B. Schmidt

43.2k citations

96 papers · 14.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.05%
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 0.05%
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Papers in ⓘ

Instrumentation 23
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 23
Astronomy and Astrophysics 92
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 73
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 42
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 20
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 15
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 14
- Astro and Planetary Science 13

Co-authors: R. Kirshner (15 shared papers)A. V. Filippenko (14 shared papers)Adam G. Riess (10 shared papers)J. Tonry (4 shared papers)N. B. Suntzeff (10 shared papers)M. M. Phillips (10 shared papers)P. Challis (7 shared papers)David J. Reiss (3 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (26 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (13 papers)The Astronomical Journal (8 papers)Nature (5 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (3 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United States Germany

In The Last Decade

B. Schmidt

86 papers receiving 14.2k citations

Hit Papers

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The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the \nepoch of deceleration 2001 · 560 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2001 eScholarship (California Digital Library)
1998 The Astronomical Journal

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1	Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant The Astronomical Journal ·Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, Alan H. Diercks, P. Garnavich, Ron Gilliland, Craig J. Hogan, Saurabh W. Jha, R. Kirshner, B. Leibundgut, M. M. Phillips, David J. Reiss, B. Schmidt, R. A. Schommer, R. Chris Smith, J. Spyromilio, C. W. Stubbs, N. B. Suntzeff, J. Tonry Hit paper breakdown →	1998	11452
2	The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the \nepoch of deceleration eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Adam G. Riess, P. Nugent, B. Schmidt, J. Tonry, Mark Dickinson, Ronald L. Gilliland, Rodger I. Thompson, Tamás Budavári, Stefano Casertano, A. Evans, A. V. Filippenko, Mario Livio, D. B. Sanders, Alice E. Shapley, Hyron Spinrad, Charles C. Steidel, Daniel Stern, J. Surace, Sylvain Veilleux Hit paper breakdown →	2001	560
3	The SkyMapper Telescope and The Southern Sky Survey Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia ·S. Keller, B. Schmidt, M. S. Bessell, P. Conroy, Paul Francis, Alexander Granlund, E. Kowald, A. P. Oates, Tony Martin-Jones, T. Preston, P. Tisserand, Annino Vaccarella, M. Waterson	2007	258
4	A single low-energy, iron-poor supernova as the source of metals in the star SMSS J031300.36−670839.3 Nature ·S. Keller, M. S. Bessell, Anna Frebel, Andrew R. Casey, M. Asplund, Heather R. Jacobson, K. Lind, John E. Norris, David Yong, Alexander Heger, Z. Magic, G. S. Da Costa, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand	2014	210
5	Gamma‐Ray Bursts and Type Ic Supernova SN 1998bw The Astrophysical Journal ·S. E. Woosley, Ronald G. Eastman, B. Schmidt	1999	165
6	Optical and Radio Observations of the Afterglow from GRB 990510: Evidence for a Jet The Astrophysical Journal ·Fiona A. Harrison, J. S. Bloom, D. A. Frail, Re’em Sari, S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, T. S. Axelrod, J. R. Mould, B. Schmidt, M. H. Wieringa, R. M. Wark, R. Subrahmanyan, D. McConnell, Patrick J. McCarthy, Bradley E. Schaefer, R. G. McMahon, R. O. Markze, Andrew E. Firth, P. Soffitta, L. Amati	1999	149
7	The Rise Time of Nearby Type I[CLC]a[/CLC] Supernovae The Astronomical Journal ·Adam G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, Weidong Li, R. R. Treffers, B. Schmidt, Yulei Qiu, Jingyao Hu, M. Armstrong, Chuck Faranda, Éric Thouvenot, Christian Buil	1999	104
8	The Atmospheres of Type II Supernovae and the Expanding Photosphere Method The Astrophysical Journal ·Ronald G. Eastman, B. Schmidt, R. Kirshner	1996	104
9	The distances to five Type II supernovae using the expanding photosphere method, and the value of H[SUB]0[/SUB] The Astrophysical Journal ·B. Schmidt, R. Kirshner, Ronald G. Eastman, M. M. Phillips, N. B. Suntzeff, M. Hamuy, J. Maza, R. Avilés	1994	104
10	HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF EXTREMELY METAL-POOR STAR CANDIDATES FROM THE SKYMAPPER SURVEY DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Stefan Keller, Andrew R. Casey, M. Asplund, M. S. Bessell, (unknown), K. Lind, A. F. Marino, John E. Norris, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand, Jennifer M. Walsh, David Yong, Heather R. Jacobson, Anna Frebel, José Martínez Peña, Qinqin Yu	2015	81
