Patrick McDonald

15.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Patrick McDonald is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick McDonald has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 37 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 20 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Patrick McDonald's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (46 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (37 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (16 papers). Patrick McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (46 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (37 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (16 papers). Patrick McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Patrick McDonald's co-authors include Uroš Seljak, Don Colladay, Anže Slosar, Renyue Cen, Jordi Miralda‐Escudé, Arabindo Roy, A. Makarov, Ue‐Li Pen, U. Seljak and Tobias Baldauf and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Patrick McDonald

92 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Cosmological parameters from combining the Lyman-α forest with CMB, galaxy clustering and SN constraints
    2006 446 citations Uroš Seljak, Anže Slosar et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Patrick McDonald 4.6k 2.4k 878 723 213 93 5.3k
K. M. Górski 8.5k 1.8× 3.9k 1.6× 711 0.8× 741 1.0× 207 1.0× 136 9.5k
J. Richard Bond 9.3k 2.0× 4.1k 1.7× 1.9k 2.1× 951 1.3× 159 0.7× 88 9.7k
S. F. Shandarin 2.8k 0.6× 715 0.3× 680 0.8× 828 1.1× 69 0.3× 98 3.3k
A. J. Banday 6.2k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 530 0.6× 517 0.7× 143 0.7× 72 7.0k
J. Frieman 6.3k 1.4× 4.2k 1.8× 833 0.9× 448 0.6× 390 1.8× 106 6.9k
A. Hamilton 3.4k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 613 0.7× 378 0.5× 115 0.5× 107 3.7k
Matthias Bartelmann 7.8k 1.7× 2.7k 1.1× 1.9k 2.1× 491 0.7× 638 3.0× 186 8.6k
E. Hivon 4.1k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 556 0.6× 284 0.4× 135 0.6× 40 4.8k
Bernard J. T. Jones 2.9k 0.6× 673 0.3× 846 1.0× 491 0.7× 66 0.3× 72 3.3k
S. Matarrese 12.0k 2.6× 6.9k 2.8× 987 1.1× 929 1.3× 269 1.3× 250 12.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick McDonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick McDonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Patrick McDonald. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Patrick McDonald. The network helps show where Patrick McDonald may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick McDonald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick McDonald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick McDonald 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 Patrick McDonald. Patrick McDonald 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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Seljak, Uroš, et al.. (2019). FastPM: Scaling N-body Particle Mesh solver. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 2 indexed citations
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McDonald, Patrick, Andreu Font-Ribera, N. Mostek, et al.. (2014). DESI and other Dark Energy experiments in the era of neutrino mass measurements. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 2 indexed citations
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Saito, Shun, Tobias Baldauf, Zvonimir Vlah, et al.. (2014). Understanding higher-order nonlocal halo bias at large scales by combining the power spectrum with the bispectrum. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(12). 116 indexed citations
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Pober, Jonathan C., Aaron R. Parsons, David R. DeBoer, et al.. (2013). THE BARYON ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION BROADBAND AND BROAD-BEAM ARRAY: DESIGN OVERVIEW AND SENSITIVITY FORECASTS. The Astronomical Journal. 145(3). 65–65. 107 indexed citations
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Baldauf, Tobias, Uroš Seljak, Vincent Desjacques, & Patrick McDonald. (2012). Evidence for quadratic tidal tensor bias from the halo bispectrum. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(8). 174 indexed citations
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Okumura, Teppei, Uroš Seljak, Patrick McDonald, & Vincent Desjacques. (2012). Distribution function approach to redshift space distortions. Part II:N-body simulations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2012(2). 10–10. 41 indexed citations
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Peña, Victor de la, Henryk Gzyl, & Patrick McDonald. (2008). Hitting Time and Inverse Problems for Markov Chains. Journal of Applied Probability. 45(3). 640–649. 4 indexed citations
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Peña, Victor de la, Henryk Gzyl, & Patrick McDonald. (2008). Hitting Time and Inverse Problems for Markov Chains. Journal of Applied Probability. 45(3). 640–649.
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Chang, Tzu‐Ching, Ue‐Li Pen, J. B. Peterson, & Patrick McDonald. (2008). Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Intensity Mapping of Dark Energy. Physical Review Letters. 100(9). 91303–91303. 237 indexed citations
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Schlegel, David J., Michael R. Blanton, Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al.. (2007). SDSS-III: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). AAS. 211. 7 indexed citations
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Seljak, Uroš, Anže Slosar, & Patrick McDonald. (2006). Cosmological parameters from combining the Lyman-α forest with CMB, galaxy clustering and SN constraints. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2006(10). 14–14. 446 indexed citations breakdown →
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Loya, Paul, Patrick McDonald, & Jinsung Park. (2006). Zeta regularized determinants for conic manifolds. Journal of Functional Analysis. 242(1). 195–229. 15 indexed citations
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Seljak, Uroš, A. Makarov, Patrick McDonald, & Hy Trac. (2006). Can Sterile Neutrinos Be the Dark Matter?. Physical Review Letters. 97(19). 191303–191303. 212 indexed citations
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Peña, Victor de la & Patrick McDonald. (2004). Diffusions, exit time moments and Weierstrass theorems. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 132(8). 2465–2474. 1 indexed citations
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McDonald, Patrick & Robert A. Meyers. (2003). Dirichlet spectrum and heat content. Journal of Functional Analysis. 200(1). 150–159. 17 indexed citations
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Cen, Renyue & Patrick McDonald. (2002). Evolution of the Ionizing Radiation Background and Star Formation in the Aftermath of Cosmological Reionization. The Astrophysical Journal. 570(2). 457–462. 49 indexed citations
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McDonald, Patrick, Jordi Miralda‐Escudé, Michael Rauch, et al.. (2000). The Observed Probability Distribution Function, Power Spectrum, and Correlation Function of the Transmitted Flux in the Lyα Forest. The Astrophysical Journal. 543(1). 1–23. 233 indexed citations
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Karian, Zaven A., Edward J. Dudewicz, & Patrick McDonald. (1996). The extended generalized lambda distribution system for fitting distributions to data: history, completion of theory, tables, applications, the “final word” on moment fits. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 25(3). 611–642. 62 indexed citations
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Burghelea, Dan, Thomas Kappeler, Patrick McDonald, & Leonid Friedlander. (1994). On the Functional logdet and Related Flows on the Space of Closed Embedded Curves on S2. Journal of Functional Analysis. 120(2). 440–466. 3 indexed citations
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McDonald, Patrick. (1973). A collection of Highland vocal airs. 3 indexed citations

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