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

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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.

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 →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick McDonald

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The 3D Lyman-α forest power spectrum from eBOSS DR16 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Roger de Belsunce, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Vid Iršič, Patrick McDonald, Julien Guy, N. Palanque‐Delabrouille	10
2	FastPM: Scaling N-body Particle Mesh solver 2019 ·Astrophysics Source Code Library ·(unknown), (unknown), Uroš Seljak, Patrick McDonald	2
3	FastPM: a new scheme for fast simulations of dark matter and haloes 2016 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Yu Feng, (unknown), Uroš Seljak, Patrick McDonald	134
4	DESI and other Dark Energy experiments in the era of neutrino mass measurements 2014 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Patrick McDonald, Andreu Font-Ribera, N. Mostek, Beth Reid, Hee‐Jong Seo, A. Slosar	2
5	Understanding higher-order nonlocal halo bias at large scales by combining the power spectrum with the bispectrum 2014 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·Shun Saito, Tobias Baldauf, Zvonimir Vlah, Uroš Seljak, Teppei Okumura, Patrick McDonald	116
6	Evidence for quadratic tidal tensor bias from the halo bispectrum 2012 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·Tobias Baldauf, Uroš Seljak, Vincent Desjacques, Patrick McDonald	174
7	Hitting Time and Inverse Problems for Markov Chains 2008 ·Journal of Applied Probability ·Victor de la Peña, Henryk Gzyl, Patrick McDonald	0
8	Hitting Time and Inverse Problems for Markov Chains 2008 ·Journal of Applied Probability ·Victor de la Peña, Henryk Gzyl, Patrick McDonald	4
9	Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Intensity Mapping of Dark Energy 2008 ·Physical Review Letters ·Tzu‐Ching Chang, Ue‐Li Pen, J. B. Peterson, Patrick McDonald	237
10	SDSS-III: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) 2007 ·AAS ·David J. Schlegel, Michael R. Blanton, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Bruce Gillespie, James E. Gunn, Paul Harding, Patrick McDonald, Robert C. Nichol, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Will J. Percival, G. T. Richards, Constance M. Rockosi, N. Roe, (unknown), A. Schneider, Michael A. Strauss, David H. Weinberg, Martin White	7
11	Cosmological parameters from combining the Lyman-α forest with CMB, galaxy clustering and SN constraints breakdown → 2006 ·Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ·Uroš Seljak, Anže Slosar, Patrick McDonald	446
12	Zeta regularized determinants for conic manifolds 2006 ·Journal of Functional Analysis ·Paul Loya, Patrick McDonald, Jinsung Park	15
13	Can Sterile Neutrinos Be the Dark Matter? 2006 ·Physical Review Letters ·Uroš Seljak, A. Makarov, Patrick McDonald, Hy Trac	212
14	Random partial orders, posts, and the causal set approach to discrete quantum gravity 2005 ·Journal of Mathematical Physics ·Avner Ash, Patrick McDonald	3
15	Diffusions, exit time moments and Weierstrass theorems 2004 ·Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society ·Victor de la Peña, Patrick McDonald	1
16	Dirichlet spectrum and heat content 2003 ·Journal of Functional Analysis ·Patrick McDonald, Robert A. Meyers	17
17	The Observed Probability Distribution Function, Power Spectrum, and Correlation Function of the Transmitted Flux in the Lyα Forest 2000 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Patrick McDonald, Jordi Miralda‐Escudé, Michael Rauch, W. L. W. Sargent, Tom A. Barlow, Renyue Cen, Jeremiah P. Ostriker	233
18	The extended generalized lambda distribution system for fitting distributions to data: history, completion of theory, tables, applications, the “final word” on moment fits 1996 ·Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation ·Zaven A. Karian, Edward J. Dudewicz, Patrick McDonald	62
19	On the Functional logdet and Related Flows on the Space of Closed Embedded Curves on S2 1994 ·Journal of Functional Analysis ·Dan Burghelea, Thomas Kappeler, Patrick McDonald, Leonid Friedlander	3
20	A collection of Highland vocal airs 1973 ·Patrick McDonald	3

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