Michael Koppitz

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Koppitz is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Koppitz has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Michael Koppitz's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (10 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (4 papers). Michael Koppitz is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (10 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (4 papers). Michael Koppitz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Michael Koppitz's co-authors include John G. Baker, Dae-Il Choi, James van Meter, Denis Pollney, Peter Diener, Bernd Brügmann, Edward Seidel, Miguel Alcubierre, Ryōji Takahashi and James R. van Meter and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Chemical Physics Letters and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Michael Koppitz

12 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes

2006 837 citations John G. Baker, Dae-Il Choi 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
Michael Koppitz United States	10	2.1k	848	186	118	111	12	2.2k
Dae-Il Choi United States	11	1.3k 0.6×	579 0.7×	102 0.5×	236 2.0×	73 0.7×	15	1.6k
Mikhail P. Solon United States	21	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	119 0.6×	191 1.6×	47 0.4×	30	2.1k
Naoki Seto Japan	23	2.1k 1.0×	904 1.1×	89 0.5×	144 1.2×	278 2.5×	80	2.1k
J. Heyvaerts France	21	1.9k 0.9×	463 0.5×	99 0.5×	102 0.9×	65 0.6×	87	2.0k
Philippe Jetzer Switzerland	23	1.5k 0.7×	929 1.1×	72 0.4×	258 2.2×	175 1.6×	81	1.7k
Jacco Vink Netherlands	27	2.6k 1.3×	1.8k 2.1×	116 0.6×	56 0.5×	23 0.2×	122	2.8k
Carlos F. Sopuerta Spain	23	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	68 0.4×	82 0.7×	88 0.8×	70	1.9k
S. Nissanke Netherlands	25	2.2k 1.1×	596 0.7×	236 1.3×	142 1.2×	256 2.3×	43	2.3k
Jr. Harnden F. R. United States	24	1.8k 0.8×	309 0.4×	123 0.7×	81 0.7×	46 0.4×	59	1.8k
Sharon M. Morsink Canada	22	1.8k 0.9×	493 0.6×	622 3.3×	238 2.0×	349 3.1×	39	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Koppitz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Koppitz

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Benger, Werner, Andreas Gerndt, Simon Su, et al.. (2010). The 6th High-End Visualization Workshop. 1 indexed citations

Barth, Ingo, Hans‐Christian Hege, Hiroshi Ikeda, et al.. (2009). Concerted quantum effects of electronic and nuclear fluxes in molecules. Chemical Physics Letters. 481(1-3). 118–123. 84 indexed citations

Baker, John G., Sean T. McWilliams, James R. van Meter, et al.. (2007). Binary black hole late inspiral: Simulations for gravitational wave observations. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 75(12). 71 indexed citations

Koppitz, Michael, Denis Pollney, Christian Reisswig, et al.. (2007). Recoil Velocities from Equal-Mass Binary-Black-Hole Mergers. Physical Review Letters. 99(4). 41102–41102. 153 indexed citations

Pollney, Denis, Christian Reisswig, Luciano Rezzolla, et al.. (2007). Recoil velocities from equal-mass binary black-hole mergers: A systematic investigation of spin-orbit aligned configurations. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(12). 134 indexed citations

Ajith, P., S. Bagnasco, Y Chen, et al.. (2007). A phenomenological template family for black-hole coalescence waveforms. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 24(19). S689–S699. 195 indexed citations

Baker, John G., Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, & James van Meter. (2006). Binary black hole merger dynamics and waveforms. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 73(10). 147 indexed citations

Baker, John G., Dae-Il Choi, Michael Koppitz, & James van Meter. (2006). Gravitational-Wave Extraction from an Inspiraling Configuration of Merging Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 96(11). 111102–111102. 837 indexed citations breakdown →

Meter, James R. van, John G. Baker, Michael Koppitz, & Dae-Il Choi. (2006). How to move a black hole without excision: Gauge conditions for the numerical evolution of a moving puncture. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 73(12). 162 indexed citations

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Alcubierre, Miguel, Bernd Brügmann, Peter Diener, et al.. (2005). Dynamical evolution of quasicircular binary black hole data. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(4). 44 indexed citations

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Bishop, Nigel T., Florian Beyer, & Michael Koppitz. (2004). Black hole initial data from a nonconformal decomposition. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 69(6). 5 indexed citations

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Alcubierre, Miguel, Bernd Brügmann, Peter Diener, et al.. (2003). Gauge conditions for long-term numerical black hole evolutions without excision. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 67(8). 381 indexed citations

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