Simon Birrer

10.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Simon Birrer is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Birrer has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 31 papers in Instrumentation and 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Simon Birrer's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (58 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (20 papers). Simon Birrer is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (58 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (30 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (20 papers). Simon Birrer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Japan. Simon Birrer's co-authors include Tommaso Treu, A. Amara, Alexandre Réfrégier, Daniel Gilman, Anna Nierenberg, Anowar J. Shajib, Andrew Benson, Dominique Sluse, F. Courbin and Xiaolong Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Simon Birrer

70 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

H0LiCOW – IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant

2019 243 citations Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu 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
Simon Birrer United States	26	1.9k	637	566	336	72	75	2.1k
Alessandro Sonnenfeld United States	21	1.7k 0.9×	772 1.2×	230 0.4×	327 1.0×	48 0.7×	56	1.7k
M. James Jee United States	24	2.0k 1.0×	910 1.4×	404 0.7×	157 0.5×	70 1.0×	75	2.1k
G. Covone Italy	23	1.3k 0.7×	535 0.8×	325 0.6×	158 0.5×	57 0.8×	73	1.4k
S. H. Suyu Germany	29	2.8k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	507 0.9×	604 1.8×	78 1.1×	100	3.0k
Mathilde Jauzac United Kingdom	26	1.9k 1.0×	870 1.4×	389 0.7×	319 0.9×	33 0.5×	64	2.0k
T. Schrabback Germany	24	1.8k 0.9×	835 1.3×	288 0.5×	343 1.0×	48 0.7×	57	1.9k
Charles R. Keeton United States	33	3.2k 1.6×	887 1.4×	934 1.7×	483 1.4×	138 1.9×	80	3.3k
C. Lidman United States	32	2.8k 1.5×	1.3k 2.1×	522 0.9×	193 0.6×	91 1.3×	130	3.0k
G. Meylan Switzerland	31	2.6k 1.3×	835 1.3×	431 0.8×	406 1.2×	58 0.8×	92	2.7k
Huanyuan Shan China	21	1.2k 0.6×	489 0.8×	338 0.6×	109 0.3×	60 0.8×	83	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Birrer

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Treu, Tommaso, et al.. (2025). Spatially Resolved Kinematics of SLACS Lens Galaxies. I. Data and Kinematic Classification. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(1). 51–51. 2 indexed citations

Schmidt, Thomas, Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, et al.. (2025). TDCOSMO. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 700. A92–A92. 1 indexed citations

Birrer, Simon, et al.. (2025). Analyzing line-of-sight selection biases in galaxy-scale strong lensing with external convergence and shear. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(10). 43–43.

Birrer, Simon, et al.. (2025). Challenges and opportunities for time-delay cosmography with multi-messenger gravitational lensing. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 383(2295). 20240130–20240130. 1 indexed citations

Sheu, William, Anowar J. Shajib, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2025). Project Dinos II: redshift evolution of dark and luminous matter density profiles in strong-lensing elliptical galaxies across 0.1 < z < 0.9. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 1–27. 3 indexed citations

Shajib, Anowar J., et al.. (2025). TDCOSMO. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 703. A117–A117. 4 indexed citations

Shajib, Anowar J., Simon Birrer, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, et al.. (2024). Project Dinos I: A joint lensing–dynamics constraint on the deviation from the power law in the mass profile of massive ellipticals. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(2). 1474–1505. 20 indexed citations

Arendse, Nikki, Suhail Dhawan, Ana Sagués Carracedo, et al.. (2024). Detecting strongly lensed type Ia supernovae with LSST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3509–3523. 14 indexed citations

Lee, Jae‐Hoon, et al.. (2024). A Strong Gravitational Lens Is Worth a Thousand Dark Matter Halos: Inference on Small-scale Structure Using Sequential Methods. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 297–297. 2 indexed citations

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Metha, Benjamin, Simon Birrer, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2024). A forward-modelling approach to overcome point spread function smearing and fit flexible models to the chemical structure of galaxies. 3(1). 144–154. 1 indexed citations

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Sluse, Dominique, et al.. (2023). The ellipticity parameterization for an NFW profile: An overlooked angular structure in strong lens modeling. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 679. A128–A128. 4 indexed citations

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Shajib, Anowar J., Kenneth C. Wong, Simon Birrer, et al.. (2022). TDCOSMO. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 667. A123–A123. 27 indexed citations

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Kawinwanichakij, Lalitwadee, J. D. Silverman, Xuheng Ding, et al.. (2021). Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: A Mass-dependent Slope of the Galaxy Size−Mass Relation at z < 1. The Astrophysical Journal. 921(1). 38–38. 50 indexed citations

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Shajib, Anowar J., Tommaso Treu, Simon Birrer, & Alessandro Sonnenfeld. (2021). Dark matter haloes of massive elliptical galaxies at z ∼ 0.2 are well described by the Navarro–Frenk–White profile. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 2380–2405. 75 indexed citations

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Gilman, Daniel, Jo Bovy, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2021). Strong lensing signatures of self-interacting dark matter in low-mass haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(2). 2432–2447. 53 indexed citations

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Shajib, Anowar J., Adriano Agnello, P. R. Williams, et al.. (2021). High-resolution imaging follow-up of doubly imaged quasars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 1557–1567. 3 indexed citations

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Ding, Xuheng, J. D. Silverman, Tommaso Treu, et al.. (2020). The Mass Relations between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies at 1 < z < 2 with HST-WFC3. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 91 indexed citations

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Arendse, Nikki, Radosław Wojtak, Adriano Agnello, et al.. (2020). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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Sluse, Dominique, et al.. (2020). The impact of mass map truncation on strong lensing simulations. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Taubenberger, S., S. H. Suyu, Eiichiro Komatsu, et al.. (2019). The Hubble constant determined through an inverse distance ladder including quasar time delays and Type Ia supernovae. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 43 indexed citations

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