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Harald P. Pfeiffer

Harald P. Pfeiffer

Max Planck Society
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
122
Citations
111415
World Ranking
738
National Ranking
63

Harald P. Pfeiffer 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 Harald P. Pfeiffer sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 466 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harald P. Pfeiffer 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 Harald P. Pfeiffer sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 122 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State.

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

  • 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

  • Tests of general relativity with GW150914

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

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott

  • Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. Scheel
Mark A. Scheel California Institute of Technology
Alessandra Buonanno
Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
N. A. Robertson
N. A. Robertson California Institute of Technology
J. A. Giaime
J. A. Giaime Louisiana State University
Bernard F. Schutz
Bernard F. Schutz Cardiff University
Nelson Christensen
Nelson Christensen Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
G. Bergmann
G. Bergmann Max Planck Society
Laura Cadonati
Laura Cadonati Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard O'Shaughnessy
Richard O'Shaughnessy Rochester Institute of Technology
M. Tse
M. Tse MIT

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