David Kipping

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David Kipping is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Kipping has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 34 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in David Kipping's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (78 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (47 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (35 papers). David Kipping is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (78 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (47 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (35 papers). David Kipping collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. David Kipping's co-authors include Allan R. Schmitt, Lars A. Buchhave, David Nesvorný, G. Á. Bakos, S. J. Fossey, J. D. Hartman, G. Tinetti, David W. Latham, Allyson Bieryla and David S. Spiegel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Kipping

87 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf
    2015 289 citations Andrew Vanderburg, John Asher Johnson et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Kipping United States 25 2.3k 725 142 123 83 101 2.4k
G. Anglada‐Escudé United Kingdom 25 1.9k 0.8× 695 1.0× 105 0.7× 133 1.1× 73 0.9× 67 2.0k
Lars A. Buchhave Denmark 29 2.7k 1.2× 954 1.3× 97 0.7× 179 1.5× 102 1.2× 83 2.8k
Michael Endl United States 32 2.9k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 145 1.0× 108 0.9× 73 0.9× 101 3.0k
Stephen R. Kane United States 23 1.8k 0.8× 632 0.9× 161 1.1× 133 1.1× 69 0.8× 141 1.9k
Andrew Vanderburg United States 23 2.3k 1.0× 850 1.2× 104 0.7× 74 0.6× 123 1.5× 127 2.4k
S. Dreizler Germany 27 2.8k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 160 1.1× 124 1.0× 125 1.5× 87 2.9k
M. Deleuil France 30 3.0k 1.3× 994 1.4× 101 0.7× 113 0.9× 148 1.8× 126 3.2k
S. V. Berdyugina Germany 28 2.6k 1.1× 352 0.5× 204 1.4× 190 1.5× 95 1.1× 170 2.8k
B. Scott Gaudi United States 28 2.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 274 1.9× 90 0.7× 89 1.1× 105 2.8k
Suvrath Mahadevan United States 20 1.9k 0.8× 682 0.9× 250 1.8× 236 1.9× 74 0.9× 108 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Kipping

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Kipping

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Kipping. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Kipping 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 David Kipping. David Kipping 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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Kipping, David, et al.. (2025). Do SETI optimists have a fine-tuning problem?. International Journal of Astrobiology. 24.
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Kipping, David, et al.. (2025). Near-circular orbits for planets with Earth-like sizes and instellations around M and K dwarf stars. Nature Astronomy. 9(7). 1007–1021.
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Kipping, David, Daniel A. Yahalomi, Billy Quarles, et al.. (2025). Concerning the possible exomoons around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b. Nature Astronomy. 9(6). 795–798.
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Yahalomi, Daniel A., David Kipping, Eric Agol, & David Nesvorný. (2025). The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Do Not Induce Observable Transit Timing Variations with a Dominant Transit Timing Variation Period Faster than Half Their Orbital Period. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 984(2). L67–L67.
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Kipping, David. (2025). Strong Evidence that Abiogenesis Is a Rapid Process on Earth Analogs. Astrobiology. 25(5). 323–326.
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Rice, Malena, et al.. (2024). squishyplanet: modeling transits of non-sphericalexoplanets in JAX. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(100). 6972–6972. 4 indexed citations
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Kipping, David, et al.. (2023). Lazarus stars: numerical investigations of stellar evolution with star-lifting as a life extension strategy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(3). 3251–3257.
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Yahalomi, Daniel A., David Kipping, David Nesvorný, et al.. (2023). Not-so-fast Kepler-1513: a perturbing planetary interloper in the exomoon corridor. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 620–639. 4 indexed citations
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Kipping, David. (2023). The giant nature of WD 1856 b implies that transiting rocky planets are rare around white dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3532–3541. 2 indexed citations
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Kipping, David & Jason T. Wright. (2023). Deconstructing Alien Hunting. The Astronomical Journal. 167(1). 24–24. 3 indexed citations
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Kipping, David & Robert H. Gray. (2022). Could the "Wow" signal have originated from a stochastic repeating beacon?. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Kipping, David, et al.. (2021). The Number of Transits Per Epoch for Transiting Misaligned Circumbinary Planets. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Buchhave, Lars A., Bertram Bitsch, Anders Johansen, et al.. (2018). Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 39 indexed citations
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Kipping, David, Guillermo Torres, G. Á. Bakos, et al.. (2018). Hubble Observations of the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I. 231. 1 indexed citations
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Kipping, David, et al.. (2018). On the Rate of Abiogenesis from a Bayesian Informatics Perspective. Astrobiology. 18(12). 1574–1584. 11 indexed citations
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Kipping, David, Allan R. Schmitt, G. Á. Bakos, et al.. (2017). New Constraints on the Kepler Exomoon Population. 229. 1 indexed citations
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Vanderburg, Andrew, John Asher Johnson, S. Rappaport, et al.. (2015). A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf. Nature. 526(7574). 546–549. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Béky, B., David Kipping, & Matthew J. Holman. (2014). spotrod: a semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 442(4). 3686–3699. 22 indexed citations
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Kipping, David. (2012). The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler. AAS. 219.
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Kipping, David, et al.. (2012). A novel method to photometrically constrain orbital eccentricities: Multibody Asterodensity Profiling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421(2). 1166–1188. 25 indexed citations

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