11	A blinded determination of H0 from low-redshift Type Ia supernovae, calibrated by Cepheid variables Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·B Zhang, M. Childress, T. M. Davis, N. V. Karpenka, C. Lidman, B. Schmidt, M. Smith	2017	76
12	The bright optical afterglow of the nearby γ-ray burst of 29 March 2003 Nature ·P. A. Price, D. B. Fox, S. R. Kulkarni, B. A. Peterson, B. Schmidt, A. M. Soderberg, S. A. Yost, E. Berger, S. G. Djorgovski, D. A. Frail, Fiona A. Harrison, Re’em Sari, A. W. Blain, Scott Chapman	2003	67
13	Constraints on Type Ib/c Supernovae and Gamma‐Ray Burst Progenitors Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·Chris L. Fryer, P. A. Mazzali, J. X. Prochaska, E. Cappellaro, A. Panaitescu, E. Berger, M. van Putten, E. P. J. van den Heuvel, Patrick Young, Aimee Hungerford, Gabriel Rockefeller, Sung-Chul Yoon, Philipp Podsiadlowski, K. Nomoto, Roger A. Chevalier, B. Schmidt, S. R. Kulkarni	2007	65
14	SN 1997cy/GRB 970514: A New Piece in the Gamma‐Ray Burst Puzzle? The Astrophysical Journal ·L. Germany, David J. Reiss, E. M. Sadler, B. Schmidt, C. W. Stubbs	2000	62
15	The EMBLA survey – metal-poor stars in the Galactic bulge Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·L. M. Howes, M. Asplund, Stefan Keller, Andrew R. Casey, David Yong, K. Lind, Anna Frebel, Austin Hays, Alan Alves-Brito, M. S. Bessell, L. Casagrande, A. F. Marino, David M. Nataf, C. I. Owen, G. S. Da Costa, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand	2016	62
16	NUCLEOSYNTHESIS IN A PRIMORDIAL SUPERNOVA: CARBON AND OXYGEN ABUNDANCES IN SMSS J031300.36–670839.3 The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·M. S. Bessell, R. Collet, Stefan Keller, Anna Frebel, Alexander Heger, Andrew R. Casey, T. Masseron, M. Asplund, Heather R. Jacobson, K. Lind, A. F. Marino, John E. Norris, David Yong, G. S. Da Costa, Conrad Chan, Z. Magic, B. Schmidt, P. Tisserand	2015	60
17	The H i gas content of galaxies around Abell 370, a galaxy cluster atz= 0.37 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Philip Lah, Michael Pracy, Jayaram N. Chengalur, F. H. Briggs, Matthew Colless, R. De Pietri, Shaun Ferris, B. Schmidt, Bradley E. Tucker	2009	60
18	Time Dilation in the Light Curve of the Distant Type Ia Supernova SN 1995K The Astrophysical Journal ·B. Leibundgut, R. A. Schommer, M. M. Phillips, Adam G. Riess, B. Schmidt, J. Spyromilio, J. R. Walsh, N. B. Suntzeff, M. Hamuy, J. Maza, R. Kirshner, P. Challis, P. Garnavich, R. C. Smith, Alan Dressler, Robin Ciardullo	1996	58
19	SkyMapper Filter Set: Design and Fabrication of Large-Scale Optical Filters Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·M. S. Bessell, Gabe Bloxham, B. Schmidt, Stefan Keller, P. Tisserand, Paul Francis	2011	56
20	The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: the halo star SMSS J160540.18−144323.1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Thomas Nordlander, M. S. Bessell, G. S. Da Costa, Dougal Mackey, M. Asplund, Andrew R. Casey, Anirudh Chiti, Rana Ezzeddine, Anna Frebel, K. Lind, A. F. Marino, Simon J. Murphy, John E. Norris, B. Schmidt, David Yong	2019	47

About B. Schmidt

B. Schmidt is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computational Mechanics and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 96 papers that have together received 14.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (73 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (42 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (23 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (20 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (15 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (14 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (14 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (14.5k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (8.8k citations), Instrumentation (1.1k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (1.2k citations) and Oceanography (728 citations). B. Schmidt has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include R. Kirshner, A. V. Filippenko, Adam G. Riess, J. Tonry, N. B. Suntzeff, M. M. Phillips, P. Challis, David J. Reiss, C. W. Stubbs and P. Garnavich. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astronomical Journal, Nature and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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