Ville Vaskonen

6.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
63 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Ville Vaskonen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ville Vaskonen has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ville Vaskonen's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (53 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (39 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (19 papers). Ville Vaskonen is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (53 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (39 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (19 papers). Ville Vaskonen collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Italy and Switzerland. Ville Vaskonen's co-authors include Hardi Veermäe, M. Raidal, Tommi Tenkanen, Marek Lewicki, John Ellis, Kimmo Tuominen, Luca Marzola, Gert Hütsi, B. J. Carr and Matti Heikinheimo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Ville Vaskonen

61 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and cons... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2017 2019 2021 2023 100 200 300
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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. The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints
    2017 325 citations Ville Vaskonen et al. profile →
  2. Primordial black hole constraints for extended mass functions
    2017 289 citations M. Raidal, Ville Vaskonen et al. Physical review. D profile →
  3. Formation and evolution of primordial black hole binaries in the early universe
    2019 218 citations M. Raidal, Ville Vaskonen et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →
  4. Did NANOGrav See a Signal from Primordial Black Hole Formation?
    2021 163 citations Ville Vaskonen, Hardi Veermäe Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Recent Gravitational Wave Observation by Pulsar Timing Arrays and Primordial Black Holes: The Importance of Non-Gaussianities
    2023 149 citations Gabriele Franciolini, Antonio J. Iovino et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. What is the source of the PTA GW signal?
    2024 109 citations John Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn et al. Physical review. D profile →
  7. Anatomy of single-field inflationary models for primordial black holes
    2023 86 citations Αλέξανδρος Καράμ, Eemeli Tomberg et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →
  8. Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries in light of the NANOGrav 15-year data
    2024 56 citations John Ellis, Malcolm Fairbairn et al. 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
Ville Vaskonen Estonia 33 3.3k 2.4k 269 242 88 63 3.6k
Hardi Veermäe Estonia 27 2.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.8× 239 0.9× 130 0.5× 143 1.6× 59 2.7k
Federico Piazza France 19 2.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.8× 243 0.9× 259 1.1× 295 3.4× 40 2.8k
Thomas Konstandin Germany 33 3.7k 1.1× 3.4k 1.4× 190 0.7× 320 1.3× 151 1.7× 62 4.3k
Yacine Ali-Haïmoud United States 25 2.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 173 0.6× 125 0.5× 69 0.8× 47 2.9k
Gabriele Franciolini Switzerland 33 3.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 334 1.2× 86 0.4× 94 1.1× 67 3.2k
Filippo Vernizzi France 30 3.7k 1.1× 2.6k 1.1× 361 1.3× 92 0.4× 259 2.9× 56 3.8k
Ely D. Kovetz United States 27 2.8k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 214 0.8× 111 0.5× 68 0.8× 75 3.0k
Amanda Weltman South Africa 19 3.1k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 268 1.0× 318 1.3× 252 2.9× 35 3.3k
Zong‐Hong Zhu China 37 3.9k 1.2× 1.8k 0.8× 233 0.9× 163 0.7× 214 2.4× 183 4.1k
Qing-Guo Huang China 34 3.2k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 421 1.6× 83 0.3× 241 2.7× 111 3.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ville Vaskonen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hütsi, Gert, et al.. (2025). Fuzzy dark matter fails to explain dark matter cores. Physics of the Dark Universe. 49. 102010–102010. 2 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek, et al.. (2025). Black holes and gravitational waves from phase transitions in realistic models. Physics of the Dark Universe. 50. 102075–102075. 3 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek, et al.. (2025). Thermalization effects on the dynamics of growing vacuum bubbles. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 2 indexed citations
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Braglia, Matteo, Gianluca Calcagni, Gabriele Franciolini, et al.. (2024). Gravitational waves from inflation in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(11). 32–32. 25 indexed citations
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Andrés‐Carcasona, M., Antonio J. Iovino, Ville Vaskonen, et al.. (2024). Constraints on primordial black holes from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O3 events. Physical review. D. 110(2). 22 indexed citations
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Ellis, John, Malcolm Fairbairn, Gert Hütsi, et al.. (2024). Consistency of JWST black hole observations with NANOGrav gravitational wave measurements. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 691. A270–A270. 7 indexed citations
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Caprini, Chiara, Ryusuke Jinno, Marek Lewicki, et al.. (2024). Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(10). 20–20. 31 indexed citations
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Ellis, John, Malcolm Fairbairn, Gabriele Franciolini, et al.. (2024). What is the source of the PTA GW signal?. Physical review. D. 109(2). 109 indexed citations breakdown →
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D’Eramo, Francesco, Andrea Tesi, & Ville Vaskonen. (2024). Irreducible cosmological backgrounds of a real scalar with a broken symmetry. Physical review. D. 110(9). 6 indexed citations
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Urrutia, Juan, et al.. (2024). Eccentricity effects on the supermassive black hole gravitational wave background. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 691. A212–A212. 9 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek, et al.. (2023). Dynamics of false vacuum bubbles with trapped particles. Physical review. D. 108(3). 12 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek, et al.. (2023). Primordial black holes from strong first-order phase transitions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(9). 60 indexed citations
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Ellis, John, Malcolm Fairbairn, Gert Hütsi, et al.. (2023). Prospects for future binary black hole gravitational wave studies in light of PTA measurements. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 676. A38–A38. 24 indexed citations
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Καράμ, Αλέξανδρος, et al.. (2023). Anatomy of single-field inflationary models for primordial black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(3). 13–13. 86 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ellis, John, Marek Lewicki, Chunshan Lin, & Ville Vaskonen. (2023). Cosmic superstrings revisited in light of NANOGrav 15-year data. Physical review. D. 108(10). 74 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek & Ville Vaskonen. (2023). Gravitational waves from bubble collisions and fluid motion in strongly supercooled phase transitions. The European Physical Journal C. 83(2). 60 indexed citations
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Fairbairn, Malcolm, Juan Urrutia, & Ville Vaskonen. (2023). Microlensing of gravitational waves by dark matter structures. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(7). 7–7. 20 indexed citations
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Romero, A., M. Martı́nez, Oriol Pujolàs, Mairi Sakellariadou, & Ville Vaskonen. (2022). Search for a Scalar Induced Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run. Physical Review Letters. 128(5). 51301–51301. 34 indexed citations
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Lewicki, Marek & Ville Vaskonen. (2019). Constraining strongly supercooled phase transitions by overproduction of black holes. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Marzola, Luca, Antonio Racioppi, & Ville Vaskonen. (2017). Phase transition and gravitational wave phenomenology of scalar conformal extensions of the Standard Model. The European Physical Journal C. 77(7). 83 indexed citations

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