Misao Sasaki

19.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
272 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Misao Sasaki is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Misao Sasaki has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 251 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 164 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 51 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Misao Sasaki's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (219 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (149 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (71 papers). Misao Sasaki is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (219 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (149 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (71 papers). Misao Sasaki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Misao Sasaki's co-authors include Hideo Kodama, Takahiro Tanaka, Shi Pi, David Wands, Karim A. Malik, Takahiro Tanaka, Shin’ichi Nojiri, Sergei D. Odintsov, Teruaki Suyama and Guillem Domènech and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Misao Sasaki

264 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

Cosmological Perturbation Theory 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 2016 2005 2005 2019 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Cosmological Perturbation Theory
    1984 1.1k citations Hideo Kodama, Misao Sasaki profile →
  2. Primordial Black Hole Scenario for the Gravitational-Wave Event GW150914
    2016 621 citations Misao Sasaki et al. profile →
  3. Gauss-Bonnet dark energy
    2005 471 citations Misao Sasaki et al. profile →
  4. A general proof of the conservation of the curvature perturbation
    2005 456 citations Misao Sasaki et al. profile →
  5. Gravitational Waves Induced by Non-Gaussian Scalar Perturbations
    2019 297 citations Misao Sasaki et al. profile →
  6. Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Black Hole MACHO Binaries
    1997 249 citations Misao Sasaki et al. profile →

Peers

Misao Sasaki
Michael S. Turner United States
Edward W. Kolb United States
Antonio Riotto Switzerland
Roy Maartens United Kingdom
Justin Khoury United States
Shinji Tsujikawa Japan
Valerio Faraoni Canada
Robert Brandenberger Canada
Mark Trodden United States
P. Garnavich United States
Michael S. Turner United States
Misao Sasaki
Citations per year, relative to Misao Sasaki Misao Sasaki (= 1×) peers Michael S. Turner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Misao Sasaki

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Misao Sasaki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Misao Sasaki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Misao Sasaki 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 Misao Sasaki. Misao Sasaki 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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Sasaki, Misao, et al.. (2025). Singular instantons with finite action. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 40(33). 1 indexed citations
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Ducci, L., E. Perinati, P. Romano, et al.. (2025). Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars as sources of TeV neutrinos. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A98–A98.
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Kusenko, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Revisiting formation of primordial black holes in a supercooled first-order phase transition. Physical review. D. 110(1). 17 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem & Misao Sasaki. (2024). Probing primordial black hole scenarios with terrestrial gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(14). 143001–143001. 12 indexed citations
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Papanikolaou, Theodoros, et al.. (2024). New probe of non-Gaussianities with primordial black hole induced gravitational waves. Physics Letters B. 857. 138997–138997. 27 indexed citations
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Gong, Jinn-Ouk, et al.. (2023). New shape of parity-violating graviton non-Gaussianity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 16 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem, Derek Inman, Alexander Kusenko, & Misao Sasaki. (2023). Halo formation from Yukawa forces in the very early Universe. Physical review. D. 108(10). 23 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem & Misao Sasaki. (2023). Gravitational wave hints black hole remnants as dark matter. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(17). 177001–177001. 20 indexed citations
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Yoo, Chul‐Moon, Tomohiro Harada, Shin‐ichi Hirano, H. Okawa, & Misao Sasaki. (2022). Primordial black hole formation from massless scalar isocurvature. Physical review. D. 105(10). 18 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem, Volodymyr Takhistov, & Misao Sasaki. (2021). Exploring evaporating primordial black holes with gravitational waves. Physics Letters B. 823. 136722–136722. 82 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem & Misao Sasaki. (2021). Approximate gauge independence of the induced gravitational wave spectrum. Physical review. D. 103(6). 49 indexed citations
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Domènech, Guillem, Misao Sasaki, & Tomo Takahashi. (2016). Strongly scale-dependent CMB dipolar asymmetry from super-curvature fluctuations. Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex). 5 indexed citations
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Sasaki, Misao, et al.. (2013). The Hartle-Hawking no-boundary proposal in dRGT massive gravity. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Romano, Antonio Enea & Misao Sasaki. (2009). On the relation between positive averaged acceleration and physical observables in LTB spaces. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Deruelle, Nathalie, Misao Sasaki, & Yuuiti Sendouda. (2008). 「離調」f(R)重力と暗黒エネルギー. Physical Review D. 77. 1–124024.
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Sasaki, Misao & Hideyuki Tagoshi. (2003). Analytic Black Hole Perturbation Approach to Gravitational Radiation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 124 indexed citations
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Himemoto, Y., Takahiro Tanaka, & Misao Sasaki. (2001). A bulk scalar in the braneworld can mimic the 4d inflaton dynamics. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Sasaki, Misao. (1994). Post-Newtonian Expansion of the Ingoing-Wave Regge-Wheeler Function. Progress of Theoretical Physics. 92(1). 17–36. 34 indexed citations
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Gouda, Naoteru, Naoshi Sugiyama, & Misao Sasaki. (1991). Large Angle Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background in an Open Universe. Progress of Theoretical Physics. 85(5). 1023–1039. 21 indexed citations
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Kodama, Hideo, et al.. (1982). The first-order phase transition and the origin of clusters of galaxies.. 1341–1342. 1 indexed citations

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