Will M. Farr

57.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
93 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Will M. Farr is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Will M. Farr has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Oceanography and 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Will M. Farr's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (61 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (35 papers). Will M. Farr is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (61 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (35 papers). Will M. Farr collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Will M. Farr's co-authors include Ilya Mandel, Frederic A. Rasio, Smadar Naoz, M. Isi, D. E. Holz, J. R. Gair, Jean Teyssandier, Yoram Lithwick, B. Farr and M. Fishbach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Will M. Farr

88 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

THE MASS DISTRIBUTION OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2011 2019 2019 2016 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 MASS DISTRIBUTION OF STELLAR-MASS BLACK HOLES
    2011 317 citations Will M. Farr, Ilya Mandel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  2. Hot Jupiters from secular planet–planet interactions
    2011 300 citations Smadar Naoz, Will M. Farr et al. profile →
  3. Extracting distribution parameters from multiple uncertain observations with selection biases
    2019 270 citations Ilya Mandel, Will M. Farr et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914
    2019 269 citations M. Isi, Will M. Farr et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. False periodicities in quasar time-domain surveys
    2016 178 citations Will M. Farr et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. Parameter-Free Tour of the Binary Black Hole Population
    2024 46 citations T. A. Callister, Will M. Farr Physical Review X profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Will M. Farr United States 37 4.4k 946 308 260 242 93 4.7k
Y. Levin Australia 29 2.3k 0.5× 408 0.4× 374 1.2× 64 0.2× 261 1.1× 69 2.8k
WeiKang Zheng United States 21 2.4k 0.6× 977 1.0× 94 0.3× 229 0.9× 190 0.8× 90 2.6k
David Eichler Israel 29 4.8k 1.1× 3.1k 3.3× 270 0.9× 89 0.3× 51 0.2× 149 5.3k
P. Schmidt United Kingdom 23 1.9k 0.4× 450 0.5× 388 1.3× 20 0.1× 275 1.1× 70 2.2k
I. W. Roxburgh United Kingdom 23 2.0k 0.4× 413 0.4× 54 0.2× 412 1.6× 183 0.8× 130 2.2k
W. Pietsch Germany 33 3.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.3× 338 1.1× 144 0.6× 29 0.1× 235 3.4k
J. P. Lasota France 41 5.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.7× 872 2.8× 177 0.7× 49 0.2× 184 5.9k
Hideyuki Saio Japan 36 4.1k 0.9× 265 0.3× 211 0.7× 1.3k 5.2× 195 0.8× 175 4.2k
J. M. Weisberg United States 27 2.9k 0.6× 837 0.9× 385 1.3× 17 0.1× 619 2.6× 77 3.1k
Peter Anninos United States 26 2.0k 0.5× 1.0k 1.1× 68 0.2× 165 0.6× 42 0.2× 65 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Talbot, C., S. Biscoveanu, Aaron Zimmerman, et al.. (2025). Inference with finite time series: II. The window strikes back. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 42(23). 235023–235023. 1 indexed citations
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Naoz, Smadar, Alvin K. Y. Li, Bence Kocsis, et al.. (2025). Extracting astrophysical information of highly eccentric binaries in the millihertz gravitational wave band. Physical review. D. 111(4). 3 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Will M. Farr, & Vijay Varma. (2024). The Directional Isotropy of LIGO–Virgo Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations
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Payne, Ethan, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, et al.. (2024). Curvature Dependence of Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 133(25). 251401–251401. 4 indexed citations
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Callister, T. A. & Will M. Farr. (2024). Parameter-Free Tour of the Binary Black Hole Population. Physical Review X. 14(2). 46 indexed citations breakdown →
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Magee, R. M., M. Isi, Ethan Payne, et al.. (2024). Impact of selection biases on tests of general relativity with gravitational-wave inspirals. Physical review. D. 109(2). 8 indexed citations
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Golomb, Jacob, M. Isi, & Will M. Farr. (2024). Physical Models for the Astrophysical Population of Black Holes: Application to the Bump in the Mass Distribution of Gravitational-wave Sources. The Astrophysical Journal. 976(1). 121–121. 10 indexed citations
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Okounkova, Maria, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, & Will M. Farr. (2023). Gravitational wave inference on a numerical-relativity simulation of a black hole merger beyond general relativity. Physical review. D. 107(2). 18 indexed citations
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Payne, Ethan, M. Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, & Will M. Farr. (2023). Fortifying gravitational-wave tests of general relativity against astrophysical assumptions. Physical review. D. 108(12). 13 indexed citations
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Isi, M., Will M. Farr, & Katerina Chatziioannou. (2022). Comparing Bayes factors and hierarchical inference for testing general relativity with gravitational waves. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations
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McKernan, Barry, K. E. Saavik Ford, T. A. Callister, et al.. (2022). LIGO–Virgo correlations between mass ratio and effective inspiral spin: testing the active galactic nuclei channel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(3). 3886–3893. 37 indexed citations
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Son, L. A. C. van, S. E. de Mink, Mathieu Renzo, et al.. (2022). No Peaks without Valleys: The Stable Mass Transfer Channel for Gravitational-wave Sources in Light of the Neutron Star–Black Hole Mass Gap. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(2). 184–184. 55 indexed citations
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Callister, T. A., Will M. Farr, & Mathieu Renzo. (2021). State of the Field: Binary Black Hole Natal Kicks and Prospects for Isolated Field Formation after GWTC-2. The Astrophysical Journal. 920(2). 157–157. 34 indexed citations
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Farr, Will M., et al.. (2019). Detecting Supermassive Black Hole-induced Binary Eccentricity Oscillations with LISA. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 55 indexed citations
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Kuszlewicz, James S., W. J. Chaplin, Will M. Farr, et al.. (2019). Bayesian hierarchical inference of asteroseismic inclination angles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 572–589. 6 indexed citations
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Gaebel, S. M., J. Veitch, T. Dent, & Will M. Farr. (2019). Digging the population of compact binary mergers out of the noise. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(3). 4008–4023. 31 indexed citations
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Barrett, Jim W., S. M. Gaebel, Coenraad J. Neijssel, et al.. (2018). Accuracy of inference on the physics of binary evolution from gravitational-wave observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(4). 4685–4695. 76 indexed citations
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Singer, L. P., Hsin-Yu Chen, D. E. Holz, et al.. (2016). GOING THE DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES OF LIGO AND VIRGO SOURCES IN THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY AND TARGETED FOLLOW-UP. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 829(1). L15–L15. 105 indexed citations
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Naoz, Smadar, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick, Frederic A. Rasio, & Jean Teyssandier. (2011). The Origin of Retrograde Hot Jupiters. 2.
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Valsecchi, Francesca, E. Glebbeek, Will M. Farr, et al.. (2011). An Evolutionary Model for the Massive Black Hole X-Ray Binary M33 X-7.. ASPC. 447. 271.

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