Sara Seager

44.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
292 papers, 12.0k citations indexed

About

Sara Seager is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Seager has authored 292 papers receiving a total of 12.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 252 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 97 papers in Instrumentation and 34 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sara Seager's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (193 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (142 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (97 papers). Sara Seager is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (193 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (142 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (97 papers). Sara Seager collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Sara Seager's co-authors include Drake Deming, Dimitar Sasselov, William Bains, Renyu Hu, Joseph Harrington, L. J. Richardson, G. Mallén-Ornelas, Janusz J. Petkowski, Brice-Olivier Demory and Björn Benneke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sara Seager

276 papers receiving 11.4k 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.

GLIMPSE. I. AnSIRTFLegacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

2003 783 citations Sara Seager et al. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific profile →
Clouds in the atmosphere of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b

2013 486 citations Jacob L. Bean, Jean-Michel Désert et al. profile →
Mass‐Radius Relationships for Solid Exoplanets

2007 431 citations Sara Seager, Marc J. Kuchner et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Seager United States	58	10.6k	2.5k	1.9k	1000	612	292	12.0k
Jonathan J. Fortney United States	66	11.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	422 0.7×	279	11.9k
Drake Deming United States	48	7.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	835 0.8×	296 0.5×	229	7.7k
W. Benz Switzerland	63	11.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	351 0.4×	311 0.5×	269	12.6k
Mark S. Marley United States	51	8.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	885 0.9×	226 0.4×	229	8.6k
Jean‐Loup Bertaux France	60	10.5k 1.0×	733 0.3×	2.8k 1.5×	525 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	374	11.8k
David Charbonneau United States	46	8.6k 0.8×	3.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.5×	558 0.6×	246 0.4×	142	9.0k
D. Queloz Switzerland	68	16.4k 1.6×	6.1k 2.5×	785 0.4×	607 0.6×	250 0.4×	314	17.0k
Thomas Henning Germany	60	12.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	2.6k 2.6×	228 0.4×	525	13.8k
G. H. Rieke United States	67	18.0k 1.7×	4.4k 1.8×	660 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	375 0.6×	499	18.7k
F. Pepe Switzerland	62	11.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.7×	585 0.3×	587 0.6×	173 0.3×	288	12.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Seager

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Seager, Sara, et al.. (2025). Warm, water-depleted rocky exoplanets with surface ionic liquids: A proposed class for planetary habitability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(33). e2425520122–e2425520122. 2 indexed citations

Welbanks, Luis, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill, et al.. (2025). Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres. Nature Astronomy. 10(2). 234–247.

Petkowski, Janusz J., et al.. (2025). Mechanism for Peptide Bond Solvolysis in 98% w/w Concentrated Sulfuric Acid. ACS Omega. 10(9). 9623–9629. 5 indexed citations

Petkowski, Janusz J., Sara Seager, & William Bains. (2024). Reasons why life on Earth rarely makes fluorine-containing compounds and their implications for the search for life beyond Earth. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 15575–15575. 6 indexed citations

Seager, Sara & A. I. Shapiro. (2024). Why Observations at Mid-infrared Wavelengths Partially Mitigate M Dwarf Star Host Stellar Activity Contamination in Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 155–155. 1 indexed citations

Seager, Sara, Janusz J. Petkowski, Heidi R. Vollmer-Snarr, et al.. (2024). Year-Long Stability of Nucleic Acid Bases in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid: Implications for the Persistence of Organic Chemistry in Venus’ Clouds. Life. 14(5). 538–538. 8 indexed citations

Charbonneau, David, Jonathan Irwin, Jennifer G. Winters, et al.. (2024). LHS 475 b: A Potential Venus Analog Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf. The Astronomical Journal. 167(5). 197–197.

Moldovan, Dan, Michelle Kunimoto, Chelsea X. Huang, et al.. (2023). Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. V. Improved Light-curve Classification for TESS Full-frame Image Observations. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 95–95. 9 indexed citations

Vanderburg, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Detection and preliminary characterization of polluted white dwarfs from Gaia EDR3 and LAMOST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 4515–4544. 7 indexed citations

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Greaves, J. S., Janusz J. Petkowski, A. M. S. Richards, et al.. (2023). Comment on “Phosphine in the Venusian Atmosphere: A Strict Upper Limit From SOFIA GREAT Observations” by Cordiner et al.. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(23). 4 indexed citations

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Giacalone, Steven, Courtney D. Dressing, A. García Muñoz, et al.. (2022). HD 56414 b: A Warm Neptune Transiting an A-type Star. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 935(1). L10–L10. 5 indexed citations

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Bains, William, Oliver Shorttle, Sukrit Ranjan, et al.. (2022). Constraints on the Production of Phosphine by Venusian Volcanoes. Universe. 8(1). 54–54. 10 indexed citations

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Ricker, G. & Sara Seager. (2021). The TESS-Keck Survey. II. An Ultra-short-period Rocky Planet and Its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-disk Star TOI-561. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 15 indexed citations

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Kane, Stephen R., Jacob L. Bean, T. L. Campante, et al.. (2020). Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 133(1019). 14402–14402. 8 indexed citations

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Sousa‐Silva, Clara, Sara Seager, Sukrit Ranjan, et al.. (2019). Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 30 indexed citations

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Corpino, Sabrina, et al.. (2014). Three scenarios fro valuable planetary science missions on Mars: next generation of CubeSats to support space exploration. PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino). 2 indexed citations

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Gillon, M., Brice-Olivier Demory, Nikku Madhusudhan, et al.. (2014). Search for a habitable terrestrial planet transiting the nearby red dwarf GJ 1214. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 17 indexed citations

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Deming, Drake, Ashlee Wilkins, Nikku Madhusudhan, et al.. (2012). Infrared Spectroscopy of the Transiting Exoplanets HD189733b and XO-1 Using Hubble WFC3 in Spatial Scan Mode. 219. 1 indexed citations

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Gillon, M., X. Bonfıls, Brice-Olivier Demory, Sara Seager, & Drake Deming. (2011). An educated search for transiting habitable planets: (Research Note) Targetting M dwarfs with known transiting planets. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 6 indexed citations

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Seager, Sara, David N. Spergel, Paul A. Scowen, et al.. (2009). THEIA Science and General Astrophysics. AAS. 213. 2 indexed citations

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