Britton Smith

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Britton Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Britton Smith has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Instrumentation and 15 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Britton Smith's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (42 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (18 papers). Britton Smith is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (42 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (18 papers). Britton Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Britton Smith's co-authors include Robert P. C. Wiersma, Joop Schaye, J. Michael Shull, Brian W. O’Shea, John Wise, Charles Danforth, Matthew Turk, Michael L. Norman, Cameron Hummels and Devin W. Silvia and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Britton Smith

51 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The effect of photoionization on the cooling rates of enriched, astrophysical plasmas

2009 713 citations Britton Smith et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
THE BARYON CENSUS IN A MULTIPHASE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM: 30% OF THE BARYONS MAY STILL BE MISSING

2012 295 citations Britton Smith et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The birth of a galaxy – III. Propelling reionization with the faintest galaxies

2014 276 citations John Wise, Michael L. Norman 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
Britton Smith United States	25	3.1k	867	808	104	98	56	3.2k
Jeremy Bailin United States	25	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	588 0.7×	83 0.8×	69 0.7×	72	3.2k
M. A. Zwaan Germany	29	2.7k 0.9×	887 1.0×	688 0.9×	85 0.8×	65 0.7×	110	2.8k
T K Chan United States	28	2.4k 0.8×	705 0.8×	777 1.0×	62 0.6×	57 0.6×	44	2.6k
John M. O’Meara United States	36	4.0k 1.3×	964 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	126 1.2×	150 1.5×	101	4.3k
S. Serjeant United Kingdom	30	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	676 0.8×	127 1.2×	69 0.7×	129	3.3k
A. Mantz United States	33	3.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	153 1.5×	108 1.1×	74	3.8k
Dale D. Kocevski United States	30	3.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	673 0.8×	107 1.0×	79 0.8×	73	3.3k
M. Gaspari United States	33	3.3k 1.1×	724 0.8×	971 1.2×	67 0.6×	50 0.5×	118	3.5k
José Oñorbe United States	20	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	125 1.2×	156 1.6×	42	3.5k
Robert A. Simcoe United States	33	3.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	789 1.0×	135 1.3×	58 0.6×	92	3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, Britton, et al.. (2025). Conditions for super-Eddington accretion onto the first black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 674–690. 1 indexed citations

Simons, Raymond C., Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2025). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IX. The Angular Momentum Evolution of Milky Way–like Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Gas. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 250–250. 1 indexed citations

Augustin, Ramona, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2025). FOGGIE. X. Characterizing the Small-scale Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium and Its Imprint on Observables. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 52–52.

Acharyya, Ayan, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2025). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). VIII. Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 129–129. 8 indexed citations

O’Shea, Brian W., et al.. (2025). Impacts of the Metagalactic Ultraviolet Background on Circumgalactic Medium Absorption Systems. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 221–221. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Britton, Brian W. O’Shea, Sadegh Khochfar, et al.. (2024). Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(4). 3797–3807. 3 indexed citations

Wright, Anna C., Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2024). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VII. The (Dis)assembly of Stellar Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(1). 70–70. 9 indexed citations

Morales, Alexa M., Steven L. Finkelstein, Gene C. K. Leung, et al.. (2024). Rest-frame UV Colors for Faint Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 with the JWST NGDEEP Survey. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 964(2). L24–L24. 20 indexed citations

Lochhaas, Cassandra, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2023). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VI. The Circumgalactic Medium of L ^∗ Galaxies Is Supported in an Emergent, Nonhydrostatic Equilibrium. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 43–43. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, Britton, Sadegh Khochfar, Brian W. O’Shea, et al.. (2023). The role of radiation and halo mergers in Pop III star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 307–320. 7 indexed citations

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Lochhaas, Cassandra, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O’Shea, et al.. (2021). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). V. The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 922(2). 121–121. 16 indexed citations

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Vasilevsky, Nicole, Mohammad Hosseini, Ehsan Mohammadi, et al.. (2020). Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Accountability in Research. 28(1). 23–43. 45 indexed citations

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Smith, Britton, et al.. (2020). Calibration of a star formation and feedback model for cosmological simulations with enzo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(4). 5203–5219. 9 indexed citations

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Corlies, Lauren, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2020). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). II. Emission from the z = 3 Circumgalactic Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 896(2). 125–125. 27 indexed citations

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Peeples, Molly S., Lauren Corlies, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2019). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(2). 129–129. 171 indexed citations

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Smith, Britton, et al.. (2019). ytree: A Python package for analyzing merger trees. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(44). 1881–1881. 17 indexed citations

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Hummels, Cameron, Britton Smith, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 882(2). 156–156. 152 indexed citations

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Crighton, Neil H. M., J. X. Prochaska, M. T. Murphy, et al.. (2018). Imprints of the first billion years: Lyman limit systems atz∼ 5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(2). 1456–1470. 15 indexed citations

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Hummels, Cameron, Britton Smith, & Devin W. Silvia. (2017). Trident: A Universal Tool for Generating Synthetic Absorption Spectra from Astrophysical Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 847(1). 59–59. 63 indexed citations

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Smith, Britton, Greg L. Bryan, Simon C. O. Glover, et al.. (2016). Grackle: Chemistry and radiative cooling library for astrophysical simulations. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations

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