S. W. Allen

26.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
231 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

S. W. Allen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, S. W. Allen has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 63 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 43 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in S. W. Allen's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (143 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (89 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers). S. W. Allen is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (143 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (89 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers). S. W. Allen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. S. W. Allen's co-authors include A. C. Fabian, A. Mantz, H. Ebeling, Robert W. Schmidt, David Rapetti, J. S. Sanders, R. Glenn Morris, C. S. Crawford, G. B. Taylor and R. M. Johnstone and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

S. W. Allen

221 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cosmological Parameters from Observations of Galaxy Clusters

2011 650 citations S. W. Allen, A. Mantz et al. profile →
Constraints on dark energy fromChandraobservations of the largest relaxed galaxy clusters

2004 565 citations S. W. Allen, Robert W. Schmidt et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Improved constraints on dark energy from Chandra X-ray observations of the largest relaxed galaxy clusters

2007 358 citations S. W. Allen, David Rapetti et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. W. Allen United States	58	10.9k	4.3k	2.4k	359	285	231	11.9k
S. S. Murray United States	43	8.3k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	453 1.3×	182 0.6×	252	9.4k
K. Koyama Japan	57	10.3k 0.9×	7.1k 1.6×	531 0.2×	374 1.0×	716 2.5×	424	11.9k
R. F. Mushotzky United States	65	14.5k 1.3×	5.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.7×	554 1.5×	199 0.7×	396	14.9k
John N. Bahcall United States	68	9.8k 0.9×	10.6k 2.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 5.3×	575 2.0×	399	17.8k
C. L. Bennett United States	43	19.0k 1.7×	12.0k 2.8×	1.7k 0.7×	548 1.5×	1.4k 4.9×	165	20.5k
J. M. Dickey United States	38	7.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	725 0.3×	512 1.4×	125 0.4×	210	8.7k
S. S. Meyer United States	33	16.3k 1.5×	10.9k 2.5×	1.3k 0.6×	468 1.3×	1.2k 4.2×	142	17.7k
D. Elbaz France	50	9.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.4×	4.4k 1.8×	484 1.3×	217 0.8×	256	10.0k
C. Jones United States	57	14.2k 1.3×	5.3k 1.2×	3.3k 1.4×	497 1.4×	423 1.5×	324	14.8k
C. Kouveliotou United States	49	10.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	422 0.2×	308 0.9×	77 0.3×	393	10.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. W. Allen

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Reefe, Michael, M. McDonald, Marios Chatzikos, et al.. (2025). Cold Gas and Star Formation in the Phoenix Cluster with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 989(2). 156–156.

Lusk, Christine M., et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Real‐World Implementation and Effectiveness of a Collaborative Care Model for Adults with Depression and Anxiety at an Urban, Academic Hospital. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 31(8). e70332–e70332.

Shimano, Kristin A., Ghadir Sasa, Larisa Broglie, et al.. (2024). Treatment of relapsed/refractory severe aplastic anemia in children: Evidence‐based recommendations. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 71(8). e31075–e31075. 1 indexed citations

Sarkar, Arnab, Catherine E. Grant, Eric D. Miller, et al.. (2024). Advancing Precision Particle Background Estimation for Future X-Ray Missions: Correlated Variability between the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and Chandra/XMM-Newton. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(1). 22–22. 2 indexed citations

Foord, Adi, S. W. Allen, Marta Volonteri, et al.. (2024). Searching for the Highest-z Dual Active Galactic Nuclei in the Deepest Chandra Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 121–121. 2 indexed citations

Mantz, A., et al.. (2024). A Generative Model for Realistic Galaxy Cluster X-Ray Morphologies. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(1). 58–58. 2 indexed citations

Wilkins, Dan, S. W. Allen, Eric D. Miller, et al.. (2023). Reduction of cosmic-ray induced background in astronomical x-ray imaging detectors via image segmentation methods. 214. 12–12. 1 indexed citations

Sayers, Jack, A. Mantz, Elena Rasia, et al.. (2023). The Evolution and Mass Dependence of Galaxy Cluster Pressure Profiles at 0.05 ≤ z ≤ 0.60 and 4 × 10¹⁴ M _⊙ ≤ M ₅₀₀ ≤ 30 × 10¹⁴ M _⊙. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 221–221. 6 indexed citations

Powell, Meredith C., S. W. Allen, Turgay Çağlar, et al.. (2022). BASS. XXXVI. Constraining the Local Supermassive Black Hole–Halo Connection with BASS DR2 AGNs. The Astrophysical Journal. 938(1). 77–77. 10 indexed citations

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Shen, Xuejian, Thejs Brinckmann, David Rapetti, et al.. (2022). X-ray morphology of cluster-mass haloes in self-interacting dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(1). 1302–1319. 14 indexed citations

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Picarsic, Jennifer, et al.. (2021). A chronic eyelid lesion in a child: multi-disciplinary approach to diagnosis, treatment and management of a highly atypical histiocytic lesion. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 39(2). 180–186. 1 indexed citations

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Nakano, Taizo A., Bonnie Lau, Kathryn E. Dickerson, et al.. (2020). Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric myelodysplastic syndromes: A survey of the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 67(10). e28652–e28652. 9 indexed citations

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McDonald, M., S. W. Allen, Matthew Bayliss, et al.. (2017). The Remarkable Similarity of Massive Galaxy Clusters from z ∼ 0 to z ∼ 1.9. The Astrophysical Journal. 843(1). 28–28. 78 indexed citations

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Applegate, Douglas, A. Mantz, S. W. Allen, et al.. (2016). Cosmology and astrophysics from relaxed galaxy clusters – IV. Robustly calibrating hydrostatic masses with weak lensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457(2). 1522–1534. 58 indexed citations

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Mantz, A., S. W. Allen, & R. Glenn Morris. (2016). Cosmology and astrophysics from relaxed galaxy clusters – V. Consistency with cold dark matter structure formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(1). 681–688. 17 indexed citations

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Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie, M. McDonald, B. A. Benson, et al.. (2015). X-RAY CAVITIES IN A SAMPLE OF 83 SPT-SELECTED CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES: TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF AGN FEEDBACK IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES OUT TOz= 1.2. The Astrophysical Journal. 805(1). 35–35. 90 indexed citations

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Urban, O., Norbert Werner, S. W. Allen, et al.. (2015). A Suzaku search for dark matter emission lines in the X-ray brightest galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 451(3). 2447–2461. 57 indexed citations

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Werner, Norbert, J. B. R. Oonk, Ming Sun, et al.. (2014). The origin of cold gas in giant elliptical galaxies and its role in fuelling radio-mode AGN feedback. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 439(3). 2291–2306. 94 indexed citations

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Rapetti, David, S. W. Allen, A. Mantz, & H. Ebeling. (2011). Testing General Relativity on Cosmic Scales with the Observed Abundance of Massive Clusters. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. 190. 179–187. 4 indexed citations

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Bonafede, A., L. Feretti, G. Giovannini, et al.. (2009). Revealing the magnetic field in a distant galaxy cluster: discovery of the complex radio emission from MACS J0717.5 +3745. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 81 indexed citations

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