A. Moitinho

34.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

A. Moitinho is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Moitinho has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in A. Moitinho's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (38 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). A. Moitinho is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (38 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). A. Moitinho collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Chile and Italy. A. Moitinho's co-authors include W. S. Dias, J. R. D. Lépine, B. S. Alessi, G. Carraro, T. Cantat-Gaudin, A. Bragaglia, L. Casamiquela, C. Jordi, C. Soubiran and A. Vallenari and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

A. Moitinho

65 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

New catalogue of optically visible open clusters and cand... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2020 2021 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. New catalogue of optically visible open clusters and candidates
    2002 595 citations W. S. Dias, B. S. Alessi et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →
  2. Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters
    2020 333 citations T. Cantat-Gaudin, F. Anders et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →
  3. Updated parameters of 1743 open clusters based on Gaia DR2
    2021 183 citations W. S. Dias, A. Moitinho et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Moitinho Portugal 21 2.3k 1.3k 88 64 59 67 2.4k
A. Castro-Ginard Spain 17 1.8k 0.8× 959 0.8× 108 1.2× 29 0.5× 41 0.7× 33 1.9k
S. Lesteven France 6 1.3k 0.5× 474 0.4× 140 1.6× 43 0.7× 173 2.9× 21 1.4k
S. Blanco-Cuaresma United States 17 1.1k 0.5× 611 0.5× 64 0.7× 48 0.8× 60 1.0× 39 1.2k
Lars Koesterke United States 19 1.5k 0.7× 791 0.6× 101 1.1× 65 1.0× 24 0.4× 65 1.7k
Stephen R. Kane United States 23 1.8k 0.8× 632 0.5× 69 0.8× 65 1.0× 36 0.6× 141 1.9k
G. Jasniewicz France 8 1.5k 0.6× 573 0.5× 149 1.7× 45 0.7× 194 3.3× 30 1.6k
M. Romaniello Germany 33 2.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.0× 56 0.6× 60 0.9× 329 5.6× 97 2.9k
S. Derriére France 10 1.3k 0.6× 636 0.5× 56 0.6× 20 0.3× 112 1.9× 28 1.4k
G. R. Davies United Kingdom 27 1.9k 0.8× 967 0.8× 115 1.3× 21 0.3× 39 0.7× 87 2.0k
Daisuke Kawata United Kingdom 35 3.4k 1.5× 1.4k 1.1× 87 1.0× 16 0.3× 174 2.9× 106 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by A. Moitinho

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Moitinho

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Moitinho, A., et al.. (2025). Modelling the evolution of the Galactic disc scale height traced by open clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 694. A70–A70. 3 indexed citations
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Moitinho, A., et al.. (2025). Open cluster dissolution rate and the initial cluster mass function in the solar neighbourhood. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A305–A305. 4 indexed citations
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Bidin, C. Moni, et al.. (2024). Solving the distance discrepancy for the open cluster NGC 2453: The planetary nebula NGC 2452 is not a cluster member. Saint Mary's University Institutional Repository (Saint Mary's University).
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Pessi, P. J., Rupesh Durgesh, Émille E. O. Ishida, et al.. (2024). ELEPHANT: ExtragaLactic alErt Pipeline for Hostless AstroNomical Transients. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 691. A181–A181. 2 indexed citations
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Mužić, K., H. Bouy, A. Bayo, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopic substellar initial mass function of NGC 2244. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 677. A26–A26. 8 indexed citations
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Mužić, K., et al.. (2022). Stellar population of the Rosette Nebula and NGC 2244. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 668. A19–A19. 14 indexed citations
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Barros, M., A. Moitinho, & Francisco M. Couto. (2022). SeEn: Sequential enriched datasets for sequence-aware recommendations. Scientific Data. 9(1). 478–478.
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Perren, G. I., et al.. (2021). pyUPMASK: an improved unsupervised clustering algorithm. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 41 indexed citations
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Tarricq, Y., C. Soubiran, L. Casamiquela, et al.. (2021). 3D kinematics and age distribution of the open cluster population. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 91 indexed citations
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Mužić, K., et al.. (2021). Youth analysis of near infrared spectra of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations
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Barros, M., A. Moitinho, & Francisco M. Couto. (2021). Hybrid semantic recommender system for chemical compounds in large-scale datasets. Journal of Cheminformatics. 13(1). 15–15. 8 indexed citations
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Cantat-Gaudin, T., F. Anders, A. Castro-Ginard, et al.. (2020). VizieR Online Data Catalog: Portrait Galactic disc (Cantat-Gaudin+, 2020). 1 indexed citations
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Moitinho, A. & J. Alves. (2012). Star clusters in the era of large surveys : proceedings of Symposium 5 of JENAM 2010. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1 indexed citations
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Kainulainen, J., J. Alves, Y. Beletsky, et al.. (2009). Uncovering the kiloparsec-scale stellar ring of NGC 5128. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations
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Tapia, M., W. J. Schuster, R. Michel, et al.. (2009). UBV(RI)Cphotometry of the open clusters Be 15, Be 80 and NGC 2192. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 401(1). 621–632. 7 indexed citations
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Carraro, G., et al.. (2008). Blue straggler stars in Galactic open clusters and the effect of field star contamination. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations
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Schuster, W. J., et al.. (2006). uvby-βphotometry of high-velocity and metal-poor stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 445(3). 939–958. 49 indexed citations
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Alessi, B. S., A. Moitinho, & W. S. Dias. (2003). Searching for unknown open clusters in the Tycho-2 catalog. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 17 indexed citations
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Dias, W. S., B. S. Alessi, A. Moitinho, & J. R. D. Lépine. (2002). VizieR Online Data Catalog: Optically visible open clusters and Candidates (Dias+ 2002-2005). 3 indexed citations
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Balog, Z., et al.. (2001). Fundamental parameters and new variables of the galactic open cluster NGC 7128. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 323(4). 872–886. 3 indexed citations

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