Allison Merritt

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 690 citations indexed

About

Allison Merritt is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Allison Merritt has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 690 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Allison Merritt's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers). Allison Merritt is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers). Allison Merritt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Allison Merritt's co-authors include Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Jielai Zhang, Charlie Conroy, Shany Danieli, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jean P. Brodie, Deborah Lokhorst, Lamiya Mowla and Yotam Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Allison Merritt

18 papers receiving 624 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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. A galaxy lacking dark matter
    2018 239 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Allison Merritt United States 12 662 354 107 47 24 19 690
Jielai Zhang United States 13 660 1.0× 308 0.9× 119 1.1× 40 0.9× 20 0.8× 28 706
Lamiya Mowla United States 16 834 1.3× 487 1.4× 106 1.0× 49 1.0× 26 1.1× 33 878
Nathan Adams United Kingdom 15 762 1.2× 428 1.2× 114 1.1× 40 0.9× 23 1.0× 41 806
H. Salas Chile 4 674 1.0× 282 0.8× 88 0.8× 33 0.7× 26 1.1× 7 702
D. Corre France 8 762 1.2× 280 0.8× 116 1.1× 33 0.7× 27 1.1× 11 788
David Sprayberry United States 14 693 1.0× 382 1.1× 82 0.8× 62 1.3× 35 1.5× 30 725
S. Bocquet Germany 12 542 0.8× 232 0.7× 145 1.4× 32 0.7× 17 0.7× 19 566
Lucimara P. Martins Brazil 17 906 1.4× 426 1.2× 59 0.6× 40 0.9× 28 1.2× 40 928
E. S. Cypriano Brazil 15 669 1.0× 368 1.0× 94 0.9× 64 1.4× 13 0.5× 39 683
Seiji Fujimoto Japan 14 764 1.2× 357 1.0× 113 1.1× 24 0.5× 12 0.5× 54 835

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Fields of papers citing papers by Allison Merritt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allison Merritt

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Zhang, Jielai, P. G. Martin, Ryan Cloutier, et al.. (2023). Joint Modelling of Dust Scattering and Thermal Emission: The Spider Complex. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 4–4. 5 indexed citations
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Lokhorst, Deborah, Roberto Abraham, Imad Pasha, et al.. (2022). A Giant Shell of Ionized Gas Discovered near M82 with the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper Pathfinder. The Astrophysical Journal. 927(2). 136–136. 11 indexed citations
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Keim, Michael A., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2022). Tidal Distortions in NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4: Independent Evidence for a Lack of Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 160–160. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2022). A Method to Characterize the Wide-angle Point-Spread Function of Astronomical Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 219–219. 12 indexed citations
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Miller, Tim B., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2021). The Dragonfly Wide Field Survey. II. Accurate Total Luminosities and Colors of Nearby Massive Galaxies and Implications for the Galaxy Stellar-mass Function. The Astrophysical Journal. 909(1). 74–74. 7 indexed citations
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Pasha, Imad, Deborah Lokhorst, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2021). A Nascent Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Forming within the Northern H i Streamer of M82. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 923(2). L21–L21. 9 indexed citations
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Conroy, Charlie, David R. Law, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopic Constraints on the Buildup of Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 894(1). 32–32. 16 indexed citations
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Merritt, Allison, Annalisa Pillepich, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2020). A missing outskirts problem? Comparisons between stellar haloes in the Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey and the TNG100 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(4). 4570–4604. 39 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Ana Bonaca, Allison Merritt, et al.. (2019). Dragonfly Imaging of the Galaxy NGC 5907: A Different View of the Iconic Stellar Stream. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 883(2). L32–L32. 23 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). A Revised Velocity for the Globular Cluster GC-98 in the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(2). 54–54. 20 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jielai, et al.. (2018). The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey. IV. A Giant Stellar Disk in NGC 2841. The Astrophysical Journal. 855(2). 78–78. 17 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). An Enigmatic Population of Luminous Globular Clusters in a Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 856(2). L30–L30. 65 indexed citations
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen, et al.. (2018). A galaxy lacking dark matter. Nature. 555(7698). 629–632. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Danieli, Shany, Pieter van Dokkum, Allison Merritt, et al.. (2017). The Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey. III. The Luminosity Function of the M101 Group. The Astrophysical Journal. 837(2). 136–136. 48 indexed citations
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Abraham, Roberto, Allison Merritt, Jielai Zhang, et al.. (2016). Probing Galactic Outskirts with Dragonfly. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 11(S321). 137–146.
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Dokkum, Pieter van, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, et al.. (2015). SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF LARGE, DIFFUSE GALAXIES IN THE COMA CLUSTER. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 804(1). L26–L26. 80 indexed citations
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Merritt, Allison, Pieter van Dokkum, & Roberto Abraham. (2014). THE DISCOVERY OF SEVEN EXTREMELY LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES IN THE FIELD OF THE NEARBY SPIRAL GALAXY M101. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 787(2). L37–L37. 71 indexed citations
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Cenko, S. B., et al.. (2011). Supernova 2011O in UGC 8829 = PSN J13541996+3255394.. 2643. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Miller, Adam A., et al.. (2009). A Previous Transient Consistent with the Location of SN 2009ip Suggests that SN 2009ip is Not a Supernova. ATel. 2183. 1. 3 indexed citations

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