Ben Keller

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Ben Keller is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Keller has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Ben Keller's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (17 papers). Ben Keller is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (17 papers). Ben Keller collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Ben Keller's co-authors include James Wadsley, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, H. M. P. Couchman, Thomas Quinn, Andrea V. Macciò, Aaron A. Dutton, Camilla Penzo, Xi Kang, Samantha M. Benincasa and Gregory S. Stinson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ben Keller

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

NIHAO project – I. Reproducing the inefficiency of galaxy formation across cosmic time with a large sample of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

2015 288 citations Ben Keller, James Wadsley et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Gasoline2: a modern smoothed particle hydrodynamics code

2017 193 citations James Wadsley, Ben Keller 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
Ben Keller Canada	24	1.7k	670	353	87	55	47	1.8k
Juna A. Kollmeier United States	27	2.5k 1.5×	839 1.3×	535 1.5×	57 0.7×	52 0.9×	63	2.6k
Andrea Lapi Italy	25	2.0k 1.2×	714 1.1×	481 1.4×	66 0.8×	40 0.7×	140	2.0k
Marc Rafelski United States	25	1.7k 1.0×	613 0.9×	319 0.9×	33 0.4×	39 0.7×	91	1.8k
Gergö Popping Germany	25	1.7k 1.0×	738 1.1×	221 0.6×	43 0.5×	29 0.5×	69	1.8k
Jesper Sommer‐Larsen Denmark	26	2.2k 1.3×	841 1.3×	449 1.3×	104 1.2×	39 0.7×	80	2.2k
Erik Tollerud United States	22	1.9k 1.1×	939 1.4×	332 0.9×	53 0.6×	43 0.8×	83	1.9k
Hanae Inami United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	671 1.0×	272 0.8×	31 0.4×	70 1.3×	55	1.6k
Cameron Hummels United States	22	2.2k 1.3×	635 0.9×	609 1.7×	63 0.7×	21 0.4×	43	2.3k
Sijing Shen United States	27	2.5k 1.4×	912 1.4×	535 1.5×	62 0.7×	37 0.7×	51	2.6k
Federico Lelli United States	26	2.2k 1.3×	895 1.3×	536 1.5×	134 1.5×	22 0.4×	74	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Keller

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Keller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Keller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Keller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Keller based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Keller. Ben Keller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Tan, Jonathan C., A. Young, Matthew Hayes, et al.. (2025). Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn. II. A Variability Census of Supermassive Black Holes across the Universe^*. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 141–141.

Tan, Jonathan C., Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, et al.. (2025). The emergence and ionizing feedback of Pop III.1 stars as progenitors for supermassive black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 1532–1543. 1 indexed citations

Brooks, Alyson, Annika H. G. Peter, Ben Keller, et al.. (2025). Predictions for detecting a turndown in the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(3). 2180–2196. 2 indexed citations

Munshi, Ferah, et al.. (2025). A MARVEL-ous Study of How Well Galaxy Shapes Reflect Dark Matter Halo Shapes in Cold Dark Matter Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 986(2). 138–138. 3 indexed citations

Hayes, Matthew, Jonathan C. Tan, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2024). Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn: A Census of the Youngest Supermassive Black Holes by Photometric Variability*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 971(1). L16–L16. 9 indexed citations

Munshi, Ferah, Ben Keller, Alyson Brooks, et al.. (2024). Bursting with Feedback: The Relationship between Feedback Model and Bursty Star Formation Histories in Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(1). 40–40. 15 indexed citations

Keller, Ben, Ferah Munshi, Maxime Trebitsch, & Michael Tremmel. (2023). Can Cosmological Simulations Reproduce the Spectroscopically Confirmed Galaxies Seen at z ≥ 10?. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(2). L28–L28. 25 indexed citations

Shen, Sijing, et al.. (2021). The baryon cycle of Seven Dwarfs with superbubble feedback. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 14 indexed citations

Jeffreson, Sarah, Ben Keller, Andrew J. Winter, et al.. (2021). A scaling relation for the molecular cloud lifetime in Milky Way-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(2). 1678–1698. 19 indexed citations

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Jeffreson, Sarah, Mark R. Krumholz, Yusuke Fujimoto, et al.. (2021). Momentum feedback from marginally resolved H iiregions in isolated disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(3). 3470–3491. 30 indexed citations

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Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Ben Keller, & Marta Reina-Campos. (2021). Constraining the formation of NGC 1052-DF2 from its unusual globular cluster population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(4). 4841–4854. 24 indexed citations

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Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Marta Reina-Campos, et al.. (2021). The kinematics of globular cluster populations in the E-MOSAICS simulations and their implications for the assembly history of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(1). 31–58. 22 indexed citations

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Winter, Andrew J., J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Mélanie Chevance, Ben Keller, & Steven N. Longmore. (2019). Prevalent externally driven protoplanetary disc dispersal as a function of the galactic environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(1). 903–922. 42 indexed citations

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Turk, Matthew, John ZuHone, Nathan Goldbaum, et al.. (2018). yt-astro-analysis 1.0 Release. Figshare. 4 indexed citations

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Pettitt, Alex R., Elizabeth J. Tasker, James Wadsley, Ben Keller, & Samantha M. Benincasa. (2017). Star formation and ISM morphology in tidally induced spiral structures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468(4). 4189–4204. 31 indexed citations

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Keller, Ben & James Wadsley. (2017). ΛCDM is Consistent with SPARC Radial Acceleration Relation. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 835(1). L17–L17. 49 indexed citations

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Keller, Ben, James Wadsley, & H. M. P. Couchman. (2016). Cosmological galaxy evolution with superbubble feedback – II. The limits of supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(2). 1431–1445. 45 indexed citations

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Benincasa, Samantha M., James Wadsley, H. M. P. Couchman, & Ben Keller. (2016). The anatomy of a star-forming galaxy: pressure-driven regulation of star formation in simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(3). 3053–3068. 39 indexed citations

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Keller, Ben, et al.. (2013). Indiana Oil and Gas Update. eYLS (Yale Law School). 19(2). 329–334. 1 indexed citations

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Stil, J. M., et al.. (2011). Detection Thresholds and Bias Correction in Polarized Intensity. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 29(3). 214–220. 40 indexed citations

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