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Eliot Quataert 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 Eliot Quataert sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 645 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eliot Quataert 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 Eliot Quataert sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 155 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For numerous pioneering contributions to theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics, including investigations into the role of convection and instabilities in accretion flows, the discovery of the heatfluxbuoyancy instability, and studies of kinetic plasma turbulence and its dissipation
  • 2003 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Eliot Quataert is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant output of publications totaling 563 works.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomedical Engineering

Key topics in their research encompass:

  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Open Journal of Astrophysics

Notable recent papers include:

  • A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Properties of the circumgalactic medium in cosmic ray-dominated galaxy haloes, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Large-scale poloidal magnetic field dynamo leads to powerful jets in GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion with toroidal field, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Characterizing mass, momentum, energy, and metal outflow rates of multiphase galactic winds in the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Eliot Quataert has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Philip F. Hopkins
  • Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
  • Dušan Kereš
  • Andrew Wetzel
  • Kareem El-Badry

Their recognitions include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2009) with a citation highlighting contributions to theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics, including studies on convection and instabilities in accretion flows, the heatflux buoyancy instability, and kinetic plasma turbulence and its dissipation
  • Hellman Fellow (2003)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2002)

Best Publications

  • Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

    Philip F. Hopkins;Philip F. Hopkins;Dušan Kereš;José Oñorbe;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

  • Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r‐process nuclei

    B. D. Metzger;G. Martínez-Pinedo;S. Darbha;E. Quataert

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

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

  • ON THE MAXIMUM LUMINOSITY OF GALAXIES AND THEIR CENTRAL BLACK HOLES: FEEDBACK FROM MOMENTUM-DRIVEN WINDS

    Norman Murray;Norman Murray;Eliot Quataert;Todd A. Thompson

  • Radiation Pressure Supported Starburst Disks and AGN Fueling

    Todd A. Thompson;Eliot Quataert;Norm Murray

  • Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

    Daniel Kasen;Brian Metzger;Jennifer Barnes;Eliot Quataert

  • Astrophysical Gyrokinetics: Kinetic and Fluid Turbulent Cascades in Magnetized Weakly Collisional Plasmas

    A. A. Schekochihin;A. A. Schekochihin;S. C. Cowley;S. C. Cowley;W. Dorland;G. W. Hammett

  • FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

    Philip F. Hopkins;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Dušan Kereš;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus: Measuring the Coronal Plasma and Magnetic Field, Plasma Waves and Turbulence, and Radio Signatures of Solar Transients.

    S. D. Bale;K. Goetz;P. R. Harvey;P. Turin

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-IR Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • Radiation Pressure-supported Starburst Disks and Active Galactic Nucleus Fueling

    Todd A. Thompson;Eliot Quataert;Norman Murray;Norman Murray

  • The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts

    B.D. Metzger;D. Giannios;T.A. Thompson;N. Bucciantini

  • How do massive black holes get their gas

    Philip F. Hopkins;Eliot Quataert

  • Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A

    Feng Yuan;Eliot Quataert;Ramesh Narayan

  • The protomagnetar model for gamma-ray bursts

    B. D. Metzger;D. Giannios;T. A. Thompson;N. Bucciantini

  • The Disruption of Giant Molecular Clouds by Radiation Pressure and the Efficiency of Star Formation in Galaxies

    Norman Murray;Eliot Quataert;Todd A. Thompson

  • The physics of galactic winds driven by active galactic nuclei

    Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Eliot Quataert

  • Gusty, gaseous flows of FIRE: Galactic winds in cosmological simulations with explicit stellar feedback

    Alexander L. Muratov;Dušan Kereš;Claude André Faucher-Giguère;Philip F. Hopkins

  • Convection-dominated Accretion Flows

    Eliot Quataert;Andrei Gruzinov

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip F. Hopkins
Philip F. Hopkins California Institute of Technology
Claude André Faucher-Giguère
Claude André Faucher-Giguère Northwestern University
Dušan Kereš
Dušan Kereš University of California, San Diego
Norman Murray
Norman Murray University of Toronto
Todd A. Thompson
Todd A. Thompson The Ohio State University
Brian D. Metzger
Brian D. Metzger Columbia University
Michael Boylan-Kolchin
Michael Boylan-Kolchin The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Schekochihin
Alexander Schekochihin University of Oxford
Daniel Kasen
Daniel Kasen University of California, Berkeley
Ramesh Narayan
Ramesh Narayan Harvard University

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