C. Jones

30.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
324 papers, 14.8k citations indexed

About

C. Jones is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, C. Jones has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 299 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 99 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 74 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in C. Jones's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (234 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (179 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (93 papers). C. Jones is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (234 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (179 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (93 papers). C. Jones collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. C. Jones's co-authors include W. Forman, A. Vikhlinin, Maxim Markevitch, S. S. Murray, E. Churazov, Anthony H. Gonzalez, P. E. J. Nulsen, Scott W. Randall, L. P. David and Douglas Clowe and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physics Today and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

C. Jones

310 papers receiving 14.2k 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.

A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter

2006 1.2k citations Scott W. Randall, C. Jones et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
ChandraSample of Nearby Relaxed Galaxy Clusters: Mass, Gas Fraction, and Mass‐Temperature Relation

2006 803 citations A. Vikhlinin, W. Forman et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Direct Constraints on the Dark Matter Self‐Interaction Cross Section from the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E 0657−56

2004 497 citations A. Vikhlinin, W. Forman et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
CHANDRACLUSTER COSMOLOGY PROJECT. II. SAMPLES AND X-RAY DATA REDUCTION

2009 416 citations A. Vikhlinin, W. Forman et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
CHANDRASTUDIES OF THE X-RAY GAS PROPERTIES OF GALAXY GROUPS

2009 355 citations Ming Sun, C. Jones et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The fourth UHURU catalog of X-ray sources.

1978 242 citations W. Forman, C. Jones et al. profile →
Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar

2023 139 citations Ákos Bogdán, Andy D. Goulding et al. Nature Astronomy profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
C. Jones	14.2k	5.3k	3.3k	497	423	324	14.8k
W. Forman	15.4k 1.1×	5.3k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	445 0.9×	405 1.0×	365	15.9k
Piero Madau	15.8k 1.1×	5.2k 1.0×	4.6k 1.4×	553 1.1×	481 1.1×	189	16.6k
M. A. Dopita	14.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	3.9k 1.2×	531 1.1×	206 0.5×	339	15.3k
J. X. Prochaska	17.1k 1.2×	4.2k 0.8×	3.9k 1.2×	742 1.5×	465 1.1×	435	18.0k
L. L. Cowie	11.0k 0.8×	2.8k 0.5×	3.7k 1.1×	499 1.0×	309 0.7×	226	11.4k
C. S. Kochanek	13.8k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	3.9k 1.2×	1.1k 2.3×	241 0.6×	375	14.2k
W. N. Brandt	16.5k 1.2×	5.6k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	573 1.2×	125 0.3×	406	16.8k
A. Vikhlinin	9.1k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	298 0.6×	252 0.6×	168	9.4k
Fabian Walter	16.9k 1.2×	2.5k 0.5×	4.4k 1.3×	411 0.8×	231 0.5×	371	17.4k
David Merritt	13.4k 0.9×	3.1k 0.6×	3.9k 1.2×	625 1.3×	691 1.6×	174	14.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rajpurohit, K., Konstantinos Kolokythas, Kshitij Thorat, et al.. (2025). Revisiting the Group-dominant Elliptical NGC 5044 in the Radio Band: Continuum Emission and Detection of H i Absorption. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(2). 120–120.

Sarkar, Arnab, Felipe Andrade-Santos, R. J. van Weeren, et al.. (2024). On the Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in a Double Radio Relic Galaxy Cluster, Abell 1240. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 161–161. 6 indexed citations

Sarkar, Arnab, Scott W. Randall, Yuanyuan Su, et al.. (2023). Gas Sloshing and Cold Fronts in Pre-merging Galaxy Cluster A98. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 132–132. 10 indexed citations

Su, Yuanyuan, Kelley M. Hess, Ralph Kraft, et al.. (2023). AMUSE-Antlia. I. Nuclear X-Ray Properties of Early-type Galaxies in a Dynamically Young Galaxy Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(2). 104–104. 2 indexed citations

Marchisotto, Mary Jane, Helen A. Brough, Linda Herbert, et al.. (2023). "Here's your EpiPen, good luck to you". The Healthcare Experiences And Psychological Support Needs Of Adults Living With Food Allergies in The United Kingdom. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 151(2). AB336–AB336.

Bogdán, Ákos, Andy D. Goulding, Priyamvada Natarajan, et al.. (2023). Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar. Nature Astronomy. 8(1). 126–133. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

Lal, D., N. Lyskova, Congyao Zhang, et al.. (2022). High-resolution, High-sensitivity, Low-frequency uGMRT View of Coma Cluster of Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 934(2). 170–170. 14 indexed citations

Ge, Chong, D. Lal, Ming Sun, et al.. (2022). Chandra view of Abell 407: the central compact group of galaxies and the interaction between the radio AGN and the ICM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(3). 3994–4004. 3 indexed citations

Jee, M. James, David Wittman, W. Forman, et al.. (2021). Exemplary Merging Clusters: Weak-lensing and X-Ray Analysis of the Double Radio Relic, Merging Galaxy Clusters MACS J1752.0+4440 and ZWCL 1856.8+6616. The Astrophysical Journal. 918(2). 72–72. 21 indexed citations

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Ge, Chong, Ming Sun, Masafumi Yagi, et al.. (2021). The BIG X-ray tail. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 508(1). L69–L73. 6 indexed citations

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Gasperin, F. de, V. Cuciti, D. N. Hoang, et al.. (2021). Radio relics in PSZ2 G096.88+24.18: a connection with pre-existing plasma. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 4762–4774. 15 indexed citations

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Xie, Chen, R. J. van Weeren, L. Lovisari, et al.. (2020). The discovery of radio halos in the frontier fields clusters Abell S1063 and Abell 370. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 22 indexed citations

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Hoang, D. N., T. W. Shimwell, A. Bonafede, et al.. (2020). LOFAR detection of a low-power radio halo in the galaxy cluster Abell 990. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(1). 576–586. 7 indexed citations

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Chon, Gayoung, H. Böhringer, Matthias Kluge, et al.. (2019). Interaction of the massive cluster system Abell 3016/3017 embedded in a cosmic filament. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Bogdán, Ákos, Ralph Kraft, Felipe Andrade-Santos, et al.. (2017). A SPECTACULAR BOW SHOCK IN THE 11 keV GALAXY CLUSTER AROUND 3C 438. The Astrophysical Journal. 834(2). 159–159. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Chien‐Ting, Ryan C. Hickox, Daniel Stern, et al.. (2017). The X-Ray and Mid-infrared Luminosities in Luminous Type 1 Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 837(2). 145–145. 35 indexed citations

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Wegner, G., Keiichi Umetsu, Sandor M. Molnar, et al.. (2017). The Double Galaxy Cluster A2465. III. X-Ray and Weak-lensing Observations^∗. The Astrophysical Journal. 844(1). 67–67. 3 indexed citations

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Hlavacek-Larrondo, Julie, M. McDonald, B. A. Benson, et al.. (2015). X-RAY CAVITIES IN A SAMPLE OF 83 SPT-SELECTED CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES: TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF AGN FEEDBACK IN CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES OUT TOz= 1.2. The Astrophysical Journal. 805(1). 35–35. 90 indexed citations

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David, Laurence, Jeremy Lim, W. Forman, et al.. (2014). MOLECULAR GAS IN THE X-RAY BRIGHT GROUP NGC 5044 AS REVEALED BY ALMA. The Astrophysical Journal. 792(2). 94–94. 55 indexed citations

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Meredith, P. G., et al.. (1989). Acoustic measurements during fracture of triaxially deformed rock. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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