Question 1

Who are the top researchers at LIGO Scientific Collaboration?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, A. Pele, J. Warner and A. Effler lead among researchers whose main affiliation is LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Question 2

What are the most cited papers from LIGO Scientific Collaboration?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from LIGO Scientific Collaboration is "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (B. P. Abbott et al., 2016), with 14,545 citations. Next come "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" (9,794) and "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs" (3,658).

Question 3

Which research topics does LIGO Scientific Collaboration publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations and Geophysics and Sensor Technology.

Question 4

Which keywords describe research at LIGO Scientific Collaboration?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gravitational Waves, Binary Black Hole, Neutron Star, Ring Laser Gyroscope, Rotational Seismology, Atomic Clocks, Optical Clocks and Supernovae.

Question 5

Which fields of science does LIGO Scientific Collaboration work in?

Accepted Answer

In all years, 90% of research at LIGO Scientific Collaboration is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (53%), Engineering (19%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 6

Is LIGO Scientific Collaboration's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021.