Olivier Mattelaer

13.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Olivier Mattelaer is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computer Networks and Communications and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Mattelaer has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 3 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Olivier Mattelaer's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (43 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (22 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (19 papers). Olivier Mattelaer is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (43 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (22 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (19 papers). Olivier Mattelaer collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Switzerland. Olivier Mattelaer's co-authors include Fabio Maltoni, Rikkert Frederix, Valentin Hirschi, Johan Alwall, T. Stelzer, Paolo Torrielli, Stefano Frixione, Marco Zaro, Hua-Sheng Shao and Céline Degrande and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Mattelaer

46 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations

2014 3.4k citations Johan Alwall, Rikkert Frederix et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
UFO – The Universal FeynRules Output

2012 828 citations Céline Degrande, Claude Duhr et al. Computer Physics Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olivier Mattelaer Belgium	20	5.5k	1.1k	369	177	118	47	5.6k
Rikkert Frederix Switzerland	22	5.8k 1.1×	984 0.9×	326 0.9×	176 1.0×	152 1.3×	46	5.9k
Valentin Hirschi Switzerland	20	4.7k 0.9×	878 0.8×	284 0.8×	119 0.7×	142 1.2×	31	4.8k
Johan Alwall United States	16	5.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	296 0.8×	129 0.7×	99 0.8×	33	5.1k
Marco Zaro Belgium	20	4.7k 0.9×	860 0.8×	299 0.8×	115 0.6×	117 1.0×	50	4.8k
Hua-Sheng Shao France	21	4.8k 0.9×	797 0.7×	258 0.7×	102 0.6×	94 0.8×	65	4.9k
Paolo Torrielli Switzerland	18	4.4k 0.8×	799 0.7×	274 0.7×	109 0.6×	91 0.8×	35	4.5k
Peter Skands Switzerland	22	9.2k 1.7×	1.5k 1.3×	474 1.3×	218 1.2×	153 1.3×	78	9.4k
Benjamin Fuks France	30	4.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	262 0.7×	151 0.9×	101 0.9×	119	5.2k
Stefano Frixione Switzerland	35	8.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	357 1.0×	195 1.1×	197 1.7×	68	8.3k
M. Czakon Germany	45	6.5k 1.2×	800 0.7×	157 0.4×	95 0.5×	174 1.5×	113	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Olivier Mattelaer

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Flore, Carlo, et al.. (2025). Automated NLO calculations for asymmetric hadron-hadron collisions in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. The European Physical Journal A. 61(10).

Heimel, Theo, et al.. (2024). The MadNIS reloaded. SciPost Physics. 17(1). 17 indexed citations

Mattelaer, Olivier, et al.. (2024). Acceleration beyond lowest order event generation. An outlook on further parallelism within MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 295. 10001–10001. 1 indexed citations

Childers, J. T., et al.. (2024). Madgraph5_aMC@NLO on GPUs and vector CPUs Experience with the first alpha release. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 295. 11013–11013. 3 indexed citations

Belvedere, Alberto, S. Bhattacharya, G. Boldrini, et al.. (2024). LHC EFT WG note: SMEFT predictions, event reweighting, and simulation. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

Arina, Chiara, et al.. (2023). Indirect dark-matter detection with MadDM v3.2 – Lines and Loops. The European Physical Journal C. 83(3). 9 indexed citations

Aoude, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Renormalisation group effects on SMEFT interpretations of LHC data. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(9). 23 indexed citations

Mattelaer, Olivier, et al.. (2021). Speeding up MadGraph5_aMC@NLO. The European Physical Journal C. 81(5). 435–435. 14 indexed citations

Drewes, Marco, A. Giammanco, Jan Hajer, Michele Lucente, & Olivier Mattelaer. (2018). A Heavy Metal Path to New Physics. arXiv (Cornell University). 90. 2 indexed citations

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Buonocore, Luca, Claudia Frugiuele, Fabio Maltoni, Olivier Mattelaer, & Francesco Tramontano. (2018). Event generation for beam dump experiments. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 9 indexed citations

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Degrande, Céline, Valentin Hirschi, & Olivier Mattelaer. (2018). Automated Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes. Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. 68(1). 291–312. 2 indexed citations

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Degrande, Céline, Olivier Mattelaer, Richard Ruíz, & Jessica Turner. (2016). Fully automated precision predictions for heavy neutrino production mechanisms at hadron colliders. Physical review. D. 94(5). 85 indexed citations

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Hirschi, Valentin & Olivier Mattelaer. (2015). Automated event generation for loop-induced processes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(10). 106 indexed citations

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Alwall, Johan, et al.. (2015). Computing decay rates for new physics theories with FeynRules and MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO. Computer Physics Communications. 197. 312–323. 80 indexed citations

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Frederix, Rikkert, Stefano Frixione, Valentin Hirschi, et al.. (2014). Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects. Physics Letters B. 732. 142–149. 138 indexed citations

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Alwall, Johan, Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione, et al.. (2014). The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(7). 3377 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mattelaer, Olivier. (2014). MadGraph5 AMC@NLO and top pair production at a Linear Collider. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 37(2). 61–67. 1 indexed citations

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Artoisenet, Pierre, Priscila de Aquino, Fabio Maltoni, & Olivier Mattelaer. (2013). Unravellingtt¯hvia the Matrix Element Method. Physical Review Letters. 111(9). 91802–91802. 38 indexed citations

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Degrande, Céline, Claude Duhr, Benjamin Fuks, et al.. (2012). UFO – The Universal FeynRules Output. Computer Physics Communications. 183(6). 1201–1214. 828 indexed citations breakdown →

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Alwall, Johan, A. Freitas, & Olivier Mattelaer. (2011). Matrix element method and QCD radiation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(7). 41 indexed citations

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