Arfon M. Smith

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Arfon M. Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Arfon M. Smith has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Information Systems and Management and 5 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Arfon M. Smith's work include Scientific Computing and Data Management (10 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (7 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (6 papers). Arfon M. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Scientific Computing and Data Management (10 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (7 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (6 papers). Arfon M. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Arfon M. Smith's co-authors include Chris Lintott, R. J. Simpson, Kevin Schawinski, S. P. Bamford, Karen L. Masters, L. Fortson, William C. Keel, Craig Packer, R. C. Nichol and Margaret Kosmala and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Icarus and Scientific Data.

In The Last Decade

Arfon M. Smith

33 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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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.

Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2013 421 citations Kyle Willett, Chris Lintott et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

2015 322 citations Alexandra Swanson, Margaret Kosmala et al. Scientific Data profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arfon M. Smith

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software 2025 ·Imaging Neuroscience ·Britta U. Westner, Daniel McCloy, Eric B. Larson, Alexandre Gramfort, Daniel S. Katz, Arfon M. Smith, Arnaud Delorme, Vladimir Litvak, Scott Makeig, Robert Oostenveld, Jan‐Mathijs Schoffelen, Tim M. Tierney	2
2	Ten years of .Astronomy: Scientific and cultural impact 2020 ·Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·Sarah Kendrew, R. J. Simpson, Chris Lintott, Steven M. Crawford, Arfon M. Smith, Carolina J. Ödman, A. Bauer, Rebecca Smethurst, (unknown)	0
3	Space Telescope Science Institute as a knowledge infrastructure 2020 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Arfon M. Smith	1
4	Astronomy should be in the clouds 2019 ·Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·Arfon M. Smith, Rob Pike, William O’Mullane, Frossie Economou, A. Bolton, Ivelina Momcheva, A. Bauer, Bruce Becker, Eric C. Bellm, Andrew J. Connolly, Steven M. Crawford, Nimish P. Hathi, P. Melchior, J. E. G. Peek, (unknown), Ross Thomson, Erik Tollerud, (unknown)	2
5	Publish your software: Introducing the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) 2018 ·Computing in Science & Engineering ·Daniel S. Katz, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Arfon M. Smith	7
6	Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review 2018 ·PeerJ Computer Science ·Arfon M. Smith, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Daniel S. Katz, Lorena A. Barba, George Githinji, Melissa Gymrek, Kathryn Huff, Christopher R. Madan, (unknown), Kevin M. Moerman, Pjotr Prins, Karthik Ram, Ariel Rokem, (unknown), Roman Valls Guimerà, Jacob T. VanderPlas	32
7	The Journal of Open Source Software 2017 ·Figshare ·Arfon M. Smith, Lorena A. Barba, George Githinji, Melissa Gymrek, Kathryn Huff, Daniel S. Katz, Christopher R. Madan, (unknown), Kevin M. Moerman, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Pjotr Prins, Karthik Ram, Ariel Rokem, (unknown), Jake Vanderplas	78
8	Why we should give credit to code creators 2017 ·Physics World ·Arfon M. Smith	1
9	Software vs. data in the context of citation 2016 ·Daniel S. Katz, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Arfon M. Smith, William L. Anderson, Carl Boettiger, Konrad Hinsen, Rob Hooft, Michael Hucka, Allen Lee, Frank Löffler, Tom Pollard, (unknown)	15
10	Galaxy Zoo: Mergers – Dynamical models of interacting galaxies 2016 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), John Wallin, K. D. Borne, L. Fortson, Chris Lintott, Arfon M. Smith, S. P. Bamford, William C. Keel, (unknown)	26
11	Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna breakdown → 2015 ·Scientific Data ·Alexandra Swanson, Margaret Kosmala, Chris Lintott, R. J. Simpson, Arfon M. Smith, Craig Packer	322
12	Galaxy Zoo: an independent look at the evolution of the bar fraction over the last eight billion years from HST-COSMOS★ 2014 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Thomas Melvin, Karen L. Masters, Chris Lintott, R. C. Nichol, Brooke Simmons, S. P. Bamford, Kevin Casteels, Edmond Cheung, Edward M. Edmondson, L. Fortson, Kevin Schawinski, Ramin Skibba, Arfon M. Smith, Kyle Willett	88
13	Volunteering Versus Work for Pay: Incentives and Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing 2013 ·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing ·Andrew Mao, Ece Kamar, Yiling Chen, Eric Horvitz, Megan E. Schwamb, Chris Lintott, Arfon M. Smith	81
14	The Milky Way Project First Data Release: a bubblier Galactic disc 2012 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·R. J. Simpson, Matthew S. Povich, Sarah Kendrew, Chris Lintott, E. Bressert, (unknown), C. J. Cyganowski, Sarah Maddison, Kevin Schawinski, Reid Sherman, Arfon M. Smith, G. Wolf-Chase	126
15	The notes from nature tool for unlocking biodiversity records from museum records through citizen science 2012 ·ZooKeys ·Andrew Hill, Robert Guralnick, Arfon M. Smith, (unknown), Rosemary G. Gillespie, Michael Denslow, (unknown), Zack E. Murrell, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrea K. Thomer, Robert Prŷs‐Jones, Javier de la Torre, (unknown), L. Fortson	76
16	Changing computational research. The challenges ahead 2012 ·PubMed ·Cameron Neylon, Jan Aerts, C. Titus Brown, Simon J. Coles, Les Hatton, Daniel Lemire, K. Jarrod Millman, Peter Murray‐Rust, Fernando Pérez, Neil Saunders, Nigam H. Shah, Arfon M. Smith, Gaël Varoquaux, Egon Willighagen	8
17	Galaxy Zoo: dust and molecular gas in early-type galaxies with prominent dust lanes★ 2012 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sugata Kaviraj, Yuan-Sen Ting, Martin Bureau, Stanislav S. Shabala, R. M. Crockett, Joseph Silk, Chris Lintott, Arfon M. Smith, William C. Keel, Karen L. Masters, Kevin Schawinski, S. P. Bamford	46
18	Galaxy Zoo: quantifying morphological indicators of galaxy interaction★ 2012 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kevin Casteels, S. P. Bamford, Ramin Skibba, Karen L. Masters, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, Kevin Schawinski, R. C. Nichol, Arfon M. Smith	45
19	Galaxy Zoo: bars in disc galaxies★ 2010 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Karen L. Masters, R. C. Nichol, B. Hoyle, Chris Lintott, S. P. Bamford, Edward M. Edmondson, L. Fortson, William C. Keel, Kevin Schawinski, Arfon M. Smith, D. Thomas	215
20	Small-scale-structure of the interstellar medium probed through diffuse band observations 2006 ·Faraday Discussions ·Martin Cordiner, S. J. Fossey, Arfon M. Smith, P. J. Sarre	4

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