2026 Chris Done: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	100	1663	1583	140	132	564	33266

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Overview

Chris Done is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Instrumentation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their primary research topics include:

Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

Chris Done has contributed extensively to academic literature, with a notable number of publications in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Recent published papers by Chris Done include:

Line-driven disc wind in near-Eddington active galactic nuclei: decrease of mass accretion rate due to powerful outflow, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
State-of-the-art AGN SEDs for photoionization models: BLR predictions confront the observations, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
UV line-driven disc wind as the origin of UltraFast Outflows in AGN, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
HYPerluminous quasars at the Epoch of ReionizatION (HYPERION): A new regime for the X-ray nuclear properties of the first quasars, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Re-observing the NLS1 galaxy RE J1034+396 - II. New insights on the soft X-ray excess, QPO, and the analogy with GRS 1915+105, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent co-authors in Chris Done's publications include:

María Díaz Trigo
M. Guainazzi
Ralf Ballhausen
Lía Corrales
Teruaki Enoto

Best Publications

Modelling the behaviour of accretion flows in x-ray binaries.

Chris Done;Marek Gierliński;Aya Kubota

1079
Citations
High-energy neutrinos from active galactic nuclei.

F. W. Stecker;C. Done;M. H. Salamon;P. Sommers

760
Citations
Is the soft excess in active galactic nuclei real

Marek Gierliński;Chris Done

647
Citations
Intrinsic disc emission and the Soft X-ray Excess in AGN

Chris Done;Shane Davis;Chichuan Jin;Omer Blaes

616
Citations
The 1989 May outburst of the soft X‐ray transient GS 2023+338 (V404 Cyg)

Piotr T. Życki;Chris Done;David A. Smith

606
Citations
Intrinsic disc emission and the soft X‐ray excess in active galactic nuclei

Chris Done;S. W. Davis;C. Jin;O. Blaes

591
Citations
The Hot and Energetic Universe: A White Paper presenting the science theme motivating the Athena+ mission

Kirpal Nandra;Didier Barret;Xavier Barcons;Andy Fabian

582
Citations
Is the soft excess in AGN real

Marek Gierlinski;Chris Done

572
Citations
RE 1034+39: a high-state Seyfert galaxy?

K. A. Pounds;C. Done;J. P. Osborne

529
Citations
The ultraluminous state

Jeanette C. Gladstone;Timothy P. Roberts;Chris Done

507
Citations
The quiescent intracluster medium in the core of the Perseus cluster

Felix Aharonian;Felix Aharonian;Hiroki Akamatsu;Fumie Akimoto;Steven W. Allen

474
Citations
Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations spectra and Lense–Thirring precession

Adam Ingram;Chris Done;P. Chris Fragile

456
Citations
Low frequency QPO spectra and Lense-Thirring precession

Adam Ingram;Chris Done;P Chris Fragile

416
Citations
Grand unification of AGN activity in the LambdaCDM cosmology

N. Fanidakis;C. M. Baugh;A. J. Benson;R. G. Bower

373
Citations
An ionized accretion disk in Cygnus X-1

C. Done;J. S. Mulchaey;R. F. Mushotzky;K. A. Arnaud

359
Citations
Simultaneous X-ray and 7-ray observations of Cyg X-1 in the hard state by Ginga and OSSE

Marek Gierliński;Andrzej A. Zdziarski;Chris Done;W. Neil Johnson

354
Citations
A periodicity of ∼1 hour in X-ray emission from the active galaxy RE J1034+396

Marek Gierliński;Matthew Middleton;Martin Ward;Chris Done

344
Citations
The ASTRO-H mission

Tadayuki Takahashi;Kazuhisa Mitsuda;Richard Kelley;Felix Aharonian

322
Citations
Grand unification of AGN activity in the ΛCDM cosmology

N. Fanidakis;C. M. Baugh;A. J. Benson;R. G. Bower

313
Citations
The Average X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Spectra of Seyfert Galaxies From Ginga and OSSE and the Origin of the Cosmic X-Ray Background

Andrzej A. Zdziarski;W. Neil Johnson;Chris Done;David Smith

312
Citations