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 →

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

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	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	Fergus Cullen, Adam C. Carnall et al.	8
2	Rapid Stellar and Binary Population Synthesis with COMPAS: Methods Paper II	The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series	Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley et al.	1
3	Determination of the birth-mass function of neutron stars from observations	Nature Astronomy	Zhi-Qiang You, X. J. Zhu et al.	3
4	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	J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure et al.	1
5	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	Cullan Howlett, S. P. Stevenson et al.	1
6	Modelling stellar evolution in mass-transferring binaries and gravitational-wave progenitors with metisse	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	Jarrod R. Hurley, S. P. Stevenson et al.	11
7	Rapid localization and inference on compact binary coalescences with the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detector network	Physical review. D	S. Morisaki, R. J. E. Smith et al.	21
8	Wide binary pulsars from electron-capture supernovae	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	S. P. Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez et al.	8
9	Biases in Estimates of Black Hole Kicks from the Spin Distribution of Binary Black Holes	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	S. P. Stevenson	12
10	The Uncertain Future of Massive Binaries Obscures the Origin of LIGO/Virgo Sources	The Astrophysical Journal	Krzysztof Belczyński, Aleksandra Olejak et al.	54
11	Signatures of Mass Ratio Reversal in Gravitational Waves from Merging Binary Black Holes	The Astrophysical Journal	Floor S. Broekgaarden, S. P. Stevenson et al.	32
12	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	Floor S. Broekgaarden, E. Berger et al.	113
13	Heavy Double Neutron Stars: Birth, Midlife, and Death	The Astrophysical Journal Letters	S. Galaudage, X. J. Zhu et al.	22
14	On the origin of GW190425	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters	I. M. Romero-Shaw, S. P. Stevenson et al.	54
15	The fates of massive stars: exploring uncertainties in stellar evolution with metisse	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	Jarrod R. Hurley, S. P. Stevenson et al.	36
16	stroopwafel: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	Floor S. Broekgaarden, Stephen Justham et al.	33
17	The Impact of Pair-instability Mass Loss on the Binary Black Hole Mass Distribution	The Astrophysical Journal	S. P. Stevenson, J. Powell et al.	108
18	Unmodelled clustering methods for gravitational wave populations of compact binary mergers	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	J. Powell, S. P. Stevenson et al.	14
19	Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society	Jim W. Barrett, S. M. Gaebel et al.	76
20	Formation of the first three gravitational-wave observations through isolated binary evolution	Nature Communications	S. P. Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez et al.	204

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