Simeon Bird

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
106 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Simeon Bird is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Simeon Bird has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 37 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 21 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Simeon Bird's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (23 papers). Simeon Bird is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (23 papers). Simeon Bird collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Simeon Bird's co-authors include Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Lars Hernquist, Ilias Cholis, Marc Kamionkowski, Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel, Ian G. McCarthy, Joop Schaye, Volker Springel and Debora Sijacki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Simeon Bird

98 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

2014 917 citations Shy Genel, Simeon Bird et al. profile →
Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?

2016 779 citations Simeon Bird et al. profile →
The bahamas project: calibrated hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure cosmology

2016 339 citations Simeon Bird 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
Simeon Bird United States	31	4.3k	1.8k	1.0k	168	129	106	4.5k
Nikhil Padmanabhan United States	33	4.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	961 0.9×	276 1.6×	155 1.2×	77	4.3k
Ewald Puchwein Germany	33	3.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	945 0.9×	156 0.9×	155 1.2×	100	3.6k
Lucas M. Macri United States	30	5.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	185 1.1×	191 1.5×	104	5.7k
Sownak Bose United Kingdom	31	2.6k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	885 0.9×	179 1.1×	103 0.8×	85	2.8k
Neal Dalal United States	30	3.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	962 0.9×	196 1.2×	209 1.6×	49	3.5k
Joel R. Brownstein United States	32	3.5k 0.8×	852 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	194 1.2×	175 1.4×	100	3.7k
Florian Beutler United Kingdom	27	3.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	709 0.7×	255 1.5×	63 0.5×	69	4.2k
Ashley J. Ross United States	28	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	748 0.7×	200 1.2×	66 0.5×	61	3.4k
Fabian Schmidt Germany	39	4.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	780 0.8×	331 2.0×	88 0.7×	103	4.6k
M. Brüggen Germany	51	8.0k 1.9×	4.4k 2.5×	1.0k 1.0×	202 1.2×	134 1.0×	298	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Simeon Bird

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simeon Bird

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simeon Bird

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Newman, Andrew B., Gwen C. Rudie, Nima Chartab, et al.. (2025). LATIS: A Sample of IGM-selected Protoclusters and Protogroups at z ∼ 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(1). 47–47. 2 indexed citations

Chartab, Nima, Andrew B. Newman, Gwen C. Rudie, et al.. (2025). LATIS: Galaxy–Environment Relations at Cosmic Noon and the Role of Sample Selection. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 106–106.

Ivanov, Mikhail M., et al.. (2025). Fresh look at neutrino self-interactions with the Lyman-α forest: Constraints from EFT and PRIYA simulations. Physical review. D. 112(6). 6 indexed citations

Newman, Andrew B., Nima Chartab, Gwen C. Rudie, et al.. (2025). LATIS: Comparing Galaxy and IGM Tomography Maps as Tracers of Large-scale Structure and Protoclusters at z ∼ 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(1). 48–48. 2 indexed citations

Bird, Simeon, et al.. (2025). Ten-parameter simulation suite for cosmological emulation beyond ΛCDM. Physical review. D. 111(8). 3 indexed citations

McGill, Peter, Scott Perkins, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Astrometric Microlensing by Primordial Black Holes with the Roman Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 138–138. 8 indexed citations

Ho, Ming-Feng, Scott Perkins, Simeon Bird, et al.. (2024). Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3. Physical review. D. 110(6). 1 indexed citations

Perkins, Scott, Peter McGill, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 179–179. 6 indexed citations

Newman, Andrew B., Nima Chartab, Gwen C. Rudie, et al.. (2024). LATIS: Constraints on the Galaxy–Halo Connection at z ∼ 2.5 from Galaxy–Galaxy and Galaxy–Lyα Clustering. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 27–27. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Nianyi, Patrick A. LaChance, Yueying Ni, et al.. (2023). Flyby Galaxy Encounters with Multiple Black Holes Produce Star-forming Linear Features. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 954(1). L2–L2. 4 indexed citations

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Bird, Simeon, Adam Lidz, Guochao Sun, et al.. (2023). Boosting line intensity map signal-to-noise ratio with the Ly-α forest cross-correlation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 1933–1945. 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Yue, Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Masamune Oguri, et al.. (2023). Statistics of Galactic-scale Quasar Pairs at Cosmic Noon. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(1). 38–38. 15 indexed citations

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Ho, Ming-Feng, et al.. (2023). MF-Box: multifidelity and multiscale emulation for the matter power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(2). 2903–2919. 3 indexed citations

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Ni, Yueying, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, et al.. (2023). The CAMELS Project: Expanding the Galaxy Formation Model Space with New ASTRID and 28-parameter TNG and SIMBA Suites. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 136–136. 33 indexed citations

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Bird, Simeon, Simon J. Mutch, Yueying Ni, et al.. (2023). Computationally efficient reionization in a large hydrodynamic galaxy formation simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(2). 2553–2564. 6 indexed citations

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Ho, Ming-Feng, et al.. (2023). Machine learning uncovers the universe’s hidden gems: A comprehensive catalogue of C iv absorption lines in SDSS DR12. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 4557–4574. 1 indexed citations

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DeGraf, Colin, Nianyi Chen, Yueying Ni, et al.. (2023). High-redshift supermassive black hole mergers in simulations with dynamical friction modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 11766–11776. 10 indexed citations

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Bird, Simeon. (2017). FSFE: Fake Spectra Flux Extractor. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 9 indexed citations

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Bird, Simeon. (2017). GenPK: Power spectrum generator. ascl. 5 indexed citations

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Bird, Simeon, Roman Garnett, & Shirley Ho. (2016). Statistical properties of damped Lyman-alpha systems from Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR12. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 466(2). 2111–2122. 36 indexed citations

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