.. (2012). Identifying a new intermediate polar using <em>XMM-Newton</em> and <em>INTEGRAL</em>. DigitalCommons - WayneState (Wayne State University). 6 indexed citations

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