I. Baraffe

11.3k citations
151 papers · 7.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 47

Impact in

  • Instrumentation top 1%
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Astro and Planetary Science
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
    • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 142
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 128
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 88
    • Astro and Planetary Science 70
    • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 16
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 11
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 10
  • Instrumentation 42
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 42
Co-authors
Gilles Chabrier (56 shared papers)France C. Allard (17 shared papers)D. Homeier (3 shared papers)Peter H. Hauschildt (9 shared papers)D. S. Amundsen (13 shared papers)Travis Barman (9 shared papers)Pascal Tremblin (18 shared papers)Nathan J. Mayne (13 shared papers)
Journals
Astronomy and Astrophysics (38 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (23 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (13 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (3 papers)The Astronomical Journal (3 papers)
Partner nations
FranceUnited KingdomUnited States

In The Last Decade

I. Baraffe

144 papers receiving 6.9k citations

I. Baraffe's Hit Papers

New evolutionary models for pre-main sequence and main sequence low-mass stars down to the hydrogen-burning limit 2015 · 1.1k citations
1.1k0+3+7Years since publication2505007501000
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2015 Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

Peers

I. Baraffe
Comparison fields: 5 of 67
  • Instrumentation 1.9k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 6.9k
  • Atmospheric Science 668
  • Spectroscopy 553
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 240
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside I. Baraffe, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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New evolutionary models for pre-main sequence and main sequence low-mass stars down to the hydrogen-burning limit
Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·I. Baraffe, D. Homeier, France C. Allard, Gilles Chabrier
Hit paper breakdown →		20151095
2
Evolutionary models for low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: Uncertainties and limits at very young ages
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, France C. Allard, Peter H. Hauschildt
2002417
3
Evolution of low-mass star and brown dwarf eclipsing binaries
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Gilles Chabrier, Juan F. Gallardo, I. Baraffe
2007244
4
Structure and evolution of super-Earth to super-Jupiter exoplanets
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, Travis Barman
2008235
5
Is tidal heating sufficient to explain bloated exoplanets? Consistent calculations accounting for finite initial eccentricity
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Jérémy Leconte, Gilles Chabrier, I. Baraffe, B. Levrard
2010234
6
FINGERING CONVECTION AND CLOUDLESS MODELS FOR COOL BROWN DWARF ATMOSPHERES
The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Pascal Tremblin, D. S. Amundsen, Pierre Mourier, I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, Benjamin Drummond, D. Homeier, Olivia Venot
2015196
7
Effect of episodic accretion on the structure and the lithium depletion of low-mass stars and planet-hosting stars
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier
2010159
8
CLOUDLESS ATMOSPHERES FOR L/T DWARFS AND EXTRASOLAR GIANT PLANETS
The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Pascal Tremblin, D. S. Amundsen, Gilles Chabrier, I. Baraffe, Benjamin Drummond, Sasha Hinkley, Pierre Mourier, Olivia Venot
2016140
9
Accuracy tests of radiation schemes used in hot Jupiter global circulation models
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·D. S. Amundsen, I. Baraffe, Pascal Tremblin, James C. Manners, Wolfgang Hayek, Nathan J. Mayne, David M. Acreman
2014136
10
The physical properties of extra-solar planets
Reports on Progress in Physics ·I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, Travis Barman
2009135
11
The unified model, a fully-compressible, non-hydrostatic, deep atmosphere global circulation model, applied to hot Jupiters
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Nathan J. Mayne, I. Baraffe, David M. Acreman, Chris Smith, Matthew K. Browning, D. S. Amundsen, Nigel Wood, John Thuburn
2013132
12
Heat Transport in Giant (Exo)planets: A New Perspective
The Astrophysical Journal ·Gilles Chabrier, I. Baraffe
2007131
13
Brown dwarfs and the cataclysmic variable period minimum
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Ulrich C. Kolb, I. Baraffe
1999131
14
The effects of consistent chemical kinetics calculations on the pressure-temperature profiles and emission spectra of hot Jupiters
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Ben Drummond, Pascal Tremblin, I. Baraffe, D. S. Amundsen, N. J. Mayne, Olivia Venot, Jayesh Goyal
2016127
15
THE EFFECT OF MAGNETIC ACTIVITY ON LOW-MASS STARS IN ECLIPSING BINARIES
The Astrophysical Journal ·Juan Carlos Morales, José Andrés Gallardo, Ignasi Ribas, Carme Jordi, I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier
2010119
16
OBSERVED LUMINOSITY SPREAD IN YOUNG CLUSTERS AND FU Ori STARS: A UNIFIED PICTURE
The Astrophysical Journal ·I. Baraffe, Eduard I. Vorobyov, Gilles Chabrier
2012110
17
Reaction rates for O-18(alpha, gamma)Ne-22, Ne-22(alpha, gamma)Mg-26, and Ne-22(alpha, n)Mg-25 in stellar helium burning and s-process nucleosynthesis in massive stars
The Astrophysical Journal ·Franz Kaeppeler, M. Wiescher, U. Giesen, Joachim Göerres, I. Baraffe, Mounib El Eid, Claudia Maria Raiteri, Maurizio Maria Busso
1994110
18
Advection of Potential Temperature in the Atmosphere of Irradiated Exoplanets: A Robust Mechanism to Explain Radius Inflation
The Astrophysical Journal ·Pascal Tremblin, Gilles Chabrier, Nathan J. Mayne, D. S. Amundsen, I. Baraffe, Florian Debras, Benjamin Drummond, James C. Manners
2017108
19
On the evolutionary status of short-period cataclysmic variables
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Stuart Littlefair, Vik. S. Dhillon, Thomas Marsh, Boris Gaensicke, John Southworth, I. Baraffe, Christopher Allan Watson, Christopher M. Copperwheat
2008102
20
Treatment of overlapping gaseous absorption with the correlated- k method in hot Jupiter and brown dwarf atmosphere models
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·D. S. Amundsen, Pascal Tremblin, James C. Manners, I. Baraffe, Nathan J. Mayne
2016100

About I. Baraffe

I. Baraffe is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, Atmospheric Science and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 151 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (128 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (88 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (70 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (42 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (16 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (1.9k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (6.9k citations), Atmospheric Science (668 citations), Spectroscopy (553 citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (240 citations). I. Baraffe has collaborated with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Gilles Chabrier, France C. Allard, D. Homeier, Peter H. Hauschildt, D. S. Amundsen, Travis Barman, Pascal Tremblin, Nathan J. Mayne, James C. Manners and Benjamin Drummond. Their work appears in journals such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Letters and The Astronomical Journal.

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