Robert Popham

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Robert Popham is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Popham has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Geophysics and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert Popham's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). Robert Popham is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (5 papers). Robert Popham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Robert Popham's co-authors include Ramesh Narayan, Chris L. Fryer, S. E. Woosley, Charles F. Gammie, J. E. Grindlay, Rohan Mahadevan, Lee Hartmann, Scott J. Kenyon and R. Di Stefano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Popham

16 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Hyperaccreting Black Holes and Gamma‐Ray Bursts

1999 479 citations Robert Popham, S. E. Woosley 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
Robert Popham United States	13	1.2k	395	141	38	29	16	1.3k
A. K. Kulkarni United States	12	901 0.7×	295 0.7×	119 0.8×	28 0.7×	8 0.3×	16	921
P. B. Ivanov Russia	16	1.2k 1.0×	449 1.1×	42 0.3×	16 0.4×	29 1.0×	44	1.2k
Mami Machida Japan	15	621 0.5×	269 0.7×	55 0.4×	37 1.0×	12 0.4×	45	640
Shigenobu Hirose Japan	15	914 0.7×	339 0.9×	77 0.5×	15 0.4×	9 0.3×	39	941
T. Viehmann Germany	12	565 0.5×	168 0.4×	47 0.3×	25 0.7×	29 1.0×	20	582
Agnieszka Janiuk Poland	19	846 0.7×	318 0.8×	76 0.5×	23 0.6×	15 0.5×	60	873
L. K. Townsley United States	6	441 0.4×	188 0.5×	49 0.3×	20 0.5×	5 0.2×	10	446
F. K. Baganoff United States	13	664 0.5×	306 0.8×	81 0.6×	12 0.3×	13 0.4×	29	675
T. Ott Germany	12	779 0.6×	130 0.3×	23 0.2×	28 0.7×	123 4.2×	19	791
I. M. George United States	14	1.0k 0.8×	454 1.1×	19 0.1×	13 0.3×	34 1.2×	22	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Popham

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Popham, Robert. (2001). Accretion disk boundary layers in low-mass X-ray binaries. AIP conference proceedings. 599. 870–873. 2 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert. (1999). A boundary layer origin for dwarf nova oscillations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 308(4). 979–983. 23 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert, S. E. Woosley, & Chris L. Fryer. (1999). Hyperaccreting Black Holes and Gamma‐Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 518(1). 356–374. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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Narayan, Ramesh, Rohan Mahadevan, J. E. Grindlay, Robert Popham, & Charles F. Gammie. (1998). Advection‐dominated Accretion Model of Sagittarius A*: Evidence for a Black Hole at the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 492(2). 554–568. 222 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert, et al.. (1998). Hyper-Accreting Black Holes and Gamma-Ray Bursts. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 76. 1 indexed citations

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Gammie, Charles F. & Robert Popham. (1998). Advection‐dominated Accretion Flows in the Kerr Metric. I. Basic Equations. The Astrophysical Journal. 498(1). 313–326. 82 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert. (1997). Heating of a Star by Disk Accretion. The Astrophysical Journal. 478(2). 734–744. 14 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert & R. Di Stefano. (1996). Accretion Disks in Supersoft X-ray Sources. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert, Scott J. Kenyon, Lee Hartmann, & Ramesh Narayan. (1996). Spectra and Line Profiles of FU Orionis Objects: Comparisons between Boundary Layer Models and Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 473(1). 422–436. 25 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert. (1996). Can FU Orionis Outbursts Regulate the Rotation Rates of T Tauri Stars?. The Astrophysical Journal. 467. 749–749. 13 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert & Ramesh Narayan. (1995). Accretion disk boundary layers in cataclysmic variables. 1: Optically thick boundary layers. The Astrophysical Journal. 442. 337–337. 112 indexed citations

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Narayan, Ramesh & Robert Popham. (1993). Hard X-rays from accretion disk boundary layers. Nature. 362(6423). 820–822. 94 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert, Ramesh Narayan, Lee Hartmann, & Scott J. Kenyon. (1993). Boundary Layers in Pre-Main-Sequence Accretion Disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 415. L127–L127. 43 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert & Ramesh Narayan. (1992). Supersonic infall and causality in accretion disk boundary layers. The Astrophysical Journal. 394. 255–255. 26 indexed citations

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Popham, Robert & Ramesh Narayan. (1991). Does accretion cease when a star approaches breakup?. The Astrophysical Journal. 370. 604–604. 104 indexed citations

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Narayan, Ramesh & Robert Popham. (1989). Angular momentum of accreting white dwarfs - Implications for millisecond pulsar formation. The Astrophysical Journal. 346. L25–L25. 20 indexed citations

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