Richard Brito

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Brito 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, Richard Brito has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 35 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Richard Brito's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (38 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (37 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (16 papers). Richard Brito is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (38 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (37 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (16 papers). Richard Brito collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Italy and United States. Richard Brito's co-authors include Vítor Cardoso, Paolo Pani, Emanuele Berti, Alessandra Buonanno, Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, Taishi Ikeda, Irina Dvorkin, Antoine Klein and Enrico Barausse and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

Richard Brito

52 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Superradiance 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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. Superradiance
    2015 521 citations Richard Brito, Vítor Cardoso et al. Lecture notes in physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard Brito Portugal 30 2.9k 2.1k 296 169 97 53 3.0k
Andrea Maselli Italy 32 2.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 174 0.6× 132 0.8× 242 2.5× 69 2.8k
Caio F. B. Macedo Brazil 22 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 163 0.6× 146 0.9× 74 0.8× 43 2.3k
Kimet Jusufi North Macedonia 37 3.9k 1.4× 3.1k 1.5× 333 1.1× 756 4.5× 82 0.8× 97 4.1k
Carlos F. Sopuerta Spain 23 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 82 0.3× 182 1.1× 88 0.9× 70 1.9k
K. K. Nandi India 21 1.4k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 208 0.7× 244 1.4× 82 0.8× 78 1.5k
Jiřı́ Bičák Czechia 24 1.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 145 0.5× 376 2.2× 63 0.6× 103 1.9k
Helvi Witek United States 21 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 118 0.4× 142 0.8× 58 0.6× 38 2.1k
Naoki Seto Japan 23 2.1k 0.7× 904 0.4× 144 0.5× 67 0.4× 278 2.9× 80 2.1k
Vilson T. Zanchin Brazil 21 1.8k 0.6× 1.6k 0.8× 187 0.6× 326 1.9× 82 0.8× 55 2.0k
Leo C. Stein United States 26 1.8k 0.6× 994 0.5× 71 0.2× 100 0.6× 142 1.5× 53 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Richard Brito

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Brito

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Brito

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brito, Richard. (2025). Black holes as laboratories: searching for ultralight fields. General Relativity and Gravitation. 57(2). 3 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, et al.. (2025). Tidal Love numbers of gravitational atoms. Physical review. D. 111(4). 5 indexed citations
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Loutrel, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Relevance of precession for tests of the black hole no hair theorems. Physical review. D. 110(4). 1 indexed citations
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Datta, Sayak, Richard Brito, Scott A. Hughes, T. Klinger, & Paolo Pani. (2024). Tidal heating as a discriminator for horizons in equatorial eccentric extreme mass ratio inspirals. Physical review. D. 110(2). 13 indexed citations
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Burrage, Clare, Pedro G. S. Fernandes, Richard Brito, & Vítor Cardoso. (2023). Spinning black holes with axion hair. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(20). 205021–205021. 9 indexed citations
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Chen, Yifan, Xiao Xue, Richard Brito, & Vítor Cardoso. (2023). Photon Ring Astrometry for Superradiant Clouds. Physical Review Letters. 130(11). 111401–111401. 21 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, et al.. (2023). Extreme mass-ratio inspirals into black holes surrounded by scalar clouds. Physical review. D. 108(8). 54 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Abhirup, Richard Brito, & Alessandra Buonanno. (2021). Constraints on quasinormal-mode frequencies with LIGO-Virgo binary–black-hole observations. Physical review. D. 103(12). 70 indexed citations
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Yuan, Chen, Richard Brito, & Vítor Cardoso. (2021). Evaporating black holes: Constraints on anomalous emission mechanisms. Physical review. D. 104(12). 2 indexed citations
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Sun, L., Richard Brito, & M. Isi. (2020). Search for ultralight bosons in Cygnus X-1 with Advanced LIGO. Physical review. D. 101(6). 61 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, Vítor Cardoso, & Paolo Pani. (2020). Superradiance. New Frontiers in Black Hole Physics. arXiv (Cornell University). 971. 36 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, et al.. (2020). Black Hole Superradiant Instability from Ultralight Spin-2 Fields. Physical Review Letters. 124(21). 211101–211101. 70 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, Vítor Cardoso, & Paolo Pani. (2020). Superradiance. Lecture notes in physics. 80 indexed citations
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Ikeda, Taishi, Richard Brito, & Vítor Cardoso. (2019). Blasts of Light from Axions. Physical Review Letters. 122(8). 81101–81101. 67 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, et al.. (2019). Axionic instabilities and new black hole solutions. Physical review. D. 99(3). 58 indexed citations
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Berti, Emanuele, Richard Brito, Caio F. B. Macedo, Guilherme Raposo, & João Luís Rosa. (2019). Ultralight boson cloud depletion in binary systems. Physical review. D. 99(10). 66 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, S. Ghosh, Enrico Barausse, et al.. (2017). Stochastic and Resolvable Gravitational Waves from Ultralight Bosons. Physical Review Letters. 119(13). 131101–131101. 143 indexed citations
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Brito, Richard, Vítor Cardoso, & H. Okawa. (2015). Accretion of Dark Matter by Stars. Physical Review Letters. 115(11). 111301–111301. 62 indexed citations
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Berti, Emanuele, Richard Brito, & Vítor Cardoso. (2015). Ultrahigh-Energy Debris from the Collisional Penrose Process. Physical Review Letters. 114(25). 251103–251103. 54 indexed citations

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