Thibault Damour

76.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
264 papers, 23.3k citations indexed

About

Thibault Damour is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thibault Damour has authored 264 papers receiving a total of 23.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 109 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 41 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thibault Damour's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (157 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (120 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (89 papers). Thibault Damour is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (157 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (120 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (89 papers). Thibault Damour collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and Germany. Thibault Damour's co-authors include Alessandro Nagar, Gilles Esposito-Farèse, Alessandra Buonanno, Donato Bini, Gerhard Schäfer, B. R. Iyer, Luc Blanchet, A. M. Polyakov, P. Jaranowski and Alexander Vilenkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Thibault Damour

253 papers receiving 22.6k citations

Hit Papers

k-Inflation 1993 2026 2004 2015 1999 1999 1994 2000 2009 400 800 1.2k
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. k-Inflation
    1999 1.2k citations Thibault Damour et al. profile →
  2. Effective one-body approach to general relativistic two-body dynamics
    1999 841 citations Thibault Damour et al. profile →
  3. The string dilation and a least coupling principle
    1994 785 citations Thibault Damour et al. profile →
  4. Transition from inspiral to plunge in binary black hole coalescences
    2000 573 citations Thibault Damour et al. profile →
  5. Relativistic tidal properties of neutron stars
    2009 566 citations Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar profile →
  6. Nonperturbative strong-field effects in tensor-scalar theories of gravitation
    1993 550 citations Thibault Damour et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Coalescence of two spinning black holes: An effective one-body approach
    2001 443 citations Thibault Damour profile →
  8. Measurability of the tidal polarizability of neutron stars in late-inspiral gravitational-wave signals
    2012 317 citations Thibault Damour, Alessandro Nagar et al. profile →
  9. Gravitational scattering, post-Minkowskian approximation, and effective-one-body theory
    2016 230 citations Thibault Damour Physical review. D profile →
  10. High-energy gravitational scattering and the general relativistic two-body problem
    2018 227 citations Thibault Damour 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
Thibault Damour France 89 21.7k 10.7k 3.0k 2.1k 2.1k 264 23.3k
Clifford M. Will United States 59 14.2k 0.7× 7.3k 0.7× 1.9k 0.6× 649 0.3× 1.9k 0.9× 187 15.4k
Peter Goldreich United States 62 16.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.2× 762 0.3× 1.6k 0.8× 734 0.3× 155 18.0k
Stuart L. Shapiro United States 61 14.7k 0.7× 5.4k 0.5× 964 0.3× 2.1k 1.0× 498 0.2× 271 15.7k
Eric Poisson Canada 42 7.9k 0.4× 4.8k 0.4× 656 0.2× 555 0.3× 1.2k 0.6× 111 8.4k
James B. Hartle United States 45 7.7k 0.4× 5.7k 0.5× 559 0.2× 311 0.1× 3.5k 1.7× 140 9.6k
Luciano Rezzolla Germany 68 13.1k 0.6× 5.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 294 0.1× 239 14.0k
Jeremiah P. Ostriker United States 79 22.8k 1.1× 8.2k 0.8× 550 0.2× 584 0.3× 1.3k 0.6× 353 24.1k
Emanuele Berti United States 72 15.2k 0.7× 8.4k 0.8× 703 0.2× 719 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 233 15.9k
C. J. Pethick United States 60 7.4k 0.3× 4.7k 0.4× 845 0.3× 3.3k 1.6× 1.3k 0.6× 200 17.4k
W. Israel Canada 39 10.4k 0.5× 9.1k 0.9× 386 0.1× 212 0.1× 2.8k 1.3× 109 12.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2024). Gravitational bremsstrahlung waveform at the fourth post-Minkowskian order and the second post-Newtonian level. Physical review. D. 110(6). 8 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, Stefano De Angelis, et al.. (2024). Gravitational waveforms: A tale of two formalisms. Physical review. D. 109(12). 29 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato & Thibault Damour. (2024). Fourth post-Minkowskian local-in-time conservative dynamics of binary systems. Physical review. D. 110(6). 8 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2024). Explicit solution of the gravitational two-body problem at the second post-Minkowskian order. Physical review. D. 110(10). 1 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2023). Radiated momentum and radiation reaction in gravitational two-body scattering including time-asymmetric effects. Physical review. D. 107(2). 38 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2023). Comparing one-loop gravitational bremsstrahlung amplitudes to the multipolar-post-Minkowskian waveform. Physical review. D. 108(12). 30 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato & Thibault Damour. (2022). Radiation-reaction and angular momentum loss at the second post-Minkowskian order. Physical review. D. 106(12). 23 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, Andrea Geralico, S. Laporta, & Pierpaolo Mastrolia. (2021). Gravitational scattering at the seventh order in G: Nonlocal contribution at the sixth post-Newtonian accuracy. Physical review. D. 103(4). 30 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2020). Scattering of tidally interacting bodies in post-Minkowskian gravity. Physical review. D. 101(4). 43 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2020). Sixth post-Newtonian local-in-time dynamics of binary systems. Physical review. D. 102(2). 85 indexed citations
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Rettegno, P., et al.. (2020). Comparing effective-one-body Hamiltonians for spin-aligned coalescing binaries. Physical review. D. 101(10). 30 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2020). Binary dynamics at the fifth and fifth-and-a-half post-Newtonian orders. Physical review. D. 102(2). 87 indexed citations
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Bini, Donato, Thibault Damour, & Andrea Geralico. (2019). Novel Approach to Binary Dynamics: Application to the Fifth Post-Newtonian Level. Physical Review Letters. 123(23). 231104–231104. 102 indexed citations
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Damour, Thibault, et al.. (2016). Le mystère du monde quantique. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Damour, Thibault, et al.. (2014). Entretiens sur la multitude du monde. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Brumberg, V. A., P. Bretagnon, N. Capitaine, et al.. (1998). General Relativity and the IAU Resolutions. Highlights of Astronomy. 194.
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Damour, Thibault, M. Söffel, & Changyi Xu. (1992). General relativistic celestial mechanics.. 7. 50–50. 35 indexed citations
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Damour, Thibault & Gerhard Schaefer. (1987). The two-body problem in general relativity.. 305(10). 839–842. 5 indexed citations
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Blanchet, Luc & Thibault Damour. (1984). Post Minkowskian iteration method and the structure of radiative gravitational fields.. 298(10). 431–434. 3 indexed citations
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Damour, Thibault & Gerhard Schäfer. (1984). Lagrangians for n point-masses at the second post-Newtonian approximation of general relativity.. 164. 8 indexed citations

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