David Merritt

23.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
174 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

David Merritt is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Merritt has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 50 papers in Instrumentation and 28 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in David Merritt's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (91 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (55 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). David Merritt is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (91 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (55 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). David Merritt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. David Merritt's co-authors include Laura Ferrarese, Miloš Milosavljević, S. Mei, Michael J. West, John P. Blakeslee, Andrés Jordán, Eric W. Peng, J. Tonry, Amri Wandel and B. M. Peterson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

David Merritt

167 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes a... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2004 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k

Peers

David Merritt
Comparison fields: 5 of 108
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 13.4k
  • Instrumentation 3.9k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 3.1k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 691
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 625
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Fields of papers citing papers by David Merritt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Merritt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Merritt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Merritt 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 Merritt. David Merritt 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 141
2 47
3 28
4 192
5
Binary Black Hole Merger in Galactic Nuclei: Post-Newtonian Simulations
38
6 330
7
A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies
165
8
Long-term evolution of massive black hole binaries.
2
9
Empirical models for Dark Matter Halos
25
10 9
11 5
12 9
13 108
14
The Acs Virgo Cluster Survey
1
15 133
16
Understanding Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies
1
17
Systolic and Hyper-Systolic Algorithms for the Gravitational N-Body Problem, with an Application to Brownian Motion
34
18 30
19
Galaxy Dynamics : a Rutgers symposium : proceedings of a symposium held at Rutgers university, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA 8 - 12 August 1998
1
20
Internal dynamics of galaxy clusters.
0

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