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Barry C. Barish

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
104
Citations
51403
World Ranking
1418
National Ranking
743

Barry C. Barish publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry C. Barish sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 494 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Barry C. Barish D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry C. Barish sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2017 - Henry Draper Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences Honoring Barish and Whitcomb, on behalf of the LIGO collaboration, for their visionary and pivotal leadership roles, scientific guidance, and novel instrument design during the development of LIGO that were crucial for LIGO's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, thus directly validating Einstein's 100-year-old prediction of gravitational waves and ushering a new field of gravitational wave astronomy.
  • 2017 - Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2002 - Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
  • 2002 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his important contributions to the study of neutrino interactions

Overview

Barry C. Barish is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in physics and astronomy, with a focus on gravitational waves and related astrophysical phenomena.

The primary fields of study covered in their work include Physics and Astronomy along with Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, notably Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Oceanography, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their main topics of research encompass:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • K. Ackley
  • D. Agarwal
  • O. D. Aguiar
  • L. Aiello
  • A. Ain

Martialing their contributions to academic journals, Barry C. Barish has published in several venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Physical Review D
  • Enlighten: Publications (The University of Glasgow)

Notable recent papers include:

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5-4.5 M ⊙ Compact Object and a Neutron Star, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Search for continuous gravitational wave emission from the Milky Way center in O3 LIGO-Virgo data, 2022, Physical Review D
  • First joint observation by the underground gravitational-wave detector KAGRA with GEO 600, 2022, Enlighten: Publications (The University of Glasgow)
  • Model-based Cross-correlation Search for Gravitational Waves from the Low-mass X-Ray Binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 Data, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The scientist's recognition in the field includes awards and memberships such as:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2019)
  • Henry Draper Medal, United States National Academy of Sciences (2017), honoring leadership and scientific guidance during the development of LIGO and the discovery of gravitational waves
  • Nobel Prize (2017) for contributions to the LIGO detector and gravitational wave observation
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2003)
  • Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers (2002)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (1985) for work on neutrino interactions

Best Publications

  • GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass ∼ 3.4 M O

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  • Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese

  • Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • Observation of muon neutrino disappearance with the MINOS detectors in the NuMI neutrino beam

    D. G. Michael;P. Adamson;P. Adamson;P. Adamson;T. Alexopoulos;W. W M Allison

  • GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

  • Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Measurements of the meson-photon transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons at large momentum transfer

    J. Gronberg;T. S. Hill;R. Kutschke;D. J. Lange

  • Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

    B.P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott;S. Abraham

  • Evidence for penguin-diagram decays: First observation of B→K*(892)γ

    R. Ammar;S. Ball;P. Baringer;D. Coppage

  • Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences

    R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b→sγ

    M. S. Alam;I. J. Kim;Z. Ling;A. H. Mahmood

  • GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

    R. Abbott;R. Abbott;T.D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

  • GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

Frequent Co-Authors

A. J.R. Weinstein
A. J.R. Weinstein California Institute of Technology
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Ryszard Stroynowski
Ryszard Stroynowski Southern Methodist University
Marina Artuso
Marina Artuso Syracuse University
John Yelton
John Yelton University of Florida
E. H. Thorndike
E. H. Thorndike University of Rochester
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen Max Planck Society
Paul Avery
Paul Avery University of Florida

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