2026 Harald P. Pfeiffer: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	122	738	699	63	60	466	111415

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Physics

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699

466

111415

Overview

Harald P. Pfeiffer is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany with a research focus in Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans 223 publications primarily concentrated in the subfields of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Oceanography, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's research topics include:

Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
Geophysics and Sensor Technology

Among their recent papers are the following, with publication years and venues:

Multipolar effective-one-body waveforms for precessing binary black holes: Construction and validation, 2020, Physical Review D
Eccentric binary black hole surrogate models for the gravitational waveform and remnant properties: Comparable mass, nonspinning case, 2021, Physical Review D
Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: Improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning nonprecessing binary black holes, 2023, Physical Review D
Aligned-spin neutron-star-black-hole waveform model based on the effective-one-body approach and numerical-relativity simulations, 2020, Physical Review D
Adding gravitational memory to waveform catalogs using BMS balance laws, 2021, Physical Review D

Harald P. Pfeiffer frequently publishes in the following venues:

Physical Review D
arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Physical Review Letters

Frequent coauthors in Pfeiffer's collaborations include:

Larry Kidder
Mark Scheel
Michael Boyle
Nils Deppe
Nils L. Vu

Best Publications

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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

16747
Citations
GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

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

9850
Citations
GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

4133
Citations
GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

3648
Citations
Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

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

3555
Citations
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

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

2923
Citations
GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence

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

2411
Citations
GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

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

2381
Citations
Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

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

1961
Citations
Tests of general relativity with GW150914

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

1908
Citations
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

1831
Citations
GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

1387
Citations
GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

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

1379
Citations
Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

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

1351
Citations
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

1338
Citations
A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

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

1162
Citations
Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

1151
Citations
Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

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

1108
Citations
GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$

B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

1102
Citations
GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M

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

1087
Citations