Nicholas C. Stone

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Nicholas C. Stone is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas C. Stone has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicholas C. Stone's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (54 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (36 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (35 papers). Nicholas C. Stone is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (54 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (36 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (35 papers). Nicholas C. Stone collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Netherlands. Nicholas C. Stone's co-authors include Brian D. Metzger, Abraham Loeb, Zoltán Haiman, Kimitake Hayasaki, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Sjoert van Velzen, Aleksey Generozov, P. G. Jonker, Re’em Sari and Andreas H. W. Küpper and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas C. Stone

70 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

Assisted inspirals of stellar mass black holes embedded in AGN discs: solving the ‘final au problem’

2016 335 citations Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Rates of stellar tidal disruption as probes of the supermassive black hole mass function

2015 243 citations Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Stream–disk shocks as the origins of peak light in tidal disruption events

2024 45 citations Nicholas C. Stone et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas C. Stone United States	32	2.9k	658	156	133	119	76	3.0k
Barry McKernan United States	26	2.3k 0.8×	484 0.7×	112 0.7×	74 0.6×	90 0.8×	58	2.4k
Elena M. Rossi Netherlands	29	2.6k 0.9×	577 0.9×	306 2.0×	66 0.5×	63 0.5×	80	2.7k
Sascha Trippe Germany	19	2.2k 0.8×	844 1.3×	235 1.5×	141 1.1×	114 1.0×	59	2.3k
Bence Kocsis United States	37	4.0k 1.4×	664 1.0×	99 0.6×	103 0.8×	267 2.2×	82	4.2k
K. E. Saavik Ford United States	25	2.0k 0.7×	280 0.4×	101 0.6×	64 0.5×	86 0.7×	52	2.1k
Daryl Haggard United States	22	1.6k 0.5×	538 0.8×	228 1.5×	70 0.5×	161 1.4×	82	1.7k
M. D. Filipović Australia	24	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	131 0.8×	44 0.3×	73 0.6×	205	2.2k
Paul C. Duffell United States	20	2.5k 0.9×	365 0.6×	349 2.2×	50 0.4×	123 1.0×	40	2.6k
E. Nardini Italy	28	2.5k 0.8×	899 1.4×	251 1.6×	112 0.8×	43 0.4×	88	2.5k
Francesco Tombesi United States	28	3.6k 1.2×	1.6k 2.5×	190 1.2×	214 1.6×	94 0.8×	118	3.7k

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Grishin, Evgeni, et al.. (2025). How to Escape from a Trap: Outcomes of Repeated Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 982(1). L13–L13. 6 indexed citations

Newsome, Megan, I. Arcavi, K. Decker French, et al.. (2025). Resolving the Nuclear Environments of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies within 45 pc. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(2). 200–200.

Stone, Nicholas C., et al.. (2025). Fragmentation in collapsar discs: migration, growth, and emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(2). 1 indexed citations

Dekel, Avishai, et al.. (2025). Growth of massive black holes in FFB galaxies at cosmic dawn. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A97–A97. 12 indexed citations

Shoji, Yutaro, Eric Kuflik, Yuval Birnboim, & Nicholas C. Stone. (2024). Heating galaxy clusters with interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 4082–4091. 2 indexed citations

Grishin, Evgeni, et al.. (2024). The effect of thermal torques on AGN disc migration traps and gravitational wave populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(2). 2114–2132. 34 indexed citations

Seth, Anil C., et al.. (2024). Counting the Unseen. I. Nuclear Density Scaling Relations for Nucleated Galaxies. The Astronomical Journal. 168(3). 137–137. 5 indexed citations

Wen, Sixiang, P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan, et al.. (2024). AT2018fyk: Candidate Tidal Disruption Event by a (Super)Massive Black Hole Binary. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 116–116. 3 indexed citations

Zabludoff, Ann I., et al.. (2023). A Census of Archival X-Ray Spectra for Modeling Tidal Disruption Events. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 135(1045). 34101–34101. 5 indexed citations

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Stone, Nicholas C., et al.. (2023). Magnetically dominated discs in tidal disruption events and quasi-periodic eruptions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 1269–1290. 41 indexed citations

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Naab, Thorsten, Rainer Spurzem, Mirek Giersz, et al.. (2020). Intermediate mass black hole formation in compact young massive star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 5257–5273. 73 indexed citations

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Pasham, Dheeraj R., Ronald A. Remillard, P. Chris Fragile, et al.. (2019). A loud quasi-periodic oscillation after a star is disrupted by a massive black hole. Science. 363(6426). 531–534. 47 indexed citations

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Pasham, Dheeraj R., Dacheng Lin, R. D. Saxton, et al.. (2019). Probing the Cosmological Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes using Tidal Disruption Flares. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 27. 1 indexed citations

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Krühler, T., M. Fraser, G. Leloudas, et al.. (2018). The supermassive black hole coincident with the luminous transient ASASSN-15lh. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 610. A14–A14. 22 indexed citations

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Stone, Nicholas C., Aleksey Generozov, Eugene Vasiliev, & Brian D. Metzger. (2018). Understanding the Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Flares. 231. 1 indexed citations

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Farihi, Jay, L. Fossati, P. J. Wheatley, et al.. (2017). Magnetism, X-rays and accretion rates in WD 1145+017 and other polluted white dwarf systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474(1). 947–960. 32 indexed citations

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Pasham, Dheeraj R., S. B. Cenko, Aleksander Sądowski, et al.. (2017). Optical/UV-to-X-Ray Echoes from the Tidal Disruption Flare ASASSN-14li. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 837(2). L30–L30. 20 indexed citations

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Bartos, I., Zoltán Haiman, Z. Márka, et al.. (2017). Gravitational-wave localization alone can probe origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers. Nature Communications. 8(1). 831–831. 43 indexed citations

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Hayasaki, Kimitake, Nicholas C. Stone, & Abraham Loeb. (2012). Tidal disruption flares from stars on eccentric orbits. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Stone, Nicholas C. & Abraham Loeb. (2010). Repeating Tidal Disruption of Stars as a Prompt Electromagnetic Signature of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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