Yoram Lithwick

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Yoram Lithwick is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoram Lithwick has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Yoram Lithwick's work include Astro and Planetary Science (25 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). Yoram Lithwick is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (25 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (23 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). Yoram Lithwick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Yoram Lithwick's co-authors include Peter Goldreich, Andrew N. Youdin, Yanqin Wu, Re’em Sari, Smadar Naoz, Jean Teyssandier, Will M. Farr, Frederic A. Rasio, Sam Hadden and Ji‐Wei Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Yoram Lithwick

35 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Particle stirring in turbulent gas disks: Including orbit... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2011 100 200 300
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. Particle stirring in turbulent gas disks: Including orbital oscillations
    2007 394 citations Andrew N. Youdin, Yoram Lithwick Icarus profile →
  2. Hot Jupiters from secular planet–planet interactions
    2011 300 citations Smadar Naoz, Will M. Farr et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yoram Lithwick United States 26 3.1k 321 235 174 108 39 3.2k
Gordon I. Ogilvie United Kingdom 35 3.6k 1.1× 340 1.1× 167 0.7× 369 2.1× 164 1.5× 111 3.7k
M. Jardine United Kingdom 40 5.1k 1.6× 156 0.5× 484 2.1× 343 2.0× 64 0.6× 159 5.1k
M. Steffen Germany 34 3.5k 1.1× 442 1.4× 1.0k 4.3× 105 0.6× 70 0.6× 164 3.7k
D. R. G. Schleicher Germany 34 3.5k 1.1× 730 2.3× 378 1.6× 99 0.6× 130 1.2× 145 3.6k
L. Mestel United Kingdom 25 2.8k 0.9× 339 1.1× 232 1.0× 200 1.1× 85 0.8× 107 2.9k
M. Haverkorn Netherlands 31 2.6k 0.8× 1.4k 4.3× 98 0.4× 97 0.6× 62 0.6× 108 2.7k
C. R. Gwinn United States 22 1.5k 0.5× 400 1.2× 52 0.2× 186 1.1× 109 1.0× 77 1.8k
S. L. Snowden United States 24 2.5k 0.8× 1.1k 3.4× 142 0.6× 57 0.3× 34 0.3× 93 2.6k
Daniel C. Fabrycky United States 27 2.7k 0.9× 83 0.3× 652 2.8× 40 0.2× 74 0.7× 69 2.8k
Seth Redfield United States 33 3.2k 1.0× 166 0.5× 510 2.2× 53 0.3× 115 1.1× 112 3.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yoram Lithwick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoram Lithwick

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Goldreich, Peter, Yoram Lithwick, & Jing Luan. (2025). Enceladus’s Limit Cycle. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Yanqin, et al.. (2024). Irradiated Disks May Settle into Staircases. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(2). 165–165. 4 indexed citations
3.
Muñoz, Diego J., et al.. (2020). Inner Boundary Condition in Quasi-Lagrangian Simulations of Accretion Disks. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 892(2). L29–L29. 22 indexed citations
4.
Muñoz, Diego J. & Yoram Lithwick. (2020). Long-lived Eccentric Modes in Circumbinary Disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 905(2). 106–106. 32 indexed citations
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Shannon, Andrew, Yanqin Wu, & Yoram Lithwick. (2015). Conglomeration of kilometer-sized planetesimals. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 6 indexed citations
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Hadden, Sam & Yoram Lithwick. (2014). DENSITIES AND ECCENTRICITIES OF 139KEPLERPLANETS FROM TRANSIT TIME VARIATIONS. The Astrophysical Journal. 787(1). 80–80. 129 indexed citations
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Lithwick, Yoram & Yanqin Wu. (2013). Secular chaos and its application to Mercury, hot Jupiters, and the organization of planetary systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(35). 12610–12615. 39 indexed citations
8.
Barker, Adrian J. & Yoram Lithwick. (2012). Nonlinear evolution of the elliptical instability. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
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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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Naoz, Smadar, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick, Frederic A. Rasio, & Jean Teyssandier. (2011). Secular Dynamics in Three-Body Systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Johansen, Anders, Andrew N. Youdin, & Yoram Lithwick. (2011). Adding particle collisions to the formation of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects via streaming instabilities. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 537. A125–A125. 96 indexed citations
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Naoz, Smadar, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick, Frederic A. Rasio, & Jean Teyssandier. (2011). Hot Jupiters from secular planet–planet interactions. Nature. 473(7346). 187–189. 300 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lithwick, Yoram & Neal Dalal. (2011). SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS OF TRIAXIAL DARK MATTER HALOS. The Astrophysical Journal. 734(2). 100–100. 39 indexed citations
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Youdin, Andrew N. & Yoram Lithwick. (2007). Particle stirring in turbulent gas disks: Including orbital oscillations. Icarus. 192(2). 588–604. 394 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bower, Geoffrey C., W. M. Goss, H. Falcke, D. C. Backer, & Yoram Lithwick. (2006). The Intrinsic Size of Sagittarius A* from 0.35 to 6 cm. The Astrophysical Journal. 648(2). L127–L130. 75 indexed citations
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Bower, Geoffrey C., F. Yusef‐Zadeh, D. C. Backer, et al.. (2005). A Radio Transient 0.1 Parsecs from Sagittarius A*. The Astrophysical Journal. 633(1). 218–227. 27 indexed citations
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Goldreich, Peter, Yoram Lithwick, & Re’em Sari. (2004). Planet Formation by Coagulation: A Focus on Uranus and Neptune. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 42(1). 549–601. 177 indexed citations
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Goldreich, Peter, Yoram Lithwick, & Re’em Sari. (2002). Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries by dynamical friction and three-body encounters. Nature. 420(6916). 643–646. 127 indexed citations
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Lithwick, Yoram & Re’em Sari. (2001). Lower Limits on Lorentz Factors in Gamma‐Ray Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal. 555(1). 540–545. 215 indexed citations
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Heyl, Jeremy, Nir J. Shaviv, & Yoram Lithwick. (1999). The Optics of Neutron-Star Magnetospheres. 1 indexed citations

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