Wayne Hu

31.8k total citations · 8 hit papers
229 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

Wayne Hu is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne Hu has authored 229 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 127 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 25 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Wayne Hu's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (205 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (123 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (59 papers). Wayne Hu is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (205 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (123 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (59 papers). Wayne Hu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Wayne Hu's co-authors include Daniel J. Eisenstein, Ignacy Sawicki, Naoshi Sugiyama, Martin White, Andrei Gruzinov, Rennan Barkana, Max Tegmark, Joseph Silk, M. Lima and Marco Raveri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Wayne Hu

225 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Baryonic Features in the Matter Transfer Function

1998 1.4k citations Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Models off(R)cosmic acceleration that evade solar system tests

2007 1.2k citations Wayne Hu, Ignacy Sawicki Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Fuzzy Cold Dark Matter: The Wave Properties of Ultralight Particles

2000 1.2k citations Wayne Hu, Rennan Barkana et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Small‐Scale Cosmological Perturbations: An Analytic Approach

1996 586 citations Wayne Hu et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Power Spectra for Cold Dark Matter and Its Variants

1999 567 citations Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Large scale structure off(R)gravity

2007 374 citations Wayne Hu, Ignacy Sawicki et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Primordial black holes and slow-roll violation

2017 209 citations Wayne Hu et al. Physical review. D profile →
Acoustic dark energy: Potential conversion of the Hubble tension

2019 178 citations Mengxiang Lin, Wayne Hu et al. Physical review. D profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wayne Hu	19.3k	11.5k	1.8k	1.3k	1.0k	229	20.0k
Eiichiro Komatsu	19.1k 1.0×	12.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	146	20.1k
G. Hinshaw	19.6k 1.0×	12.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	97	20.7k
Matías Zaldarriaga	16.3k 0.8×	8.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	952 0.9×	196	16.7k
Licia Verde	15.6k 0.8×	9.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	866 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	153	16.4k
A. Kogut	17.8k 0.9×	11.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	102	18.8k
Adam G. Riess	24.4k 1.3×	14.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	179	25.1k
M. Halpern	16.0k 0.8×	10.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	864 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	86	17.0k
R. Kirshner	23.1k 1.2×	13.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	920 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	264	23.9k
N. Jarosik	15.4k 0.8×	10.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	870 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	52	16.6k
Lyman A. Page	16.2k 0.8×	10.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	914 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	87	17.2k

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Hu, Wayne, et al.. (2025). Warm and fuzzy dark matter: Free streaming of wave dark matter. Physical review. D. 111(2). 10 indexed citations

Hu, Wayne, et al.. (2025). Interference with gravitational instability: Hot and fuzzy dark matter. Physical review. D. 112(2). 2 indexed citations

Crawford, T. M., et al.. (2024). Measuring μ distortions from the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. Physical review. D. 109(6).

Hu, Wayne, et al.. (2024). Testing gravity with realistic gravitational waveforms in Pulsar Timing Arrays. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(12). 54–54. 1 indexed citations

Secco, L. F., Tanvi Karwal, Wayne Hu, & E. Krause. (2023). Role of the Hubble scale in the weak lensing versus CMB tension. Physical review. D. 107(8). 9 indexed citations

Lin, Mengxiang, Evan McDonough, J. Colin Hill, & Wayne Hu. (2023). Dark matter trigger for early dark energy coincidence. Physical review. D. 107(10). 19 indexed citations

Ramakrishna, Seeram, Wayne Hu, & Rajan Jose. (2022). Sustainability in Numbers by Data Analytics. Circular Economy and Sustainability. 3(2). 643–655. 6 indexed citations

Ezquiaga, José María, Wayne Hu, Macarena Lagos, & Mengxiang Lin. (2021). Gravitational wave propagation beyond general relativity: waveform distortions and echoes. arXiv (Cornell University). 37 indexed citations

Motloch, Pavel, Wayne Hu, & A. Benoit-Lévy. (2017). CMB lens sample covariance and consistency relations. Physical review. D. 95(4). 12 indexed citations

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Hu, Wayne, Chi-Ting Chiang, Li Yin, & Marilena Loverde. (2016). Separating the Universe into real and fake energy densities. Physical review. D. 94(2). 23 indexed citations

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Adshead, Peter, Cora Dvorkin, Wayne Hu, & Eugene A. Lim. (2012). Non-Gaussianity from step features in the inflationary potential. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 85(2). 91 indexed citations

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Upadhye, Amol, Wayne Hu, & Justin Khoury. (2012). Quantum Stability of Chameleon Field Theories. Physical Review Letters. 109(4). 41301–41301. 42 indexed citations

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Hu, Wayne & Ignacy Sawicki. (2007). Models off(R)cosmic acceleration that evade solar system tests. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(6). 1184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Giannakis, Dimitrios & Wayne Hu. (2005). Kinetic Unified Dark Matter. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations

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Haiman, Zoltán, et al.. (2005). Weighing Neutrinos with Galaxy Cluster Surveys. Physical Review Letters. 95(1). 11302–11302. 45 indexed citations

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Hu, Wayne. (2004). Dark Energy Probes in Light of the CMB. CERN Bulletin. 339. 215. 11 indexed citations

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Hu, Wayne & Martin White. (2004). The Cosmic Symphony. Scientific American. 290(2). 44–53. 7 indexed citations

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Hu, Wayne, Rennan Barkana, & Andrei Gruzinov. (2000). Fuzzy Cold Dark Matter: The Wave Properties of Ultralight Particles. Physical Review Letters. 85(6). 1158–1161. 1153 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tegmark, Max, D. J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu, & A. de Oliveira‐Costa. (1999). Overview of Foregrounds and their Impact. ASPC. 181. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Eisenstein, Daniel J., Wayne Hu, & Max Tegmark. (1999). Cosmic Complementarity: Joint Parameter Estimation from Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments and Redshift Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 518(1). 2–23. 220 indexed citations

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