Sourav Chatterjee

4.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
54 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Sourav Chatterjee is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sourav Chatterjee has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Sourav Chatterjee's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (35 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (25 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers). Sourav Chatterjee is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (35 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (25 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (21 papers). Sourav Chatterjee collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Spain. Sourav Chatterjee's co-authors include Frederic A. Rasio, Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Soko Matsumura, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, Eric B. Ford, Claire S. Ye, C.‐J. Haster, Jonathan C. Tan and M. Zevin 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

Sourav Chatterjee

51 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamical Outcomes of Planet‐Planet Scattering 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2016 2015 2018 2019 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Dynamical Outcomes of Planet‐Planet Scattering
    2008 466 citations Sourav Chatterjee, Frederic A. Rasio et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  2. Binary black hole mergers from globular clusters: Masses, merger rates, and the impact of stellar evolution
    2016 385 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Sourav Chatterjee et al. Physical review. D profile →
  3. Binary Black Hole Mergers from Globular Clusters: Implications for Advanced LIGO
    2015 290 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Sourav Chatterjee et al. profile →
  4. Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers
    2018 229 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, Pau Amaro‐Seoane et al. profile →
  5. Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties
    2019 212 citations Carl L. Rodriguez, M. Zevin et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sourav Chatterjee United States 25 2.9k 305 232 168 62 54 3.0k
Christopher Mankovich United States 11 2.6k 0.9× 654 2.1× 179 0.8× 182 1.1× 40 0.6× 23 2.7k
Paul C. Duffell United States 20 2.5k 0.9× 349 1.1× 365 1.6× 123 0.7× 32 0.5× 40 2.6k
Jared A. Goldberg United States 9 2.6k 0.9× 655 2.1× 233 1.0× 128 0.8× 53 0.9× 21 2.7k
Mario Spera Italy 25 2.3k 0.8× 237 0.8× 173 0.7× 68 0.4× 44 0.7× 61 2.4k
Lilia Ferrario Australia 28 2.3k 0.8× 215 0.7× 252 1.1× 254 1.5× 49 0.8× 90 2.5k
Nathan W. C. Leigh United States 27 2.6k 0.9× 418 1.4× 190 0.8× 94 0.6× 30 0.5× 98 2.7k
R. Smolec Poland 19 2.0k 0.7× 717 2.4× 129 0.6× 101 0.6× 39 0.6× 79 2.1k
Onno R. Pols Netherlands 16 2.4k 0.8× 603 2.0× 155 0.7× 82 0.5× 29 0.5× 30 2.4k
Alfred Gautschy Switzerland 16 1.9k 0.6× 577 1.9× 133 0.6× 92 0.5× 36 0.6× 40 2.0k
V. Testa Italy 23 1.7k 0.6× 486 1.6× 336 1.4× 147 0.9× 31 0.5× 123 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sourav Chatterjee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sourav Chatterjee

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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El-Badry, Kareem, et al.. (2025). Realistic Predictions for Gaia Black Hole Discoveries: Comparison of Isolated Binary and Dynamical Formation Models. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 137(4). 44202–44202. 4 indexed citations
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Manoj, P., Ravinder K. Banyal, Liton Majumdar, et al.. (2025). Exoplanets. Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 46(2).
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Rasio, Frederic A., et al.. (2024). Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. II. Clusters May Eat Their Own Tails. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(1). 42–42. 4 indexed citations
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Andrews, Jeff J., et al.. (2023). Weighing the Darkness. II. Astrometric Measurement of Partial Orbits with Gaia. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 111–111. 3 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sourav, et al.. (2023). Orbital architectures of Kepler multis from dynamical instabilities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 79–92. 15 indexed citations
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Fragione, Giacomo, et al.. (2023). Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. I. Escape Mechanisms and Properties at Ejection. The Astrophysical Journal. 946(2). 104–104. 28 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sourav, et al.. (2023). Dynamically Forming Extremely Low-mass White Dwarf Binaries in Wide Orbits. The Astrophysical Journal. 949(2). 102–102. 8 indexed citations
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Vijaykumar, A., et al.. (2023). Accelerated binary black holes in globular clusters: forecasts and detectability in the era of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 8586–8597. 6 indexed citations
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Ye, Claire S., Kyle Kremer, Carl L. Rodriguez, et al.. (2022). Compact Object Modeling in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(2). 84–84. 20 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Carl L., Scott Coughlin, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, et al.. (2022). Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 258(2). 22–22. 72 indexed citations
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Kremer, Kyle, Wenbin Lu, Anthony L. Piro, et al.. (2021). Fast Optical Transients from Stellar-mass Black Hole Tidal Disruption Events in Young Star Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 911(2). 104–104. 30 indexed citations
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Rui, Nicholas Z., Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, et al.. (2021). Matching Globular Cluster Models to Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 912(2). 102–102. 16 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sourav, et al.. (2020). A Dynamical Survey of Stellar-mass Black Holes in 50 Milky Way Globular Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 898(2). 162–162. 44 indexed citations
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Fragione, Giacomo, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, et al.. (2020). Demographics of Triple Systems in Dense Star Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(1). 16–16. 16 indexed citations
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Kremer, Kyle, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2019). The Role of “black hole burning” in the evolution of dense star clusters. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 14(S351). 357–366. 18 indexed citations
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Rodriguez, Carl L., M. Zevin, Pau Amaro‐Seoane, et al.. (2019). Black holes: The next generation—repeated mergers in dense star clusters and their gravitational-wave properties. Physical review. D. 100(4). 212 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kremer, Kyle, Daniel J. D’Orazio, Johan Samsing, Sourav Chatterjee, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2019). Probing the Survival of Planetary Systems in Globular Clusters with Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 2–2. 9 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sourav, et al.. (2018). Outcomes of Grazing Impacts between Sub-Neptunes in Kepler Multis. The Astrophysical Journal. 852(1). 41–41. 11 indexed citations
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Kremer, Kyle, Claire S. Ye, Sourav Chatterjee, Carl L. Rodriguez, & Frederic A. Rasio. (2018). How Black Holes Shape Globular Clusters: Modeling NGC 3201. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 855(2). L15–L15. 48 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sourav. (2016). Identifying Globular Clusters Hosting Large Numbers of Black Holes. 14555. 1 indexed citations

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