Stephen Justham

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Justham is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Justham has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Stephen Justham's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (48 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (24 papers). Stephen Justham is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (48 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (24 papers). Stephen Justham collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Stephen Justham's co-authors include Philipp Podsiadlowski, S. E. de Mink, Mathieu Renzo, R. Farmer, Natalia Ivanova, Zhanwen Han, Y. Götberg, Emmanouil Zapartas, Ilya Mandel and Floor S. Broekgaarden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Justham

63 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Common envelope evolution: where we stand and how we can move forward

2013 659 citations Stephen Justham, Philipp Podsiadlowski et al. profile →
On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars

2018 204 citations Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J. Neijssel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter

2022 115 citations L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink 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
Stephen Justham China	32	3.3k	564	362	133	106	67	3.4k
Josiah Schwab United States	16	2.9k 0.9×	660 1.2×	307 0.8×	151 1.1×	91 0.9×	25	3.1k
R. Farmer United States	19	3.2k 1.0×	753 1.3×	382 1.1×	148 1.1×	106 1.0×	43	3.5k
Jared A. Goldberg United States	9	2.6k 0.8×	655 1.2×	233 0.6×	128 1.0×	86 0.8×	21	2.7k
Silvia Toonen Netherlands	33	3.0k 0.9×	759 1.3×	263 0.7×	95 0.7×	143 1.3×	91	3.2k
Paul C. Duffell United States	20	2.5k 0.8×	349 0.6×	365 1.0×	123 0.9×	86 0.8×	40	2.6k
А. В. Тутуков Russia	23	2.9k 0.9×	434 0.8×	386 1.1×	111 0.8×	171 1.6×	185	3.0k
Christopher Mankovich United States	11	2.6k 0.8×	654 1.2×	179 0.5×	182 1.4×	65 0.6×	23	2.7k
Anne Thoul Belgium	17	3.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.9×	318 0.9×	163 1.2×	144 1.4×	36	3.7k
J. S. Clark United Kingdom	31	2.7k 0.8×	870 1.5×	221 0.6×	110 0.8×	105 1.0×	86	2.8k
R. G. Izzard United Kingdom	34	4.8k 1.5×	1.4k 2.4×	505 1.4×	83 0.6×	138 1.3×	99	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Justham

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Justham

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Ryu, Taeho, S. E. de Mink, Oana David, et al.. (2025). Binary mass transfer in 3D: Mass transfer rate and morphology. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 702. A61–A61. 1 indexed citations

Farmer, R., et al.. (2023). Nucleosynthesis of Binary-stripped Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 111–111. 18 indexed citations

Renzo, Mathieu, Emmanouil Zapartas, Stephen Justham, et al.. (2023). Rejuvenated Accretors Have Less Bound Envelopes: Impact of Roche Lobe Overflow on Subsequent Common Envelope Events. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 942(2). L32–L32. 34 indexed citations

Reindl, Nicole, K. Werner, S. O. Kepler, et al.. (2023). The bright blue side of the night sky: Spectroscopic survey of bright and hot (pre-) white dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 677. A29–A29. 11 indexed citations

Temmink, Karel, O. R. Pols, Stephen Justham, Alina Istrate, & Silvia Toonen. (2022). Coping with loss. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 669. A45–A45. 46 indexed citations

Wang, Chen, Ben Hastings, A. Schootemeijer, et al.. (2022). The initial spin distribution of B-type stars revealed by the split main sequences of young star clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A43–A43. 13 indexed citations

Son, L. A. C. van, S. E. de Mink, Mathieu Renzo, et al.. (2022). No Peaks without Valleys: The Stable Mass Transfer Channel for Gravitational-wave Sources in Light of the Neutron Star–Black Hole Mass Gap. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(2). 184–184. 55 indexed citations

Son, L. A. C. van, S. E. de Mink, T. A. Callister, et al.. (2022). The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 931(1). 17–17. 115 indexed citations breakdown →

Neunteufel, P., Harriet J. Preece, Matthias U. Kruckow, et al.. (2022). Properties and applications of a predicted population of runaway He-sdO/B stars ejected from single degenerate He-donor SNe. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 663. A91–A91. 7 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., E. Berger, S. P. Stevenson, et al.. (2022). \nImpact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations - II. Double compact object rates and properties. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 95 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., E. Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2021). Impact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations I: black hole–neutron star mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(4). 5028–5063. 113 indexed citations

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Son, L. A. C. van, S. E. de Mink, Floor S. Broekgaarden, et al.. (2020). UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 65 indexed citations

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Laplace, E., Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, & R. Farmer. (2020). . UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 89 indexed citations

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Zapartas, Emmanouil, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, et al.. (2020). Effect of binary evolution on the inferred initial and final core masses of hydrogen-rich, Type II supernova progenitors. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 645. A6–A6. 31 indexed citations

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Renzo, Mathieu, R. Farmer, Stephen Justham, et al.. (2020). Predictions for the hydrogen-free ejecta of pulsational pair-instability supernovae. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 49 indexed citations

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Broekgaarden, Floor S., Stephen Justham, S. E. de Mink, et al.. (2019). stroopwafel: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 5228–5248. 33 indexed citations

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Kerzendorf, Wolfgang, Tuan Do, S. E. de Mink, et al.. (2019). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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Renzo, Mathieu, Emmanouil Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, et al.. (2019). Massive runaway and walkaway stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 624. A66–A66. 170 indexed citations

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Zapartas, Emmanouil, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, et al.. (2019). The diverse lives of progenitors of hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae: the role of binary interaction. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 631. A5–A5. 48 indexed citations

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Bregman, Joel N., et al.. (2013). Puzzling accretion onto a black hole in the ultraluminous X-ray source M 101 ULX-1. Nature. 503(7477). 500–503. 98 indexed citations

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