David A. Wake

30.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

David A. Wake is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Wake has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 35 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David A. Wake's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (52 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers). David A. Wake is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (52 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (12 papers). David A. Wake collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. David A. Wake's co-authors include R. C. Nichol, Nicholas P. Ross, Kevin A. Pimbblet, S. M. Croom, Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker, Marijn Franx, Gabriel Brammer, D. Thomas and Donald P. Schneider 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

David A. Wake

51 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

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2010 467 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Wake United States	28	2.9k	1.7k	361	199	137	53	2.9k
Tomotsugu Goto Taiwan	29	3.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	345 1.0×	287 1.4×	182 1.3×	128	3.2k
Marcello Cacciato United States	23	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	404 1.1×	249 1.3×	135 1.0×	28	2.5k
Renbin Yan United States	33	3.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.3×	264 0.7×	238 1.2×	206 1.5×	102	3.8k
M. Capaccioli Italy	32	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	320 0.9×	178 0.9×	157 1.1×	123	3.1k
Edward N. Taylor Australia	29	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	195 0.5×	193 1.0×	118 0.9×	72	2.4k
Kevin A. Pimbblet United Kingdom	27	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	414 1.1×	137 0.7×	103 0.8×	100	2.4k
P. B. Tissera Argentina	31	3.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	290 0.8×	121 0.6×	144 1.1×	119	3.4k
D. G. Lambas Argentina	31	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	325 0.9×	329 1.7×	245 1.8×	159	2.8k
S. Phillipps United Kingdom	35	3.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	304 0.8×	230 1.2×	186 1.4×	206	3.8k
J. Annis United States	25	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	334 0.9×	216 1.1×	85 0.6×	58	2.3k

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Momcheva, Ivelina, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2025). The Evolution of Half-mass Radii and Color Gradients for Young and Old Quiescent Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3 with JWST/PRIMER. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 106–106.

Marchesini, Danilo, Casey Papovich, M. Nonino, et al.. (2024). The FENIKS Survey: Multiwavelength Photometric Catalog in the UDS Field, and Catalogs of Photometric Redshifts and Stellar Population Properties. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(2). 84–84.

Whitaker, Katherine E., Ivelina Momcheva, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2024). 3D-DASH: The Evolution of Size, Shape, and Intrinsic Scatter in Populations of Young and Old Quiescent Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 99–99. 3 indexed citations

Klimenko, V. V., Varsha P. Kulkarni, David A. Wake, et al.. (2023). The Baryonic Content of Galaxies Mapped by MaNGA and the Gas Around Them. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 115–115. 4 indexed citations

Wuyts, Stijn, Sam E. Cutler, Lamiya Mowla, et al.. (2023). Dust attenuation, dust content, and geometry of star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(3). 4128–4147. 10 indexed citations

Mowla, Lamiya, Sam E. Cutler, Gabriel Brammer, et al.. (2022). 3D-DASH: The Widest Near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 933(2). 129–129. 8 indexed citations

Conroy, Charlie, David R. Law, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2020). Spectroscopic Constraints on the Buildup of Intracluster Light in the Coma Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 894(1). 32–32. 16 indexed citations

Marsan, Z. Cemile, Danilo Marchesini, Adam Muzzin, et al.. (2019). HST F160W Imaging of Very Massive Galaxies at 1.5 < z < 3.0: Diversity of Structures and the Effect of Close Pairs on Number Density Estimates. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 201–201. 10 indexed citations

Fu, Hai, Y. Sophia Dai, J. W. Isbell, et al.. (2018). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Galaxy Pair Fraction and Correlated Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 856(2). 93–93. 31 indexed citations

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Belfiore, Francesco, R. Maiolino, Kevin Bundy, et al.. (2018). SDSS IV MaNGA – sSFR profiles and the slow quenching of discs in green valley galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477(3). 3014–3029. 120 indexed citations

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Kado-Fong, Erin, Danilo Marchesini, Z. Cemile Marsan, et al.. (2017). Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Five Ultra-massive Galaxies at 1.7 < z < 2.7. OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries). 5 indexed citations

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Greene, Jenny E., Alexie Leauthaud, Éric Emsellem, et al.. (2017). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Probing the Kinematic Morphology–Density Relation of Early-type Galaxies with MaNGA. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 851(2). L33–L33. 27 indexed citations

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Jones, Amy, Guinevere Kauffmann, Richard D’Souza, et al.. (2016). SDSS IV MaNGA: Deep observations of extra-planar, diffuse ionized gas around late-type galaxies from stacked IFU spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 599. A141–A141. 24 indexed citations

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Law, David R., Renbin Yan, Matthew A. Bershady, et al.. (2015). OBSERVING STRATEGY FOR THE SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU GALAXY SURVEY. The Astronomical Journal. 150(1). 19–19. 260 indexed citations

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Guo, Hong, Zheng Zheng, Idit Zehavi, et al.. (2014). The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: modelling of the luminosity and colour dependence in the Data Release 10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 441(3). 2398–2413. 63 indexed citations

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Tal, Tomer, Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, et al.. (2013). Galaxy Environments over Cosmic Time: The Non-evolving Radial Galaxy Distributions around Massive Galaxies since <i>z</i> = 1.6. Open Research Online (The Open University). 16 indexed citations

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Kauffmann, Guinevere, Timothy M. Heckman, Christy Tremonti, et al.. (2013). Evolution of the most massive galaxies to z ∼ 0.6 – II. The link between radio AGN activity and star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 429(3). 2643–2654. 13 indexed citations

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Thomas, D., Oliver Steele, Claudia Maraston, et al.. (2012). Stellar velocity dispersions and emission line properties of SDSS-III/BOSS galaxies. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 8(S295). 129–132. 1 indexed citations

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Hirata, Christopher M., Rachel Mandelbaum, Mustapha Ishak, et al.. (2007). Intrinsic galaxy alignments from the 2SLAQ and SDSS surveys: luminosity and redshift scalings and implications for weak lensing surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 381(3). 1197–1218. 167 indexed citations

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Ross, Nicholas P., T. Shanks, David A. Wake, et al.. (2007). The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the LRG 2-point correlation function and redshift-space distortions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 381(2). 573–588. 118 indexed citations

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