Will J. Percival

78.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
139 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Will J. Percival is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Will J. Percival has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 56 papers in Instrumentation and 22 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Will J. Percival's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (111 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (84 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (54 papers). Will J. Percival is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (111 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (84 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (54 papers). Will J. Percival collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Will J. Percival's co-authors include Ashley J. Ross, Marc Manera, Lado Samushia, Cullan Howlett, A. Burden, Héctor Gil-Marín, Martin White, Daniel J. Eisenstein, J. A. Peacock and R. C. Nichol and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Will J. Percival

135 papers receiving 6.4k citations

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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.

The clustering of the SDSS DR7 main Galaxy sample – I. A 4 per cent distance measure at z = 0.15

2015 1.1k citations Ashley J. Ross, Lado Samushia et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
GALAXY CLUSTERING IN THE COMPLETED SDSS REDSHIFT SURVEY: THE DEPENDENCE ON COLOR AND LUMINOSITY

2011 479 citations David H. Weinberg, Michael R. Blanton et al. profile →
Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

2007 474 citations Will J. Percival, Daniel J. Eisenstein et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Will J. Percival United Kingdom	37	6.3k	2.4k	1.7k	463	261	139	6.6k
E. Gaztañaga Spain	36	4.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	508 1.1×	247 0.9×	143	5.1k
Román Scoccimarro United States	49	7.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	903 2.0×	292 1.1×	80	7.9k
L. Moscardini Italy	39	5.2k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	358 0.8×	202 0.8×	182	5.4k
Cullen H. Blake Australia	36	5.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	237 0.5×	132 0.5×	104	5.3k
Alan Heavens United Kingdom	46	5.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	436 0.9×	179 0.7×	166	6.2k
Raúl Jiménez Spain	44	6.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	308 0.7×	99 0.4×	159	6.9k
N. Kaiser United States	35	7.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	2.5k 1.5×	669 1.4×	322 1.2×	100	8.3k
Christopher M. Hirata United States	43	6.9k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	312 0.7×	183 0.7×	120	7.2k
Matthew Colless Australia	42	6.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	2.6k 1.5×	270 0.6×	165 0.6×	160	6.6k
J. Richard Bond Canada	39	9.3k 1.5×	4.1k 1.7×	1.9k 1.1×	951 2.1×	228 0.9×	88	9.7k

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Paradiso, S., et al.. (2025). Reducing nuisance prior sensitivity via non-linear reparameterization, with application to EFT analyses of large-scale structure. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(7). 5–5. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Hanyu, Marco Bonici, Guido D’Amico, S. Paradiso, & Will J. Percival. (2025). HOD-informed prior for EFT-based full-shape analyses of LSS. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(4). 41–41. 12 indexed citations

Bonici, Marco, et al.. (2025). LOO-PIT: A sensitive posterior test. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(1). 8–8.

Wang, Yuting, Gong‐Bo Zhao, K. Koyama, et al.. (2024). Extracting high-order cosmological information in galaxy surveys with power spectra. Communications Physics. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Paradiso, S., et al.. (2024). Cosmological measurements from the CMB and BAO are insensitive to the tail probability in the assumed likelihood. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(6). 15–15.

Paillas, E., Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Will J. Percival, et al.. (2024). Cosmological constraints from density-split clustering in the BOSS CMASS galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 898–918. 18 indexed citations

Cuesta-Lazaro, Carolina, E. Paillas, Sihan Yuan, et al.. (2024). SUNBIRD: a simulation-based model for full-shape density-split clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3336–3356. 10 indexed citations

Percival, Will J., S. Nadathur, Hans A. Winther, et al.. (2023). Cosmological measurements from void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(4). 6360–6370. 8 indexed citations

Hadzhiyska, Boryana, Andreu Font-Ribera, Andrei Cuceu, et al.. (2023). Planting a Lyman alpha forest on AbacusSummit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 1008–1024. 5 indexed citations

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Nadathur, S., et al.. (2022). Measurements of cosmic expansion and growth rate of structure from voids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey between redshift 0.07 and 1.0. arXiv (Cornell University). 32 indexed citations

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Nadathur, S., Paul Carter, Will J. Percival, Hans A. Winther, & Julian Bautista. (2019). REVOLVER: REal-space VOid Locations from suVEy Reconstruction. ascl. 2 indexed citations

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Ruggeri, Rossana, Will J. Percival, Héctor Gil-Marín, et al.. (2018). The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift-space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 3878–3887. 14 indexed citations

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Bianchi, D., Will J. Percival, & J. Bel. (2016). Improving the modelling of redshift-space distortions– II. A pairwise velocity model covering large and small scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(4). 3783–3798. 27 indexed citations

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Ross, Ashley J., Lado Samushia, Cullan Howlett, et al.. (2015). The clustering of the SDSS DR7 main Galaxy sample – I. A 4 per cent distance measure at z = 0.15. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 449(1). 835–847. 1139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Howlett, Cullan, Marc Manera, & Will J. Percival. (2015). L-PICOLA: Fast dark matter simulation code. ascl. 1 indexed citations

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Gil-Marín, Héctor, Licia Verde, Jorge Noreña, et al.. (2015). The power spectrum and bispectrum of SDSS DR11 BOSS galaxies – II. Cosmological interpretation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 452(2). 1914–1921. 52 indexed citations

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Manera, Marc, Lado Samushia, Rita Tojeiro, et al.. (2014). The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447(1). 437–445. 53 indexed citations

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Percival, Will J., Lado Samushia, Ashley J. Ross, Charles Shapiro, & Alvise Raccanelli. (2011). Redshift-space distortions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 369(1957). 5058–5067. 30 indexed citations

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Song, Yong‐Seon & Will J. Percival. (2008). Reconstructing the History of Structure Formation using Peculiar Velocities. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Schlegel, David J., Michael R. Blanton, Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al.. (2007). SDSS-III: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). AAS. 211. 7 indexed citations

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