S. Babak

71.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

S. Babak is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Babak has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in S. Babak's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (31 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (12 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (12 papers). S. Babak is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (31 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (12 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (12 papers). S. Babak collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. S. Babak's co-authors include J. R. Gair, Alessandra Buonanno, Andrea Taracchini, Curt Cutler, Ilya Mandel, M. Coleman Miller, Marc Freitag, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, Sylvain Marsat and L. P. Grishchuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

S. Babak

37 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors

2017 409 citations S. Babak et al. Physical review. D profile →
Intermediate and extreme mass-ratio inspirals—astrophysics, science applications and detection using LISA

2007 356 citations Pau Amaro‐Seoane, J. R. Gair et al. profile →
Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation

2020 217 citations Sylvain Marsat, S. Babak et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Babak France	20	1.9k	482	221	220	110	37	2.0k
Antoine Klein United States	29	2.6k 1.3×	857 1.8×	223 1.0×	252 1.1×	110 1.0×	48	2.7k
C. P. L. Berry United Kingdom	24	2.4k 1.2×	686 1.4×	177 0.8×	211 1.0×	129 1.2×	48	2.5k
Davide Gerosa United Kingdom	33	2.8k 1.5×	597 1.2×	270 1.2×	153 0.7×	67 0.6×	98	2.9k
Shubhanshu Tiwari Switzerland	15	1.5k 0.8×	319 0.7×	291 1.3×	180 0.8×	101 0.9×	31	1.6k
C.‐J. Haster United States	24	1.8k 1.0×	271 0.6×	295 1.3×	237 1.1×	83 0.8×	39	1.9k
S. Nissanke Netherlands	25	2.2k 1.1×	596 1.2×	236 1.1×	256 1.2×	142 1.3×	43	2.3k
V. Raymond United Kingdom	23	2.0k 1.0×	322 0.7×	430 1.9×	385 1.8×	96 0.9×	35	2.0k
I. S. Heng United Kingdom	17	1.0k 0.5×	259 0.5×	184 0.8×	119 0.5×	156 1.4×	64	1.1k
John G. Baker United States	25	2.8k 1.4×	981 2.0×	237 1.1×	176 0.8×	76 0.7×	48	2.8k
P. Ajith India	23	2.1k 1.1×	419 0.9×	345 1.6×	254 1.2×	78 0.7×	48	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by S. Babak

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of S. Babak's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by S. Babak with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites S. Babak more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by S. Babak

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by S. Babak. 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 S. Babak. The network helps show where S. Babak may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Babak

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of S. Babak. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of S. Babak 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 S. Babak. S. Babak is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Babak, S., et al.. (2025). Modular global-fit pipeline for LISA data analysis. Physical review. D. 111(10). 10 indexed citations

Babak, S., M. Falxa, Gabriele Franciolini, & Mauro Pieroni. (2024). Forecasting the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to gravitational wave backgrounds. Physical review. D. 110(6). 15 indexed citations

Speri, Lorenzo, Laura Sberna, S. Babak, et al.. (2023). Measuring accretion-disk effects with gravitational waves from extreme mass ratio inspirals. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

Babak, S., Chiara Caprini, Daniel G. Figueroa, et al.. (2023). Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(8). 34–34. 43 indexed citations

Falxa, M., S. Babak, & M. Le Jeune. (2023). Adaptive kernel density estimation proposal in gravitational wave data analysis. Physical review. D. 107(2). 5 indexed citations

Speri, Lorenzo, Laura Sberna, S. Babak, et al.. (2023). Probing Accretion Physics with Gravitational Waves. Physical Review X. 13(2). 53 indexed citations

Sberna, Laura, S. Babak, Sylvain Marsat, et al.. (2022). Observing GW190521-like binary black holes and their environment with LISA. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 42 indexed citations

Savalle, Etienne, J. R. Gair, Lorenzo Speri, & S. Babak. (2022). Assessing the impact of instrumental calibration uncertainty on LISA science. Physical review. D. 106(2). 11 indexed citations

Karnesis, Nikolaos, S. Babak, Mauro Pieroni, Neil J. Cornish, & T. B. Littenberg. (2021). Characterization of the stochastic signal originating from compact binary populations as measured by LISA. Physical review. D. 104(4). 96 indexed citations

10.

Toubiana, Alexandre, Laura Sberna, Andrea Caputo, et al.. (2021). Detectable Environmental Effects in GW190521-like Black-Hole Binaries with LISA. Physical Review Letters. 126(10). 101105–101105. 52 indexed citations

11.

Toubiana, Alexandre, Kaze W. K. Wong, S. Babak, et al.. (2021). Discriminating between different scenarios for the formation and evolution of massive black holes with LISA. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations

12.

Toubiana, Alexandre, S. Babak, Enrico Barausse, & Luis Lehner. (2021). Modeling gravitational waves from exotic compact objects. Physical review. D. 103(6). 17 indexed citations

13.

Vallisneri, Michele, Jean-Baptiste Bayle, S. Babak, & Antoine Petiteau. (2021). Time-delay interferometry without delays. Physical review. D. 103(8). 29 indexed citations

14.

Katz, Michael L., Sylvain Marsat, Alvin J. K. Chua, S. Babak, & Shane L. Larson. (2020). GPU-accelerated massive black hole binary parameter estimation with LISA. Physical review. D. 102(2). 40 indexed citations

15.

Taylor, Stephen R., L. Lentati, S. Babak, et al.. (2017). All correlations must die: Assessing the significance of a stochastic gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing arrays. Physical review. D. 95(4). 35 indexed citations

16.

Gair, J. R., Éanna É. Flanagan, Steve Drasco, Tanja Hinderer, & S. Babak. (2011). Forced motion near black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(4). 53 indexed citations

17.

Petiteau, Antoine, Yu Shang, S. Babak, & Farhan Feroz. (2010). Search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 81(10). 12 indexed citations

18.

Petiteau, Antoine, et al.. (2009). The search for spinning black hole binaries using a genetic algorithm. Max Planck Digital Library. 1 indexed citations

19.

Amaro‐Seoane, Pau, J. R. Gair, Marc Freitag, et al.. (2007). Astrophysics, detection and science applications of intermediate- and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations

20.

Babak, S. & L. P. Grishchuk. (1999). Energy-momentum tensor for the gravitational field. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 61(2). 81 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact