Tim Lichtenberg

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 835 citations indexed

About

Tim Lichtenberg is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Lichtenberg has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 835 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Geophysics and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Tim Lichtenberg's work include Astro and Planetary Science (38 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (19 papers). Tim Lichtenberg is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (38 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (33 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (19 papers). Tim Lichtenberg collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Switzerland. Tim Lichtenberg's co-authors include Michael R. Meyer, Gregor Golabek, Taras Gerya, Dan J. Bower, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, R. J. Parker, Joanna Drążkowska, Mark Hammond, Oliver Shorttle and C. Mordasini and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Astrophysical Journal and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Tim Lichtenberg

42 papers receiving 732 citations

Hit Papers

Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune... 2024 2026 2025 2024 2025 10 20 30 40
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. Distinguishing Oceans of Water from Magma on Mini-Neptune K2-18b
    2024 46 citations Tim Lichtenberg, Dan J. Bower et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →
  2. Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves
    2025 20 citations Mark Hammond, Tim Lichtenberg et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tim Lichtenberg United Kingdom 18 756 187 69 50 37 48 835
André Izidoro United States 22 1.8k 2.3× 149 0.8× 129 1.9× 45 0.9× 29 0.8× 57 1.8k
K. G. Kislyakova Austria 24 1.5k 1.9× 69 0.4× 127 1.8× 97 1.9× 34 0.9× 58 1.5k
Bojan Novaković Serbia 17 750 1.0× 128 0.7× 77 1.1× 14 0.3× 28 0.8× 58 792
F. Spoto Italy 11 814 1.1× 128 0.7× 86 1.2× 18 0.4× 20 0.5× 28 823
C. P. Johnstone Austria 22 1.5k 2.0× 64 0.3× 128 1.9× 148 3.0× 30 0.8× 51 1.5k
Anjali A. A. Piette United Kingdom 14 574 0.8× 71 0.4× 132 1.9× 88 1.8× 10 0.3× 23 652
Amy Mainzer United States 19 1.1k 1.5× 84 0.4× 130 1.9× 101 2.0× 29 0.8× 83 1.2k
Keiji Ohtsuki Japan 15 1.0k 1.4× 68 0.4× 100 1.4× 11 0.2× 18 0.5× 61 1.1k
Martin Beech Canada 16 827 1.1× 97 0.5× 95 1.4× 39 0.8× 18 0.5× 114 884
A. Álvarez-Candal Brazil 20 1.1k 1.4× 85 0.5× 148 2.1× 19 0.4× 13 0.4× 65 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Lichtenberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Lichtenberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Lichtenberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim Lichtenberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim Lichtenberg based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tim Lichtenberg. Tim Lichtenberg is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pierrehumbert, Raymond T., et al.. (2025). AGNI: A radiative-convective model for lava planet atmospheres. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(109). 7726–7726. 1 indexed citations
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Lichtenberg, Tim, et al.. (2025). Absence of a Runaway Greenhouse Limit on Lava Planets. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(2). 172–172. 1 indexed citations
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Teske, Johanna, Nicole L. Wallack, Anjali A. A. Piette, et al.. (2025). A Thick Volatile Atmosphere on the Ultrahot Super-Earth TOI-561 b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(2). L39–L39.
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Boué, Gwenaël, et al.. (2025). Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth–Moon System. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 133–133. 8 indexed citations
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Hammond, Mark, Tim Lichtenberg, Chloe Fisher, et al.. (2025). Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 978(2). L40–L40. 20 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nixon, Matthew C., Arjun B. Savel, Jegug Ih, et al.. (2025). Magma Ocean Interactions Can Explain JWST Observations of the Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d. The Astrophysical Journal. 995(1). 95–95.
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Pierrehumbert, Raymond T., et al.. (2024). Convective shutdown in the atmospheres of lava worlds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(3). 2957–2971. 10 indexed citations
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Bower, Dan J., Tim Lichtenberg, Mark Hammond, et al.. (2024). Geodynamics of Super‐Earth GJ 486b. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 129(10). 5 indexed citations
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Lichtenberg, Tim, et al.. (2024). Magma Ocean Evolution at Arbitrary Redox State. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 129(12). e2024JE008576–e2024JE008576. 14 indexed citations
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Schlecker, Martin, et al.. (2024). Bioverse: The Habitable Zone Inner Edge Discontinuity as an Imprint of Runaway Greenhouse Climates on Exoplanet Demographics. The Planetary Science Journal. 5(1). 3–3. 10 indexed citations
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Piette, Anjali A. A., Peter Gao, Anat Shahar, et al.. (2023). Rocky Planet or Water World? Observability of Low-density Lava World Atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(1). 29–29. 27 indexed citations
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Bower, Dan J., et al.. (2023). Interior dynamics of super-Earth 55 Cancri e. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A29–A29. 20 indexed citations
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Stammler, Sebastian Markus, Tim Lichtenberg, Joanna Drążkowska, & T. Birnstiel. (2023). Leaky dust traps: How fragmentation impacts dust filtering by planets. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. L5–L5. 49 indexed citations
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Lichtenberg, Tim, Dan J. Bower, Mark Hammond, et al.. (2021). Vertically Resolved Magma Ocean–Protoatmosphere Evolution: H2, H2O, CO2, CH4, CO, O2, and N2as Primary Absorbers. Journal of Geophysical Research Planets. 126(2). e2020JE006711–e2020JE006711. 61 indexed citations
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Bower, Dan J., et al.. (2020). Interior dynamics of tidally locked super-Earths: The case of LHS 3844b. 1 indexed citations
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Bower, Dan J., et al.. (2020). Interior dynamics of tidally-locked super-Earths: the case of LHS 3844b. 1 indexed citations
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Sanan, Patrick, Shang‐Min Tsai, Mark Hammond, et al.. (2020). Data and scripts online container for Lichtenberg et al. (2021, JGRP). OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Cook, David L., et al.. (2017). Late metal–silicate separation on the IAB parent asteroid: Constraints from combined W and Pt isotopes and thermal modelling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 482. 490–500. 31 indexed citations
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Lichtenberg, Tim & D. R. G. Schleicher. (2015). Modeling gravitational instabilities in self-gravitating protoplanetary disks with adaptive mesh refinement techniques. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations

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