Barry F. Madore

36.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
234 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Barry F. Madore is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry F. Madore has authored 234 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 111 papers in Instrumentation and 46 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Barry F. Madore's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (161 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (111 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (108 papers). Barry F. Madore is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (161 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (111 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (108 papers). Barry F. Madore collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Barry F. Madore's co-authors include Wendy L. Freedman, Myung Gyoon Lee, Mark Seibert, A. Gil de Paz, M. D. Thornley, Frank Bigiel, Adam K. Leroy, Fabian Walter, W. J. G. de Blok and E. Brinks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Barry F. Madore

219 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

THE STAR FORMATION LAW IN NEARBY GALAXIES ON SUB-KPC SCALES

2008 1.1k citations Barry F. Madore et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →
The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. VIII. An Independent Determination of the Hubble Constant Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch*

2019 491 citations Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Tip of the Red Giant Branch as a Distance Indicator for Resolved Galaxies

1993 417 citations Myung Gyoon Lee, Wendy L. Freedman et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Status Report on the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP): Measurement of the Hubble Constant Using the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes

2025 29 citations Wendy L. Freedman, Barry F. Madore 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						Papers	Cites
Barry F. Madore United States	50	9.6k	3.2k	1.4k	396	262	234	10.0k
D. Elbaz France	50	9.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	484 1.2×	282 1.1×	256	10.0k
J. R. Mould United States	49	7.8k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	995 0.7×	311 0.8×	290 1.1×	298	8.1k
Ronald L. Gilliland United States	44	7.5k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	894 0.7×	493 1.2×	283 1.1×	184	8.0k
R. Terlevich United Kingdom	48	10.0k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	255 0.6×	119 0.5×	210	10.2k
Željko Ivezić United States	51	11.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	323 0.8×	317 1.2×	169	12.0k
Ortwin Gerhard Germany	54	9.6k 1.0×	4.4k 1.4×	896 0.7×	433 1.1×	203 0.8×	207	9.8k
Lisa J. Kewley United States	55	12.2k 1.3×	4.2k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	339 0.9×	175 0.7×	192	12.5k
Norman Murray Canada	63	12.2k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	310 0.8×	278 1.1×	161	12.7k
Tom Abel United States	52	8.8k 0.9×	1.7k 0.5×	2.2k 1.6×	322 0.8×	291 1.1×	133	9.4k
B. K. Gibson Australia	49	8.6k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	201 0.5×	165 0.6×	237	8.9k

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Madore, Barry F., Wendy L. Freedman, & Kayla A. Owens. (2025). Chicago–Carnegie Hubble Program: A Multiwavelength Search for the Effects of Metallicity on the Cepheid Distance Scale. II. Theoretical Models and Synthetic Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(1). 32–32. 2 indexed citations

Freedman, Wendy L., et al.. (2025). Status Report on the Chicago-Carnegie Hubble Program (CCHP): Measurement of the Hubble Constant Using the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. The Astrophysical Journal. 985(2). 203–203. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Hoyt, Taylor J., et al.. (2024). Coordinated JWST Imaging of Three Distance Indicators in a Supernova Host Galaxy and an Estimate of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Color Dependence. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 111–111. 8 indexed citations

Freedman, Wendy L. & Barry F. Madore. (2023). Progress in direct measurements of the Hubble constant. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(11). 50–50. 55 indexed citations

Thilker, David A., G. R. Meurer, L. Bianchi, et al.. (2019). The initial mass function in the extended ultraviolet disc of M83. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(2). 2366–2390. 9 indexed citations

Freedman, Wendy L., Barry F. Madore, Dylan Hatt, et al.. (2019). The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program. VIII. An Independent Determination of the Hubble Constant Based on the Tip of the Red Giant Branch*. The Astrophysical Journal. 882(1). 34–34. 491 indexed citations breakdown →

Poetrodjojo, Henry, Brent Groves, Lisa J. Kewley, et al.. (2019). The effects of diffuse ionized gas and spatial resolution on metallicity gradients: TYPHOON two-dimensional spectrophotometry of M83. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(1). 79–96. 42 indexed citations

Neeley, J., M. Marengo, G. Bono, et al.. (2017). On a New Theoretical Framework for RR Lyrae Stars. II. Mid-infrared Period–Luminosity–Metallicity Relations. The Astrophysical Journal. 841(2). 84–84. 36 indexed citations

Steer, Ian, Barry F. Madore, J. M. Mazzarella, et al.. (2016). REDSHIFT-INDEPENDENT DISTANCES IN THE NASA/IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE: METHODOLOGY, CONTENT, AND USE OF NED-D. The Astronomical Journal. 153(1). 37–37. 33 indexed citations

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Boissier, S., A. Boselli, Laura Ferrarese, et al.. (2016). The properties of the Malin 1 galaxy giant disk. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 593. A126–A126. 36 indexed citations

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Freedman, Wendy L., Rachael L. Beaton, G. Bono, et al.. (2015). CHP-II: The Carnegie Hubble Program to Measure Ho to 3% Using Population II. 13691. 5 indexed citations

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Mazzarella, J. M., Patrick Ogle, Barry F. Madore, et al.. (2014). Explosive Growth and Advancement of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). AAS. 223. 2 indexed citations

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Pilecki, B., D. Graczyk, G. Pietrzyński, et al.. (2013). Physical parameters and the projection factor of the classical Cepheid in the binary system OGLE-LMC-CEP-0227. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436(2). 953–967. 50 indexed citations

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White, R. L., Alberto Accomazzi, G. Bruce Berriman, et al.. (2009). The High Impact of Astronomical Data Archives. CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology). 2010. 64. 6 indexed citations

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Bicay, M. D., R. M. Cutri, & Barry F. Madore. (1999). Astrophysics with Infrared Surveys: A Prelude to SIRTF. ASPC. 177. 34 indexed citations

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Madore, Barry F., Wendy L. Freedman, N. A. Silbermann, et al.. (1998). The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. XV. Implications of a Cepheid Distance to the Fornax Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Kelson, D. D., G. D. Illingworth, Wendy L. Freedman, et al.. (1994). The Discovery of Cepheids and a New Distance to M101 Using the Hubble Space Telescope. AAS. 185. 2 indexed citations

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Mateo, Mario & Barry F. Madore. (1988). Hubble's Distances to Galactic Star Clusters Containing Cepheids: NGC 7790. ASPC. 4. 174. 1 indexed citations

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Madore, Barry F. & Wendy L. Freedman. (1987). Self-organizing Structures. American Scientist. 75(3). 252–259. 29 indexed citations

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McAlary, C. W., Barry F. Madore, D. L. Welch, & R. McLaren. (1983). The Distance to Nearby Galaxies Based on Near-Infrared Photometry of Cepheids. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 15. 906. 1 indexed citations

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