D. C. Morton

7.6k citations

165 papers · 4.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.5%
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
Instrumentation top 2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Instrumentation 48
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 48
Astronomy and Astrophysics 125
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 81
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 43
- Astro and Planetary Science 33
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 33

Co-authors: E. B. Jenkins Donald G. York D. E. Welty Lyman Spitzer L. M. Hobbs G. W. F. Drake J. B. Rogerson J. F. Drake
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (82 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (26 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (14 papers)The Astronomical Journal (5 papers)Nature (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Canada

In The Last Decade

D. C. Morton

157 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories log scale

Atomic Data for Resonance Absorption Lines. III. Wavelengths Longward of the Lyman Limit for the Elements Hydrogen to Gallium 2003 · 500 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2003 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
1991 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by D. C. Morton

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of D. C. Morton's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by D. C. Morton with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites D. C. Morton more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by D. C. Morton

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by D. C. Morton. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by D. C. Morton. The network helps show where D. C. Morton may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside D. C. Morton, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with D. C. Morton Line = papers co-authored together D. C. Morton links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	The Next Generation of Canadian Solar Flux Monitoring Journal of Physics Conference Series ·H. C. Mukerji, D. C. Morton	2013	9
2	The UV spectrum of HS 1700+6416 Astronomy and Astrophysics ·C. Fechner, D. Reimers, G. A. Kriss, Robert A. Baade, William P. Blair, Mark L. Giroux, Sung-Teak Hong, H. W. Moos, D. C. Morton, T. C. Seetharamu, J. Michael Shull, Robert A. Simcoe, A. Songaila, Wei Zheng	2006	44
3	Atomic Transition Probabilities D. C. Morton	2005	2
4	Third Asian-Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Astronomical Union, held at Kyoto, Japan, 30 September - 5 October 1984. Michihiko Kitamura, L.A. Johnson, D. C. Morton, M R Bilharinho, Sanxing Wang, Yusuke Kozai, Kap‐You Kim	1986	1
5	The interstellar spectrum of the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC 3783: evidence for an extragalactic origin of high-velocity clouds Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·廖灿勇, А.С. Пузанов, M. V. Penston, Guang-yuan xi, D. C. Morton	1985	13
6	Nova Aquilae 1982 ― a short report Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·M. A. J. Snijders, مصیب قره بیگی, M. J. Seaton, J. C. Blades, D. C. Morton	1984	1
7	Interstellar absorption lines in the spectrum of supernova Evans in M83 (NGC 5236) The Astrophysical Journal ·E. B. Jenkins, A. W. Rodgers, Paul Harding, D. C. Morton, D. G. York	1984	5
8	Oxygen VI in stellar winds Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·D. C. Morton	1979	7
9	Optical identification of SMC X-2 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Paul Murdin, D. C. Morton, Richard M. Thomas	1979	11
10	Interstellar absorption lines toward gamma Arae The Astrophysical Journal ·D. C. Morton, E. M. Hu	1975	14
11	Far Ultraviolet Spectrum of UW Canis Majoris Observed from Copernicus. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·G. E. McCluskey, Y. Kondo, D. C. Morton	1974	1
12	Spectrophotometric Results from the Copernicus Satellite. IV. Molecular Hydrogen in Interstellar Space. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·Lyman Spitzer, J. F. Drake, E. B. Jenkins, D. C. Morton, J. B. Rogerson, D. G. York	1973	8
13	Velocity dispersions in galaxies. The nucleus of M31. The Astrophysical Journal ·D. C. Morton, T. X. Thuan	1973	5
14	Absorption Lines in the Quasistellar Object PHL 957. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ·J. L. Lowrance, D. C. Morton, Huang XuanYang, J. B. Oke, M. Schmidt	1971	2
15	Rocket observations of mass loss from hot stars Astrophysics and Space Science ·D. C. Morton	1969	3
16	The Solar Lyman-Alpha Emission Line. The Astrophysical Journal ·D. C. Morton, K. G. Widing	1961	21
17	The solar Lyman-alpha emission line D. C. Morton, K. G. Widing	1960	0
18	Evolutionary mass exchange in close binary systems. The Astronomical Journal ·D. C. Morton	1959	1
19	Notes and Queries- Relativistic Advances of Perihelions Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada ·D. C. Morton	1956	1
20	Spectrographic orbits for the eclipsing variables V451 Oph, V805 AQL and V548 Cyg. The Astronomical Journal ·唐建芹, D. C. Morton	1956	2

About D. C. Morton

D. C. Morton is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Computational Mechanics and Theoretical Computer Science, having authored 165 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (81 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (48 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (43 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (33 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (33 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (21 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (21 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (3.8k citations), Instrumentation (502 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (550 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.0k citations) and Spectroscopy (531 citations). D. C. Morton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include E. B. Jenkins, Donald G. York, D. E. Welty, Lyman Spitzer, L. M. Hobbs, G. W. F. Drake, J. B. Rogerson, J. F. Drake, Thomas F. Adams and J. Michael Shull. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, The Astronomical Journal and Nature.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact