Anna Frebel

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
148 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Anna Frebel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Frebel has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 66 papers in Instrumentation and 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Anna Frebel's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (127 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (62 papers). Anna Frebel is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (127 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (62 papers). Anna Frebel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Anna Frebel's co-authors include John E. Norris, Joshua D. Simon, Alexander P. Ji, Timothy C. Beers, N. Christlieb, Anirudh Chiti, Evan N. Kirby, M. Asplund, David Yong and M. S. Bessell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Anna Frebel

137 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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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.

Near-Field Cosmology with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars

2015 298 citations Anna Frebel, John E. Norris profile →
The dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve

2024 59 citations Lina Necib, Anna Frebel 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						Papers	Cites
Anna Frebel United States	45	5.4k	2.3k	748	139	126	148	5.6k
F. Primas Germany	44	6.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	215 1.5×	87 0.7×	136	6.7k
M. Spite France	36	4.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	161 1.2×	77 0.6×	130	4.9k
F. Spite France	36	5.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	166 1.2×	81 0.6×	117	5.4k
R. Cayrel France	36	4.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	160 1.2×	82 0.7×	107	5.2k
N. Christlieb Germany	50	7.1k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	979 1.3×	175 1.3×	244 1.9×	133	7.3k
E. Caffau France	32	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	571 0.8×	120 0.9×	73 0.6×	156	3.4k
C. A. Pilachowski United States	30	4.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	543 0.7×	163 1.2×	177 1.4×	145	4.8k
S. Lucatello Italy	44	7.1k 1.3×	3.6k 1.6×	819 1.1×	121 0.9×	113 0.9×	126	7.2k
Aldo Serenelli Spain	37	3.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	246 1.8×	68 0.5×	104	3.9k
J. Andersen United States	37	7.4k 1.4×	3.1k 1.4×	701 0.9×	227 1.6×	227 1.8×	137	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Anna Frebel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Frebel

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Bryan, Greg L., Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, Alexander P. Ji, et al.. (2025). AEOS: Transport of Metals from Minihalos following Population III Stellar Feedback. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(1). 62–62. 2 indexed citations

Chiti, Anirudh, et al.. (2025). Early r-process Enrichment and Hierarchical Assembly Across the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy*. The Astronomical Journal. 169(5). 279–279. 2 indexed citations

Mardini, Mohammad K., et al.. (2024). The oldest stars with low neutron-capture element abundances and origins in ancient dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(4). 4712–4729. 1 indexed citations

Ezzeddine, Rana, Carlos Allende Prieto, Timothy C. Beers, et al.. (2024). The R-process Alliance: Fifth Data Release from the Search for R-process-enhanced Metal-poor Stars in the Galactic Halo with the GTC*. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 274(2). 39–39. 7 indexed citations

Roederer, Ian U., Timothy C. Beers, Kohei Hattori, et al.. (2024). The R-Process Alliance: 2MASS J22132050–5137385, the Star with the Highest-known r-process Enhancement at [Eu/Fe] = +2.45*. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 158–158. 11 indexed citations

Burdge, Kevin B., Kareem El-Badry, Erin Kara, et al.. (2024). The black hole low-mass X-ray binary V404 Cygni is part of a wide triple. Nature. 635(8038). 316–320. 17 indexed citations

Chiti, Anirudh, Mohammad K. Mardini, Guilherme Limberg, et al.. (2024). Enrichment by extragalactic first stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature Astronomy. 8(5). 637–647. 10 indexed citations

Holmbeck, Erika M., Rebecca Surman, Ian U. Roederer, G. C. McLaughlin, & Anna Frebel. (2023). HD 222925: A New Opportunity to Explore the Astrophysical and Nuclear Conditions of r-process Sites. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 30–30. 2 indexed citations

Holmbeck, Erika M., Anna Frebel, G. C. McLaughlin, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing Masses of Merging Neutron Stars from Stellar r-process Abundance Signatures. The Astrophysical Journal. 909(1). 21–21. 12 indexed citations

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Yong, David, Chiaki Kobayashi, G. S. Da Costa, et al.. (2021). r-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae. Nature. 595(7866). 223–226. 41 indexed citations

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Chiti, Anirudh, et al.. (2021). Stellar Metallicities from SkyMapper Photometry. II. Precise Photometric Metallicities of ∼280,000 Giant Stars with [Fe/H] < −0.75 in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 254(2). 31–31. 27 indexed citations

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Suda, Takuma, et al.. (2021). s-process enrichment of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(3). 3755–3766. 5 indexed citations

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Chiti, Anirudh, Anna Frebel, Joshua D. Simon, et al.. (2021). An extended halo around an ancient dwarf galaxy. Nature Astronomy. 5(4). 392–400. 56 indexed citations

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Chiti, Anirudh, et al.. (2021). The Metal-poor Metallicity Distribution of the Ancient Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 911(2). L23–L23. 16 indexed citations

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Marino, A. F., G. S. Da Costa, Andrew R. Casey, et al.. (2019). Keck HIRES spectroscopy of SkyMapper commissioning survey candidate extremely metal-poor stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(4). 5153–5167. 13 indexed citations

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Ji, Alexander P., et al.. (2019). The Origin of r-process Enhanced Metal-poor Halo Stars In Now-destroyed Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 247–247. 25 indexed citations

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Beers, Timothy C., Vinicius M. Placco, D. Carollo, et al.. (2017). BRIGHT METAL-POOR STARS FROM THE HAMBURG/ESO SURVEY. II. A CHEMODYNAMICAL ANALYSIS. The Astrophysical Journal. 835(1). 81–81. 31 indexed citations

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Keller, Stefan, Andrew R. Casey, M. Asplund, et al.. (2015). HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF EXTREMELY METAL-POOR STAR CANDIDATES FROM THE SKYMAPPER SURVEY. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 81 indexed citations

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Mashonkina, L., A N Ryabtsev, & Anna Frebel. (2012). Non-LTE effects on the lead and thorium abundance determinations for cool stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 28 indexed citations

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Frebel, Anna & Volker Bromm. (2010). Dwarf archaeology: Probing the first enrichment events with low-luminosity galaxies. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10(19). 1 indexed citations

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