Samuel D. McDermott

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Samuel D. McDermott is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel D. McDermott has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Samuel D. McDermott's work include Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (30 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (15 papers). Samuel D. McDermott is often cited by papers focused on Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (30 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (15 papers). Samuel D. McDermott collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Samuel D. McDermott's co-authors include Dan Hooper, Hai-Bo Yu, Kathryn M. Zurek, Rouven Essig, Asher Berlin, Jae Hyeok Chang, Gordan Krnjaic, Yi-Ming Zhong, Nikita Blinov and Harikrishnan Ramani and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Samuel D. McDermott

39 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Supernova 1987A constraints on sub-GeV dark sectors, mill... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Supernova 1987A constraints on sub-GeV dark sectors, millicharged particles, the QCD axion, and an axion-like particle
    2018 307 citations Samuel D. McDermott et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel D. McDermott United States 23 1.9k 1.5k 247 74 27 39 2.1k
Felix Kahlhoefer Germany 27 2.2k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 308 1.2× 66 0.9× 35 1.3× 63 2.3k
Masha Baryakhtar United States 15 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 351 1.4× 49 0.7× 38 1.4× 20 1.6k
Asher Berlin United States 25 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 204 0.8× 61 0.8× 23 0.9× 67 2.1k
Maurizio Giannotti United States 25 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 239 1.0× 31 0.4× 22 0.8× 66 2.1k
Masahiro Ibe Japan 30 3.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.5× 248 1.0× 76 1.0× 29 1.1× 109 3.3k
Haipeng An United States 23 1.6k 0.8× 926 0.6× 294 1.2× 49 0.7× 66 2.4× 53 1.7k
Céline Bœhm France 21 2.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 245 1.0× 51 0.7× 23 0.9× 55 2.3k
Robert Lasenby United States 15 1.1k 0.6× 821 0.6× 275 1.1× 33 0.4× 32 1.2× 21 1.3k
Kai Schmidt-Hoberg Germany 30 2.5k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 195 0.8× 109 1.5× 17 0.6× 63 2.7k
Eduard Massó Spain 30 2.5k 1.3× 979 0.7× 317 1.3× 93 1.3× 28 1.0× 91 2.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel D. McDermott

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lloyd, J.B.F., et al.. (2022). Neutron star quantum death by small black holes. Physical review. D. 105(12). 13 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2022). Return of the templates: Revisiting the Galactic Center excess with multimessenger observations. Physical review. D. 105(10). 48 indexed citations
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Blanco, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Dark matter daily modulation with anisotropic organic crystals. Physical review. D. 104(3). 26 indexed citations
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Baxter, Eric J., Djuna Croon, Samuel D. McDermott, & Jeremy Sakstein. (2021). Find the Gap: Black Hole Population Analysis with an Astrophysically Motivated Mass Function. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 916(2). L16–L16. 27 indexed citations
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Sakstein, Jeremy, et al.. (2020). Beyond the Standard Model Explanations of GW190521. Physical Review Letters. 125(26). 261105–261105. 53 indexed citations
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Zhong, Yi-Ming, Samuel D. McDermott, Ilias Cholis, & Patrick J. Fox. (2020). Testing the Sensitivity of the Galactic Center Excess to the Point Source Mask. Physical Review Letters. 124(23). 231103–231103. 35 indexed citations
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Hooper, Dan, et al.. (2020). Constraints on primordial black holes from big bang nucleosynthesis revisited. Physical review. D. 102(10). 52 indexed citations
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McDermott, Samuel D. & Samuel J. Witte. (2020). Cosmological evolution of light dark photon dark matter. Physical review. D. 101(6). 74 indexed citations
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Croon, Djuna, Samuel D. McDermott, & Jeremy Sakstein. (2020). New physics and the black hole mass gap. Physical review. D. 102(11). 27 indexed citations
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Blinov, Nikita, Kevin J. Kelly, Gordan Krnjaic, & Samuel D. McDermott. (2019). Constraining the Self-Interacting Neutrino Interpretation of the Hubble Tension. Physical Review Letters. 123(19). 191102–191102. 133 indexed citations
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Hooper, Dan, Gordan Krnjaic, Andrew J. Long, & Samuel D. McDermott. (2019). Can the Inflaton Also Be a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle?. Physical Review Letters. 122(9). 91802–91802. 23 indexed citations
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Berlin, Asher, Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, & Samuel D. McDermott. (2018). Severely Constraining Dark-Matter Interpretations of the 21-cm Anomaly. Physical Review Letters. 121(1). 11102–11102. 161 indexed citations
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McDermott, Samuel D.. (2018). Is Self-Interacting Dark Matter Undergoing Dark Fusion?. Physical Review Letters. 120(22). 221806–221806. 16 indexed citations
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Cholis, Ilias, et al.. (2018). Analyzing the gamma-ray sky with wavelets. Physical review. D. 98(4). 15 indexed citations
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Davoudiasl, Hooman, Dan Hooper, & Samuel D. McDermott. (2016). Inflatable Dark Matter. Physical Review Letters. 116(3). 31303–31303. 37 indexed citations
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McDermott, Samuel D., Patrick Meade, & Harikrishnan Ramani. (2016). Singlet scalar resonances and the diphoton excess. Physics Letters B. 755. 353–357. 106 indexed citations
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Gluscevic, Vera & Samuel D. McDermott. (2015). dmdd: Dark matter direct detection. ascl. 1 indexed citations
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McDermott, Samuel D.. (2015). Lining up the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess. Physics of the Dark Universe. 7-8. 12–15. 15 indexed citations
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Kuflik, Eric, Samuel D. McDermott, & Kathryn M. Zurek. (2012). Neutrino phenomenology in a3+1+1framework. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(3). 22 indexed citations
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McDermott, Samuel D., Hai-Bo Yu, & Kathryn M. Zurek. (2011). Turning off the lights: How dark is dark matter?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(6). 165 indexed citations

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