Stephen Justham

6.2k citations

67 papers · 3.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
Instrumentation top 1%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 63
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 48
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 41
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 24
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 19
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 13
- Astro and Planetary Science 11
Instrumentation 10
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 10

Co-authors: Philipp Podsiadlowski S. E. de Mink Mathieu Renzo R. Farmer Natalia Ivanova Zhanwen Han Y. Götberg Emmanouil Zapartas
Journals: Astronomy and Astrophysics (21 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (12 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (10 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (8 papers)Nature (2 papers)
Partner nations: China Netherlands United States

In The Last Decade

Stephen Justham

63 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter 2022 · 115 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 The Astrophysical Journal
2018 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2013 The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

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1	Binary mass transfer in 3D: Mass transfer rate and morphology Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Taeho Ryu, Re’em Sari, S. E. de Mink, Oana David, Ruggero Valli, Junchao Ma, Stephen Justham, Rüdiger Pakmor, H. G. Ritter	2025	1
2	Nucleosynthesis of Binary-stripped Stars The Astrophysical Journal ·R. Farmer, E. Laplace, Jing-Ze Ma, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham	2023	18
3	Rejuvenated Accretors Have Less Bound Envelopes: Impact of Roche Lobe Overflow on Subsequent Common Envelope Events The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Mathieu Renzo, Emmanouil Zapartas, Stephen Justham, Katelyn Breivik, Mike Y. M. Lau, R. Farmer, Matteo Cantiello, Brian D. Metzger	2023	34
4	The bright blue side of the night sky: Spectroscopic survey of bright and hot (pre-) white dwarfs Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Nicole Reindl, Ramazan Islami, K. Werner, S. O. Kepler, Max Pritzkuleit, Harry Dawson, M. Dorsch, Alina Istrate, Ingrid Pelisoli, S. Geier, Murat Uzundag, J. L. Provencal, Stephen Justham	2023	11
5	Coping with loss Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Karel Temmink, O. R. Pols, Stephen Justham, Alina Istrate, Silvia Toonen	2022	46
6	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 ·L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, Mathieu Renzo, Stephen Justham, Emmanouil Zapartas, Katelyn Breivik, T. A. Callister, Will M. Farr, Charlie Conroy	2022	55
7	The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter The Astrophysical Journal ·L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, T. A. Callister, Stephen Justham, Mathieu Renzo, Tom Wagg, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Floris Kummer, Rüdiger Pakmor, Ilya Mandel Hit paper breakdown →	2022	115
8	Properties and applications of a predicted population of runaway He-sdO/B stars ejected from single degenerate He-donor SNe Astronomy and Astrophysics ·P. Neunteufel, Harriet J. Preece, Matthias U. Kruckow, S. Geier, Adrian S. Hamers, Stephen Justham, Philipp Podsiadlowski	2022	7
9	The initial spin distribution of B-type stars revealed by the split main sequences of young star clusters Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Chen Wang, Ben Hastings, A. Schootemeijer, N. Langer, S. E. de Mink, J. Bodensteiner, A. P. Milone, Stephen Justham, Pablo Marchant	2022	13
10	\nImpact of massive binary star and cosmic evolution on gravitational wave observations - II. Double compact object rates and properties Radboud Repository (Radboud University) ·Floor S. Broekgaarden, E. Berger, S. P. Stevenson, Stephen Justham, Ilya Mandel, Martyna Chruślińska, L. A. C. van Son, (unknown)	2022	95
11	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 ·Floor S. Broekgaarden, E. Berger, Coenraad J. Neijssel, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Debatri Chattopadhyay, S. P. Stevenson, Martyna Chruślińska, Stephen Justham, S. E. de Mink, Ilya Mandel	2021	113
12	UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·L. A. C. van Son, S. E. de Mink, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Mathieu Renzo, Stephen Justham, E. Laplace, Javier Morán-Fraile, David Hendriks, R. Farmer	2020	65
13	UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·E. Laplace, Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, R. Farmer	2020	89
14	Effect of binary evolution on the inferred initial and final core masses of hydrogen-rich, Type II supernova progenitors Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Emmanouil Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, Nathan Smith, Mathieu Renzo, A. de Koter	2020	31
15	Predictions for the hydrogen-free ejecta of pulsational pair-instability supernovae Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Mathieu Renzo, R. Farmer, Stephen Justham, Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, Emmanouil Zapartas, Pablo Marchant, Nathan Smith	2020	49
16	Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Tuan Do, S. E. de Mink, Y. Götberg, D. Milisavljević, Emmanouil Zapartas, Mathieu Renzo, Stephen Justham, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Robert A. Fesen	2019	18
17	stroopwafel: simulating rare outcomes from astrophysical populations, with application to gravitational-wave sources Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Floor S. Broekgaarden, Stephen Justham, S. E. de Mink, J. R. Gair, Ilya Mandel, S. P. Stevenson, Jim W. Barrett, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J. Neijssel	2019	33
18	The diverse lives of progenitors of hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae: the role of binary interaction Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Emmanouil Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, Stephen Justham, Nathan Smith, A. de Koter, Mathieu Renzo, I. Arcavi, R. Farmer, Y. Götberg, Silvia Toonen	2019	48
19	Massive runaway and walkaway stars Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Mathieu Renzo, Emmanouil Zapartas, S. E. de Mink, Y. Götberg, Stephen Justham, R. Farmer, R. G. Izzard, Silvia Toonen, H. Sana	2019	170
20	Puzzling accretion onto a black hole in the ultraluminous X-ray source M 101 ULX-1 Nature ·Ji-Feng Liu, Joel N. Bregman, Yu Bai, Stephen Justham, P. A. Crowther	2013	98

About Stephen Justham

Stephen Justham is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics and Mathematical Physics, having authored 67 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (48 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (41 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (24 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (19 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (13 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (10 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.3k citations), Instrumentation (564 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (362 citations), Geophysics (133 citations) and Computational Mechanics (106 citations). Stephen Justham has collaborated with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United States. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Nature.

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