Stuart Sim

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Stuart Sim is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart Sim has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 9 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Stuart Sim's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (101 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (53 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (46 papers). Stuart Sim is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (101 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (53 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (46 papers). Stuart Sim collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Stuart Sim's co-authors include M. Kromer, F. K. Röpke, W. Hillebrandt, I. R. Seitenzahl, Rüdiger Pakmor, Ashley J. Ruiter, M. Fink, S. Taubenberger, Knox S. Long and Wolfgang Kerzendorf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Stuart Sim

157 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Three-dimensional delayed-detonation models with nucleosy... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Three-dimensional delayed-detonation models with nucleosynthesis for Type Ia supernovae
    2012 290 citations I. R. Seitenzahl, F. K. Röpke 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Stuart Sim United Kingdom 37 4.3k 1.2k 302 117 101 181 4.7k
P. T. O’Brien United Kingdom 41 6.3k 1.5× 2.1k 1.8× 352 1.2× 56 0.5× 257 2.5× 230 7.0k
J. S. Sanders Germany 43 6.0k 1.4× 1.8k 1.6× 860 2.8× 41 0.4× 29 0.3× 186 6.3k
D. L. Kaplan United States 32 2.9k 0.7× 748 0.6× 135 0.4× 30 0.3× 485 4.8× 143 3.2k
M. H. Cohen United States 35 3.8k 0.9× 2.8k 2.4× 182 0.6× 111 0.9× 81 0.8× 150 4.6k
H. A. Smith United States 36 3.6k 0.8× 843 0.7× 1.2k 3.9× 71 0.6× 39 0.4× 267 4.4k
Ira Wasserman United States 39 3.8k 0.9× 1.8k 1.6× 123 0.4× 676 5.8× 519 5.1× 173 5.6k
Paul S. Smith United States 33 3.7k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 444 1.5× 21 0.2× 40 0.4× 171 4.3k
Ian S. McLean United States 36 5.7k 1.3× 463 0.4× 1.8k 6.1× 99 0.8× 85 0.8× 257 6.3k
William Alston United Kingdom 23 1.4k 0.3× 616 0.5× 44 0.1× 37 0.3× 99 1.0× 64 1.7k
Virginia Trimble United States 21 1.6k 0.4× 755 0.6× 190 0.6× 13 0.1× 53 0.5× 175 2.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart Sim

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart Sim

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Collins, Christine E., Stuart Sim, Luke J. Shingles, et al.. (2025). Exploring the range of impacts of helium in the spectra of double detonation models for Type Ia supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(2). 1404–1413. 3 indexed citations
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Knigge, C., et al.. (2025). The critical role of clumping in line-driven disc winds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(3).
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Seitenzahl, I. R., Ashley J. Ruiter, F. K. Röpke, et al.. (2025). Calcium in a supernova remnant as a fingerprint of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass explosion. Nature Astronomy. 9(9). 1356–1365. 5 indexed citations
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Sim, Stuart, Rüdiger Pakmor, Christine E. Collins, et al.. (2024). On the fate of the secondary white dwarf in double-degenerate double-detonation Type Ia supernovae – II. 3D synthetic observables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(3). 3036–3052. 9 indexed citations
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Sneppen, Albert, et al.. (2024). Helium features are inconsistent with the spectral evolution of the kilonova AT2017gfo. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A134–A134. 2 indexed citations
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Collins, Christine E., Luke J. Shingles, Andreas Bauswein, et al.. (2024). Towards inferring the geometry of kilonovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1333–1346. 6 indexed citations
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Matthews, James, et al.. (2024). SIROCCO: a publicly available Monte Carlo ionization and radiative transfer code for astrophysical outflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(1). 879–904. 4 indexed citations
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Collins, Christine E., Andreas Bauswein, Stuart Sim, et al.. (2023). Kilonova emission from realistic neutron star merger simulations. 10–10. 1 indexed citations
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Higginbottom, Nick, et al.. (2023). State-of-the-art simulations of line-driven accretion disc winds: realistic radiation hydrodynamics leads to weaker outflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 9236–9249. 9 indexed citations
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Srivastav, Shubham, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, et al.. (2023). The Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2022ilv and Its Early Excess Emission. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(2). L20–L20. 12 indexed citations
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Gillanders, J. H., Stuart Sim, S. J. Smartt, S. Goriely, & Andreas Bauswein. (2023). Modelling the spectra of the kilonova AT2017gfo – II. Beyond the photospheric epochs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(3). 2918–2945. 16 indexed citations
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Matzeu, G. A., Maggie Lieu, M. Costa, et al.. (2022). A new emulated Monte Carlo radiative transfer disc-wind model: X-Ray Accretion Disc-wind Emulator – xrade. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(4). 6172–6190. 9 indexed citations
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Collins, Christine E., Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Rüdiger Pakmor, et al.. (2020). SNe Ia from double detonations: Impact of core-shell mixing on the carbon ignition mechanism. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 43 indexed citations
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Knigge, C., et al.. (2020). Accretion disc winds in tidal disruption events: ultraviolet spectral lines as orientation indicators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(4). 4914–4929. 9 indexed citations
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O’Neill, D., R. Kotak, M. Fraser, et al.. (2019). A progenitor candidate for the type II-P supernova SN 2018aoq in NGC 4151. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 22 indexed citations
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Sim, Stuart, et al.. (2017). Helium in double-detonation models of type Ia supernovae. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations
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Sasdelli, Michele, W. Hillebrandt, M. Kromer, et al.. (2016). A metric space for Type Ia supernova spectra: a new method to assess explosion scenarios. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 466(4). 3784–3809. 5 indexed citations
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Sim, Stuart. (2011). The Routledge companion to postmodernism [3rd edition]. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University).
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Sim, Stuart. (2002). Irony and crisis : a critical history of postmodern culture. 8 indexed citations

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