D. Crampton

13.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
261 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

D. Crampton is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Crampton has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 121 papers in Instrumentation and 78 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in D. Crampton's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (128 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (121 papers) and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (78 papers). D. Crampton is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (128 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (121 papers) and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (78 papers). D. Crampton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. D. Crampton's co-authors include J. B. Hutchings, F. Hammer, S. J. Lilly, A. P. Cowley, J. Perea, Inger Jørgensen, O. Le Fèvre, Richard Murowinski, I. Hook and Karl Glazebrook and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

D. Crampton

252 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Canada-France Redshift Survey: The Luminosity Density... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The Canada-France Redshift Survey: The Luminosity Density and Star Formation History of the Universe to [ITAL]z[/ITAL] ∼ 1
    1996 625 citations S. J. Lilly, J. Perea 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
D. Crampton Canada 40 7.1k 3.1k 1.1k 558 297 261 7.5k
J. B. Oke United States 35 6.4k 0.9× 2.5k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 421 0.8× 211 0.7× 190 6.8k
George H. Jacoby United States 43 6.4k 0.9× 2.4k 0.8× 792 0.7× 357 0.6× 266 0.9× 204 6.7k
Stephen A. Shectman United States 40 5.4k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 688 0.6× 380 0.7× 204 0.7× 142 5.8k
L. L. Cowie United States 58 11.0k 1.6× 3.7k 1.2× 2.8k 2.6× 499 0.9× 205 0.7× 226 11.4k
John S. Mathis United States 26 10.5k 1.5× 2.5k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 499 0.9× 204 0.7× 58 10.8k
G. Hasinger Germany 46 7.6k 1.1× 1.6k 0.5× 2.7k 2.5× 258 0.5× 174 0.6× 267 7.9k
Geoffrey C. Clayton United States 33 10.1k 1.4× 2.6k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 375 0.7× 221 0.7× 174 10.4k
W. Forman United States 60 15.4k 2.2× 3.4k 1.1× 5.3k 4.9× 445 0.8× 310 1.0× 365 15.9k
Jason A. Cardelli United States 23 8.2k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 636 1.1× 156 0.5× 73 8.6k
Donald E. Osterbrock United States 37 8.7k 1.2× 2.0k 0.7× 1.6k 1.5× 711 1.3× 264 0.9× 200 9.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. Crampton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Crampton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Crampton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Crampton 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 D. Crampton. D. Crampton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mobasher, Bahram, D. Crampton, & Luc Simard. (2010). An Infrared Multi-Object Spectrograph (IRMS) with adaptive optics for TMT: the science case. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7735. 77355P–77355P. 4 indexed citations
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Szeto, Kei, David R. Andersen, D. Crampton, et al.. (2006). A proposed implementation of a ground layer adaptive optics system on the Gemini Telescope. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6269. 626958–626958. 3 indexed citations
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Brodwin, M., S. J. Lilly, C. Porciani, et al.. (2004). The Canada-France Deep Fields-Photometric Redshift Survey: An Investigation of Galaxy Evolution Using Photometric Redshifts. TSpace. 205. 1 indexed citations
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Glazebrook, Karl, Roberto Abraham, Patrick J. McCarthy, et al.. (2004). A high abundance of massive galaxies 3–6 billion years after the Big Bang. Nature. 430(6996). 181–184. 179 indexed citations
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Abraham, Roberto, Karl Glazebrook, Patrick J. McCarthy, et al.. (2004). The Gemini Deep Deep Survey. I. Introduction to the Survey, Catalogs, and Composite Spectra. The Astronomical Journal. 127(5). 2455–2483. 142 indexed citations
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McCarthy, Patrick J., D. Le Borgne, D. Crampton, et al.. (2004). Evolved Galaxies at z  > 1.5 from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey: The Formation Epoch of Massive Stellar Systems. The Astrophysical Journal. 614(1). L9–L12. 101 indexed citations
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Rieke, Marcia, Stefi A. Baum, Charles Beichman, et al.. (2003). NGST NIRCam Scientific Program and Design Concept. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4850. 478–478. 12 indexed citations
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Allington‐Smith, J. R., Graham J. Murray, Roger B. Davies, et al.. (2002). The GMOS Integral Field Unit: First Integral Field Spectroscopy with an 8m Telescope (Invited Talk). ASPC. 282. 415. 3 indexed citations
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McCarthy, Patrick M., Karl Glazebrook, Roberto Abraham, et al.. (2002). The Gemini Deep Deep Survey. 264. 4 indexed citations
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McCracken, H. J., O. Le Fèvre, M. Brodwin, et al.. (2001). The Canada-France deep fields survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 376(3). 756–774. 29 indexed citations
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Cowley, A. P., P. C. Schmidtke, D. Crampton, & J. B. Hutchings. (1998). Six Supersoft X‐Ray Binaries: System Parameters and Twin‐Jet Outflows. The Astrophysical Journal. 504(2). 854–865. 39 indexed citations
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Hammer, F., J. Perea, L. Tresse, S. Lilly, & D. Crampton. (1995). Spectroscopic survey of 600 ultra-faint galaxies at CFHT: first results. 31. 49.
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Crampton, D.. (1991). The space distribution of quasars. Astronomical Society of the Pacific eBooks. 21. 6 indexed citations
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Shafter, A. W., E. L. Robinson, D. Crampton, & B. Warner. (1987). Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of V795 Her (PG1711+336). Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 19. 1058. 1 indexed citations
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Crampton, D., A. P. Cowley, & F. D. A. Hartwick. (1987). The space distribution of faint quasars from the CFHT survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 314. 129–129. 17 indexed citations
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Crampton, D.. (1979). SS433-W50 Spectroscopy. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 11. 671. 1 indexed citations
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Balona, L. A. & D. Crampton. (1974). The Hgamma -absolute magnitude calibration.. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 166. 203–217. 10 indexed citations
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Crampton, D. & R. O. Redman. (1974). The Galactic Distribution of H II Regions.. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 6. 345. 1 indexed citations
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Crampton, D., et al.. (1974). Spectroscopic observations of stars in H II regions.. 14. 283. 2 indexed citations
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Crampton, D. & A. D. Thackeray. (1971). HDE 322417 and the H II region near IC 4628. Observatory. 91. 109–110. 1 indexed citations

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