S. P. Stevenson

69.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

S. P. Stevenson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, S. P. Stevenson has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in S. P. Stevenson's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (32 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers). S. P. Stevenson is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (32 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (28 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers). S. P. Stevenson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. S. P. Stevenson's co-authors include Ilya Mandel, Coenraad J. Neijssel, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, S. E. de Mink, Jim W. Barrett, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Dorottya Szécsi, C. P. L. Berry, Will M. Farr and Stephen Justham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

S. P. Stevenson

39 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

2018 204 citations Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J. Neijssel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers

2019 192 citations Coenraad J. Neijssel, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The origin of spin in binary black holes

2020 172 citations Coenraad J. Neijssel, Ilya Mandel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. P. Stevenson Australia	22	2.0k	200	128	118	90	42	2.1k
Vicky Kalogera United States	21	1.6k 0.8×	280 1.4×	128 1.0×	84 0.7×	83 0.9×	48	1.7k
Nicola Giacobbo Italy	24	2.2k 1.1×	219 1.1×	89 0.7×	144 1.2×	53 0.6×	34	2.3k
R. P. Breton United Kingdom	21	1.7k 0.8×	257 1.3×	262 2.0×	93 0.8×	216 2.4×	67	1.7k
John Antoniadis Germany	14	1.2k 0.6×	234 1.2×	119 0.9×	84 0.7×	194 2.2×	37	1.2k
Mario Spera Italy	25	2.3k 1.1×	173 0.9×	68 0.5×	237 2.0×	44 0.5×	61	2.4k
Kyle Kremer United States	20	1.4k 0.7×	150 0.8×	81 0.6×	132 1.1×	40 0.4×	58	1.5k
S. Abraham United States	5	960 0.5×	221 1.1×	164 1.3×	26 0.2×	114 1.3×	5	1.0k
Michael Kesden United States	25	1.9k 1.0×	646 3.2×	114 0.9×	55 0.5×	80 0.9×	46	2.0k
Hsin-Yu Chen United States	14	1.1k 0.6×	225 1.1×	62 0.5×	32 0.3×	93 1.0×	26	1.1k
G. Desvignes Germany	17	940 0.5×	251 1.3×	118 0.9×	27 0.2×	169 1.9×	47	959

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. P. Stevenson

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Cullen, Fergus, Adam C. Carnall, D. Scholte, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: an extremely metal-poor galaxy at z = 8.271 hosting an unusual population of massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2176–2194. 8 indexed citations

Mandel, Ilya, Jeff Riley, Ryosuke Hirai, et al.. (2025). Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS: Methods Paper II. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 280(1). 43–43. 1 indexed citations

You, Zhi-Qiang, X. J. Zhu, Bernhard Mueller, et al.. (2025). Determination of the birth-mass function of neutron stars from observations. Nature Astronomy. 9(4). 552–563. 3 indexed citations

Dunlop, J. S., R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: a deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS – dust-obscured star formation history back to z ≃ 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(2). 1 indexed citations

Howlett, Cullan, et al.. (2024). A trifecta of modelling tools: a Bayesian binary black hole model selection combining population synthesis and galaxy formation models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(4). 3506–3539. 1 indexed citations

Hurley, Jarrod R., et al.. (2023). Modelling stellar evolution in mass-transferring binaries and gravitational-wave progenitors with metisse. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(1). 933–951. 11 indexed citations

Morisaki, S., R. J. E. Smith, Leo Tsukada, et al.. (2023). Rapid localization and inference on compact binary coalescences with the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detector network. Physical review. D. 108(12). 21 indexed citations

Stevenson, S. P., et al.. (2022). Wide binary pulsars from electron-capture supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(4). 6105–6110. 8 indexed citations

Stevenson, S. P.. (2022). Biases in Estimates of Black Hole Kicks from the Spin Distribution of Binary Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 926(2). L32–L32. 12 indexed citations

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Belczyński, Krzysztof, Aleksandra Olejak, Jakub Klencki, et al.. (2022). The Uncertain Future of Massive Binaries Obscures the Origin of LIGO/Virgo Sources. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(1). 69–69. 54 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., S. P. Stevenson, & E. Thrane. (2022). Signatures of Mass Ratio Reversal in Gravitational Waves from Merging Binary Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal. 938(1). 45–45. 32 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., E. Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2021). Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations I: black hole–neutron star mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(4). 5028–5063. 113 indexed citations

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Galaudage, S., et al.. (2021). Heavy Double Neutron Stars: Birth, Midlife, and Death. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 909(2). L19–L19. 22 indexed citations

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Romero-Shaw, I. M., et al.. (2020). On the origin of GW190425. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 496(1). L64–L69. 54 indexed citations

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Hurley, Jarrod R., et al.. (2020). The fates of massive stars: exploring uncertainties in stellar evolution with metisse. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(4). 4549–4564. 36 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., Stephen Justham, S. E. de Mink, et al.. (2019). stroopwafel: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 5228–5248. 33 indexed citations

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Stevenson, S. P., J. Powell, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal. 882(2). 121–121. 108 indexed citations

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Powell, J., S. P. Stevenson, Ilya Mandel, & Peter Tiňo. (2019). Unmodelled clustering methods for gravitational wave populations of compact binary mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(3). 3810–3817. 14 indexed citations

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Barrett, Jim W., S. M. Gaebel, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2018). Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(4). 4685–4695. 76 indexed citations

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Stevenson, S. P., Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Ilya Mandel, et al.. (2017). Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14906–14906. 204 indexed citations

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