Alison Sills

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alison Sills is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Sills has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Alison Sills's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (95 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (77 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). Alison Sills is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (95 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (77 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (38 papers). Alison Sills collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alison Sills's co-authors include Marc H. Pinsonneault, Frederic A. Rasio, Nathan W. C. Leigh, C. Knigge, Jeremy J. Webb, Michael A. Kuhn, Konstantin V. Getman, Eric D. Feigelson, James C. Lombardi and Eric B. Ford and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alison Sills

97 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Kinematics in Young Star Clusters and Associations with G... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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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. Kinematics in Young Star Clusters and Associations with Gaia DR2
    2019 229 citations Alison Sills et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison Sills Canada 32 3.0k 1.1k 113 83 63 99 3.1k
David L. Nidever United States 28 2.5k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 115 1.0× 79 1.0× 101 1.6× 67 2.5k
Bun’ei Sato Japan 27 1.9k 0.6× 678 0.6× 79 0.7× 56 0.7× 45 0.7× 78 1.9k
C. McCarthy United States 22 2.8k 0.9× 833 0.7× 81 0.7× 122 1.5× 71 1.1× 36 2.9k
D. M. Terndrup United States 29 2.6k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 138 1.2× 59 0.7× 79 1.3× 89 2.6k
V. Ripepi Italy 28 2.5k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 205 1.8× 38 0.5× 124 2.0× 154 2.6k
T. Bensby Sweden 28 3.6k 1.2× 1.5k 1.3× 262 2.3× 40 0.5× 93 1.5× 61 3.7k
José G. Fernández-Trincado Chile 23 1.8k 0.6× 909 0.8× 81 0.7× 46 0.6× 52 0.8× 108 1.9k
A. Nanni Italy 16 3.9k 1.3× 1.9k 1.7× 128 1.1× 42 0.5× 115 1.8× 37 4.0k
R. D. Jeffries United Kingdom 31 3.1k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 109 1.0× 225 2.7× 88 1.4× 119 3.1k
D. Romano Italy 29 2.5k 0.8× 826 0.7× 290 2.6× 56 0.7× 33 0.5× 82 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fujii, Michiko S., et al.. (2025). Dynamics of Star Cluster Formation: The Effects of Ongoing Star Formation and Stellar Feedback. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(1). 75–75. 2 indexed citations
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Geller, Aaron M., et al.. (2025). The Blue Lurker WOCS 14020: A Long-period Post-common-envelope Binary in M67 Originating from a Merger in a Triple System. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 979(1). L1–L1. 4 indexed citations
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Ryu, Taeho, Alison Sills, Rüdiger Pakmor, S. E. de Mink, & Robert D. Mathieu. (2025). Magnetic Field Amplification during Stellar Collisions between Low-mass Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 980(2). L38–L38. 2 indexed citations
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Sills, Alison, William E. Harris, Steven Rieder, et al.. (2024). Massive Star Cluster Formation with Binaries. I. Evolution of Binary Populations. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 203–203. 9 indexed citations
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Sills, Alison, et al.. (2024). Binary Disruption and Ejected Stars from Hierarchical Star Cluster Assembly. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 207–207. 4 indexed citations
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Sills, Alison, et al.. (2024). Dynamics of Star Cluster Formation: Mergers in Gas-rich Environments. The Astrophysical Journal. 967(2). 86–86. 4 indexed citations
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Sills, Alison, et al.. (2023). Modelling star cluster formation: Gas accretion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 5557–5569. 2 indexed citations
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McMillan, Stephen L. W., et al.. (2023). Early-forming Massive Stars Suppress Star Formation and Hierarchical Cluster Assembly. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 211–211. 14 indexed citations
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Ferraro, F. R., A. Mucciarelli, B. Lanzoni, et al.. (2023). Fast rotating blue stragglers prefer loose clusters. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2584–2584. 14 indexed citations
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Reina-Campos, Marta, et al.. (2023). Galactic properties that favour star cluster formation: a statistical view. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(2). 1902–1911. 1 indexed citations
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Sills, Alison, et al.. (2022). Using molecular gas observations to guide initial conditions for star cluster simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(3). 4142–4151. 1 indexed citations
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Weisz, Daniel R., S. E. Koposov, Andrew E. Dolphin, et al.. (2016). A HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE STUDY OF THE ENIGMATIC MILKY WAY HALO GLOBULAR CLUSTER CRATER*. The Astrophysical Journal. 822(1). 32–32. 31 indexed citations
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Webb, Jeremy J., et al.. (2015). The dynamics of multiple populations in the globular cluster NGC 6362. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454(2). 2166–2172. 19 indexed citations
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Webb, Jeremy J., Alison Sills, & William E. Harris. (2013). GLOBULAR CLUSTER SCALE SIZES IN GIANT GALAXIES: THE CASE OF M87 AND THE ROLE OF ORBITAL ANISOTROPY AND TIDAL FILLING. The Astrophysical Journal. 779(2). 94–94. 9 indexed citations
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Ferraro, F. R., B. Lanzoni, E. Dalessandro, et al.. (2012). Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers. Nature. 492(7429). 393–395. 116 indexed citations
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Leigh, Nathan W. C., C. Knigge, Alison Sills, et al.. (2012). The origins of blue stragglers and binarity in globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428(1). 897–905. 32 indexed citations
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Vesperini, Enrico, Mirek Giersz, Alison Sills, & Douglas C. Heggie. (2008). Dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems : proceedings of the 246th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Capri, Italy, September 5-9, 2007. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Mashchenko, Sergey, H. M. P. Couchman, & Alison Sills. (2006). Formation of Minigalaxies in Defunct Cosmological HiiRegions. The Astrophysical Journal. 639(2). 633–643. 5 indexed citations
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Pinsonneault, Marc H., et al.. (2002). Cataclysmic variables: An empirical angular momentum loss prescription from open cluster data. 261. 208. 1 indexed citations
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Ford, Eric B., Frederic A. Rasio, & Alison Sills. (1997). Structure and Evolution of Nearby Stars with Planets. AAS. 191. 6 indexed citations

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