Paul Demorest

19.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Demorest is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Demorest has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 15 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Paul Demorest's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (25 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (22 papers). Paul Demorest is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (54 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (25 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (22 papers). Paul Demorest collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Paul Demorest's co-authors include S. M. Ransom, Timothy T. Pennucci, J. W. T. Hessels, M. S. Roberts, I. H. Stairs, R. D. Ferdman, Justin A. Ellis, David J. Nice, Marjorie Gonzalez and K. Stovall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Paul Demorest

66 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay

2010 2.5k citations Paul Demorest, Timothy T. Pennucci et al. profile →
THE NANOGRAV NINE-YEAR DATA SET: MASS AND GEOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF BINARY MILLISECOND PULSARS

2016 420 citations Emmanuel Fonseca, Timothy T. Pennucci et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Demorest United States	22	3.8k	1.5k	1.0k	623	511	75	4.0k
M. Burgay Italy	31	4.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	763 0.7×	839 1.3×	339 0.7×	157	5.1k
Timothy T. Pennucci United States	9	2.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	871 0.8×	494 0.8×	433 0.8×	12	3.1k
N. D’Amico Italy	32	3.6k 1.0×	963 0.7×	563 0.5×	733 1.2×	314 0.6×	75	3.7k
C. Bassa Netherlands	30	3.2k 0.8×	866 0.6×	650 0.6×	373 0.6×	197 0.4×	174	3.3k
J. W. T. Hessels Netherlands	34	6.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	770 1.2×	553 1.1×	132	6.6k
J. A. Pons Spain	35	3.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	387 0.6×	456 0.9×	113	4.2k
Wynn C. G. Ho United States	37	3.6k 1.0×	794 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	561 0.9×	457 0.9×	118	3.8k
R. M. Shannon Australia	38	3.9k 1.0×	838 0.6×	393 0.4×	781 1.3×	386 0.8×	154	4.0k
Sebastiano Bernuzzi Germany	45	5.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	847 1.4×	225 0.4×	118	5.2k
Feryal Özel United States	30	2.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	700 0.7×	305 0.5×	213 0.4×	78	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Demorest

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Demorest

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Demorest

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Czech, Daniel, et al.. (2025). COSMIC’s Large-scale Search for Technosignatures during the VLA Sky Survey: Survey Description and First Results. The Astronomical Journal. 169(3). 122–122.

Anna-Thomas, Reshma, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Casey Law, et al.. (2024). An Unidentified Fermi Source Emitting Radio Bursts in the Galactic Bulge. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 72–72. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Tingting, Tyler Cohen, Casey McGrath, Paul Demorest, & Sarah J. Vigeland. (2023). Multi-messenger Approaches to Supermassive Black Hole Binary Detection and Parameter Estimation. II. Optimal Strategies for a Pulsar Timing Array. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(1). 78–78. 9 indexed citations

Hickish, J., Paul Demorest, Cherry Ng, et al.. (2023). COSMIC: An Ethernet-based Commensal, Multimode Digital Backend on the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The Astronomical Journal. 167(1). 35–35. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Xian, Wenfei Yu, Casey Law, et al.. (2023). Temporal and Spectral Properties of the Persistent Radio Source Associated with FRB 20190520B with the VLA. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 89–89. 7 indexed citations

Lewandowska, N., Paul Demorest, M. A. McLaughlin, Patrick Kilian, & T. H. Hankins. (2022). Single Pulse Dispersion Measure of the Crab Pulsar. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 84–84. 1 indexed citations

Dolch, Timothy, Daniel R. Stinebring, Glenn Jones, et al.. (2021). Deconvolving Pulsar Signals with Cyclic Spectroscopy: A Systematic Evaluation. The Astrophysical Journal. 913(2). 98–98. 8 indexed citations

Aggarwal, K.K., Casey Law, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, et al.. (2020). VLA/Realfast Detection of a Burst from FRB 180916.J0158+65 and Tests for Periodic Activity. Research Notes of the AAS. 4(6). 94–94. 12 indexed citations

Bower, Geoffrey C., Soumya Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, et al.. (2020). ngVLAKey Science Goal 4: Fundamental Physics with Galactic Center Pulsars. AAS. 1 indexed citations

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Law, Casey, Conor M. B. Omand, Kazumi Kashiyama, et al.. (2019). A Search for Late-time Radio Emission and Fast Radio Bursts from Superluminous Supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal. 886(1). 24–24. 24 indexed citations

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Men, Yunpeng, K.K. Aggarwal, Ye Li, et al.. (2019). Non-detection of fast radio bursts from six gamma-ray burst remnants with possible magnetar engines. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(3). 3643–3647. 12 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Emmanuel, Paul Demorest, S. M. Ransom, & I. H. Stairs. (2019). Fundamental Physics with Radio Millisecond Pulsars. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 425. 3 indexed citations

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Ransom, S. M., Adam Brazier, Shami Chatterjee, et al.. (2019). The NANOGrav Program for Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(7). 195. 7 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Emmanuel, Timothy T. Pennucci, Justin A. Ellis, et al.. (2016). THE NANOGRAV NINE-YEAR DATA SET: MASS AND GEOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF BINARY MILLISECOND PULSARS. The Astrophysical Journal. 832(2). 167–167. 420 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pennucci, Timothy T., Paul Demorest, & S. M. Ransom. (2016). Pulse Portraiture: Pulsar timing. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations

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Eatough, Ralph P., T. Joseph W. Lazio, Shami Chatterjee, et al.. (2015). Observing Radio Pulsars in the Galactic Centre with the Square Kilometre Array. Proceedings Of Science. 45–45. 13 indexed citations

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Ferdman, R. D., I. H. Stairs, M. Krämer, et al.. (2014). PSR J1756−2251: a pulsar with a low-mass neutron star companion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443(3). 2183–2196. 79 indexed citations

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Ransom, S. M., et al.. (2009). GUPPI: Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument. 214. 3 indexed citations

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Ray, Paul S., M. T. Wolff, Paul Demorest, et al.. (2008). X-ray and Radio Timing of PSR B1821–24. AIP conference proceedings. 983. 157–159. 2 indexed citations

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Demorest, Paul, et al.. (2004). Precision Pulsar Timing and Gravity Waves: Recent Advances in Instrumentation. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 205. 1 indexed citations

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