D. Watson

19.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

D. Watson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Watson has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 24 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 22 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in D. Watson's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (87 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (49 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers). D. Watson is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (87 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (49 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (41 papers). D. Watson collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. D. Watson's co-authors include J. Hjorth, M. J. Michałowski, J. P. U. Fynbo, P. Jakobsson, D. Malesani, Tayyaba Zafar, Johan Richard, K. E. Heintz, Michelle Rowe and Jeffrey Braithwaite and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Clinical Oncology and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

D. Watson

131 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars

2019 281 citations D. Watson, D. Malesani et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Watson Denmark	35	3.3k	692	595	93	89	139	3.8k
M. H. Siegel United States	25	2.7k 0.8×	231 0.3×	1.3k 2.2×	156 1.7×	18 0.2×	152	3.1k
D. Katz France	23	2.1k 0.6×	95 0.1×	970 1.6×	47 0.5×	27 0.3×	61	2.4k
T. J. Jones United States	26	2.3k 0.7×	222 0.3×	350 0.6×	151 1.6×	117 1.3×	171	2.7k
J. D. Smith United States	36	4.2k 1.3×	403 0.6×	914 1.5×	207 2.2×	3 0.0×	126	4.6k
Sungeun Kim United States	25	1.4k 0.4×	247 0.4×	224 0.4×	134 1.4×	21 0.2×	89	2.3k
Richard H. Miller United States	20	419 0.1×	73 0.1×	118 0.2×	59 0.6×	31 0.3×	132	1.7k
W. J. Forrest United States	41	3.7k 1.1×	160 0.2×	426 0.7×	355 3.8×	11 0.1×	168	5.0k
J. F. C. Wardle United States	26	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 2.6×	54 0.1×	111 1.2×	68 0.8×	87	2.4k
J. Chiang United States	24	1.8k 0.5×	944 1.4×	92 0.2×	43 0.5×	8 0.1×	53	2.1k
Seb Oliver United Kingdom	37	3.7k 1.1×	805 1.2×	1.6k 2.7×	89 1.0×	4 0.0×	106	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by D. Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by D. Watson

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

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Heintz, K. E., Joris Witstok, Stefano Carniani, et al.. (2025). Dissecting the Massive Pristine, Neutral Gas Reservoir of a Remarkably Bright Galaxy at z = 14.179. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 987(1). L2–L2. 1 indexed citations

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Sneppen, Albert, et al.. (2024). Emergence hour-by-hour of r-process features in the kilonova AT2017gfo. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A398–A398. 6 indexed citations

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Killi, Meghana, D. Watson, Gabriel Brammer, et al.. (2024). Deciphering the JWST spectrum of a ‘little red dot’ at z ∼ 4.53: An obscured AGN and its star-forming host. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 691. A52–A52. 31 indexed citations

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Heintz, K. E., Gabriel Brammer, Clara Giménez-Arteaga, et al.. (2023). Dilution of chemical enrichment in galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature Astronomy. 7(12). 1517–1524. 28 indexed citations

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De, A., C. Ledoux, Jens-Kristian Krogager, et al.. (2023). Dust depletion of metals from local to distant galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 681. A64–A64. 12 indexed citations

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Heintz, K. E., T. R. Greve, Desika Narayanan, et al.. (2022). Investigating the [C ii]-to-H i Conversion Factor and the H i Gas Budget of Galaxies at z ≈ 6 with Hydrodynamic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 939(1). L1–L1. 13 indexed citations

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Heintz, K. E., D. Watson, Pascal A. Oesch, Desika Narayanan, & S. C. Madden. (2021). Measuring the HI content of individual galaxies out to the epoch of reionization with [CII]. arXiv (Cornell University). 32 indexed citations

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Mazomenos, Evangelos B., et al.. (2018). Gesture Classification in Robotic Surgery using Recurrent Neural Networks with Kinematic Information. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Malesani, D., D. Xu, G. Pugliese, et al.. (2015). GRB 150423A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy and tentative redshift.. GRB Coordinates Network. 17755. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, D., D. Malesani, S. Schulze, et al.. (2013). GRB 130606A: NOT afterglow detection.. GCN. 14783. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Tanvir, N. R., A. J. Levan, Rebekah Hounsell, et al.. (2013). GRB 130925A: HST imaging.. GRB Coordinates Network. 15489. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Zafar, Tayyaba & D. Watson. (2013). The metals-to-dust ratio to very low metallicities using GRB and QSO absorbers; extremely rapid dust formation. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 61 indexed citations

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Malesani, D., S. Schulze, J. P. U. Fynbo, et al.. (2012). GRB 120422A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopic evidence for a SN.. GRB Coordinates Network. 13277. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Watson, D.. (2011). The Galactic dust-to-metals ratio and metallicity using gamma-ray bursts. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 71 indexed citations

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Thoene, C. C., P. Goldoni, S. Covino, et al.. (2009). GRB 091127: redshift confirmation with x-shooter.. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 10233. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Malesani, D., J. Hjorth, P. Jakobsson, et al.. (2008). Transient in NGC 2770: spectroscopic evidence for a SN.. GRB Coordinates Network. 7169. 1.

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Fynbo, J. P. U., P. Jakobsson, B. L. Jensen, et al.. (2006). GRB 060927: spectroscopic redshift z=5.6.. GRB Coordinates Network. 5651. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Jakobsson, P., A. J. Levan, Robert Chapman, et al.. (2006). GRB 060912A: redshift of probable host galaxy.. GRB Coordinates Network. 5617. 1. 4 indexed citations

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Fynbo, J. P. U., J. Sollerman, B. L. Jensen, et al.. (2005). GRB050802: tentative absorption redshift.. GCN. 3749. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Fynbo, J. P. U., B. L. Jensen, J. Sollerman, et al.. (2005). GRB 050824: spectroscopic redshift from the VLT.. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 3874. 1. 1 indexed citations

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